Murtabak Express

I called it express cause the stuffed made from leftover.
I have some leftover lamb curry and my hubby said he dont want rice for
dinner, so I fished the lamb meat, shred into small pieces and stuffed into
spring roll skin.

Here's how i prepare it:

5 Spring roll skins/sheets/pastry
Oil/butter/ghee

stuffing:
1 cup of lamb meat from leftover curries-shredded
1/2 cup onion - chopped
Some coriander leaves - chopped
Green Chillis - chooped
4 or more eggs - beaten
Salt to taste.

Add all the ingredient together u should have a runny mixture add more eggs
if necessary.

Heat a frying pan with a table spoon of oil or butter.

Spoon in the mixture at the centre of spring roll skin
Fold in the four sides to enclose the fillings by wrapping into
into a square shape.
Slide into heated pan, cook till brown both sides.
Serve hot with curries or onion pickles.

Sambal Sotong Petai & Cucur Jagung

Grabbed some petai from London the oher day, i guess it from Thailand coz they labelled it as sator, sator means petai in Thai.

Talking about Thai, i remember had a good sambal sotong petai at Vichudda Restaurants in Damansara Utama.

So i try out my version of it.

500 g squids
1 cup or more chilli paste
1 onion-chopped
3 garlic-chopped
3 tbsp cooking oil
A small piece of shrimp paste/belacan - optional
Petai/Sator
Salt,sugar tamarind juice - to taste


-In a saucepan, heat oil and brown the onion and garlic, add chilli paste and belacan, cook for 5 minutes, add water if necessary.
-Add sator, salt, sugar and tamarind juice cook till the sator tender.
-Add squid cook for further 5 mins or so. Done.
Serve with jasmine rice...yum.
Cucur Jagung

2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup corn in brine
1/2 cup bean sprout
1/2 cup chives - cut 2cm long
1/2 cup dried anchovies
1 small onion - sliced / spring onion roughly chopped
1 fresh chilli - chopped (optional)
1 eggs
Water
Salt to taste.
Vegetable oil for deep frying

-Heat oil in wok or dutch oven on medium heat.
- Mix flour with water to form a thick batter-consistency of pancake batter.
-Add in all the remaining ingredients, mix well and add salt to taste.
-Using a tablespoon into the hot oil, fry in batches till golden brown turn once or twice.
-Rest on paper towel and serve with sweet chilli sauce.

Stir Fry Chicken With Holy Basil/ Kai Phad Kapraow & Stuffed Omellet/Telur Bungkus/Kai Yad Sai

Kim & Reena handed me plenty of bird eyes chillies. While in one of Asian's Groceries store in London, i found bunches of fresh holy basil (kapraow)...so i grabbed home some of it. Bird eyes Chilles & Holly Basils...that's a perfect combi for Thai food! The next day after arriving from our vacation...this is what i prepared for lunch!

This dish is my favourits, its nicer with beef, but hubby dont really like beef to be cooked this way, so i used chicken this time. I remember having this in Jakarta made by our beloved neighbour/friend Pi OOO. So yummy and the recipes as i remember being told by another dear friend Kwanchai, hope i got it right.
Kai Phad Kapraow

500g chicken thigh-deboned and roughly chopped *
3 cloves garlic - crushed and chooped
1 onion - chopped
3 Kaffir Lime leaves - didnt used this time,not available in Cairo
Bird eyes chillies -to taste-bruised
Holy Basil - a handful
Fish Sauce - taste
A pinch of sugar
3 tbsp cooking oil

-Heat oil, sauteed the garlics and onion till softened.
-Add the chicken, stir fry till the chicken done.
-Add lime leaves, bird eyes chillies and basil.
-Season well. Continue to stir till the basil wilted.
-Its done.
*A few pulses in food processor works well.

And i make this Stuffed Omelet to accompany the chicken dish. This one very easy dish, any leftover stir fry veggies can be used as stuffing/filling according to our Thai friends. This is how i prepared mine.
Telur Bungkus/Stuffed Omelet:

Filling:
1 cup mixed frozen vegetables
150 g minch chicken *
1 onion chopped
2 garlic crushed
2 tbsp tomato ketchup
1 tbsp chillie sauce
5 bird eyes chillies - crushed -optional
1 tbsp cooking oil
Salt & pepper to taste.

-heat oil, fry the garlic till brown add minch chicken stir well.
-add mixed veggies and chopped onion, cook till the chicken done.
-Season with remaining ingredients...set aside.

Omellete:
3 eggs-beaten and add
Salt & pepper to taste.
Cooking oil

-Generously coat a dry cleaned wok or skillet with oil. Or use the non stick one.
-Heat till smoking hot, add the beaten seasoned eggs, swirl the wok to get a thin large omellete.
-Spoon in the filling at the center of this thin omelet, fold in from four outer corner of the omelet to the center to form a parcel or square shape omelet.
- Transfer to serving dish folded side down.



Serve both with white thai rice....and a tom yum soup on the side ;P!

Mkn2 Jln2

While berjln2 aritu sempat la, singgah and mkn2....here are the most memorable....

fresh from oven croissants...to die for!

vanilla choco chips muffins..yummmm

escargot...ala siput sedut french! sedap bangat!

Paris : fresh fruits...raspberries & peaches... huge fresh cherries were gone in seconds!

In Paris: mixed pakistani biryani with chicken vindaloo...out of this world.

we didnt really mkn2 in London coz we're sooo busy jln2 and shopping2 but we had 2 nites in a row malaysian halal buffet in holiday villa ,london.
on the first nite we had kari ketam, ikan masak kicap, nasi ayam + rendang etc
second nite was even better mussels curry, ayam nyonya, laksa johor etc. yummsss

this pic shows how yummy the mussles curry was!

This girl mkn nasi ayam kt london..we had ABC too, since ABC tak de kat cairo...and of coz sbb tak kuasa nak membuatnya sendirikan..