Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Bruschetta


Bruschetta is a classic Italian dish, usually served as an appetizer. It is toasted bread seasoned with olive oil and garlic, most commonly topped with tomato and basil. Tuscan bread is used to make traditional bruschetta, but in reality you can use any bread. In our recipes we will be using Ciabatta which most supermarkets stock.

Ingredients

French baguette - 1 number (cut into 1/2 inch thick circles)

Garlic Butter
Salted Butter - 250 gram
Garlic - 10 cloves (minced)
Egg Yolk - 3 numbers
Fresh Parsley - Half small handful (chopped and wash)
Parmesan (optional) - 2 Table spoon
Salt - To taste

Topping
Tomato - 2 numbers (Seedless & Cube)
Green Capsicum - 1 number (Cube)
Onion - 1 number (Cube)
Fresh Basil - Half small handful (Chopped)

Dressing
Garlic - 1 number (minced)
Extra virgin olive oil - 10 table spoon
Salt - To taste
Lemon Juice - ½ numbers
Sugar - ¼ teaspoon
Black Pepper - ¼ teaspoon (Fresh Ground)

Method

1. To make the garlic butter, just mix all the ingredients and its ready.
2. For the topping, mix everything and marinate it with the dressing. Put it in the fridge while you prepare the bread toast.
3. Then you spread the garlic butter on the french baguette then baked it for 10 – 15 minutes at oven temperature 170c.
4. Once the garlic bread ready, take out the marinated topping, put it on top of the bread and it’s ready to be served.

Friday, November 6, 2009

Dadih



Actually, dadih is made of fresh milk, with sugar and a gelling agent (enzyme) added to make it firm (but not as firm as agar-agar). I love dadih so much and grew up eating it. This form of dadih can be found still, mostly in the northern states. I purposely put the recipe in Malay so that whoever wants to learn this Malay traditional dessert has to learn the language too.

Bahagian A
Agar – agar - 10gram
Air - 1035ml = 3 full glass
Gula - 1 cup
Gula batu - 1 inch
Daun pandan - 3 helai


Bahagian B

Susu Serbuk (Fernleaf) - 6 hip of table spoon
Tepung jagung - 1 hip of table spoon
Air - 690 ml = 2 full glass
Susu cair carnation - ½ tin
Susu segar Dutch Lady - 1 liter


Cara – caranya

1. Rendam agar-agar hingga lembut kemudian rebus semua bahagian A hingga mendidih dan tapis
2. Ayak susu serbuk dan tepung jagung kemudian gaulkan bersama air, susu cair dan susu segar.
3. Tapis campuran bahagian B kemudian campurkan sekali dengan bahagian A dan masak hingga mendidih.
4. Tuangkan ke dalam cup dan masukkan ke dalam peti sejuk.
5. Dihidangkan sejuk.