Tahu Gimbal

Tahu gimbal is authentically side dish menu from Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. It is an unique texture dish which consist of tahu (tofu), thin slices of cabbage and gimbal, a kind of shrimp in the fried flour. Last touch is the saute is made from fried ground nut which is smashed and mixed with green cayenne pepper, brown sugar, ketchup and petis (kind of flavour made from shrimp).
So, here i try to share this Semarang authentic side dish recipe:

Ingredients:
White Silken tofu
Cabbage
celery, shrimp snack
Gimbal udang : Shrimp, "bakwan" flour, egg, spring onion, water
Peanut saute : ground nut, green cayenne pepper, "petis", garlic, salt, brown sugar, ketchup, water

Directions:
White silken tofu must be soaked with water and salt. Keep it for 10 minute then fried
Cabbage is sliced thin, add some hot water
To make a gimbal udang, mix the shrimp with bakwan flour, spring onion, water and egg and then mixed them all. Fry in a hot oil.
To make a peanut saute, smashed green cayenne pepper, petis, garlic, brown sugar and salt with fried ground nut. Add some ketchup and water.
Serve the white silken tofu, thin slices of cabbage, gimbal udang. Give the peanut saute in the above. sprinkle with celery and for the last, give the shrimp snack. Yummy!

Nasi Gurih and Sambal Belut

Nasi Gurih and Sambal Belut is delicious meal from my homeland, Yogyakarta. We will find some restaurant in Yogyakarta which serve Nasi Bakar (roasted rice). This menu is unique because the rice is cooked by coconut milk and pandan leaves and then wrap with banana leaves and roast. Usually inside of banana leaves, after put the rice, cassava leaves and basil leaves. The smell is of course, the appetite. :)
But, here i will share about how to cook nasi gurih. A simple but delicious rice menu with sambal belut (eel sambals) and sure, will make you eat more and more. So here the recipe:

Nasi Gurih and Sambal belut

Ingredients:
Nasi gurih >> Rice, salt, coconut milk, chicken broth powder
Sambal Belut >> Fried eels, garlic, lime leaves, green cayenne pepper, red chilli, kencur, salt

Directions:
Nasi Gurih:  -  Boiled the coconut milk, add salt and mix
                   -  Add the rice, mixed all
                   -  Add all into the rice cooker
                   -  Cook until cooked
                   -  Add some chicken broth powder and mixed them all
Eel sambals : - Smashed garlic with lime leaves, green cayenne pepper, red chilli, kencur and salt
                     - Add the fried eel
                     - Smash them all until mixed

Gulai Daging Sapi

Gulai. Who is never know this food? Gulai is a rich of flavour and spicy main dish. We can cook gulai with everything: chicken, beef, lamb or seafoods even some vegetables. The gulai commonly yellow color and rich of spices.
Gulai is popular and you can find it in every Indonesian restaurant. Here, I share the recipe of "Beef Gulai".

Ingredients:

Beef meat

Lemongrass

galangal

salt, pepper

coriander powder

coconut milk

fried oil

Fine textured mix spices: red onion, red chilli, cayenne pepper,

nutmeg, ginger, turmeric

How to cook:

- Stir fry the fine mixed spices, lemongrass, galangal until it smells good

- Pour the coconut milk, cook it until boiled

- Add the beef

- Add salt, pepper and coriander

- Cook until it all cooked

Kalio: other dish from minangkabau

Kalio. If we hear this name of dish, we will never expect that this dish is also come from Minangkabau, West Sumatera. Some say, kalio is a beef meat dish like rendang but watery and caramellicious because using a lot of palm sugar.
So, i share my version of kalio today:

Ingredients:
Beef meat
lemongrass, lime leaves, salt, palm sugar, coconut milk,
Spices: red onion, red chilli, turmeric, ginger, coriander powder

How to cook:
1. Stir fry the fine textured mix spices, lemongrass and lime leaves
2. Add the coconut milk. Cook them until it boiled
3. Add the beef meat, salt and palm sugar
4. Cook until the meat cooked

Chicken Edition #14

My latest chicken project is so easy to cook, so simple and delicious. Adapted by chinese cooking methods, today i want to share my recipe called, " Chicken Fillet with Sour and Spicy Saute"



It's not just yummy. Very very simple to prepare and cook. With all ingredients is easy to find in the market. Here all the recipe:

Ingredients:

Chicken Fillet

Lime juice, salt, pepper powder

Fried oil

Dye ingredients:

egg

starch corn

chicken broth powder

Saute ingredients:

onion, red chilli, tomato ketchup, oyster sauce, sambals, sugar, starch corn and water

Direction:

1. Marinate the chicken fillet with lime juice, salt and pepper powder

2. The dye ingredients all mixed up. The marinated chicken fillet then put it on

3. Fried the chicken fillet until it cooked

4. For the saute, strir fry the onion, red chillies until smell came out. Add the tomato ketchup, oyster sauce, \

    sambals and sugar. Mixed them. Add the starch corn solvent for the finish touch.

5. Add the saute into the chicken fillet

and you get your chinese dish at your home..... :)

Chicken Edition #13

Fireworks Chicken

Yup! I named this recipe chicken as "Fireworks chicken". Well, it is not because it made to celebrate something or use some flamable ingredients. It called as fireworks because it used a lot of hot spicy chilli. Even so spicy, but yummy in taste. So, here the recipe:

Ingredients:

- Chicken thighs

- Lime juice

- mineral water

- salam leaves, turmeric leaves

- galangal

Fine textured mix spices:

- Red onion, garlic, nutmeg

- turmeric, coriander, lemongrass

- ginger, salt, sugar

Saute:

- Red chillies, green cayenne pepper

- red onion, little dry shrimp

- salt, pepper powder, sugar, chicken broth powder

How to cook:

- marinate the chicken thighs with lime juice. Keep it on refrigerator

- cook the thighs with fine textured mix spice, salam leaves, turmeric leaves, galangal on mineral water.

- for saute, stir fry red chillies, green cayenne pepper, red onion. Add some little dry shrimp, salt, pepper powder, sugar and chicken broth powder

- add the chicken thighs and mixed them all



Chicken Edition #12

Chicken Fillet in Tomatoes.....

From many chicken project i have done, there's only two project used chicken fillet. If you remember my Ngohyong fried chicken and the last is this recipe: chicken fillet in tomatoes.

My recipe today is quite simple chicken recipe and of course easy to eat. I think this dish is suitable for children too. The taste is simpel dominating with tomatoes taste. Yup! exactly sour.

So here my recipe of Chicken Fillet in Tomatoes
Ingredients:
Chicken Fillet
Water to boil
Ginger, lemongrass
Red tomatoes, tomato ketchup
Salt, pepper, sugar
Big onion
Oregano, garlic powder
Chicken broth powder
Spring Onion
Margarine
Directions:
1. Boiled the chicken fillet with water, ginger, lemongrass and add a teaspoons of garlic powder
2. Stir fry the onion, add the boiled chicken fillet, tomatoes, tomato ketchup, salt, pepper and sugar
3. Add the oregano and mixed them all
4. For the last touch, add the slicing spring onion