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  1. Spices/ingredients
  2. Barbecued meat or Satay
  3. Satay sauce
  4. Coconut rice
  5. Fried flat rice vermicelli
  6. Pickled acar
    7.
  7. Gado-gado (vegetable salad)
  8. Beef noodle in potato gravy
    9.
  9. Indian fried noodle
  10. Assam laksa
  11. Curry noodle
  12. Thai style noodle
  13. Flat noodle with chili
  14. Beef curry
  15. Mutton casserole
  16. Spicy crab
  17. Stuffed crabs
  18. Stir fry squids
  19. Fish head curry (sour)
  20. Salted fish head curry
  21. Fish in sweet coconut curry
  22. Fish in green chili gravy
  23. Charbroiled fish
  24. Shrimp curry
  25. Thai tom yam
  26. Indonesian soto
  27. Blue rice
  28. Stuffed tofu
  29. Chili fruit and vegetable salad
  30. Fish in coconut jelly or otak-otak

 
Minced pork and
vegetable curry fritters

 

 
mixed vegetable pickle - Chinese pickle
Mixed vegetable  pickle

 

 
To cook succulent
and juicy prawn
Shelled prawns (500 g) marinated with 1 teaspoon sugar will become succulent on stir fry. Marinated with salt will become tough on cooking.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 
 

Tips on Asian Curry Cooking
 

Chili paste preparation in curry
 Usually dried chilies, shallots and dried shrimps form the basic ingredients of the chili paste. To get a sweeter and tastier paste, more shallots are added. Recommended ratio is 1 chili : 2 shallots.


The mixture is ground finely with oil (not water!) in a food processor to form the chili paste. Stir fry the ground ingredients with oil  over low heat till fragrant.
Add first extract of coconut milk, stir continuously over slow fire till oil begins to float above. 6 minutes.
To get the crimson red color in curry, use
dried chilies instead of the fresh ones. Soak the
dried chilies in hot water for about 15 minutes to
soften them. Remove the stalks and some seeds.
It you feel it is too tedious to remove the seeds,
then blend vigorously till the seeds disappear!

Chili powder, turmeric powder, or any powdery
spices, when needed, should be added last as they get charred easily, Continue frying till the latter also becomes aromatic. First extract of coconut milk is then added.

  

Different types of curries need different cooking times. Seafood curry needs very short time to get cooked, Therefore, seafood, be it prawns, fish, crabs squids, are added last, after the chili gravy is ready.
 

For beef and mutton, they are added at the initial stage of chili paste frying. Cooking time to tenderize the meat is about 40 minutes.
For chicken, time taken is in between the two.


A crimson red fish head curry

  
 

 

   

Chili fruit and
vegetable salad or rojak

   satay (barbecued meat) and
its yardstick satay sauce		   (char koay teow)
 fried flat rice vermicelli with chili



Coconut milk in curry
Usually 1 cup of warm water is added to 1 crated coconut in a food processor, and blend for 1 minute.
That will result in more coconut milk being extracted when squeezed.
That yields the first extract of thick milk. When second cup of warm water is added and squeezed,
it gives the second thinner milk.
Yoghurt or evaporated can substitute for coconut milk when the later is not available.

First extract should be added to chili paste and the mixture continuously stirred to avoid sticking.
It is simmered over low heat till a layer of red chili oil separates out and floats on the surface.
Normal time taken is 20 minutes.

Switch to medium heat, at this stage, meat, chicken, seafood, beef or mutton is added.
Stir briskly, till just cooked. As a general estimate, time taken for 500 g of prawns or fish is about
5 to 10 minutes; for chicken is about 20 minutes; for beef and lamb is about 30 - 40 minutes.
If it is seafood curry, dish out the the seafood to avoid over-cooking as they get cooked fast.
If it is beef, lamb or chicken, the meat stuff can be left in the chili paste to continue the cooking.

Second extract is then added, brought to boil over medium heat. Time taken is about 10 minutes.
If seafood is used, add it back to the curry gravy, bring to boil and serve hot.
 

How do the Asians prepare a delicious noodle dish?
 


Noodle is never too long, the longer the merrier. The prerequisite of a delicious noodle dish is:
The correct degree of hardness of it strands,
and the unbroken strands.
 
  The noodle
   is too.short!
No matter how tasty is the soup stock,
how much and how fresh are the ingredients used; if the noodle is too soft or too short, the dish will not be delicious!



 




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