Sunday, February 3, 2008

Ikea Swedish Meatballs - Halal version


Hi hi, it's me again. Last Saturday, my sister-in-law and her husband came to our house to learn dreamweaver and photoshop from my husband. So i cooked the halal version of ikea swedish meatball for them. Ikea's swedish meatball uses pork. So all we have to do is to substitute the pork with beef. Very easy to make and u can freeze the meatball and cook it whenever u crave for swedish meatball. Enjoy cooking

Swedish Meatball Ingredients
1) 2 pounds minced lean beef
2) 2 eggs
3) 1 medium chopped onion (Saute the chopped onion in butter and keep aside for use)
4) 1 cup cream (Add in little at a time and mix to make sure the meat dough is not too wet)
5) 1/2 cup of fine bread crumbs (If cream is added too much, can add more crumbs balance the wetness)
6) salt and pepper to taste

Swedish Meatball Steps
1) Mix all the ingredients.
2) Use an electronic mixer or just your hands, but make sure you mix well.
3) Then form little balls, each about 1 inch in diameter (2.5 cm).
4) Pan fry them for about 10 minutes with a little butter or oil in a moderately hot pan. The balls should be able to roll in the pan.
5) Shake the pan gently during cooking to keep them turning.
6) Take them out, put them in a large pot to keep them warm and prepare the Swedish meatball sauce in the same pan. Leave the fat in it!

Ingredients:
1) 1/8 pint cream 2) 1/4 pint beef stock (Can use Knorr Beef Cubes and mix in water)3) 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
4) 1 tbsp white flour
5) 1 tbsp water
6) salt and pepper to taste

Sauce Steps:
1) Swirl out the pan (with the remainding fat from cooking swedish meatball) with boiling beef stock.
2) Add the cream.
3) Add the flour mixed with approx 1 tablepoons of water.
4) Add the seasonings.
5) Simmer until the sauce thickens.

Final step: Serve meatball with sauce, lingonberry jam (can buy from ikea's foodmart) and boiled potatoes

Chinese New Year - Pineapple tarts


Hello. For my family, we celebrate Hari Raya and Chinese New Year. Every year i will make pineapple tarts which recipe is from Phoon Huat. I like the crust taste as it uses custard powder and milk powder to give this extra rich milky taste. Very easy to make and you can get the ingredients from phoon huat's outlet http://www.phoonhuat.com/

Ingredients:
1) 6 egg yolks
2) 1kg cake flour
3) 150g milk powder
4) 75g custard powder
5) 10g vanilla powder
6) 20-60g sugar
7) 750g salted butter (melt at room tempt)
8) 2 packs of PhoonHuat Pineapple paste

Steps:
1) Mix all ingredients. Knead into dough. Chill in fridge.
2) Wrap the pineapple paste (Red Man brand, Phoon Huat) with chilled dough.
3) Coat the tarts with egg yolk.
4) Bake at 150-180oC for 20-25 min.

PS: One pack of pineapple paste can make about 100 balls of pineapple tarts.

Tang Tea House - more pix...



Hi all. The previous post i recommended Tang Tea House and didn't post any pix. Yesterday we went down for late dinner and took some pix to share with you. We ordered satay (open at 6pm), seafood hor fan (for my husband), fish slice soup noodle (for my son), beef tang hoon (for me) and lime sour plum drink. It was crowded with so many people (muslims and chinese). So hope the pix will delight your palate...