my Simple Nasi Ayam

Taken from Chef Zailina's The New Malaysian Cookbook but modified by mixing with other recipes and friends/relative tips. I have tried this many times, so simple and yet so delicious. Jom masak.

Ingredients:
1 chicken
2cm ginger
sufficient water to boil chicken
1 bulb of garlic (chopped)
2 shallots (chopped)
chicken fat (the secret ingredient)
chicken stock/cube
some oyster sauce
oil
salt
a dash of sesame oil

Method:

1. Boil the water with the crushed ginger. Add in the chicken stock/cube and salt to taste .
2. Add in the chicken and lower the heat.
3. When the chicken is cook, remove the chicken and immerse in cold water for about 20 minutes.
4. Rub the chicken with some oyster sauce, leave it for awhile and fry the chicken till golden brown,
or if you like the steam version, just rub the chicken with the sesame oil.
5. Heat oil in the rice cooker pot, saute in the chopped garlic n onion. Add in the chicken fat. Saute until fragrant. Then add in rice and mix well.
6. Transfer the pot into the rice cooker. Pour in the water that was used to boil the chicken sufficiently to cook the rice. Use the remaining water to make the chicken soup. Add in spring onion and fried shallots.
7. Serve the chicken rice with the serving sauce.

my chicken sauce:
sugar, sesame oil
2 tablespoon of light soy sauce
Add about 1 laddle (senduk) of chicken soup

my serving sauce (chilli sauce):
blend together some 1/2 inch ginger, 1 garlic, 3 red chillies, 1 chopped tomato, sugar and salt to taste. Add in a little bit of lime juice
Heat the blended ingredient in a pot. Add in 1 teaspoon of corn flour. Simmer under low heat, until thickened.



This chicken rice set is for our neighbour :D.

yours truly,

Nasi Briyani Iza

I tried different style of preparing Nasi Briyani on Sunday. Before this, I just followed the instruction at the back of Faiza' Briyani packet.

(laziness struck me last weekend, so I bought ready to use garlic and ginger paste...pardon my horrible handwriting :p)

For recipe, visit my friend, Iza's blog.

Nasi Tomato on ANZAC day

Last Saturday, all stores are closed due to ANZAC Day celebration. ANZAC day is a national public holiday in Australia and New Zealand to honour the Australian and New Zealand Army who fought the Turkish Army in WWI. Enough say, google if you like to know more :D.

We planned to do groceries shopping at Coles, and I need to get some ingredients for my baking project. There was a bunch of ripe bananas and I would like to try a new recipe. And I found one. Usually I would do the baking on Saturday and heavy cooking on Sunday. Changed of plan, heavy cooking on Saturday, baking on Sunday then.

Atang for long has requested ayam masak merah. So while browsing the internet for recipe that use banana, I found a new blog recipe. Her ayam masak merah looks tempting, and the recipe is simple. So ... to the kitchen and start cooking.



Some of the ingredients.

Please note the onions. Shallots or bawang merah is expensive here and it is difficult to find. People used brown onion for cooking, though the maroon bawang besar is easy to find, but it is a little bit expensive than the brown onion. The maroon bawang besar is usually used in salad, thus the name is salad onion. So I used brown onion in most of my cooking. But for some cooking, like this nasi tomato and ayam masak merah, I used bawang besar, this grade is bit cheaper than the one they used for salad.

For recipe, please find it at kak liza (nasi tomato), and kak noreen (ayam masak merah) ya.





buurrpppp... alhamdullillah.....kenyang dah :p.... I made air sirap to go with these.....

owh.... i missed my bro's nasi tomato and ayam masak merah la!!