Monday, 2 January 2012

Lamb Stew

Ingredients:
12 pcs Lamb shoulder
2 big White onion (chopped)
1 big Red onion (chopped)
2 stalks Celery (chopped)
8 Potatoes (cut into 2" to 2.5" cube)
2 Carrots (cut into 1" cube)
1 to 1.5 litre of water depend on individual preference of gravy texture.

Seasoning:
Salt
Pepper
Sugar
Black sauce
5 tbsp Plain flour
Cooking Oil

Method:
1) Clean and trim away fats. Then cut into 1.5" square pcs.
2) Boil in hot water for 2 to 3 minutes. Drain then season with salt and pepper for 1/2 hours.
3) Pan fry plain flour with cooking oil with mild flame till slightly brown in colour.
    Keep aside.
4) In another pot, stir fry both type of onions till fragant.
5) Add-in lamb, continue stir fry for 2 minutes.
6) Add-in chopped celery and stir fry for 1 minute.
7) Add-in minimum 1 litre of water. Bring to boil before add-in potatoes, carrots and fried flour.
8) Bring to boil. Add-in salt, sugar and dark sauce to taste.
9) Simmer for 1/2 hour with slow flame or till meat tender.
    Occasionally, stir the stew to avoid from sticking to bottom of pot.

Chocolate Chips with Nuts Cookies

Ingredients:
250g Butter (salted)
110g Caster sugar
110g Brown sugar
2 Egg (size B)
1 tsp Vanilla essence
1/2 tsp Salt

Dry ingredients:
350g Flour
1.5 tsp Baking powder
5 tbsp Coco powder
300g Chocolate chips
120g Hazelnut (baked and coarsely chopped) Any kind of nut

Optional:
2 tbsp of ground hazelnuts (depend on the above kind of nut)

Method:
1) Cream butter, sugar and brown sugar.
2) Gradually beat in egg. One at a time then vanilla essence.
3) Mixed all the dry ingredient well before fold into it; except chocolate chips and nuts
4) Lastly, add-in chocolate chips and nuts till well combined.
5) Bake for 23 minutes at 180 degree Celsius


Yield : 2 containers
Preparation time : 2 hours


For Chocolate Chips Cookies :
1) The size of cookies before baking must be SMALLER than with nuts.
2) Baking time is only 20 minutes at 170 degree Celsius

Sunday, 1 January 2012

Green Pea Cookies

Ingredients:
1kg Green Pea (grind into powder form)
1kg Superfine flour
400g Icing sugar
560g Corn oil

Tools:
Rowling pin
1 big pc of thick plastic sheet
Cookies mould

Method:
1) Mix all the ingredient well, except corn oil.
2) Then add-in corn oil. And mix well.
3) Roll the dough in between plastic sheets. Make sure it is compact enough
    before shape into cookies.
4) Bake for 18 minutes at 170 degree Celsius at rack level 3.


Yield : 4.5 round shape big size containers.
Time : 3 hours
Texture : too soft