Hawaiian Meatballs

Halal

Serves 6
Intermediate


Ingredients:

1kg lean ground beef
1 1/2 cups bread crumbs
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped canned pineapples
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp dried parsley
1 1/2 tsp salt
ground black pepper
200g butter

Directions:

1. Mix meat, onion, pineapples, crumbs, eggs, parsely, salt and pepper in a large bowl. The mixture should not be too dry nor too wet. Adjust it with the amount of breadcrumbs and eggs.
2. Shape into 3cm meatballs.
3. Brown butter in a large pan. Stir-fry the meatballs until al dente (just cooked) and slightly browned.
4. Place meatballs in a crockpot (slow cooker) or a deep pan to be cooked later with the sauce.

For Sauce:

Ingredients:

Honey
Ketchup
Chopped Dill Pickles
Vodka (optional)
Chopped Onions
Tabasco
Black Pepper
Dried Parsley
Pinch of Nutmeg

Directions:

1. Add all of those ingredients in a large bowl in desired amounts until you get the right taste.
2. Pour the mixed sauce into the crockpot or pan with the meatballs. Simmer in the pan at low heat for 2-3 hours. If you're using a crocpot, cook on low for 5 hours or overnight.

Serving Suggestion:

1. Spoon meatballs and sauce into a deep plate. Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese and place in microwave oven for 3 minutes at MEDIUM or until cheese has just melted.

Pizza Dough

Halal

Ingredients:

300g Flour
20g Yeast
250ml Water
2 tbsp Extra-virgin Olive Oil
Pinch of salt

Directions:

1. Sieve the flour into a wide bowl. Add the yeast and cut into small pieces and warm water, a little at a time
2. Mix everything well then add the oil and salt. Mix well until you have a smooth uniform dough. Form a ball and make a cross shaped cut on the top and put it into a wide bowl covered with a clean cloth and let it rise until it's double the size.
3. Then roll out the dough to the size of a pizza.

Yau Char Kwai (cakoi)

Halal

Ingredients:

Sift and combine:
300g high protein flour
50g plain flour
1/2tsp baking powder
1/2tsp bicarbonate of soda

Combine:
1 tsp sugar
2tbsp lukewarm water
2tsp instant yeast

250ml lukewarm water
1/8tsp alum (pak fun)
1/8tsp ammonia powder (chow fun)
1/2tsp salt

Oil for deep frying

Directions:
1. Put sifted ingredients in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a dough hook. Mix water, sugar and yeast and leave to froth for 10 minutes
2. Combine lukewarm water, alum, ammonia powder and salt. When yeast is frothy, add to flour and beat until mixture is well combined.
3. Stir in combined water mixture and beat for 4-5 minutes until a soft dough is formed. Cover dough with a damp calico and leave to rest for 10 minutes. Knead dough for 5 minutes until it turns springy. Allow to rest, covered, for 2-3 hours until dough doubles in size.
4. Punch dough down and turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth. Roll out into a long rectangle (10 x 60cm). Cut into approximately 20 poieces.
5. Pick up a stri[ and place it on top of another strip. Do the same for the rest of the strips. With a chopstick dipped in water, press through the centre lightly to join both strips together.
6. Heat oil in a wok. Take the strips of dough, stretch them slightly and lower into the hot oil. Deep fry, turning constantly until dough turns puffy and golden brown. Remove and drain on absorbent paper.

Hi everyone, I'm MaggiMee here, wanted to share some ForgetMeNot secret recipes, some suggestions on good places to eat and etc.
Here's my very 1st ForgetMeNot easy and yet delicious to those whom prefer the taste of garlic and cabai burung.

Machine : cooker, or electrical kettle

Equipment : Garlic press, chopping knife & block, and bowl

Material :
1. 2 to 4 cloves of garlic, use garlic presses to get the very fine garlic with some juice (If u don't have the press, chop it fine)
2. some cabai burung, best is the red one, chop chop chop...(I'll put 6 to 12pcs)
3. 1 or 2 spoon of fish sauce.
4. "monosodium glutamate" - the flavor that comes with the instant mee (prefer chicken/prawn flavor).
5. Instant mee


Method :

1. Boil hot water with a port, use electrical kettle for x'press.
2. Put 1, 2, 3 & 4 into a bowl
3. Pour hot water into to the bowl with all the "liao" to make the soup
4. At he same time put the instant mee into the port, can put some oil if u like & continue to cook & kacau(stir) it until it's NEARLY done, or you can put the instant mee into a big bowl & pour the hot water from the kettle & wait till it's ALMOST ready.
5. Put the almost ready cook instant mee into the bowl with all the "liao"
6. wait for another 1 minutes & there you can start to taste.
You can add additional luxury items into it like meat, meatballs, fish cake, mushroom, prawns, crabmeat and etc. at your wish.

It's smell & taste nice if u likes garlic, especially. Make sure you don't take it if you have dating with your girl/boyfriend. The garlic squeezed by the garlic press produce strong smell & very strong taste. Don't even try to taken raw in large amount or you'll be heated up (the only world I can descript!)
.It's as strong as more or like wasabi. Don't play play! If u don't have the press, get 1 from Ikea (abt. Less than RM10)

Every is welcome to PM your comments if u have try it, and do share with us here on your ForgetMeNot maggi mee secret recipes. Will PM more some other ForgetMeNot recipes in future.

Next. Anyone got your ForgetMeNot ice lemon/lime/kek lah honey juice? Do share with me here.

Thank you.

This post has been edited by MaggiMee: Dec 2 2005, 08:59 AM

Carrot cake (Heart Healthy)

Serving size : 16

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups nonfat or lowfat margarine
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup egg substitute
3 cups self-rising flour
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground cloves
8 oz crushed pineapple, undrained
2 tsp vanilla
3 cups carrots, grated
1 cup raisins
1 cup Grape-Nuts cereal
1/3 cup flax seed

in a large mixing bowl, cream together margarine, sugars, egg substitute, pineapple, and vanilla. Add raisings, Grape-Nuts cereal, and flax seed. Mix well. Add the flour and spices. Mix well. Fold in the grated carrots. Pour into a bundt pan sprayed with non-fat spray. Bake in a 350 degree (F) oven for 45 to 60 minutes. Remove from oven and cool cake upright on baking rack fro 5 minutes. Remove from pan. Enjoy plain or frost with any nonfat cream cheese frosting after cake have cooled completely.

Fat-free cream cheese frosting

Ingredients:
1 package Cream cheese (Kraft Philadelphia)
8 oz margarine
2-3 tsp milk
1 tsp vanilla
4 c powdered sugar

Cream cheese, margarine, milk and vanilla. Gradually add in 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time.

Hope you enjoy this recipe. I made this for a nutrition class and it's modified to be more heart healthy. If anyone did try this recipe, please PM me to let me know if you like it.

This post has been edited by jthm: Dec 14 2005, 08:14 AM

Cream of Mushroom



Halal
Serves 4

Ingredients:

200g fresh button mushrooms
200g fresh shitake mushrooms
100g fresh golden mushrooms
50g butter
4 tsps plain flour
600ml chicken stock
250ml cup cream
4 bay leaves
1 tsp dried parsley
parsley for garnishing
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper

Directions:

1. Thinly slice the button mushrooms and the shitake mushrooms. Chop the golden mushrooms to 1 inch in length. Melt the butter in a heavy based pan and cook the mushrooms until soft. Add the salt, pepper and dried parsley.
2. Add flour by lightly sifting into the mushrooms to avoid clumping. Stir until a thick consistency is achieved.
3. Heat the stock. Remove the pan from the heat and add in hot stock, stirring continuously until smooth. Add in bay leaves. Return to the heat and bring to the boil, stirring. Reduce the heat and simmer gently for a few minutes, stirring occasionally, until the soup thickens.
4. Stir in cream into the soup and then reheat gently. Garnish with dried parsley. Serve hot.

Chicken David and Smothered Fries



Chicken David Recipe
INGREDIENTS:
3 tablespoons butter
1 onion, chopped
8 fresh mushrooms, thinly sliced
1 clove garlic, chopped
1/4 pound thinly sliced prosciutto / bacon, cut into strips
1/4 pound thinly sliced hard salami or sausage, cut into strips
4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
1 cup all-purpose flour
salt and pepper to taste
1/2 cup dry sherry
1 cup chicken broth
1/2 cup heavy cream / milk
1/2 cup marinara sauce / tomato sauce
1 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley / dry parsley

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DIRECTIONS:
Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a large heavy skillet over medium heat. Saute onion until soft and translucent. Stir in mushrooms, garlic, prosciutto/bacon and salami/sausage. dredge chicken in flour, and place in pan. Season with salt and pepper. Cook chicken 5 minutes on each side. Pour in sherry, and cook until liquid is reduced by half. Stir in chicken broth, cream/milk and marinara/tomato sauce. Simmer until sauce is reduced to your preferred consistency. Stir in 1 tablespoon butter, and sprinkle with parsley.

Smothered Fries
INGREDIENTS:
1 packet fries
cheez whiz (cheddar cheese spread)
sour cream
chives
bacon

DIRECTIONS:
put fries in the oven as directed on the package or deep fry .... put bacon in microwave as directed on the package until brown and crispy... crumble the bacon. sprinkle over cooked fries. heat up cheez whiz for about 30 seconds.. pour over fries. top with a few dallops of sour cream... sprinkle with chives!! done!!

Hainanese Chicken Rice
Ingredients:
Rice
Whole chicken
Ginger
Garlic
A few cloves
Cinnamon (1-2)
Pandan leaves
Salt

Ingredients for garnish:
Sesame oil
Soya sauce (light)
Coriander Leaf
Cucumber (sliced)

Methods:
1) Cook chicken in water. Put in pandan leaves and salt for flavour.
2) Do not overcook chicken. 20-30 minutes is enough. To see if it is cooked, poke a chopstick into the chicken - it should go in easily.
3) Remove chicken, let cool and cut into serving size. Keep the stock for rice and soup.
4) Fry ginger and garlic with oil till fragrant. Add to rice.
5) Add the chicken stock, cinnamon, cloves, pandan leaves to the rice. Cook in a rice cooker.

Ingredients for chili sauce:
Fish sauce
Sugar
Fresh red chilies
Ginger
Green lime
Garlic
Vinegar

Method:
1) Put garlic and ginger in mixer and blend till fine.
2) Add vinegar, fish sauce, salt and sugar to taste. Squeeze lime while serving. To

Serve:
1) Put chicken in a plate, and serve with sliced cucumber by the side. For flavour, add a sprinkling of light soya sauce, sesame oil over the chicken and garnish with coriander leaf. Serve chili sauce in separate bowls.
2) Remove pandan leaves, garlic, ginger, cloves and cinnamon from rice. Serve rice, piping hot.

Mixed Vegetable Soup
Ingredients:
1/2 a chicken, skinned and cut into 6-8 pieces
1 1/2 liters of water
1/2 a head of cabbage, chopped into medium-sized pieces
2 carrots, peeled and cut into 4-5 pieces
1 large potato, peeled and cut into 6 parts
2 medium-sized tomatoes, quartered
1 large onion, peeled and cut into half
1- 1.5 tsp salt

Directions:
1. In a large pot or rice cooker, boil the water. Add chicken into the boiling water and continue boiling, covered for 20 minutes. Occasionally turn the heat down and up to make sure not too much water has been reduced.
2. Add the onions and carrots and continue boiling for a further 15 minutes. Add in the potatoes. If too much water has been reduce, add a little more water. Continue boiling for 20-30 minutes, occasionally checking on the heat. Add tomatoes at the 15th minute.
3. Add in the cabbage and simmer until cabbage has softened. Add salt.
4. Serve hot.

Baked Breaded Chicken and Smothered Fries


ingredients:
2 chicken tighs
1/2 cup bread crumbs/cornflake crumbs/mix
1 tbsp dried parsley
1 tbsp chicken stock powder
1 tbsp black pepper
1 tbsp cayenne pepper
1 tbsp paprika
1 beaten egg

directions:
1) heat oven to 375'F.
2) mix all ingredients EXCEPT egg and chicken in a zip lock bag... mix well. coat chicken with egg and throw it in the bag with the crumb mix.. shake until chicken is coated well.
3) put coated chicken on a well greased or buttered baking pan. put in preheated oven for 30 - 40 mins or until chicken is cooked.
4) serve.

Smothered Fries
INGREDIENTS:
1 packet fries
cheez whiz (cheddar cheese spread)
sour cream
chives
bacon

DIRECTIONS:
put fries in the oven as directed on the package or deep fry .... put bacon in microwave as directed on the package until brown and crispy... crumble the bacon. sprinkle over cooked fries. heat up cheez whiz for about 30 seconds.. pour over fries. top with a few dallops of sour cream... sprinkle with chives!! done!!

moving this to Travel & Living

DIY Garlic Spread

5 cloves garlic - minced/smashed/kick/punch <--
50g unsalted butter - room temperature
chopped parsley
salt

throw everything in a bowl.
get a slice of french bread (about 1 inch thick) and spread the garlic paste.
put in oven/microwave about 30-45 sec until the garlic spread melted and u can see a nice glistening bread. not to mention the smell..
ok, u can eat it now.

Special Moded MAMEE vegetarian flavour instant noodle

this dish is very suitable for single and busy people...........guarantee nice...if not.. flame me here... created by my father

ALSO SUITABLE FOR VEGETARIAN..

ingredients:
-2 packet of MAMEE vegetarian flavour instant noodle
-half tablespoon of margerin (prefer vitalite brand)
-tomato sauce ( this one must Kimball brand... sure nice)

method:
-cook me noodle (use normal method lah) until soft
-throw away boiling water... put aside the noodle
-put half tablespoon of margerin and the oil (comes with the noodle) on a plate
-put the noodle on the plate.... kacau the noodle with fork and spoon until even
-upon kacau-ing, put the vegetarian seasoning a bit by a bit... kacau, put, kacau like that until even ( no need use all, use like one and a half packet of seasoning ok liao)
-after that, put the tomato sauce..... use kacau, put, kacau method... until the noodle turn red colour evenly ( must put quite alot then BEST)
-ready to eat..

This post has been edited by onimusha_m16: Jan 27 2006, 06:36 PM

COKE GINGER SOUP

tried this in a restaurant and liked it, tried at home, it is quite easy and nice

normally ginger soup in order to make it nice, you might need black sugar or vanilla leaf, and the troublesome part of it is to mix a good ratio. or else it will be too sweet or too much of ginger.

so this coke ginger soup is for those who like ginger soup and wan to do it in a very much simpler way.

ingredients:
COKE (duh)
Ginger (duh)

direction :
take any amount you like, agak agak can liao, if you just want to drink alone a little small bowl, a lenght of your finger will do. clear the skin of the ginger, and cut it into chunk or slice, if you cut it into chunk, remember to smash it hard, so that the juice can flow out later on.

put in the smashed/sliced ginger, pour in some coke (again, agak agak can liao)
cook it untill you can smell the ginger. then you are done!
now one more thing that is good about this coke ginger soup, if you think you put in too much ginger, you can always add in some more coke and cook it again. if you think too much coke? put in more ginger and cook.

now how easy and convenient is that?? but you have to cook it, you know, coke always can make your teeth felt weird, probably the gas, so you have to cook away the gas, only you will have a smooth coke ginger soup.

ENJOY!!

hello everyone, i've been very sick the last few days, got some high fever... now looking at all the food well, visually, gives me motivation to be strong and get well soon so that i can eat all the wonderful food... especially the eye-candy material by shadowprincess... wah....... so nice photos he took....

thanks thanks thanks for putting up these recipes

I'd like some specific recipes if anyone can get..

Requests:

1. Marble cheesecake: Similar to Secret Recipe... every other marble cheesecake I tried sucked.
2. Strawberry cheesecake: Dunno, what's good cheese for this? Last time my friends mom made such awesome strawberry cheesecake, now i dunno where she is already lol...
3. Vietnamese Grilled Pork With Broken Rice

I hope everyone don't plagiarize any recipes ya? Must be original!

Shadowprincess: Did you take those photos yourself? Did you cook them yourself before posting? So eye-candy..

What Corn Flakes can make ?

Chewy Healthy Bites


Ingrediants
4 cups or 90g corn flakes lightly cryshed
8 tablespoon (120g) butter
4 tablespoon (40g) castor sugar
3 large eggs
1(1/2) cups (150g) shifted corn flour
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup chopped dried apricots or Golden California Raisins
1/2 cup dessicated coconut
A pinch of salt
2 drops of vanilla essence


Method

1 Beat sugarand butter in a bowl until fluffy.Add in the vanilla essence and salt.
2 Lower the speed of the mixer and add in one egg at a time until mixture is smooth.
3 Fold in the flour and the other dry ingredients with a spatula. Mix until a soft dough.
4 Drop spoonfuls of this mixture onto greased tray or baking sheets. Bake in moderate oven (180 Degrees) for 7-10 mins or until golden.

And

You're DONE. !

Another Recipes to share ( using corn flakes )

Wholesome Winter Soup

Ingredients
1 small broccoli ( 150g) diced
200g soft skinless Japanese tofu
1/2 Onion diced
10g butter
1 cup chicken stock (home made : 1 skinless chicken breast ,
2 small red onions , 2 pips garlic , 2 slices ginger , 2(1/2) cups water boil down to 1 cup
1 teaspoon light soy sause
Salt and pepper to taste
1 can crabmeat drained (used as topping)
2 cups corn flakes (also as a topping)


Method

1 Blanch and soften the broccoli in water.Drain.
2 Sautee onion and broccoli in butter.
3 Add in chicken stock and boil till broccoli is very soft.
Add in the tofu and remove from heat.
4 Using a blender, puree the broccoli soup.
5 Return in to the pot and simmer for 3 mins.Add in salt and pepper to taste
6 Serve with crabmeat and corn flakes as topping.

DONE !

Garlic Mashed Potatoes

This easy-to-clone dish comes with many of the tasty
entrees at the restaurant chain or can be ordered up,
pronto, on the side. It's a nice clone to have around
since it goes well with so many dishes, Mexican or otherwise.
Just give yourself the time to bake and cool the potatoes.
Be here at TSR next week for a big clone request from the
same "always fresh ingredients" Mexican food chain. It's
for that muy delicioso salsa, baby! Si, si, si. See you then.

4 medium/large russet potatoes
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon minced fresh garlic (3-4 cloves)
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup cream
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Bake the potatoes by first rubbing them lightly with oil
and then baking them in the preheated oven for 1 hour until
they are tender. Cool.
3. Mash potatoes and remove about half of the skin. You want
to leave the rest in.
4. Melt the butter in a large suacepan over medium heat, then
add garlic and saute for 5 minutes.
5. Add the remaining ingredients to the pan and cook for 5-10
minutes while stirring often until garlic mashed potatoes are
very hot.
Serves 4.


Just want to ask,is it fine to post sauce ,McD recipes, kfc recipes,burger king ?
The problem is,maybe you can't find the ingredient in malaysia...It's find to post where those ingredient cannot be found in malaysia ?

Thai Style Braised Pork Belly



Ingredients:
500g pork belly with or without skin, cut into thick pieces
2 tbsp oil
½ tbsp peppercorns (white/ black/ mixed)
1 tbsp coriander (stem and leaf)
1 tbsp garlic
4 tbsp fish sauce
2 tbsp dark soy sauce
4 tbsp brown sugar
2 cups water

Method:
Using a food processor, grind the white peppercorns, coriander roots and garlic into a fine paste.

Heat a pan, add oil and lightly brown the pork belly over medium heat. Remove from pan and set aside.

Using the same pan, stir fry the pepper and coriander paste over low heat till fragrant. Add the fish sauce, dark soy sauce, palm sugar and 2 cups water. Turn the heat up to medium and bring the sauce to a boil. Add the pork belly. Turn down to low heat and half cover the pan. Simmer until the liquid is reduced by half and the pork belly is tender. This will take about 1 to 1½ hours.

The sauce can be used on other cuts of pork, chicken, eggs, pressed tofu and deep fried tofu.

Braised Fish Fillet With Mushrooms



Ingredients
450g or 4 pieces fillet of tilapia or sole
1tsp salt
1 egg
2 tbsp cornflour
oil
1tbsp spring onions (finely chopped)
1tbsp ginger (finely chopped or ground)
mushrooms (fresh portabello or button mushrooms - NOT in cans)
1 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp soy sauce
3 tbsp sherry or chinese cooking wine
1/2 cup basic stock or chicken stock
sesame oil

Method
1)cut each fillet into bite size pieces
2)mix fish with a litle salt, the egg and cornflour.
3)heat up the oil in a frying pan and fry both sides of the fish till brown or you can deep fry them.
4)stir fry the spring onions, ginger and mushrooms for a minute.
5)add the soy sauce, sherry, brown sugar, basic stock and sesame oil.
6)bring to a boil.
7)add in the fried fish and braise for a minute
8)serve.

Thai pork satay with peanut sauce

Ingredients:
1/2 onion, finely shopped
4 garlic cloves, crushed and chopped
2tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp ground coriander
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp ground turmeric
2 tbsp oil
450g pork tenderloin

Directions:
1. soak eight wooden skewers in water for about 30 mins to prevent then from charring during grilling.
2. place onion, garlic, lemon juice, soy sauce, ground spices and oil in a food processor and pulse until smooth.
3. using a sharp knife, cut the pork into think strips and marinade with the blended mixture.
4. pre heat the grill to the hottest setting. thread the pork onto the skewers and grill for 3-4 mins each side.

Peanut sauce

Ingredients:
1 cup coconut milk
4 tbsp crunchy peanut butter (or creamy peanut butter + chopped nuts)
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp ground coriander
1 tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 red chilli, seeded and finely chopped
handful chopped fresh coriander

Directions
- put all ingredients into a pot/pan and bring to a boil, then simmer for 5 mins until thick. Stir regularly.

Cucumber and onion salad

1 cucumber, diced
1 large onion, quartered
1 tbsp white vinegar
1 tbsp lemon juice
handful chopped fresh coriander
salt and pepper

Directions:
mix everything together.