Masak lemak labu & udang (Creamy pumpkin and prawn curry)

If you ask me what do I cook most, my answer will probably be Chinese and Malay food. I love the rich and aromatic Malay/Nyonya curries, salad, cakes and cookies. I can get most of the spices, herbs and other Malay ingredients over here to make almost anything I want, though many ingredients can be quite expensive over here than back home.

Today recipe is a Malay style pumpkin and prawn curry

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Nasi Lemak + sambal ikan bilis (Coconut rice with anchovy sambal)

Nasi lemak is traditional Malay normally eaten for breakfast but many also eat this any other time of the day or night. Nasi lemak is usually sold by street vendors or in pasar (market) or tamu (open air market) all ready wrapped in banana leaf, paper or in polystyrene box. It is so popular some restaurants also sell this for lunch, afternoon tea or dinner.The word nasi lemak means rich rice. The

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Bingka ubi kayu (Cassava cake)

Fresh cassava is one of those things I missed living in England. When I was staying in the far east years ago, we always had cassava growing at the back garden. It's so easy to grow and one plant usually yields around 10kg of starchy roots. We had them steamed and eaten dipped in sugar, curry, cassava crisps/chips and my favourite cassava cake.There are various names for cassava. In Malay it is

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Ondeh ondeh

It has been years since I last had/made these soft chewy greenish balls bursting with a molten syrup filling.Ondeh ondeh is a Malay kuih (cake) the dough's texture is similar to Chinese/Japanese mochi cake, the filling is a dark palm sugar (gula melaka) once boiled turned to a syrup. The coating is freshly grated coconut, dessicated just will not do it's too dry.In Indonesia these same sweet

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Daging Dendeng

Daging dendeng is Malay spicy dried beef like jerky. It's rather yummy, savoury, spicy, sweet and sour. I had this with rice and cold beer it was very good.To make this will take a bit of time but it is not that difficult.Recipe will feed 4 - 5 peopleA. boil the meat1 to 1.2 kg of topside or thick meaty beef brisket2 stick of lemongrass1 thumb size ginger, sliced1 medium onion, cut into

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Sambal Tumis

Sambal tumis means fried sambal, one of the most versatile sambal other than sambal belacan. It's more lemak or rich because of the additional garlic, onion and cooked in plenty of oil. Once cooked and stored in sterilised jar will keep at room temperature for months, better than sambal belacan which is not cooked and must be kept in the fridge.If you like Thai nam prik pao you will like sambal

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Mee Rebus

Read as 'mee re-bush' not 're-bus'(as the big red bus). This is a Malay-Chinese influenced street food. It is a colourful noodle dish with a sweet potatoes and ground peanuts spicy gravy garnished with all sorts like fried tofu, cooked prawns, hard boiled eggs etc... delicious comfort food and very filling. To make this noodles first is to make the gravy, once you have done that everything else

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Kari Ayam (curry chicken)

This is my version of malay chicken curry. I like the curry quite saucy.Ingredient:For the rempah (spice paste)150 - 160 g shallots3 - 4 cloves of garlic6 - 7 candlenuts12 - 20 dried chillies, about 15 - 20g1 small piece of fresh turmeric about 20g (or 1 heap tsp of turmeric powder)1 thumb size piece of ginger about 25g1 tbsp belacan or shrimp pasteOther ingredients5 - 6 tbsp cooking oil3 stalks

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Kuih Sarang Semut (Honeycomb Cake)

This is a Malay caramel cake very popular in Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. Commonly called honeycomb cake. In Malay it is called Kuih Sarang Semut translated as ant's nest cake. The cake is full of tunnels or holes and is quite chewy.This cake is quite simple to make once you got the syrup sorted. The ingredients and baking method are quite different to a typical western cake. Burnt sugar

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