KUE KERING KACANG / INDONESIAN PEANUT COOKIES

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This Peanut cookie is one of many other İndonesian old traditional cookies. İ grew up with these cookies. İ remember having these cookies every Eid Fitr holiday when my late grandmother or my family took me and siblings visited some relatives and family's friend.
At that time (around 1980's) we still could find this peanut cookie easily, at least every Eid Fitr or Christmas holiday. Until İ think around the middle 1990's it became less popular among other classic cookies (kaastengels, nastar, butter cookies, etc).

Even it became less popular compare to other classic and modern cookies, still, some small stalls sold this peanut cookie until İ didn't remember exactly when it became less and less to find especially in big cities.

İ left my homeland Surabaya around the year 2000 and started my new academic career in Jakarta and since then İ never ate or saw those cookies anymore until now year 2017 😢
But İ still remembers exactly how it tastes and İ miss it now.

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Mantis Shrimp Curry Noodle made from scratch / Mie Kari (kare) udang ronggeng

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Selam everybody.....Merhaba from Turkey.

This is my kind of comfort food. Nothing more indulges and fulfills my longing for my mom's cook than this hearty, warming and rich flavor of this curry noodle. This bowl always my number one choice whenever İ want to be "selfish" in my dinner table 😏
Selfish.... yes cause my husband doesn't like this kind of curry. He prefer simple food with "simple" flavor 😔

Whenever İ want to cook curry..İ always remember my mom. She is the best cooks around the house. İ learnt many foods from her. We (me and my siblings) all grew up with my mom's heavenly yummy food. İ Love and always remember her curries especially crab and seafood curry.
And my curry noodle also inspired by my mom's curry style. Traditionally we eat curry with white steamed rice. But today İ like to combine my mom's style curry with another İndonesian staple; Mie or Noodle

Mantis Shrimp / Udang Ronggeng

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Hazelnut Macarons With Nutella Filling

Selam everybody.....Merhaba from Turkey.

İt has been for a while İ didn't post any macarons recipe since my last "Rose Macarons with Rose Raspberry buttercream filling" İ didn't post any macarons not because İ didn't bake one, in fact İ start receive some macarons order since few months ago.

İt happen unexpectedly after one staff of baking distributor where İ usually buying my baking ingredient asked my phone number. She said some people who came to their store often ask her how to make macarons or are they selling one. Yes İ know they don't sell any macarons but some wonderfully delish chocolate. She asked me some questions whether İ can receive some order for macarons so she can give my contact to their customer as well.....

Well....İt was just starting like that. İ was so..so..so exciting (almost nervous) when İ got my 1st call for the macarons 😄

Actually İ received pre order for making some food or cakes with personal touch. Just like this Flower Bouquet cup cake, some one ordered it for her special friends. Or yummy black Forrest cake for anniversary someones special to their anniversary. Just check my "CAKE GALERY" section to see some of my collection. Sorry if İ didn't update picture with new one.

Anyway..... Let's back to my post today. Yep....Another macarons! But wait, this time is different one. İ use hazelnut meal instead of almond meal which İ usually use. No reason, almond meal getting expensive now on my local.. more expensive than pistachio (medium grade. Higher grade pistachio still more expensive) or hazelnut. So this is one of my reason to try hazelnut meal for my macarons. Actually trying hazelnut meal for macarons already on my waiting list since long time ago and now İ think the right time to give a shoot.

İf you are pistachio lover you can see my last post Pistachio Macarons in this link. İ should bake another pistachio macarons soon as well 😊 .

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Lontong Mie Surabaya / Surabaya style bean sprout noodle stew. #indonesianfoodrecipe

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Selam everybody.....Merhaba from Turkey.

My today today post is another Surabaya-nese ( if I may say so for things from Surabaya 😊 )

Surabaya is the capital city of East Java province and it's my homeland. The second largest city in population after Jakarta.

And as other regions/cities in İndonesia Surabaya is also famous for the richness of its own typical cuisine. Talking about Surabaya food is like holding a very long shopping list that you want and need them all! Surabaya foods are rich and full of flavor distinguish from other cuisines from other İndonesian cities/regions.
And one of the typical ingredients from Surabaya (and neighboring towns) is "petis". Petis is a product ingredient made of shrimp in paste form. Some call it shrimp paste butcall İ  it just "petis" so not being confuse with "terasi" or "belacan" (another shrimp product). Below here you can see the difference between "petis" and "terasi/belacan".
But both shrimp products are staple ingredients in most İndonesian cuisines. İ brought them from İndonesia last year during my family visit.

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Roll Cake with nutella filling / Bolu gulung irit telur

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Selam everybody.....Merhaba from Turkey.

İt had been a while İ didn't post any roll cake since my last Zebra pattern roll cake with cooked dough method few months ago. No reason why, İ am just not "in a mood" baking one.  Until my husband asked me in  one rainy Sunday why there is no any cake to enjoy with our tea. İ answered and gave him a jar of cookies but he went; would be nice if there is a cake.

No...no rolling eyes really 😤. İ am glad he missed my cake and İ miss making one as well. İ was going to make butter bundt cake but İ feel İ want to eat light. So İ decided to make roll  instead. İ don't have any jam left in my refrigerator and making buttercream would take another effort. So My roll cake this time just use nutella as filling.

İf you want to try this roll cake as well you can vary the filling as your taste or anything available on yours. Check my other roll cake at Swiss Roll Cake category.

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Turkish Spice Roasted Chicken Wings/ Fırında Kızarmış Tavuk Kanat

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

Question of the day; what chicken part is your favorite?

Telling you honestly..... I love chicken feet. İ know..İ know.. some of you maybe will stick your tongue out 😝 😝 . İt sound gross for some of you. Cause maybe you never eat that or even think to eat it. But believe me it's good! Mostly İndonesian and some Asian countries eat chicken feet.
Chicken feet rich of glucosamine chondroitin, collagen and trace minerals. Moreover, a chicken feet stock is an excellent source of calcium

Sadly İ can not find any chicken feet in Turkey from any butcher here so İ won't talk more about it and İ should wait until İ get home to İndonesia soon 😊

Second list of my fave chicken part of course wings! Who doesn't love wings.

The yummiest chicken part and every body's favorite snack however people cook it or whatever glazing sauce with it.

My daughter is very much picky on food and doesn't eat too much, but whenever there is chicken wings she could eat them more as İ thought. So almost once in few days İ cook chicken wing just for her.

Sometimes İ made her crunchy chicken wing and she loves to dip it in cheese sauce. Or simple Honey garlic chicken wings. But most of her fave is this Fırında Kızarmış Tavuk kanat literally mean oven roasted chicken wings.

This chicken wing is actually my copycat taste from rotisserie chicken wing seller here in city where İ live (or maybe other cities in Turkey). And make them at home is satisfy me not just in fresh taste but also much saving in budget.
By making it at home we can control the freshness of chicken wings we use, of course.

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

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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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MY TURKISH SPICE MIX ( BAHARAT KARIŞIMI )

Selam everybody.....Merhaba from Turkiye.


In general, Turkish food varies from region to region. Every region has it’s own characteristic soil and climate. Therefore, all the different varieties of products that are grown in every region effect the food culture within each region.

The cooking of Istanbul, Bursa, Izmir, and rest of the Aegean region inherits many elements of Ottoman court cuisine, with a lighter use of spices, a preference for rice over bulgur, koftes and a wider availability of vegetable stews, eggplant, stuffed dolmas and fish. The cuisine of the Black Sea Region uses fish extensively, especially the Black Sea anchovy (hamsi) and includes maize dishes. The cuisine of the southeast (e.g. Urfa, Gaziantep, and Adana) is famous for its variety of kebabs, mezes and dough-based desserts such as baklava, şöbiyet, kadayıf, and künefe.

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Double chocolate pistachio cookies

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Selam everybody....Merhaba from Turkiye.

İf you are my regular reader you should probably knew that İ made cookies a lot and almost everyday. yep.... İ never let my cookie jar sit empty cause we always drink coffee or tea with cookie or other light snacks.

All my cookies recipe İ already been shared on this page as well. you can check my "cookies category". 

This is actually my husband's favorite cookies. He loves chocolate cookies rather than any other cookies. My kid? of course she loves chocolate cookies as well especially with an animal characters. Please do check my kid's fave chocolate cookie here. 

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Resep Ayam Bakar Kecap / authentic Indonesian sweet soy sauce grilled Chicken

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Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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Indonesian cuisine is one of the most vibrant and colorful cuisines in the world, full of intense flavor. It is diverse, in part because Indonesia is composed of approximately 6,000 populated islands of the total 18,000 in the world's largest archipelago, with more than 300 ethnic groups calling Indonesia their home. Many regional cuisines exist, often based upon indigenous culture and foreign influences. Indonesia has around 5,350 traditional recipes, with 30 of them considered the most important.

My today post is one of the famous İndonesian cuisine called Ayam bakar kecap. Ayam bakar literally means grilled chicken, kecap is sweet soy sauce. This sweet soy sauce (kecap manis) is one of the staple condiments in İndonesian cuisine especially in javanese cuisine. Traditionally the chicken grilled over charcoal and brushed with spiced kecap manis during the grilling process which gives more intense flavour.

In Java, ayam bakar usually tastes rather sweet because of the generous amount of sweet soy sauce either as marination or dipping sauce, while ayam bakar Padang, Bali, Lombok and most of Sumatra are usually spicier and more reddish in colour due to the generous amount of chilli pepper, turmeric and other spices, and the absence of sweet soy sauce.

Ayam bakar is usually served with sambal terasi (chilli sambal with terasi) or sambal kecap (sliced chilli and shallot in sweet soy sauce) as dipping sauce or condiment and slices of cucumber and tomato as a garnish as well as a side dish.
Check the lower part for making sambal terasi.

You may like my CHICKEN BIRYANI EASY RECIPE here

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Sambal uleg (sambal oeleg) / Indonesian chilli #sambal condiment #recipe

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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Sambal terasi

Sambal is a staple condiment in most İndonesian cuisine. Almost all İndonesian food requires sambal  to be served together with it. 

Sambal is a hot sauce typically made from a mixture of variety of chili peppers with secondary ingredients such as shrimp paste, garlic, shallot,  palm sugar, lime juice, kecap manis (sweet soy sauce) and rice vinegar or other vinegar. 

Sambal is an Indonesian loan-word of Javanese origin (sambel). It is native to the cuisines of Indonesia and neighboring countries like Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Brunei. It has also spread through overseas Indonesian populations to the Netherlands and Suriname.

Various recipes of sambals usually are served as hot and spicy condiments for dishes such as lalab (raw vegetables), ikan bakar (grilled fish), udang goreng (fried shrimp), ayam goreng (fried chicken), ayam penyet (smashed chicken), iga penyet (ribs) and various soto and soup.

You can check my other variant of sambal on Sauce/ condiment (sambal) category to get best and autenthic İndonesian sambal.

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Çiğ Börek / Turkish meat filling fried pastry

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Selam everybody....Merhaba from Turkey 

From many foods you should try during your visit to Turkey is börek. 
Börek/ burek/ borek is made in numerous different shapes and filling but its unifying characteristic tends to be the usage of cheese.

Börek can be either  oven baked, pan fried or slightly deep fried. Generally, the preparation method is adapted to the given shape of the pastry.
This popular meal may be prepared in a large pan and cut into portions after baking or as individual pastries. You can check my "böreklar" category to know more about this wide various Turkish pastry

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Sate donat kentang / Potato doughnuts holes in skewer

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

One of repeat request snack in my house is this potato doughnut. İf you never make potato doughnut before you might try this soon. The mashed potato using here is adding the fluffy -ness of these donuts. Believe me, it will be a new fave around your house soon as well.

From this basic recipe you can freely shape your donut as your liking. topping them with anything your fave or even fill it with any filling you want. But this donut hole in skewer is the most request from my daughter. İ just simply coat them with icing sugar and cinnamon

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Hot Drink recipe; Caramel Coffee Milk / Susu Karamel Kopi

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

If you are coffee lover you come to the right post. This caramel coffee milk will surely warm up your chill morning. The caramel adding to this drink enrich the coffee flavor as well.

So get ready to steam up your morning or refresh your sleepy afternoon with this favorite ever caramel coffee milk drink.

This recipe make about 2 cup ±250 ml each, make sure to double the recipe for family gathering or for your book club gathering ☕

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Failproof Condensed Milk Pie (tart) / Pie Susu anti gagal

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Selam everybody...Merhaba from Turkey.

Who doesn't love delish creamy and yummy little tart for after dinner dessert. This is our kind of fave dessert. My family and I love it so much. Combination of melt in mouth pie shell together with silky cream condensed milk custard as filling would indulge our appetite as dessert should be.

My post today is special I make for an event by one large Indonesian cooking club, Natural Cooking club (NCC). The event calls failproof recipe by NCC. So we should cook and post any recipe from that cooking club. For Indonesian food blogger anywhere you can check this link to find more about it. 

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Failproof Zebra Cake Putih Telur / Zebra Cake recipe (from egg whites)

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This is my another ultimate zebra cake from egg whites. If you are my regular reader of my blog you might already familiar with my previous Zebra cake from egg white as well with steamed method. Or you might notice that I had posted so many cake/ dessert using left over eggwhites, just check my "egg white" category on this page.

We use many recipes using only egg yolks, but unfortunately not so many of us have recipe using egg whites only other than macarons and maybe angelfood cake. 
Why don't you try this gorgeous and delicious zebra cake, I'll guarantee you gonna love it and it will be on your repeatable cake to make.

It's easy to make and fail proof. I took the recipe from one Indonesian Cooking Club's recipe. 

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Indonesian style Chicken skewer sausage a.k.a Sempol Ayam

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

Indonesian people very much love eating outside. That is why you will find many kind of street food everywhere. Mobile cart or stall along some main streets. 
Also we have many kind of street food, start from snack, main dish until dessert or even beverages. One from those thousand outside is this chicken skewer sausage or in Indonesian we call it "sempol ayam".

This skewer snack most popular in east Java. This snack is most favorite especially among students because mostly the seller open their mobile cart near schools. But later on the popularity wasn't just around the school anymore since it became everybody's favorite now.

So today I will bring Indonesian street food favorite in my house. Beside we can get the best and healthy ingredients we also can vary it with some vegetables which we never find in street food version.

The recipe I find from one Facebook cooking group. Few people already tried and recooked that recipe and said it was great and worth to try. So here I'm using the recipe from Shaafiyya Suwarno~I didn't know her (^,^) . But thank you for sharing your recipe.

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Sesame Chicken Rice Bowl Recipe

Selam everybody..Merhaba from Turkey.

Asian style dish is always my prefer. Just like this restaurant style dish-Sesame chicken. 
Today I am going to share sesame chicken rice bowl. The dish seems look alike general tso's chicken, but it is different actually in taste where this sesame chicken has more on sweet and light sour rather than spicy.

For the vegetable side dish I made simple shredded carrot and napa cabbage dressing with my simple version of thousand island dressing. It's just perfect for the sesame chicken.

This take away style dish amazingly easy and relatively quick to make So if you are asian food's fan as well I am sure you are going to love this. (^,^)

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Lento dari Kacang tunggak / Indonesian style Black eyed peas fritter

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Assalamu'alaykum...Merhaba dari Turkey.

Kalau sudah mulai masuk musim dingin kayak gini maunya pengen nyemil yang gurih dan pedas. Terus minumnya teh panas.... halllaa... apa'an sih. Musim dingin dijadiin alesan...heheheh..padahal kalau mo ngemil..ngemil aja kali ya.... (^,^)

Lagi pengen makan lento nih. Kalau di Surabaya suka tinggal beli di tukang gorengan deket rumah ibuk aja. Tapi disini dimana ada tukang gorengan? yang ada bakul börek (pastry khas Turki) atau roti di tiap sudut jalan.

Ya sudah... pasrah aja semua-semua kudu bikin sendiri kalau pengen makanan kampung di negeri orang. Kalau biasanya lento dibikin dari kacang tolo, kali ini saya bikin dari kacang tunggak. Kacang tunggak dan kacang tolo sebenarnya gak beda jauh dalam soal rasa dan gizi. Kacang tolo berwarna sedikit kemerahan sedangkan kacang tunggak berwarna putih kelabu. Kacang tunggak berasal dari butir/ isi kacang panjang yang dikeringkan dalam bahasa Inggris disebut black eyed peas. Di Turki disebutkan kuru börülce.

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Marble Ogura Cake recipe

Selam everybody...Merhaba from Turkey.

Ogura cake, aka 相思蛋糕 / Xiāngsī dàngāo . No official sources why this cake name Ogura (Japanese language). Is it coming from Japan or invented in Japan or whatsoever. It's just this cake become very popular among Asian baker and Asian cake lover. The texture incredibly cotton soft, light and smooth texture with moist crumb. Rich in flavor yet light in sweetness.

If you are my regular reader you might notice that I only post one ogura cake previously, check my blood orange ogura cake here. And this post is my second post about ogura. Yep, I didn't bake that cake often it's not because I don't like ogura cake. I lllooovvveee it! I love anything light and not make my stomach full as dessert (cake).

I didn't bake it so often because until now I got pretty nervous baking it and still looking for perfect recipe that match with the pan size I have. I'm telling you..I don't purchase much baking equipment /baking pan like mostly Asian baker I know. In Turkey it's hardly to find many kind baking pan I need e.g removable NON non stick chiffon pan, or simple square NON non stick baking and some other more. Which if I'm in my homeland so easy to find. Using NON non stick baking pan is the best way to bake this cake~ which the most suitable one.

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Aşure/ Ashure / Turkish sweet mix fruits, grains and nut dessert recipe

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Selam everybody....Merhaba from Turkey.

Muḥarram (Arabic: مُحَرَّم‎‎ muḥarram) is the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the four sacred months of the year. Since the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, Muharram moves from year to year when compared with the Gregorian calendar.

The word "Muharram" means "forbidden". It is held to be the second holiest month, following Ramadan. Some Muslims fast during these days. The tenth day of Muharram is the Day of Ashura or Aşure Günü in Turkish language.

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In Turkey, people make this aşure in Aşure day (Aşure Günü).  Aşure or ashure is Turkish dessert congee made from mix dried fruits, grains and nuts. Beside serve among the family, this dessert generally shared among neighbours, relatives and friends. 

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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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Pastel Renyah Isi Bihun / Indonesian fried dumpling with vermicelli filling

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Selam everybody....Merhaba from Turkey.

Indonesia has many....probably hundreds of variant of snacks. Start from traditional snacks e.g many kind of kueh basah (literally means wet snacks), fried snacks (in bahasa call gorengan) and other type of jajanan (snacks) mostly known as street food/ snack; for example batagor, siomay, kerak telur and more. 
Kueh basah are more often steamed than baked and normally have sweet taste, but some are savory as well.


Each type has very long list of snacks variant. Check some of them on my "snack" category list. And what I am going to share today is Pastel isi bihun, means fried dumpling filled with vermicelli noodle. You can fill it also with vegetable like my previous post here or mini version with beef/chicken floss here.

Just like many other Indonesian who enjoy tea/ coffee time with many kind snacks with it, I made this snack for my light breakfast or just evening coffee.

There are two parts should prepared to make this snack; filling and skin shell. I usually make vermicelli noodle first before prepare the skin dough. Or sometimes if I have some left over of fried vermicelli I previously made, I prefer use it for the filling.

So..are you interesting make one of Indonesian snack like this pastel bihun.... let's knead some dough now... 😊

Check category Indonesian Snack (jajan pasar/ kue) for more Indonesian Kueh or snack.

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