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Soup Udang ( Shrimp soup )

Summer of 2010 will be over soon .. Cold north wind start to blows made the air become colder and as usual, cold makes my stomach is always hungry @(^_^)@ ..eager to eat flavorful seafood meal, spicy and hot ... and this Shrimp soup seems right choice ..

Ingredients:

1 kg of fresh shrimp. Wash and clean the skin. (Head of the shrimp should not be discarded, can be used for soup stock)

300 g fillet of fish (carp or salmon). cut into cubes.

500 g Mushroom. cut into wedges.

2 pieces lemongrass. Hit and softened the stalks and cut into three parts.

5 kaffir leaves

1/2 cup cayenne small red pepper (or to taste). softened by hit.

1 / 2 tablespoons fish sauce (oyster sauce)

Sugar and salt to taste.

1 1 / 2 liter of hot water.

1 medium lemon, squeezed. (If you want more sour taste, can be added more)

Tomato Zupa Soup

Actually I don't really like soup, any kind of soup!.... But since I ate this Zuppa soup 1st time ...then I just love any kind of Zuppa soup ever since...

I am Pastry lover, and I can find pastry as a unique cover of this zuppa soup...maybe that's why now I become a zuppa soup lover.... @(^_^)@

Many kind of soup we can vary with this "zuppa style".. we can make peas soup, chicken creamy soup, tomato soup, etc... then add the pastry as it's cover... hmm... not only make your soup has better taste, it also has fancy look.. just have a try..!

Today I made tomato zuppa soup... creamy and yummy.!

Ingredients:

- Half recipe basic pastry dough. milled thin about 1/2 cm thick and cut as wide as soup bowls (as cover)

-2 tablespoons vegetable oil/ butter

-5 medium tomatoes, peeled and grated to pureé

-2 tablespoons flour

-1 tablespoon tomato paste

-5-6 cups hot water/vegetable stock

- salt as taste

- Enough mozzarella cheese, cut into small cubes

How to cook:
1) Heat oil/butter over the saucepan. Add flour, and stir. add tomato paste. Stir again.
2) Put the tomatoes pureé. Cook for approximately 3 minutes. Add hot water and stir until thick. Add salt, test the taste. Turn off the heat

Note: if there is tomato seeds to be separated, can be filtered or mashed with a hand blender

Serving:
Place soup into heat-resistant soup bowls and add some pieces of cheese. Then cover with pastry dough. Bake in oven until pastry baked golden brown.

Serve warm.

Menemen. #turkishfood

"Menemen" is one of many other daily Turkish meal. The main ingredient is egg, cooked with onions and tomato paste. In some regions they add some cheese too. Then served hot with bread.

Ingredients:
- 4 eggs
- 1 medium onion. finely chopped.
- 2 cloves garlic (optional). finely chopped.
- 1 medium tomato. finely chopped.
- 4 green peppers. cut into small cubes.
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste. dilute with 3 / 4 cup warm water
- Salt to taste
- 1 tablespoon butter for sauteing.

How to cook:

Ayam asam manis (Sweet and sour Chicken)

I'm big fan of this meal... Like never boring with the sour and sweet taste in it.. so fresh and fulfill my craving on my own food style.

Here I post my recipe if you want to present Asian taste once in a while for your family dinner table

Ingredients:
- 500 gr boneless chicken meat. diced
- 3 tablespoons corn flour.
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch (or you can use tapioca starch)
- 1 egg. Beaten.
- 3 cloves of garlic.finely chopped
- 1 medium onion. cutting width.
- 1 medium red bell pepper. Seeded & cutting width.
- 1 medium green bell peppers. Seeded & cutting width
- 1/2 tbsp tomato sauce
- 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1+ 1/2 tbsp lemon juice or vinegar
- Salt, sugar and black pepper to taste.

- enough vegetable oil for fry and sauteing.
*if you like more hot spicy taste, you can also add some birdeye/ cayenne hot chili.

Nastar isi Apel / Apple tart cookie

"Lebaran" (Iedul Fitr Feast) this year I spent in Turkey with husband .. It feels so nostalgic feel the atmosphere of Iedul Fitr Feast a la Indonesia .. Many kind of cookies, "ketupat"(*) eat with Indonesian traditional food (sayur santan), homemade syrup, together with family in Indonesia ....

In Turkey, every Iedul Fitr feast (Ramazan bayram) there always been "baklava" serve at every house in Turkey ... Unlike in Turkey, "lebaran" feast in Indonesia feel it is incomplete without cookies and other snack, also "ketupat" as the main dish at every homes in Indonesia ... Ooohh ..how I miss Indonesian "ketupat" ....

Trying to ease a little bit homesick at Iedul Fitr feast, I made some traditional "lebaran" cookies also, like this one: "NASTAR" . Nastar is cookies fill usually with homemade pineapple jam, but since I hardly ever to find pineapple this summer -unlucky me :( , so I made it with homemade apple jam.. not bad as well, indeed can be as variation of 'new' nastar after all d(^_^)b

Sambal Badjak / Sambal Bajak (Indonesian traditional chilly condiment)

"Sambal" or ground hot spicy chili most always served in Indonesian traditional family's dinner table. In Indonesia we can make this hot sauce from bird eye hot chili as main ingredient throughout the year (all seasons). Different from country with four seasons,this small hot chili we usually find only in summer.

We have many kinds of chilli sauce from various regions in Indonesia from eastern Indonesia to the western tip of Indonesia.

Since this summer in Turkey I could find bird eye chili, this time I want to make sambal Badjak ... If other Turkish women will make tomato pasta for next winter stock,I'll make a little more my own hot and spicy chilly sauce to be stored during the winter .. d(^_^)b

You will need:
-Bird eye chilli pepper 200 gr, the more you use it, the more hot spicy you'll get.
-Big-red chilli pepper 100 gr.
-1 large tomato. If you don't like too hot, tomato can be added.
- 4 cloves of garlic.
-Belacan/ terasi (shrimp paste) to taste (I use 1 tbsp)
-Sugar and salt to taste. (I use 1/2 tbsp coconut Java sugar/ palm sugar)

ground and puree all ingredients above until smooth with food processors or a manual with mortar and pestle.

After finely ground. Heat enough cooking oil. Cook the sauce with additional:
- 3/4 cup coconut milk
- 2 pcs Bay leaf
- 1 small size galangal (optional)
- Lemongrass, bruised white part

Cook everything over a low heat until thick and boiling.

Ready to served.
Or you can store it in clean sterilized jar, keep in refrig for not more than 2 month.

Seftali Kompostosu (Peach compote)

Resep dalam bhs İndonesia ada dibagian bawah

Selam, Merhaba from Turkey.

"Kompostosu" or "fruit soup". Like jams, tomato paste, chili paste, "kompostosu" is also mostly 'homemade' in houses at Turkey. Mostly made during summer time when a lot of fruit harvested that season ...

"Kompostosu" or in English compote Fruit stewed or cooked in syrup

Seftali is a Turkish name for peach. During this August summer (which coicendencly Ramazan month) I already made some Kompostosu from some vary fruits.. very refreshing for break the fast...

6 peaches. peeled and wedge lengthwise.
3 cups water. bring to a boil.
1 +1/2 cup granulated sugar, if you want more sweet could be added.
yellow food coloring (optional).
1 teaspoon citric acid or can use one tablespoon of lemon juice.

Very easy Oven Roasted Teriyaki Chicken

I know my hubby (mostly) doesn't like Asian food, I just made this just to spoil my self for being an Asian woman with Asian tongue (read: taste) in Turkey...@(^_^)@

8 pieces chicken thighs. stab with a fork to allow all seasoning permeate.

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