Briyani rice -pulao

 This simple yet special pulao rice is best serve when you don't have much time to cook for your quest.


Ingredients
10 cups of water
2 cups basmati rice
6 tbsp ghee
2 tsp salt
3 cardamom
1 tsp black pepper
1 cinnamon
1 bay leaf
3 cloves
yellow food colouring
a handful chopped fresh coriander
a handful fried onion
a handful processed peas and cashew nuts  (fried in ghee)

1. wash the basmati rice and soak for a couple of hours.
2 Heat ghee in a pot and add the bay leaf, cloves, cardamom,black pepper and fry for another 2 min.
3.Put water , salt and let it boil.
4.Once boiling add in the rice and put medium heat . Please don't attempt to leave the
 kitchen , you have to watch over the rice and    to know if it is cooked just take one grain and bite it ,if it is tender you rice is cook .
5. close the lid and drain the water .
6. take one bowl put a few drop of food colouring and put  ( 6 tbsp cooked rice) mix well .
7. In the rice pot , sprinkle the coriander, fried onion,peas and cahew nut and the coloured rice .

TRIP TO BALI

During school holiday we spend 5 days in the beautiful island of Bali. We stayed in HardRock hotel Kuta Beach .

MUTTON CURRY

Today is the first of Syawal (muslim calender) where by all  muslims all over the world celebrate eid after one month of fasting.In Malaysia the  children will be given money in an envelope that we call 'duit raya'.
As for this year each of my children got $190 from their aunties and uncles .
Today recipe is mutton curry that I cooked during Eid .


INGREDIENT

3 kilo mutton
10 onions (fried)
3 sp garlic paste
3 sp ginger paste
3 sp chilli  paste
6 sp coriander powder
2 sp curry powder
1 sp black pepper powder
2 ' cinnamon
6 cloves
6 cardamon
3 stalk curry leaves
3 black cardamon
6 tomatoes

METHOD
heat oil in pressure cooker and fry  the curry leaves,cinnamon,cloves and the ginger and garlic paste. Add in the coriander,curry,chilli and black pepper powder and fry for about 20 min or until oil separated.
Add in the mutton and fried onion and tomatoes and close the lid. let it cook for 30 min.(depending on the size of the mutton pieces) .
Once done garnish with coriander leaves.

A TRIP TO PERHENTIAN ISLAND

During recent school holiday my family and I went on a nice vacation to Perhentian island .
It is located in the east coast of Malaysia . The journey from Taiping  took a good 5 hours .
The breathtaking scenery is spectacular.
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This nice bread pudding is so easy to make and loves by my children

BREAD PUDDING

6 slice bread (cut in 2 triangle)- deep fry in oil
600 ml milk
6 tbsp sugar( according to your taste , I like it super sweet)
2 cardamon


METHOD

In a pan ,boil the milk and stir in sugar, put in the cardamon.
once boiled put in the fried bread and put off the fire . Let the bread soak up the milk.
Keep in the fridge until  time to eat .

This delicious chicken curry is nice serve with puri.

CHICKEN CURRY

1 onion slice
4 garlic pounded
1" ginger pounder
1 tomato cubed
2 potatoes skinned and quartered
1 cup coconut milk
1" cinnamon stick
3 cloves
2 cardamons
3 tbsp curry powder
1/2 chicken cut into bite size

METHOD

Heat up 4 tbsp oil in a pan put in  the cardamon,cloves,cinnamon,put in onion and fry until brown and put in garlic and ginger paste.
Now put in the curry powder and fry until fragrant. Mix in Chicken and potatoes.Once the potatoes soft put in tomatoes and coconut milk . Cook until chicken is done (it will take about 1/2 hour).

ROTI PURI

 INGREDIENT

600 g flour
1-2 cups water(depend till you get the right consistency)
1 tbsp ghee
3 tbsp margarine
pinch of salt
oil for deep fry

METHOD

Mix the flour ,ghee and margarine until it assemble bread crumb.
Stir the salt and water and pour in slowly bit by bit.
knead the dough well until it soft and not sticky.
Heat the oil in a wok . While waiting for the oil to heat up ,break off pingpong
ball size pieces,sprinkle dry flour on the table and roll out the dough into thin rounds.
Fry the puri until it puffs up and turn over and remove when it is browned and
repeat with the other pieces.

CHICKEN RICE

For the rice:

2 cup brasmati rice
3 cup chicken stock
2 pandan leaves
salt
1 '' ginger
margarine

Method
heat some margarine in the rice cooker , coated the rice with it and pour in the chicken stock ,salt
 pandan  leaves and ginger.

For the Chicken

1 chicken
vinegar
honey
black soya sauce
oyster sos
5 spice powder

Method
Mix all the above ingredient and marinate the chicken with it for about 1/2 hour.
Then  deep fried the chicken.

For the sup

Saute slice shallot and garlic, put in water,salt and chicken bone .Boil for about 1 hour.
Once done discard the bone and garnish with fried onion and

For Chilli sos

500g red chilli
100g ginger
15 garlic
sugar,vinegar and salt

Blend all the ingredient .

A few word from the bottom of my heart....

Hei everyone,
Today is the 11 days of fasting for us as a muslim . We fast for one month in the month of ramadhan.Early in the morning at 5 a.m I woke my children up to eat and I'm so proud that my 7 year old daughter did not make any fuss of getting up so early in the morning and so far she managed to fast the whole day ,so her daddy would give her $1 a day for every day she fast.

CAPATI

 1 Cup atta flour
 1/2 cup lukewarm water

 Method 

 Put the flour in a bowl and slowly put in the water bit by bit.The amount of water wary.The doh should be sticky a bit . To get a fluffy capati ,knead well for about 10 min.