Trileçe / Pastel de Tres Leches / Tres Leches cake. Perfect and Best recipe.

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Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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The name tres leches derives from the Spanish words "tres" means "three" and "leches" which means "milk". 

During the preparation, three different milks are used in the syrup poured on the cake, mostly sponge cake base. It called trileqe in Albanian language and people called it trileçe in Turkish language. 

Rumors said originally it made from three kind of milk: cow, goat, and water buffalo. But then after 1930s it started using processed milk (like UHT) and cream due to an increase in industrialization and urbanization. That made tres leches more popular since then all over Northern Mediterranean. 

A variety of tres leches known as trileçe in Turkish language, has recently become popular in Turkey. One theory is that the popularity of Brazilian soap operas in Albania led local chefs to reverse-engineer the dessert, which then spread to Turkey. It was later popularized by the then Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano, who was spotted eating the dessert on the Bosphorus Bridge. 

The Albanian/Turkish version is sometimes made literally with three kinds of milk: cow's, goat's, and water buffalo's, though more commonly a mixture of cow's milk and cream is used. Tres leches (trileçe) consist of three main elements; Cake, Milk mixture, and Sauce/ topping. Mostly in local patisseries here in Turkey, we use caramel or chocolate sauce topping while some using different kinds of fruits jam sauce also - next time I will try fruity sauce. 

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CREAMY SPAGHETTI CHICKEN ALFREDO

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Pasta in Turkey, we call it "makarna" is like second staple beside bread. Together with bulgur wheat , couscous and rice, pasta also favorite food especially in big cities. 
The most favorite pasta type is spaghetti. 

Most pasta consumption in Turkey is in Marmara Region, Aegean second, took third place is Central Anatolia. This was followed by the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Southeast and Eastern Anatolia Regions. It was seen that pasta consumption was lower in the regions where local dishes and traditional tastes were in the foreground.

And the most popular sauce to cook with spaghetti is simple tomato sauce.

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Melt in your mouth Oven Roasted Beef Tongue / Lidah sapi panggang yang enak dan empuk

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Merhaba from Türkiye 👋

Tongue meat is rich in calories and fatty acids, as well as zinc, iron, choline, and vitamin B12. ... Folate is the vitamin in organ meats considered beneficial for fertility and for helping avoid fetal defects in a baby, such as spina bifida and heart problems

Tongue is a very well-used muscle and it needs to be cooked for a long time over low heat to become tender, and it can be very tasty.
So if you want to try this recipe, you should have a pre-cooked beef tongue. How to cook/prepare beef( ox) tongue see this link here

I cooked beef tongue so many times, at least twice or three times in a month. My family enjoy it as well, especially this oven roasted beef tongue. The spices so simple and once you have precooked tongue in your fridge, you are ready to go with any recipes using this delicious beef tongue.
You can check my previous Indonesian style Braised Beef tongue / Bistik Lidah sapi. 

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Buchty ( Buchteln / Buchta / Wuchteln) Bread / Roti manis khas Balkan dan Eropa

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Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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İt's like a decade İ didn't post any bread recipe. Well... actually making homemade bread is part of my (almost) daily cooking as bread is staple in our house. İ bake mostly home style crusty bread for our daily meals.

As Asian İ prefer soft bread or soft buns with very light sweetness and soft crust. İn Indonesian we eat soft buns as breakfast (not everyday though) or accompany our tea/ coffee time. We call our buns "roti manis" means sweet buns.
Indonesia love their "roti manis" with shredded cheddar cheese. The combination of creamy cheese with sweet condensed milk are the most fave among us.

Talking about sweet buns, today İ am going to share one soft and sweet buns calls Buchta. İ found this bread similar to mostly Asian fave so İ eagerly give it a try. 
And İ've been reading a long the web about this yummy bun. Buchta, some call buchta or buchteln or Wuchteln in other place. 
Mostly mention it's Balkan countries origin (Bohemia-Czech). Spread around the neighboring countries like Austria, Hungary, Ukraine and further.

Buchty it's pull-apart style of soft yeast buns. Use many eggs to enrich the buns.  Traditional Buchteln is filled with plum Powidl jam. Buchteln are topped with vanilla sauce, powdered sugar or eaten plain and warm. But sometime it can be served with jam or sweet ground poppy seed.

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Turkey or Chicken Shawarma Recipe / Resep ayam atau kalkun Shawarma

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Selam everybody..... Merhaba from Türkey.

This is my advanced posting from my previous shawarma spice mix before. 

We, especially husband very much enjoy fast food style homemade meal on our menus e.g döner kebab or pizza.

İn Turkey we have dozens types of döner base on meat used, origin and the way it cooked. 

İ already posted some of homemade style Turkish fast food on some of previous posts. 

Many of them for example famous Istanbul street food Kumpir or food you should eat when you are in Bursa city; Pideli Köfte ( meatball served over sauced flat bread). And the world class famous Adana Kebab . For you who enjoy vegetarian food, you should try my meatless Çiğ Köfte (raw "meat"ball). 

Yep.. İ have plenty homemade Turkish fast food/ street food on my blog 🍗🍡 check the Turkish Foods category on side bar.

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Easy and fragrance Shawarma Spice Rub / Bumbu untuk Shawarma

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Selam everybody.... Merhaba from Türkey.

İ mostly cook everything from scratch, if you are my regular reader you might already knew it. And for my home cook, buying spices whole is my best prefer.
Not only because it still best in flavors and aroma,buying and using spices whole gives us such rich exotic flavor with fragrance locked in for far longer than ground one.

As well as this spice mix İ am going to share with you today. İ use spice whole for making my shawarma spice rub.
Having this spice mix in your pantry, you'll be one step ahead for making your shawarma from scratch and it is best and pack of flavors spice mix you gonna love.

Shawarma Spice Rub Recipe.

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Firecracker chicken balls Recipe

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Selam everyone..... Merhaba from Türkey.

When İ hear a word firecracker sauce... my mouth instantly watery. 

For you who already know what firecracker is and even tasted it probably you would be like me, except you don't like it.. 😁 

But İ doubt you don't like a savory garlicky spicy and sweet with a light tangy sauce. 

This firecracker sauce definitely worth trying, believe me it'll be repeatable.

This sweet-spicy hot sauce could be used in almost all protein sources. 

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Piri Piri Chicken Kebab with Piri Piri Grilled Corn on the cob

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Since first time İ made it, İ fall in love and get addicted to piri piri sauce. And now piri piri sauce become staple in my fridge. You should try my "make in advance piri piri sauce" and you will get the best and delicious dinner / lunch ready within an hour.

And today İ make chicken piri piri kebab serve with piri piri grilled corn. İf you are fan of grilled chicken, give a try this piri piri skewer. 
And the corn..... Well... İ lloovveee it! in fact the grilled piri piri corn will be my repeatable meal for me and family.

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Peri peri Chicken Recipe

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Selam everybody.... Merhaba from Türkiye.

As İ mentioned on my previous post, chicken and poultry are most repeatable menu on our dinner table. İt's cheap and my kid's fave protein source.
And my İndonesian grilled chicken is my fave! Please check my post here and here for the recipes.

And today İ will share another delicious grilled chicken with Piri piri marinate sauce İ made before. The spicy savory sour of the piri piri sauce adding the fiery on your chicken (or poultry). You gonna love it.

Making this piri piri chicken is pretty simple, also faster if you have ready to use piri piri sauce you make in ahead before. Check this link for making piri piri sauce in advance.

Every 1 kg chicken (other poultry) you will need about ½ cup of piri piri sauce plus for basting during grilling. Or one whole chicken (about 2 kg) you will need about 1½ cup plus basting during grilling.
Marinate the chicken with the sauce and keep in fridge at least 3 hours before grilled / roasting.
You may prepare the marinating a night before to be grilled in the next day.

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Piri Piri sauce (Peri peri sauce). Best recipe to make Piri Piri sauce in advance

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Selam everybody..... Merhaba from Türkiye.

İ love to cook. A lot!

When İ was single, even İ lived alone I tried to cook for myself when İ wasn't too tired from work. Or I cooked mostly at the weekend together with my friends.

And early time I married my husband, İ spent most of my time in kitchen.

Experimented and tried some new recipes İ never cooked before. More over İ should learn how to cook Turkish food for my husband. So kitchen is my new office after İ got married.

Then there come new phase in my life when İ had my baby. İ couldn't stay in my kitchen as much as before.

Things got changed. İ increased my new interest on sewing and crocheting-and my kitchen schedule less and less for new experiment except fast and easy daily meal for us.

Busy in kitchen still my biggest yearning. So as my kid gets bigger, İ try to be busy trial and error for new recipe in the kitchen ( İ finally succeed bake macarons! ... yay! 😄) 

But still İ need to lessen my time in kitchen cause my kid need more attention and more my present. 

Then İ finally manage having fun in kitchen yet still can play with my kid. İ Sometimes bring her to the kitchen to help me - of course an easy part for her 😍
You can see some pictures post of her during makes cake or cookies with me 😊

And now İ found new way to cook fast and serve various menus for my family-- İ make some spices mixture or spice sauce in advance! 
You should check my Yemeni spice Hawaij mix and Turkish spice mix (baharat karışımı) İ posted previously.

And also İ make some frozen friendly recipe --if you are my regular readers you should probably notice that 😃
Check my homemade chicken nugget, shrimps cake "dragon feet", chicken kebab, cheesy chicken balls, and more.

Today İ am going to share my new fave spice; Portuguese Piri Piri sauce.
Chicken and poultry are the most repeatable protein sources in our house, so this piri piri sauce is one of many other chicken meals served on our dinner table.

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Cauliflower potato soup. A Hearty soup that will warm your day.

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

First of all, I'd like to thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you can come back, again and again, to check up on any beyond Indonesian or Turkish food or something sweets that you might love. Your comments and emails brighten my days and make this simple blog thing worthwhile 😍💛

İf somebody asking me what kind of food İ like to make. My answer would be a soup. Yes..There’s nothing like a bowl of soup! for me making soup, is easy and quick dish to prepare for warming our belly than a bowl of healthy soup.

Just like my cauliflower potato soup. This nutritious and hearty soup guarantee will be best start to warm up your family dinner table.

This is super easy and simple soup yet healthy and of course repeatable one.

Cauliflower potato soup

By: Çitra's Home Diary

serve 5-6 portions

İngredients:

• 350 gr cauliflower/about half head of medium one, roughly chopped
• 200 gr potato, peeled and small diced
• ⅓ cup red lentil
• 1 medium yellow onion, finely chopped
• pinch of drıed oregano (you can use fresh one)
• 2-3 tbsp olive oil
• 1100 ml (±200 ml) broth, depending on how thick you wanna go (chicken or beef or vegetable)
• 1 tsp salt or to taste

 for serving:

• olive oil or melted butter
• oregano
• lemon

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Tuna Melt Sandwich

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Selam everybody...Merhaba from Turkey.

I believe this healthy yummy tuna sandwich will be in your new favorite list once you make it. It's quick and easy to make for your brunch or fill your kid's or husband's lunch box. And also such a great way to fancy up your canned tuna and vary family menu.

Just add cheese as much as you want then you will get the best tuna melt sandwich for your family.

So, if you are ready to make some delicious healty sandwich let's open up some canned tuna and don't forget to get ready with your hot tea/ coffee on pot ready (^,^)

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Kimchi-bokkeumbap / Fried Rice with Kimchi 김치볶음밥

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Selam everybody ....Merhaba from Turkey...

For me rice is a staple meal. Indonesian and some neighboring countries eat rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. For quick and easy breakfast/ brunch most of time I make fried rice with any ingredients available in my fridge. We have many kind of fried rice base on original or ingredients.

But today I will not share Indonesian fried rice but Korean fried rice with kimchi. You know I like kimchi. I made my own kimchi once or twice a year when napa cabbage in season. Usually in July~ August I can find napa cabbage in local farmer market here. A week ago I just have my kimchi fully fermented and ready to dig in, so here I am now crave some fried rice with kimchi calls Kimchi-bokkeumbap 

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Chicken/ beef teriyaki noodle bowl with homemade teriyaki sauce

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Selam everybody.... Merhaba from Turkey.

This is my kind of comfort food. I mean with warm noodle top with teriyaki chicken and vegetables, nothing can make me feel comfier than that. Chicken or beef teriyaki is one of my favorites, I made it almost at least once a week. 

Previously I made my homemade teriyaki sauce because my fave teriyaki sauce that brought from my homeland had finished. There is some other import product sold here as well. But if you know how amazingly simple to make this teriyaki sauce, would you still purchase store-bought that cost you double?

And today I'm going to share one of my fave meal; Chicken teriyaki noodle bowl. It's not so complicated to make as you imagine. Once you ready with any ingredients, cooking process it's just take few minutes. But if you are looking for rice version, just visit my Chicken rice bowl here.

You can substitute chicken breast with beef, just make sure you slice it thinly and flatten slightly the meat with tenderizer before marinate them.

Chicken/ beef teriyaki noodle bowl recipe
Serve 4.

Ingredients I:

• 300 gr chicken breast/ beef, thinly sliced
• 2 tbsp homemade teriyaki sauce
• salt and pepper
• 1 tbsp butter/ olive oil

Ingredients II:

• 200 gr egg noodle
• 2 tbsp butter/ olive oil
• 3 garlic, finely chopped
• 1 big onion, crescent sliced
• 1 red bell pepper, julienne cut
• 1 green bell pepper, julienne cut
• 4 tbsp homemade teriyaki sauce
• 1 tbsp worcestershire/ english sauce
• ½~1 tbsp oyster sauce
• ½ tsp salt or to taste
• 1 tsp fresh ground pepper and more for serving
• sesame seed for serving
• chopped scallion for serving

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Oven Baked Honey Garlic Chicken Wings

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We’re definitely going to be adding these oven baked honey garlic Chicken Wings to our weekend snack menu. 

Yes, nothing can comfort us and makes us sit together in front of tv but this finger licking sticky honey garlic chicken wings.

Wings is my best favorite part and I always keep one or two kilos in my freezer. I make a lot of recipe using this chicken wing, and today I'm going to share crispy oven baked with (asian style) honey garlic sauce.

If you are chicken wing lover as well, make sure you try this honey garlic sauce. Do not hesitate to make more than one kilo wings and make sure everybody get their chicken wings enough (^,^)

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Körili Tavuk ya da hindi / Easy chicken (or turkey) curry

Selam everybody.... Merhaba from Turkey.

If you ask me what one specific food which has many variation... my answer would be curry! Yep... you can find more than 500 kind variation of curry base on ingredients used until where it come from.
As Indonesian of course I like Asian curry- Indonesian, Malaysian, Vietnamese and Thailand curry are my fave!

The definition of curry it self; is name of various braised dishes cooked with some spices to have sharp ad spicy taste. It believed came from South Asia mainly from India which have been spread to all countries in Asia Pacific and Europe

Curry popularity has spread from the Indian subcontinent into the treasury of world cuisine. Every country has different types of curries a distinctive tailored to the tastes of people in the country. Kari has become the world's food, and adopted into Thai cuisine, English cuisine and other country's cuisine

And what I am about to share today is Turkish style curry or in local language they call it Körili Tavuk. Körili literally means with curry (spice) and Tavuk means chicken. Even the popularity is less compare local cuisine, still Körili Tavuk has become cuisine alternative among them.

Usually local people here use double or single pour cream to mix in to their curry, but I use canned coconut milk as I cook my Indonesian curry.

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Yemeni Chicken Mandi easy recipe

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Today I am going to share one delicious middle eastern dish calls, Chicken Mandi. It's one of popular traditional dishes from Yemen.

Mandi is now popular among other Arab countries as well. Traditionally, the meat is slow-cooked in a tandoor (underground oven) which makes the meat extremely tender and delicious and served over aromatic rice.

The spice rub used to marinate the meat (lamb or chicken) is called Hawaij– coriander seeds, cumin seeds, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, whole black peppercorns are roasted till aromatic and made into a powder. See also how to make hawaij spices mixture in my previous post.

This is a very mild dish, not spicy at all. The rice was extremely aromatic and tasted very flavorful. Enjoy this Mandi in its authentic way! 

My husband loves it and me as Asian also enjoy it very much. And since it's not hot spice at all, my kid eat her portion happily.

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Yemeni Spice Hawaij

Selam everybody...Merhaba from Turkey...

Did you hear about Hawaij spice before? Hawaij (spelled hawayej) is a Yemeni spices mixtures. There are two type of hawaij, both derived from the Yemenite kitchen: one is meant for soup, the other for black coffee. Spice mixture for soup are also used in stews, rice, vegetarian dishes and as barbecue spices rubbed into the meat. Basically this kind of Hawaij consists of cumin, black pepper, turmeric and cardamom. More intricate versions may also contain cloves, nutmeg, saffron, coriander and dried onions.

The mixture for coffee is made from anise seeds, fennel seeds, ginger and cardamom. Although it is primarily used in brewing coffee, it is also used in desserts, cakes and slow-cooked meat dishes. In Aden, the mixture is made with ginger, cardamom, cloves, and cinnamon for black coffee, and when used for tea excludes the ginger

This spice came to Israel along with immigrants from Yemen, and it is widespread among yemenites in Israel. 

Basically hawaij made by roasting – coriander seeds, cumin seeds, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, whole black peppercorns  until aromatic and made into a powder. Very few and very basic spices are used for making the dish. 

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Grilled Chicken with Barbecue sauce

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Selam everybody..... Merhaba from Turkey....

30 degree Celsius rainy day today. Something that exactly reminds me of my homeland. I love summer! I feel like energizing during summer. And nothing is more festive the summer than bright and colorful fruits and vegetables on farmer market. 

And did I mention barbecue time at open air with friends and family? Picnic and barbecue time is officially open by nature..!
Just like previous years, we just prepare some Turkish meatball / köfte and some chicken with local taste and flavor.. almost always same. 

So I wanna try new thing to prepare for next barbecue. This is actually my old fave back when I was in Jakarta, grilled barbecue chicken thigh. I used to ate this barbecue chicken (sometimes ribs) at least once in a week in one of cool restaurant in Rasuna Said at that time.

So today I wanna try to make it in home first for preparation next week barbacue. But today I made this for our dinner 1st and I wanna see my husband's impression whether he like it or not.
The recipe I adapted from Jamie's Oliver barbecue ribs with minor adjustment base on my prefer and ingredients I have.

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Tavuk Kebabı / (Adana kebab inspired) Best Chicken sish Kebab recipe

Selam everybody.... Merhaba from Turkey....

Kebap  (in Arabic: کباب) means meat that cooked directly on fire (charcoal or wood-burning oven) or within a pot. (However, what we understand from today's definition kebab is that it includes tomato and pepper). 

In Sumerian language, the word kebab is derived from ''kabuba'' word meaning roasting. According to the some of the sources, kebab is a general definition for the Arabic-origin meat dishes. From these explanations, it's told that kebab comes to Anatolia from peasants who immigrated to Adana from Arabic countries to cultivate.

According to the comments of the experts, people's waiting for the meat to be cooked around the fire when fire was found and used to cook meat, i.e. when the kebab was being cooked for the first time formed a basis for table culture.

Even mostly kebab cook over grill, there are also some stew kebab just like tas kebab or meat kebab with stew. 

In Turkey there are many.... I mean MANY! kind of kebab varieties. The list would be very long if I mention by one by one. But what I will share today is one kind from those many I said.

It's Chicken sish kebab. This delicious chicken kebab was inspired by famed Adana kebab. But I made it from chicken instead of lamb/ beef. But be sure this would be your new favorite list.

It's summer knocking the door..... and this yummy chicken kebab is a great meal to celebrate it. Take it for out door barbecue picnic with your family and friends. Or just prepare it ahead for special weekend dinner/ lunch!

So here you go if you wanna experience the real taste of kebab.

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