SAMBAL TELUR (EGG SAMBAL)

Sambal—precisely cooked sambal—is a notably versatile and robust component in traditional Malaysian cooking. It’s the building block of many scrumptious and colorful Malay and Nyonya dishes and marries well with wide array of ingredients: seafood, tofu, eggs, and vegetables.Once you master the skill of making a great sambal, you can prepare numerous variations of lusciously.

FOODS, FOODS, FOODS

I love playing with my food. When I was a child, I often engaged myself in MASAK-MASAK(literally means cook-cook in Malay language)—a childhood cottage cooking game where I would “steal” ingredients from my mother’s kitchen and then cooked them into “food” using candles and kid’s cookware. I had the whole set up: two bricks in between a candle, a mini “wok,” and a wooden stick for stirring. I was like mad playing MASAK-MASAK, it was the best childhood game ever…

BERGEDEL (SPICY FRIED POTATO PATTIES)

The Ingredients:

• ½ kg of potatoes
  


• ½ cup of minced meat
  


• 1 teaspoon salt
  


• ½ teaspoon pepper powder
  


• 1 clove of garlic
  


• 2 stalks spring onions – sliced
  


• 2 eggs

The steps:

1. Pound ginger & garlic. Mix with minced meat.
   


2. In a cooking pan, fry the above till meat is cooked.
   


3. Remove meat & leave it aside.
   


4. Peel & slice potatoes. Fry potatoes until golden brown.
   


5. Mash fried potatoes.
   


6. Mix mashed potatoes, cooked minced meat, sliced onions & add some pepper & salt.Mix thoroughly.
   


7. Pinch a bit of the mixture & make it into a flat round piece (about 2 inches in diameter). Repeat process till all the mixture is used up.
   


8. Beat eggs in a bowl. (Do not overbeat the eggs)
   


9. For every potato round, cover with beaten egg & drop it in the hot oil.
   


10. Turn once when brown.
    


11. Remove from heat, drain excess oil & serve while hot.

"Bergedil served with nasi lemak"

Bergedil can be serve with lontong & kuah lodeh for HARI RAYA meals. I love bergedel (=

SAYUR LODEH (MALAY MIXED VEGETABLE CURRY)

Ingredients:

• 2 Coconuts- freshly grated & squeezed for coconut milk.
  

Group A:

• 8 pieces Bean curd
  


• 10 long beans
  


• ½ cabbages
  


• 2 medium sized of turnips
  
  

Group B:

• 2 medium onions
  


• 4 cloves of garlic
  


• 2 cm length of ginger
  


• 6 red chillies
  

Group C:

• 2 stalks lemongrass
  


• 4 cm belacan
  


• 20 dried ikan bilis (anchovies)
  


• 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
  


• 1 teaspoon coriander seeds
  


• 1 teaspoon cumin
  


• 2 bay leaves

The steps:

Preparation of Ingredients in Group A

1. Slice bean curd into 4 triangles.


2. Cut long bean into lengths of about 1.5 inches at a diagonal slant.


3. Cut cabbage into 4-5 wedges.


4. Cut turnips into chunky sticks.
   

Preparation of Ingredients in Group B

1. Slice onions, ginger & garlic.


2. Deseed chillies & slice finely.


3. Preparation of Ingredients in Group C.


4. Pound all ingredients in Group C with a pestle & mortar. (Or grind in a food processer)


5. In a large pot, heat about three quarter’s cup of cooking oil.


6. Fry Ingredients in GROUP C until fragrant, stir in GROUP B, until the onions & chillies are soft.


7. Pour in 2 large bowl of coconut milk.


8. When it comes to a boil, drop all vegetables, bay leaves & the remaining coconut milk.


9. Stir now & then allow it to come to a boil.


10. Serve in a deep plate or bowl with lontong & sprinkle some serunding / rendang over it, together with some Malay-style chilli sauce on the side.
    

"Kuah Lodeh should be serve with Lontong"

Enjoy your raya meals =))

LONTONG (RICE CAKES IN BANANA LEAVES)

The Ingredients:

• 600 grams of rice


• 7 and ½ cups of water


• Salt (as much as necessary)
  
  

The steps:

1. Clean, wash & drain the rice grains.

2. Put all the ingredients into a saucepan & boil. (Use a non-stick saucepan)

3. Stir every 15 minutes, using a wooden spoon to mash the rice grains to ensure a smooth texture.

4. When the water has almost completely evaporated, cook over low heat until it is completely dry.

5. Leave the rice to cool.

6. Lay a piece of damp cloth on a tray, put the cooled rice into it, & wraps it up tightly.

7. Place another tray on top with a heavy weight in it for 2-3 hours.

8. Remove the rice cake from the cloth & cut into desired serving size.

DELICIOUS FOODS ON HARI RAYA

This is the lemang, a speciality food for Hari Raya. It is yummy delicious rice cooked with coconut milk, wrapped with banana leaves and slowly bakes over charcoal or wood fire in a bamboo tube.

Lemang is best serve with serunding or rendang. I believe all our Muslim friends love lemang. Don’t you?

"Lemang"

"Rendang usually served with lemang"

The rendang looks very spicy & yummylicious, doesn't it?

SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI

Hari Raya Aidilfitri is celebrated by all Muslims after undergoing an entire of 1 month in Ramadan for fasting.

As the Muslims were busy preparing stuffs for raya ceremony, we get the chance to meet other relatives, be together with our family, and of course, the FOOD! I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to celebrated hari raya with my beloved family. Ouhh, by the way, my hari raya feast are really a culinary delight, especially if you love hot and spicy foods..

Okay, enough with the foods. Here are some collection of recipes for HARI RAYA celebrations. These dishes are also enjoyed throughout the year.

If you enjoy reading this post and have tried some of the recipes, kindly comment on this post yeah :)