Healthy oat pancake with corn and nutella

Clam Bamboo

As salam alaykum.

I urged to go to Pasar Tani instead of our usual wet market at Section 6. My husband was curious because we normally go there only to get red meat supply and we had some recently (trying not to take too many red meat in our diet). I told him that I wanted to get something different and tired of buying the same mackerel, black pompret or jenahak, or sea bass. He agreed.

Reached there early, throngs of people are already there. We scout for prawns and clams and landed me with baby lobster, mussels and bamboo clam. Never cook the bamboo clam before, I searched the internet for possible recipe.

Here goes the ingredients for the Chilli Bamboo Clam.

Washed bamboo clam
1 onion - blended
3 cloves of garlic - blended
Lemon grass - knocked
3 tbs chilli paste
1 tbsp oyster sauce
Salt and sugar to taste
Kaffir leafs for the aroma

Just saute the lemon grass and blended ingredients in a wok till you can smell the aroma.
Add the chilli paste and oyster sauce. Let it cook.
Add the bamboo clam. No additional water is needed as the clams will release its liquid.
Let it cook and season it to taste.
Once cooked, put in the kaffir leave, turn off the heat and cover the wok.

It's delicious and extremely easy to prepare.

Bon Appetite.
Wassalam.

Savoury Crepe

As salam alaykum.

Crepe for breakfast, crepe for dinner. Care for crepe anyone?

I had crepe for dinner last night. A light dinner, enough for a middle aged appetite. Healthy too.

What's inside?
*1 cup of general purpose flour
*1 cup of fresh milk
*1 cup of plain water
*3 table spoon olive oil
2 inches Carrots - shredded
3 tbsp prawns
Enough solentro and onion spring
Salt and pepper to taste.

Making it.
Mix all the * ingredients. Mix well.
Then add the rest of the ingredients.
Ladle a batter onto a frying pan. Wait till cooked and flip.

Ready to serve. ENJOY.

Wassalam.

Kerabu Kacang Kelisa

As salam alaykum.

Perhaps i should put my theme as 'Healthy food'. Here is another healthy food that I would like to share. It's the "kerabu".s

Some calls it "kerabu" while others call it "urap" and westeners might want to call it "salad". It is fresh vege mixed with other ingredients to give an appealing taste.

I call it "kacang kelisa" but some calls it "kacang botol or botor". "kacang kelisa" is known to northen part of West Malaysia.

Preparing it is easy.

What you need are:
About 10 stalks of kacang kelisa
Grated coconut - preferably only the white
2 red chilli
1 onion
Tamarind juice and salt to season

Slice the kacang kelisa finely and put aside.
Put all other ingredientvin the dry blender and blend till all the ingredients are finely blended.
Mix the blended ingredients into the sliced kacang kelisa. Mix well.

Ready for consumption.
Bismillahirrahma nirrahim.

Healthy chicken sandwich & citrus manggo salad

As salamu alaykum.

It's labor day today. We, labors are supposed to sit back and just relax. ... Wonderful isn't it.

However, a labor to where I am employed and a second minister in my beautiful home, tonnes of chores awaits accompkishment. But. ..... I believe those things can wait. I just want to wake-up my dozing blog.

By the way, I have just discovered that theres an app for blogging. Got no time to explore before this.

Let's start with today's menu. I made this chicken sandwich for dinner last night. As usual, Tuesday is Mr Hubby's badminton night, a light dinner is essential.

This is how I made it:
For the sandwich:
2 chicken breast
Marinated with salt, pepper dan mixed herbs
Vegeies for garnishing - green lettuce, sliced tomato, sliced cucumber, pickles
Cheese

Grilled the chicken till cooked well. And later sliced for filling.

I used whole meal bread. Spread some butter on one side. Place the sliced chicken. Lay a piece of cheese on top. And toast till the cheese melt.

Layered with vegies and topped with another sliced bread.

For manggo salad
3 riped manggo- peeled n cut
1 tomato - diced
1 orange - diced
Some fresh basil leaves - chopped coarsely
Olive oil
Salt

Mixed everthing together. Add some orange zest. Mix well

Happy eating. Enjoy!!!!!!

Lemon Grass Chilli Prawn

Assalamualaikum all,

Ready for some hot and spicy!!!

How about this Lemon Grass Chilli Prawn?

Looks delicious!

Taste delicious!

Serve it with hot rice .....mmmm .... yummy... yummy

Feel like eating it now.

This is a fast to cook dish provided that you have a pre-cooked chilli paste. I pre-cooked mine ahead of the week to minimize my cooking time. I seem to like the lemon grass in my cooking. Beside giving aromatic scent, it also has a special taste that is un-explain in words.

Lemon grass is classified as herbs for its benefits in use. Among the benefits of this herbs are:

• reduce toxins, excess fat, cholesterol and uric acid in the body.
• it detoxify the digestive tract, bladder, kidney, pancreas and liver.
• it stimulates lactation, blood circulation and digestion. 

[source: Lemon Grass Facts and Lemon Grass Health Benefits]

Apart from cooking, lemon grass is proven as insect repellent. I used it at home and it work miraculously. Chemical-free insect repellent. You can get it from the major supermarket, sold in liquid form. It smells good too. It is also being used in aromatherapy. Boil them and use it to bathe ... umm ... what a soothing experience. However, be very careful with the leaves. The long leaf can be a sharp razor if not handle properly. For my cooking, I normally use only the base.

For this dish, here are my ingredients:

Prawn, washed and marinate with salt and turmeric

1 large onion - chopped

2 stalks of lemon grass - just smash it

3 tbs chilli paste

1 fresh tomato - diced

2 table spoon cooking oil

Salt to taste

1. Fry the prawn half cooked.
2. Use the frying oil and saute the onion and the lemon grass.
3. Once tender, add the fresh tomatoes.
4. Later add the chilli paste. If the chilli is well cooked, you need not to wait long at this stage.
5. Put in some water to let the mixture boil.
6. Next add the prawns.
7. Season it. (You ay add a little bit of vinegar if you like it sour).

Ready to be served!!! 

Don't forget to say 'Bismillah' before you eat, and 'Alhamdulillah' when you finish eating. Let's show some gratitude to Allah for this great food.

Wallahua'lam.

Pek Nga

Assalamualaikum all.

Jangan lupa jawab salam ye ....

Sounds weird isn't it, the name? That is what we called it in kampung. PEK NGA. Short for 'temPEK di belaNGA'. 

It is also called 'Lempeng Nyiur' in the east cost and perhaps 'Lempeng Kelapa' elsewhere. 

I like eating it, and it is very easy to make too.

What you need are:
The basic:
1 young coconut - grated
Multi purpose flour
Water
Pinch of salt

Additional:
1 egg
2 tablespoon of olive oil or butter

The making is so simple. Just mix all the ingredient together in a bowl. It should not be too runny. Just enough liquid so that you will be able to 'tempek' in your pan. The mixture should be something like the pancake except this is with the grated coconut in it. On a heated pan, you can start making the PEK NGA.

Serve it hot and enjoy it in variety of ways. Some have it with fish curry, my husband likes it it brown sugar, but today we are having it with the Sambal Bilis.

Bon Appetite.

Wassalam.