Mango Sticky Rice

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The Mango Sticky Rice

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Want to know how to make the blue sticky rice for the mango sticky rice?  Check this out!

How to make sticky rice

how to make mango sticky rice

Thai Mango with sticky rice, also known as glutinuous rice,  is a sweet Thai food.  The rice becomes sticky when cooked.  Learn how to cook it right.

• Put 3 cups of rice in a large pot. Cover it with 2-3 inches of water above the rice.  Let it soak for 24 hours.
• Drain the soaked rice and pour into a steamer basket
• Boil 2-3 inches of water in the pot and set the steamer over it.  Make sre the rice doesn’t drop into the water
• Cover and steam for 20-30 minutes.
• Stir the rice evenly.
• Steam for another 5 minutes.

add the blues in mango sticky rice

Sticky Rice Ingredients

• 300 gms sticky rice
• 250ml coconut milk
• 4-5 tablespoons white sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2-3 pandan leave

How to add the blues in your sticky rice (glutinuous rice)

• Boil the coconut milk, sugar and salt in the wok or pot.
• Add purple tea leaves into the wok or pot.
• Add 2-3 pandan leaves tied in a knot 
• Cook the coconut for about 2-5 minutes till it boils and colour emerge into the coconut milk
• Once cooked, add the blue coconut milk into the cooked sticky rice
• Stir to make sure the coconut milk is evenly mixed with the sticky rice.
• Keep for about 30 minutes before serving.

How to serve the mango sticky rice

• You can make balls of mango sticky rice
• Cut mango into half and slice diagonally on both sides for designs
• Serve with the ball of mango sticky rice

Optional: Add the coconut cream onto the blue sticky rice for taste before serving

How to Cook Pad Thai

Pad Thai is another popular Thai dish!  What if you know how to cook it at home?  Let’s go!  Thai in your own kitchen with Pad Thai!

Best Pad Thai Made Easy !

Pad Thai Ingredients

• 100 gm dry rice noodles
• 2-4 prawns
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon garlic smashed
• 1-2 chives, cut 2 cms
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce
• 1 tablespoon tamarind sauce
• 1 tablespoon pickled radish (chai poh)
• ½ tablespoon chili powder
• ½ cup tofu, sliced in small 1-2cms cubes
• 2 tablespoon water
• 2 tablespoons oil

To Be Placed at The Side of Pad Thai, The Garnish Complete The Authentic Pad Thai

• 1 lime piece for garnish
• 1 tablespoon crushed peanuts for garnish
• 1 tablespoon palm sugar for garnish

Preparing Pad Thai Ingredients

• Clean the prawns by peeling of the backs but leave the meat and the base of the head.
• Soak the rice noodles in room temperature water for about 45 minutes

How to cook Pad Thai

• Put the oil onto the wok
• Fry the sliced tofu, garlic and prawns in the hot oil until brown.
• Add egg and fry till egg is dry
• Then add everything till the noodles are cooked.
• Garnish with bean sprouts, a slice of lime, white sugar and peanut at the side.

Rendang Ayam Pedas

Rendang Ayam Pedas is also a recipe contributed by our dearest friend, Zuriati, who loves to cook for her family and friends.  Her secret recipe is to always cook it with love.

Ingredients

• 1 chicken, cut into small pieces
• 1 coconut for the juice extract
• 1 bowl of dried chilly (about 6-12 pcs)
• 10 pcs of big onions blended
• 4 pcs of garlic and 2 inches of ginger blended
• 1 inch of lengkuas
• 5 pcs of lemon grass
• 2 inches of yellow ginger, blended
• 2 tablespoon of kerisik
• 1 pc of coconut for juice
• 1 ginger leave, sliced into pcs
• 2 pcs of tamarind
• 1 tablespoon of curry chicken rempah (spice)

1. Heat up two tablespoon of oil
2. Pour the blended ingredients into the wok
3. Pour in the coconut juice, let it simmer
4. Put in the pcs of chicken cut into pieces and the tamarind
5. Put the spice, lunyit leave and kerisik
6. Add salt and sugar to taste
7. Keep on stirring
8. Boil till it is concentrated in small fire

This dish takes about 1 hour to prepare and cook.
Again, my friend reminds me to cook it with love for the heavenly and delicious rendang pedas ayam magicc. 

Assam Pedas Ikan

Assam Pedas Ikan is a spicy and tasty Malay dish.  It is spicy and sour fish curry.  

The recipe is whipped out by a dear friend, Zuriati, who loves to cook for her family.  One of her essential ingredients that she always suggest for all chef to put into every dish, is to sprinkle lots of love into each dish to make the dish deliciously lovely.

Other than love, here are the side ingredients you need to prepare this spicy dish.  They are:

ikan assam pedas

• 2- 3 pieces of fish
• 10-20 chilly and dried chilly blended
• 2 pcs of big onions and 2 pcs of garlic
• 1 inch of kunyit (tumeric)
• 2 strands of lemon grass
• 1 bowl of tamarind juice
• 1 bunga kantan
• 3 pcs of laksa leaves (coriander)
• 5pcs of ladies fingers

1. Heat up 2 tablespoon of oil
2. Pour in the blended chilly and onions and lemon grass
3. Let it simmer, then put in the tamarind juice
4. Put salt and one tablespoon of sugar
5. When it is boiling, pour in your fish, bunga kantan and daun kesom
6. When fish is cooked, reduce the heat.
7. Put in the ladies fingers
8. Continue cooking with small fire for another 10 minutes.
9. Ready to be served with rice.

Nasi Lemak

Nasi Lemak

Nasi Lemak is one of the popular dish in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.  There are many varieties of nasi lemak, from those packed in banana leaves to those in high end restaurants.  So, is it easy to cook nasi lemak.  It is easy if you know the know how:)

Nasi lemak dishes, pic complimentary from Vanaja

Nasi Lemak, pic from Vanaja

sambal ikan bilis with onions, pic compliments fm Fida

Nasi lemak sambal, pics compliments fm Mei Yoke; recipe and advice from Zuriati.

 The Aromatic Rice

Ingredients for Nasi Lemak

• One coconut, to be grinded and use juice extract for cooking the rice
• 2 pandan leave for flavour
• 2 slices of ginger
• salt to taste

1. One coconut grinded so that you can extract the juice for cooking your rice.  One coconut is for about 2-21/2 cups of rice.
2. How to cook the aromatic rice for nasi lemak.  It is simple, like how you usually cook your rice, replace the rice with coconut juice and add a pinch of salt or to taste.  To add pandan leave tied onto a knot to be placed into pot for added fragrant.
3. Separate a small cup of the coconut juice, and pour it onto the rice just when it is about to be cooked. Stir well.

Ingredients for Sambal for Nasi Lemak

• 8-10 pcs of dried chilli and 2-3 red chilli
• One big onion
• 2 pieces of garlic
• 1 inch of prawn paste belacan
• 1/2 cup of tumerind or asam jawa juice
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• A pinch of salt

Blend chilli, onion, garlic and prawn paste belacan

• Sliced onion (one onion)
• 2 Hard boiled eggs - peeled shell and cut into half
• Peeled prawn or anchorvies with salted fried peanuts 

1. Heat up 1/2 cup of cooking oil
2. Pour the blended chilli paste onto it
3. Let it simmer, then add tamarind juice
4. Add sugar and salt
5. Cook till sambal thickens
6. Add in slices of onion, peeled prawn or anchorvies

sambal nasi lemak

Cook with lots of love.  Recipe and advised from Zuriati.

Serve nasi lemak rice with sambal and cut eggs.
Cut cucumber into small slices and serve with rice.

Betty's Home Cooked Food

Betty can cook indeed. My beautiful, young, dilligent and shy cousin cooks so well, she puts many to shame. Betty, my all rounder cousin, she cooks, she bakes, she cleans, she irons, she washes and she is a professional at work.

Among the great food you see here are some secret recipes passed down from my aunt to her, ranging from nyonya dishes and local chinese delights. Craving for any delicious nyonya or local chinese delights? Here are a list of dishes that she can easily whip up. I understand from my niece, (Betty's daughter) is that she has this magic wand that she uses to just whip up these dishes for family gatherings. I believe my niece, that explains why Betty can cook and I can't!!

Fried kunyit fish with special made chilli

Black sesame oil chicken

Stir fried cabbage and carrot

Mixed vegetable soup

Nyonya perut ikan curry

Lor bak

Ji Hu Char

Curry Noodle

Lam Mee

Honey roasted chicken wings

Smoked sausages

Prawn fried with black sauce

Curry shrimps

Prawn fritters

Kam heong sotong

Taste good with Juice Home Made too

All photos compliments of my beautiful niece, Joanna!

Address: Taiping, actual place... on invitation only:)