Dampfnudeln (German dumpling)

    

    Locked at home (a metaphor), I opt to re-watch The Great British Bake Off series. During season 4 the bread episode, I was re-exposed to dampfnudeln. What a dampfnudeln you ask? According to wikipedia; dampfnudel is a sort of white bread roll or sweet roll eaten as a meal or as a dessert in Germany, Austria and in France. It looked to me as some sort of a bao, but without the need for me to bring out the steamer out. THAT intrigue me. The recipe that was shown in TGBBO was sweet, but as far as I know, bao is usually eaten savory, so I figure I can do that to dampfnudel too, and when I googled, it was written you can do that. So I searched about dampfnudel, don't be side-tracked, I only looked to 3-4 recipe pages.  I opt to use this recipe as reference. 

Knowing myself (I am not a good kneader); I didn't give the yeast time to bloom first before starting to knead nor do I start with a warm milk, rather I used milk in room temperature. 

    But lo and behold! I have underestimated the recipe. The pan that I used was a bit too small, thus even though the dumpling seems cooked, the dumpling was smooshed. So after the 20 that-I-was-not-supposed to open the pan, I transfer the dumpling to another bigger pan and proceed to steam it again, but maybe because the pan is a too-good-of-a heat conductor, even with the smallest heat setting on the stove, burning smell can be detected.. I turn off the stove and enjoy a somewhat smoky dumpling with chicken curry. Hehehe. 

    Im planning to try the recipe again, but to be steamed in two batches...or maybe half the dough..?

Ingredients:

Dough:

3 cup AP flour

1/4 cup of sugar

1 1/2 packet of yeast

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup milk

1/4 cup butter

2 eggs

Poaching liquid:

1 cup milk

3 tablespoon butter

1/4 cup sugar (less or none if you are planning to enjoy the dumpling savory)

1 teaspoon salt (if you enjoying savory)

Method:

Knead the dough until the dough stick to itself better then it sticks to your hands.

Put in a big bowl, cover and left to rise for about 1 hour. 

When it has double in size, knead a bit more, the divide the dough to fist sized balls. 

Put the balls in a large frying pan and cover. Let rise for about 15-20 minutes.

Warm the poaching liquid before adding to the proved dough. 

Cover and steamed on a small heat for about 15-20 minutes. Don't open the cover or you risk the dumpling to shrink. 

Enjoy with jam and custard if you like it sweet, or you can also enjoy it with curry like I did. 

Chocolate cake - minus the egg

 

Since the start of the 1st MCO,  I've been staying at my mother's house which accidentally act as her bakery. Seeing her grandmother bakes everyday makes my daughter also wants to join in the fun. As luck have it, we are stuck at Kota Puteri at the present MCO. With not much she can do, she is begging me to allow her to bake (of course I did all the baking, she only do the pouring the ingredients into the mixing bowl). And around the same time my sister has been requesting me to edit a video of my daughter making fruit tarts for her work, that inspired me to record and edit my own video.  Being far from any known bakery, I was a little heavy hearted to let her use all of my butter stock for her baking, so I searched for recipe that uses oil rather than butter. This is the recipe I've decide to use and I do not regret one bit..

Ingredients:

2 cups sugar

3 cups all purpose flour

2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup cocoa powder

2 cups water

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

1 cup vegetable oil

2 tablespoon vinegar. 

Methods:

Preheat your oven to 175 C and prepare your baking pan.

Mix all your dry items in a  bowl

Mix your wet ingredients in another bowl

Mix both of the wet and the dry ingredient until fully incorporated. 

Bake for about 40 minutes or until the toothpick inserted at the center comes out clean. 

karipap sardin

Masa kecil-kecil dulu mak ada menyediakan kuih untuk dijual oleh saudara emak. Jadi saya memang ada teringin nak cuba buat karipap. Selepas selalu didesak, mak beralah dan membenarkan saya membantu mak membuat karipap sardin untuk dinikmati oleh ahli rumah. Apabila ditanya kenapa inti sardin yang dipilih mak, mak jawab sebab ayah suka karipap berinti sardin. Sudah bertahun berlalu, sebenarnya sudah lupa resepi karipap mak, tapi saya tak dapat lupakan reaksi ayah: Sedap!. Kebetulan ayah bukan seorang yang banyak mulut, kalau makanan yang ayah makan biasa-biasa saja pada pendapat ayah, biasanya hanya akan mendapat: ok..

Entah kenapa tiba-tiba mendapat mood nak buat karipap, mungkin sebab nak habiskan mentega yang takut hampir dengan tarikh tamat tempoh, Jadi saya pun mencari resepi karipap sardin di internet, tapi tiada inti yang menepati syarat mak. Mak pernah cakap walau inti sardin, perlu tumis dengan kari ikan, baru boleh dipanggil karipap. Akhirnya saya hanya cari resepi untuk kulit karipap, tapi tampa disedari saya telah alter resepi tersebut sebab sepeket tepung yang saya beli bukanlah 1kg, tapi hanya 850g.

Ini resepi karipap sardin saya

Bahan-bahan inti:

Sebiji bawang besar, dihiris halus

Sebiji kentang, didadu kecil atau disagat

Sebatang lobak merah sederhana besar. didadu kecil atau disagat

1 sudu besar serbuk kari ikan

1 sudu besar sos tiram

1 cawan besar air.

1 sudu besar cili boh (pilihan)

Ikan sardin dari setin besar sardin, dibuang sosnya dan dihancurkan

Garam dan gula secukup rasa. 

Kaedah siapkan inti:

Tumis bawang, lobak dan kentang hingga bawang lembut.

Tambahkan air, biarkan atas api kecil hingga air kering.

Tambahkan kari yang telah dijadikan pes dan cili boh .Tumis.

Tambahkan sos tiram.

Masukkan sardin dan tambah garam dan gula secukup rasa. 

Bahan-bahan kulit karipap:

850g tepung gandum

1 sudu besar garam

1 sudu kecil gula

1/2 cawan mentega

1 cawan minyak sayuran

+- 1 cawan air

Kaedah menyediakan kulit:

Campur bersama tepung, garam dan gula.

Di atas api kecil, cairkan mentega bersama-sama minyak

Tuang minyak ke campuran tepung tadi dan gaul rata. 

Tambahkan air sedikit-sedikit sambil menggaul doh hingga mendapat kelembutan yang dikehendaki. 

Perlukah saya menceritakan kaedah membuat karipap? Tak pandailah saya nak cerita dalam bentuk tulisan ini, saya minta anda cari kat youtube ye? Hehe. selamat mencuba. 

Creamy tuna pie

 

Upon eating my chicken mushroom pie, my tuna avid father requested for tuna pie...

So I started to again search for some recipe for tuna pie. I was also actually somewhat ready to make new pastry crust (I used my previous crust for the chicken pie). I finally decided to use this recipe as my referral to make my pie. 

Ingredients:

2 tbs butter

2 tbs cooking oil

3 cloves of garlic, chopped

1 small onion, chopped

2 tbs all purpose flour

3 cups of milk

1/2 cup corn, drained

4 piece cheese

2 can tuna or 1 can tuna & 1 can sardine, drain, rinse and flaked.

salt pepper to taste

puff pastries, thawed

Methods:

Preheat the oven to 175C.

Melt the butter with the oil in a pan. Saute the onion and garlic until fragrance. 

Add flour and stir until cooked. About 2 minutes.

Turn off heat and whisk the milk little by little until creamy. 

Add the tuna, corn and cheese. Mix carefully.

Spread the tuna pastry to a suitable size. you can make a big pie if you want, but for me, a hand-held pie is more manageable. 

Give the pie an egg wash, you may sprinkle some black sesame or some oregano flakes if you want and bake the pie for about 10 minutes or until golden. 

Peanut butter cake

 

Upon a request, I googled for recipes of nuts cake. I read about walnut cake and multinut cake and fruit cakes too. Suddenly I was inspired to search about peanut cake, and lo behold google gave me recipes for peanut butter cake. I picked one that seems easy enough and picked an occasion to test the recipe out. The recipe request upon peanut butter frosting, but as  I buy just enough peanut butter for the cake, I need to improvise for the frosting. Using the peanut butter - grape jelly combo and chocolate for frosting, I serve the cake square to my family first. My children loves the cake with the chocolate frosting better, but I've found the peanut butter - jelly frosting suits my taste better. 

Here are the recipe:

Ingredients:

CAKE
2 cup Flour
2 cup Sugar
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 cup Milk
2 Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla
1 cup Water
1/2 cup Butter
3/4 cup Peanut Butter

FROSTING
1/2 cup softened Butter
1 cup Peanut Butter (or chocolate spread or peanut butter-jelly combo)
3 tbsp Milk
2 cup Powdered Sugar

Methods:

Cake

Preheat oven to 175 C.
Grease a 9×13 baking dish with butter. Dust with flour to prevent sticking.
Whisk together flour, sugar, and baking soda in a large bowl.
Add milk, eggs, and vanilla to bowl.
Beat mixture at low speed until blended.
Add water, butter, and peanut butter to a saucepan.
Heat over medium heat stirring frequently until blended (about 5 minutes).
Add peanut butter mixture into flour mixture.
Stir until batter is well mixed and pour into prepared dish.
Bake about 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
Allow to cool.

Frosting 

Cream together the butter and peanut butter (or chocolate spread for my case).
Slowly add in the sugar, if it gets too thick then add a little milk to thin.
Continue until all of the sugar is in and the frosting is blended to the right consistency.
Spread frosting over cooled cake.

 

Peanut butter cookie

Peanut butter cookies..
I was looking for a cookie recipe as i want to reduce my buying and be able to control what goes in my children's tummy, and it is a fun recipe to bake with children.. hehe

Ingredient
A - 1.5 cups all purpose flour
B - 1 tsp baking soda
C - 1/2 tsp baking powder
D - 3/4 tsp salt
E - 1/2 cup unsalted butter (soften)
F - 1/2 cup granulated sugar
G - 1/2 cup brown sugar
H - 1 large egg
I  - 1 tsp vanilla essence
J  - 1 cup peanut butter

Method
1 - Pre-heat oven to about 170 C
2 - In a bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
3 - Beat and cream butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar
4 - Add egg and vanilla essence
5 - Add the peanut butter
6 - Add the dry ingredient gradually.
7 - Fold in chocolate chip or sprinkle if you want...
8 - Scoop small dollops onto tray with space to spread.
9 - Bake around 15 minutes, until the bottom and edge is slightly brown but the center is still slightly soft.

 

muruku..

The other day, my mother in law gave us some muruku that was enjoyed especially by my daughter. I was very shocked to learn that my mother in law made the muruku her-self. It never occurs to me that you could make your own muruku.

This is my version of her muruku recipe:


Ingredients:

a- 1 pack (500g) of muruku flour
b- 3/4 pack (375g) of glutinous rice flour
c- 2 teaspoon of white sesame seed
d- 1 teaspoon of caraway seed (rempah jemuju)
e- 1 teaspoon salt (or adjust to taste)
f- curry leaves to taste (blended)
g- 2 eggs
h- chili paste (to taste)
i- 600ml boxed coconut milk
j- 2 1/2 cup of water
k- oil for frying

Method:

1- combine all dry ingredient in a big bowl and mix thoroughly.
2- beat the eggs in a bowl, and add the chili paste and the coconut milk.
3- mix the dry and the wet ingredient
4- add the water by small batches so you will not over liquefy the mixture.
5- put the mixture into the muruku press, heat the oil in a frying pan
6- press the mixture in a round manner. Fry until crispy.

Sugar biscuits

On the occasion of making almost everything myself,  I decide to make my own sugar biscuits, especially when you can add to this recipe. I got the recipe from here. But this is my interpretation:


Ingredient:
375 g salted butter (or add a teaspoon of fine salt if you use unsalted butter)
90 g powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
400 g all purpose flour (you could add a teaspoon of baking soda if you wish)


Method:

1. Preheat oven to 350F (180C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. Place butter in a bowl and beat until creamy. Add powdered sugar and vanilla extract and continue mixing until the mixture becomes white and creamy.
3. Using a spatula incorporate flour into the butter mixture until completely combined.
4. Form small round dough of cookies on the prepared baking sheets. You may add chocolate chips, nut bits, M&M's, or basically anything here.
5. Bake for 10-20 minutes or until the base begins to brown.
6. Let the cookies cool completely on a cooling rack before serving.

mexico bun / rotiboy's crust

I didn't have the recipe for the bread, but here is the recipe for the crust. the recipe that I have have just enough coffee for you to taste the coffee, but if you are a coffee addict, you can add anothe teaspoon, I supposed.

Ingredient:
dilute together:
1 tsp hot water
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp instant coffee powder

mix together and sieve if possible:
120g all purpose flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt

100g unsalted butter; room temperature
90g confectioner's sugar
2 large eggs


method:
1- beat the butter with the sugar until light and fluffy
2- add in the eggs, one at a time
3- mix in the coffee
4- fold in the flour mixture.
5- put into piping bag and pipe in a spiral onto risen buns that are ready to be baked
    *reminder to pipe just as needed, as too much topping would overflow and be cakey, which is not the objective of the topping*

this is my aunt sakinah's recipe.

Chocolate tart

Ingredient:
Pie crust

8 ounce cooking chocolate, chopped
1 cup heavy cream
1 large egg
sugar, optional

chopped nuts (optional)

Methods

1) blind bake your shaped pie crust, leave to cool.
2) pour onto your chopped chocolate, the heated cream. stir until all melted. taste and add sugar if needed, let cool
3) bake the nuts for a few minutes until slightly golden. chopped the nuts if it haven't been chopped
4) add the nuts into the chocolate. let cool.
5) add the egg, mix throughly
6) pour the chocolate into the crust, careful not to overflow
7) bake the tart in a low heated oven until firm. a cracked tart indicate the tart has over baked.
8) enjoy!

Affie (Fluffy) suddenly came into the photoshooting area and sat

Kuih Kompleng (cornflake chews) hehehe

This recipe has been the crown and glory of maklong's. No one can do it as good as she does.. even if we take the formula.. still it doesn't stop me from trying...

Ingredients

a) 350g of cornflake (lightly crunched)

b) 5 tablespoon of sugar

c) 7 tablespoon of butter

d) 7 tablespoon of honey

e) garnish; such as nut flake, sprinkle, cherry..(optional)

f) paper cups

Direction

-prepare the ingredients before starting the cooking process

-melt the sugar on a low heat

-add the butter and honey. make sure they are properly melted before adding the garnish. be fast and stir constantly to avoid over carmalized and it become bitter.

-put in the cornflake and fold to ensure every flake is covered with the sugar

-remove the cornflake from the heat

-put the cornflake into papercups garnish with sprinkle

-bake in low heat until you see the papercups shrink back a little

-lets it cool before handling

enjoy (",)v

kebanggaan maklong... selamat mencuba

bahan2

350 g cornflake (belilah yg x boikot)

5 sudu besar gula

7 sudu besar madu

7 sudu beadr mentega

kepingan kacang (pilihan)

sprinkle (pilihan)

cawan kertas kecil

kaedah

hancurkan sedikit cornflake agar lebih mudah diuruskan. letak tepi sebentar

sediakan semua bahan sebelum mula mencairkan gula.

dalam kuali besar, cairkan gula

tambah madu dan mentega

tambahkan kacang

tambah cornflake, gaul rata

tutup api, tuang cornflake kedalam bekas lain untuk mengelakkan gula hangus di dalam periuk panas

tuang ke dalam cawan kertas

tuang sprinkle atau choc rice jika mahu

bakar didalam oven atau microwave dengan suhu rendah selama kurang dari 5 min.

biarkan sejuk sebelum makan

Choc chip cookie :)

Ingredients

a) 125g butter-room tempreture

b) 1/2 cup of brown sugar

c) 1/2 cup of granulated sugar

d) 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence

e) 1 egg (lightly beaten)

f) 2 cup of self rising flour

g) 1/2 teaspoon of salt

h) 125 g of choc chip (semisweet)

i) walnut (optional)

Direction

- preheat the oven to 150F

- cream together butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar and vanilla essence

- add the egg

- fold in the flour and the salt

- add the choc chip and the nut. fold

- dallop some batter onto the baking pan. amount depending on the size and thickness of cookie that you want

- bake for about 15-20 minutes or until turn light brown.

can be enjoyed with milk.. (",)v

versi bahasa malaysia

bahan2


a) 125g mentega-suhu bilik


b) 1/2 cawan gula perang


c) 1/2 cup of gula kasar


d) 1/2 sudu kecil esen vanila


e) 1 telur (dipukul)


f) 2 cawan tepung naik sendiri


g) 1/2 sudu kecil garam


h) 125 g choc chip (kurang manis)


i) walnut (pilihan)



kaedah

panaskan oven ke 150F

pukul mentega, gula perang, gula kasar dan esen venila

tambah telur

gaulkan tepung dan garam

masukkan kacang walnut dan choc chip

letak sejemput tepung di atas dulang mengikut saiz dan ketebalan biskut yang anda mahu
jarakkan tepung untuk memberi ruang biskut mengembang

bakar selama 15-20 minit atau hingga berwarna keperangan

sedap dinikmati dengan susu (",)v