KITCHREE (SPICED YELLOW DAL WITH RICE) RECIPE

A combination of rice and yellow lentils  make this a nutritious meal. I serve  my  Kitchree or Kitchari  with Ayam Masak Merah (Chicken in Spicy Red Sauce),

You can  make this rice on stove top  following my  recipe below or use rice cooker.

For rice cooker, fill your cooker with water, milk, yogurt, salt and turmeric and bring to boil by pressing the 'cook' button.  In a separate pan, heat the ghee, fry onion,  cinnamon, cardamom,, cloves, ginger and garlic till fragrant.

Once the water is boiling, add in rice, lentils and the fried  spices.  close lid.  You need not worry about burnt rice, the rice cooker would take care  for you.

Other rice recipes you should try:

Mutton Biryani

Chana/Garbanzo Pulao

Easy Tomato Rice

Pumpkin Pulao

AYAM MASAK MERAH / CHICKEN IN SPICY RED SAUCE

This chicken is cooked in a spicy red sauce that was a popular choice here. Ayam Masak Merah / Chicken in Spicy Red Sauce  got its color from chili paste, chili sauce and tomato sauce. .

Before you start, prepare the chicken by coating with turmeric and salt  then fry until half done.

Also get ready those  ground ingredient.  Cut dried  chili into small pieces, wash and boil .  Drain then grind into smooth paste together with ginger and garlic.

Have added a cup of water but this depends how thick you want the gravy to be.

You can use white sugar instead of brown sugar as brown sugar makes this Ayam Masak Merah / Chicken in Spicy Red Sauce a bit dark in color..

The other chicken recipes you should check out:

Pan Fried Honey Soy Chicken 

Lemon Chicken

Hot & Spicy Chicken Masala. 

6 AMAZING CAKE FOR RAYA

After posting  Top 10 Cookies for Raya. , let's  have a look at  6 Amazing Cake For Raya  that are served during  Hari Raya (Aidilfitri)   for open house to guest, family and friends.

One of most famous cakes was Kek Kukus (Steamed Fruit Cake) that has been baked for more than 50 year despite emergence  of modern cake.

Most older cake recipes were time consuming  to  prepare like Kek Kukus (Steamed Fruit Cake), it requires 4 hours of steaming and Honeycomb Cake needs 3 hours resting time before baking.   So plan wisely before you start.

6 Amazing Cake for Raya.   Click on the title to view full recipe


1.  Honeycomb Cake / Kek Sarang Semut 

This cake has holes that resembles honeycomb,  this is  how it got his name.   Allow the batter to sit for 2-3 hours before baking to get that honeycomb effect.

2.  Kek Kukus (Steamed Cake)

Super moist and addictive fruit cake that was time consuming to make,  It takes 4 hours to steam yet after more than 50 years, it still remains most sought after cake during Eid.  It is challenging and at the same time rewarding to bake this legendary cake


3.  Tricolor Marble Cake Recipe        

Similar to butter cake but the batter was divided into 3 different color.  Spoon layer by layer until all used up.  Swirl 3-4 times with a skewer.  You can choose other color of your choice

4.  Butter Cheesecake Recipe       

With combination of cheese and butter, it produces  a delightful treat.   In this recipe, egg whites are beaten until stiff

5 Lemon Yogurt Cake Recipe  

If you love citrus in your cake, this recipe would make you love lemon even more.  Using lemon juice, lemon zest and lemon frosting.  It was AMAZING!

6.  Eggless Light Fruit Cake Recipe    

This eggless cake was light with least amount of dried fruit.    It uses oil and yogurt but still turns out super moist and as good as the one with eggs

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TOP 10 COOKIES FOR RAYA

Since  the festive time (Eid) is just  around the corner, here  are  Top 10  Cookies For Raya   that are made year after year.    This is the perfect time to savor and share these little treats for family and friend.

The process begins  1-2 weeks before the festival and this time of the year, most  family would gather around to bake these cookies.  With a combined effort,  jars of delicious cookies could be made faster as each member of the family is assigned to do the task.

Top 10 Cookies for Raya.  To view each recipe, click on the title  of the cookies.

1.  Suji Cookies    

Pleasantly buttery and slightly crunchy cookies.  It uses clarified butter (ghee).  It will remains white after baking.  Place them 1 in apart as these expand while baking


2.   Black Sesame Seeds Cornflakes Cookies                                                      

These cookies are the first one to disappear from my cookie collection.    You can't stop gobbling them, the are really GOOD.  Black sesame seeds and crushed cornflakes are used for making  Black Sesame Seeds Cornflakes Cookies


3.    Cocolate Almond (Cokdam) Cookies                                                                           

Deliciously simple yet elegant and tasty.  Chopped almond, chocolate spread and cocoa powder are added for making this wonderful  treat.    Roll out the dough in between 2 plastic sheet to avoid sticking


4.  Semolina Cookies/ Biskut Suji

One of the popular cookies of  yesteryears. . It is still made during festive seasons.    These contain semolina but I have one without it in this collection, it is called Suji Cookies.


5.    Cornflakes Cookies

They are quite addictive, crunchy outside but chewy inside.   Crushed cornflakes added a great texture
                                           
6.  Honey Cornflakes Cups Recipe 

Only 4 ingredients to whip up these cups.  Melted honey, butter and sugar are added to cornflakes then spoon onto cake cases for baking


7.    Daisy Cookies / Biskut Dahlia                                                      

Basically these are buttery, melt in the mouth butter cookies.  It was pretty laid on a plate due to its lovely shape made with special mold or use  a cookie press.  It is a bit tricky to make the dough,  too soft turns the cookies flat

8.  Date Tart.                                          

One of seasonal favorites,   commonly stuffed with pineapple,  but I have made slight changes by filling it with pitted date.  The beauty of these tart was pinching the sides with tart pinchers

9.   Crisp Chocolate Cookies Recipe  

Made with oil. these cookies require 1-2 hours chilling time.  Place them 2 in apart as they really spread during baking.  Turned out crisp but soft inside

10,   Biskut Makmur

A traditional biscuit made with ghee.  It was melt in the mouth usually shape like a leaf, stuffed with crushed peanut and icing sugar.  Nowadays, it is shaped into a small ball coated with icing sugar

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MUTTON KORMA RECIPE

Mutton pieces  are marinated in yogurt then slow cooked until tender.

There a tons of recipe for Korma.  One of them uses ground almond, cashew or grated coconut like this  and   this  . You can use chicken, beef or lamb for  cooking the recipe. .  .

This Mutton Korma uses  pounded fried onion and to be marinated for at least an hour.    The marination not only gives a tasty flavor  but also help to tenderize the meat.

Another difference  was, this Mutton Korma does not involve sauteing the spices in ghee as  you normally do, The spices, yogurt  and ghee are added together with mutton.

Pounded cinnamon, clove, peppercorn and cardamom are also  used