More Ifthar foods

As I still on my medical leave, there were plenty of time for me to filled during the day. One day I decided to cook Lontong. Made the kuah lodeh, sambal kacang and rendang ayam


When I have to break my fast alone (as my husband working) this was what I had. Any left over put in one plate.

On Sunday last week, Dr Azrina came over for Ifthar, the menu nasi ayam, Sardine and potato pies, nacho and last minutes KFC chickens (in Hounslow the KFC is halal) unfortunatly there were no photos of the KFC as Azrina & Halim arrived from Hounslow just in time for the Ifthar.

This is my nasi ayam chicken

Potato pies

Sardine pies



On Tuesday the 24/8/10, We invited Halim's bosses for ifthar. Well I suggested to Halim to invited them as I fancy to eat Lontong Kering (when I called my sister in JB she said she had lontong kering, that made my taste bud wanting to eat it).

I started cooking and cleaning the house around 12.30pm and managed to cook all the dishes like rendang ayam, sambal kacang, nasi impit, the veg and sambal goreng. As for the kuih, I just defrost it from the one I made early.



As for today, I managed to made the chandol, will update the photo and recipe later

Bubur Kacang and Gendang Kasturi

One day I felt like eating Gendang Kasturi. Never done it before and it hard to find if you are living near Heathrow. So I called my Mom in Johor Bahru to get the recipes. When you get your recipes from you mom you will never get the quantity of the stuffs you need, she just said you need this and that only. So I just do as I go by.

Bubur Kacang
250 g green beans
5 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp brown sugar/ mascova sugar
2 cups of coconut milk
4 - 5 cups of water

Wash the green beans, put in the pot together with water and boil it for 30 minutes than put all the other ingredients and let it boil few minutes more and it ready to eat. (some people put ginger and some also put salt)






Gendang Kasturi

250 g green beans
4 - 5 cups of water
1 cup of desiccated coconut (I used this as its is the only one I got - you can use fresh coconut)
8 tbsp sugar

Batter
1/2 cup self-raising flour
1/4 cup corn flour
1 tbsp rice flour
Pinch of salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
180ml water or just enough

Enough oil for deep-frying

Method
Combine the various flours, salt and baking powder in a mixing bowl. Pour in water and combine into a batter.

Wash the green beans, put in a pot together and boil for 30 to 40 minutes and put the sugar and coconut and let it cook until no water left, make sure you stir it around.

Cool it and after that make a small disc.

Heat the Oil. Coat the green dics in batter and deep-fry in hot oil for three to four minutes or until crispy and golden brown. Remove and drain

Berbuka puasa

Fasting start on 11/8/10. What we had on our first day of ramadan - bubur lambuk, cara berlauk, dates that we bought in Cairo, mince curry. What ever the left over we had it the next day. As for today my husband will going to have his nasi bryani, I still thinking what to cook?






Mee goreng

My version of Nasi Ambang

Lamb Bombay Bryani - my husband favourite. Layering the meat & rice than cook in the oven for 40 minutes




Blackberry muffins

Diana & Saiful

We had buka puasa guests for the 2nd day of ramadan. Saiful & Diana.

Kuih Sri Muka, made and steamed it in the morning.

Rojak apel hijau


Bubur lambuk and all the lauk for the nasi ambeng

Nasi ambeng - steamed rice, fried noodle, ikan goreng selar kuning, sambal goreng, ayam goreng, serunding and a bit of curry

1st day of Ramadan 2009

Saturday, 22th September was the first day of Ramadan.
We decided to call our breakfast - Indian takeaway. I cooked veal nihari (extremly hot 2x) to counter it I made cucumber riata, chicken tandoori, parata. We also had bubur lambok, sardin semosas and currypuffs


Veal nihari - cook the meat for 3 hours - my husband loved it

Chicken tandoori

We thanks ALLLAH for the bless foods and the rezeki. ShukurAlhamdullilah.

Ramadan

Ketayap - pancake filled with sweet coconut


Today my husband working late shift therefore he will break his fast at work. I cooked macaroni cheese. I used Colman's cheddar cheese sauce mix add fresh milk and boil for 3 minutes mixed with cooked macorani and top with lots and lots of grated cheddar cheese. Baked for 35 minutes.