Turkish taste Chicken Kebab

Sunday bbq this time is Chicken kabob with Turkish taste. Marinade spices to soak this chicken kabob was inspired by the spices that I normally make for 'kokoreç' (Turkish spiced lamb/goat intestine). The more kinds of spices are mixed, the more great the taste .. maybe it's time you try too.

Ingrediets I:
- 2 boneless chicken breast. Cut cube as bite size.
- 2 pieces of red paprika. Discard seeds and cut cubes.
- 2 green bell pepper. Discard seeds and cut cubes
- 3 medium size onions. Cut each into quarter lengthwise.
- Some cherry tomatoes. Halved.

Ingredients for the marinade:

- 2 cloves garlic, finely grated.

- half  lemon medium size, squeeze the juice
- 2 tablespoons olive oil (or vegetable oil)
- 1/2 tablespoon Thyme

- 1/2 tablespoon basil

- 1/2 tablespoon paprika powder

- 1/2 chili powder

- 2 teaspoon cumin powder

- 1 teaspoon curry powder

- 1 teaspoon pepper powder

- salt as taste

Method:

In a bowl, combine all marinate ingredients. Jerky and soak all material I (except tomato) with marinade ingredients. Cover and let all ingredients soak at least 4 hours or more (I make it one night before). 

Alternately thread chicken, paprika, onion and tomato onto skewers.  Grilled chicken kabob until done.

Enjoy it while it's hot with your favorite salad and pilaf.

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Mi Godhog Djawa Daging sapi ( Javanese beef Noodle stew )

This winter I crave a lot of Indonesian food. Probably because mostly Indonesian food are spicy and warm (make my feel warm also ^_^ ) .. but whatever it is, one reason is because I'm far away from my homeland and only these foods (at least) can be panacea of longing my homeland.

Mi godhog Djawa or noodle stew from Java (my home), consisting of noodles and vegetables in beef or chicken stew. With the shrimp-scented make this meal become one of favorite for each member of my family in Indonesia.

Ingredients:(make 2 portions)
- About 250 grams of wet noodles. Or 1 packet (110 g) dried noodles, cook in boiling water and drain.
- Few shrimps. Remove the head part and puree with mashed spiced.
- Beef meat approximately 200 grams (you can also use chicken). Cut into bite size.
- 1 medium size carrot. Cut into matchsticks.
- Cabbage finely chopped, about 2 handfuls.
- Approximately 1 handful bean sprouts.
- 1 medium size tomato (optional), cut into pieces.

- If you can find green mustard leaves you can add that also- cut roughly (as original one in Java)
- Coriander/ parsley leaves to taste. Chop roughly.
- Chicken/ beef broth around 700 ml
- Enough oil for stir-fry

Mashed/ puree these ingredients:
- 4 ~ 5 cloves garlic
- 3  small red onion (1/2 if you use large size).
- 2 tsp pepper seed (can be less or more according to your taste)
- Shrimp heads.
- Salt to taste.

Easy to cook:
1) Heat oil in big skillet. Stir fry mashed ingredients until fragrant. Stir in beef /chicken and shrimp, pour broth (or hot water), cover the pan and let meat cooked.
2) Mix in carrots, cook until slightly soft. Then add cabbage, bean sprouts, noodles and tomatoes. Cook for few minutes. Taste the flavor. Add salt or pepper as you like.
3) Sprinkle with celery and turn off the heat.

Serve immediately and enjoy while it's warm with a sprinkling of  fried onions and pickles as complement.

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I don't Know what you call it.. I just call it PIZZA TUTUP (Closed Pizza)

Feeling Pizza crave these few days, me and hubby. But I'm boring with regular pizza that I usually serve or usually we bought. So I made this style... it is yummy good looking indeed. And we love it. The sesame seed I sprinkled on top make this pizza slightly has Turkish touch... Since this is weekend (means time to fill up our refrig stock), I just can found these ingredients. But you can vary this with chicken, tuna, turkey or beef according to your taste.

For Pizza dough

Material I:
- 1 tbsp plain flour
- 1 packet (5 g) dry instant yeast
-  ½ tbsp caster sugar
- ½  cup warm water

Mix materials I stir until well blended. Cover with plastic film or kitchen towel, let it stand about 1 hour until fluffy.

Material II:
- about 2 ½ cup flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup olive oil
- about ½ cup warm water

Mix the flour and salt. Add  ingredients I, knead. mix in olive oil, knead again. Add warm water gradually, knead again until soft smooth and not sticky at your hand (there may be additional flour/ water at this stage). Cover with plastic film or  towel and let stand 1 hour until the dough become double.

For filling.

- 150 gr beef sausage. cut into small cubes (1x1cm)
- 150 gr sucuk. can be replaced with beef sausage. cut into small cubes (1x1 cm)
- 2 medium green peppers. seeded and cut into small cubes.
- 2 medium red bell pepper. Seeded and cut into small cubes.

- Some Olive, cut into pieces.
- About 150 grams of fresh mushrooms. cut into cubes.
- about 200 grams of cheddar cheese. Cut into cubes or grated harshly.
- about 100 grams white cheese.
- 1 large onion. finely chopped.
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped / grated fine.
- 2 tbsp homemade tomato paste (I mixed with chilly paste). Dilute with a little water so as not clotted.

- Enough Thyme and basil.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- 1 tablespoon butter for sauteing
For spread on top.
- 1 egg yolk beaten with 2 teaspoons water
- enough black and white sesame seed.

Method:
Heat the butter in a sauce pan. Saute onion and garlic until fragrant and transparent. Stir in and cook mushrooms until wilt. Stir in tomato paste solution. Season with salt and pepper. Then mix in sausage and sucuk, all parika , olives. Thyme and basil. Stir until all well blended. Cook for few minutes. Remove from heat. Set aside.
Divide the pizza dough into 2 equal part. Roll each with a rolling pin approximately 1 cm thin. Put filling mixture on it and sprinkle with cheese. Fold and close the pizza into half round shape. Brush with egg yolk and sprinkle with sesame.
Bake in preheated oven, 160 deg C for approximately 25 minutes or until pizza bread well cooked.

Enjoy while warm with tomato sauce or chilly sauce and mayonnaise.

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Onion Rings

What you need:

- 2 ~ 3 large onions. Peel and slice into ring approximately 1.5 cm  thickness, separate each ring.
- 1 egg, beaten.
- 3/4 cup whole milk
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/4 cup corn meal
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- pinch of salt
- Enough Cooking oil for deep frying

How to make:

1) Whisk together flour, corn meal, cornstarch, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Stir in the egg and gradually milk. Do not pour all milk if you feel the dough is enough thick and not too thin. 

2) Heat enough cooking oil in deep skillet. Take onion and dip into the dough one at the time and fry until crisp and golden brown over medium heat.

3) Drain from remaining oil. Serve immediately with your favorite dipping sauce.

Enjoy it.

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Fruity Palmiers

Sunny and lightly warm during last weekday, suddenly drop cold and rain with slightly snowy last weekend.. pfff what to do. 1st plan that we will go out somewhere to drink tea and maybe had lunch outside.. But since the weather became chill so we decided to stay home. 

Then I was thinking to make something light and cheer up our "stay home" day with this Palmier, filled with sweet mixed fruits, it is really fix our day d(^_^)b

Ingredients:

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I Fu Mie (read: Ee fu mee) / crispy noodle served with stir fry mix vegetable-Indonesian food

Back when I was a single and lives in Jakarta, this menu almost became a regular dish in every dinner. Each night a lot of non-permanent stall-We call it "Warung Makan" which provides many kinds of Chinese food or seafood on the roadside. After office hours on my way home, I just park my car at the curb and got many favorite menus-without to bother cooking by myself.

But Here .... I've never met a Chinese Restaurant, not yet maybe. So to satisfy my longing for this Chinese food, there is no other way than "a little effort" to make it by myself in my small kitchen. @(^_^)@

Ingredients:
- about 500 gr fresh egg noodles
- about 200 gr boneless chicken. Cut into bite-size.
- about 200 gr shrimp.
- about 100 gr mushrooms. Chop roughly.
- about 1/2 cup green peas.
- about 200 grams of cauliflower, cut roughly.
- 1 large carrot. Cut round.
- 4 ~ 5 cloves of garlic. crushed and finely chopped.
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped.
- Salt and pepper to taste
- about 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- Cornstarch 1/ 2 tbsp. Dilute with a little water.
- Enough Cooking oil.


How to cook:

1) Heat oil in a deep skillet. Divide noodles into 3 portions. and fry each portion in hot oil until dry and crispy. Drain from remaining oil and set aside.

2) Heat enough oil in a saucepan. Saute garlic and onions until fragrant and transparent, put in chicken and shrimp, stir-fry until chicken is cooked. Add carrots, cauliflower, mushrooms, and peas pour about 2 cups hot water/ chicken broth (enough to make gravy). Cover the pan and let all vegetables cooked.

3) Seasoning with salt, pepper, and oyster sauce. Test the taste. Pour the cornstarch solution and stir until thickened. Remove from heat.

Fry noddle in deep oil until crispy.

How to serve:

Place the noodles in the serving dish and flush with a hot vegetable mix. Serve immediately with pickled as a companion.

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Tavuklu Pide (Pizza a la Turkiye with chicken topping)

Pide, It's an oval shape bread with topping (mostly minced meat). Some other country call this Pita. Common meal and Pizza-like here in Turkey. Other pide family we call it Lahmacun (it has round shape like pizza).

Unlike my previous post of pide, this time I use Chicken= tavuk (Turkce) as topping. It's as great as meat topping with cumin powder adding, you will get "Turkish taste" in your dinner table @(^_^)@

Ingredients for 'pide' bread:

- 2 cups flour

- 2 teaspoons instant yeast

- 1/2 tbsp caster sugar.

- 1/2 teaspoon salt

- 4 tablespoons olive oil

- 3/4 cup warm water


* Take 2 tbsp of the flour, mix with sugar and yeast. Pour about 1/4 cup of warm water. and let it stand for about 30 mints until it rises.
In another bowl mix the remaining flour and salt. Make a hole in the middle, put yeast mixture,olive oil and remaining warm water (gradually). Knead until smooth and not sticky at hand.At this stage you may be need addition of flour or water (but do it carefully)

Cover with plastic film or a napkin. Let stand about 50-60 min and let the dough to rise.

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Tiramisu (again)

I saw many Hearted shape in This February. They are so adorable and sometimes with lovely pink color or red. It's so Festive and gorgeous. Well, love is in the air... @(^_^)@

And why don't I spread love in the air too? 

I made this tiramisu last week, but I just can write, edit the picture and post in it my page now.  As you can see, I have some tiramisu post in previous, well.. it's because my husband request it a lot (he Loves tiramisu much I think) and I try to make it in different style and ingredients. So each of my tiramisu has it own taste and different from each other.

İngredients and how to make it:

1 recipe of chocolate sponge cake. This time I use steamed chocolate sponge cake, see the recipe here. Or you can try bake version of my other chocolate sponge cake here

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