How to cook Malaysian Nyonya Ayam Pongteh using Philips All in One Cooker? Easy steps!

 

Peranakan Ayam Pongteh (Chicken Pongteh) is a Nyonya dish in both Malaysia and Singapore. It is a marriage of Malay and Chinese cuisine. Palm sugar is commonly used in Malay dishes while Black bean paste or commonly known as Taucio is a common Chinese cooking ingredient. 

To elaborate a little, Pongteh is a dish where meat is braised together with potatoes. Ingredients to cook the gravy include fermented black bean paste (or commonly called taucu / taucio), light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, and sugar. Why is it called pongteh? Traditionally this dish is prepared using pork. ‘Pong’ is closely related to a Hokkien word ‘Hong’ which means stew in soy sauce. ‘Teh’ means pig trotters in Hokkien.

These days, this dish is commonly prepared using chicken, thus the word ‘Ayam’ which means chicken in Malay Language. 

Undeniably, this dish is very delicious. It is also very easy to prepare and can be done in 30 minutes.

Recipe for Malaysian Nyonya Ayam Pongteh 

Adapted from https://rasamalaysia.com/ayam-pongteh-nyonya-chicken-and-potato-stew/

Ingredients: 

10 pcs chicken wings
3 potatoes
5 cloves of garlic
1 small cup of water
2 tbsp fermented black bean sauce
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tbsp light soy sauce
2 tsp sugar / palm sugar 
2 tbsp cooking oil

Easy steps using Philips All in One cooker : 

1. Turn power on. Press saute with high temp to heat up the pot. 

2. Add in 2 tbsp of oil. Saute garlic. 

3. Add in potatoes. Stir in well. 

4. Add in chicken wings. Stir it. 

5. Add taucio, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sugar and water. Stir it evenly. 

6. Cancel saute mode. Cover lid, turn the knob at the lid to seal mode. 

7. Press pressure cook button until you find steam mode. Default time is 10 minutes. Use 10 minutes. If you would like to adjust cooking time, press cooking time and press + or - to adjust cooking time. Recommended cooking time for this recipe is 6-10 minutes steam mode. 

8. Basically is done. Let the cooker do its job. See note below for opening the lid when food is cooked.

9. Serve it hot and enjoy. 

Note: When it is cooked, it will have a beeping sound. Let the steam release naturally (open lid after 15 minutes). Alternatively, you can put a wet cloth on the knob where the steam release, and release it slowly. This can be done by turning the knob slightly towards vent, not all the way to vent as there will be a gush of hot steam coming out.

If you would like a step-by step tutorial in Youtube, you are most welcome to view my video tutorial in cooking this beautiful dishes. Dont forget to LIKE and hit the SUBSCRIBE button. 

How to make Air Fried Belacan Fried Chicken for Healthier Nasi Lemak?

Today we celebrated Monday the start of the week with a power Malaysian dinner. The powerful platter consisted of Crispy Fried Chicken with sides of white rice, sambal belacan (shrimp paste), fried anchovies, boiled eggs and blanched green beans. 

Hubby approved my belacan fried chicken. It was the bomb because firstly, chicken thigh is the yummiest part of the whole chicken (in our opinion). Secondly, the chicken thigh were very well fried by my airfryer. Most importantly, it is totally guiltless as it is air-fried, which means very little or no oil was used! In fact, it was so good even the little one finish a piece of fried chicken thigh all by herself.

The Air-Fried Belacan Fried Chicken is in fact super easy to make. Without further ado, let me share the recipe as below: 

Air-Fried Belacan Fried Chicken

Ingredients:
5 pcs Chicken thigh
0.5 pcs Jeeny's belacan (shrimp paste)
1 egg white
Some sesame oil
2-3 tbsp corn flour
2-3 tbsp Kentucky flour
Dash of sugar
Dash of salt

Steps:
1️⃣Dissolve belacan shrimp paste in little water. Add all ingredients together and whisk until mixture is smooth.
2️⃣Marinate it for 2 hours (if you have time, other wise it's okay).
3️⃣Arrange chicken with skin facing down in air fryer. Do not overlap. Air fry at 200 Deg C for 20 minutes.
4️⃣Chicken looks golden brown. Now flip chicken over with skin facing up. Air fry at 200 Deg C for another 10 minutes. This step is very important in ensuring the chicken is well-cooked through and also to achieve the golden brown and crispy effect on the skin. 
5️⃣Serve it hot.

Sambal Belacan Recipe 

Ingredients: 

0.5 pcs of Jeeny's Belacan Paste (Available in Asian shops or Coles) 

A handful of chili (I used 4 big chilis and 3 bird eye chilis)

Shallots / Onions
Few cloves of garlic 

Some salt

Some sugar 

Lime (if available) 

Steps:
1️⃣Blend everything in the blender. 
2️⃣Stir fry on pan with some oil until fragrant.
3️⃣Add in onion slices and fried anchovies if desired.

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Tikka Masala Curry Chicken with Tortilla Wraps

This beautiful dish can be cooked under minutes using my trusted Philips All-in-one pressure cooker and Spice Taylor Original Tikka Masala. 

My 4-year-old daughter loves cooking and wanted to take part in the process. If she can do it, you could too!

Easy steps : 

1. Gather 3 potatoes and 3 thigh cutlets with or without skin to your preference.
2. Saute lightly the spices provided in the packaging together with potatoes. Add in base sauce packet provided.
3. Chicken in. Stir to spread the base sauce evenly. Add a little bit of water (approx half a cup only).
4. Cover it up and seal mode. Press the button for steam mode, use default timing 10 mins.

5. Natural release the lid. Pour in main sauce and stir to a gentle boil. 

5. Cover and Keep warm until ready to serve. The soup will be thickened by now. 

Total time: 30 minutes.

While waiting, send some tortilla wraps into the oven to have warm torties to go with this dish.

So yummy and wholesome, perfect for lazy cook like me! 

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ah phy 招牌 freestyle 豆豉排骨

这是我们家弟媳Phyleecia和我们分享的私房菜食谱。豆豉也叫做Taucio。这道佳肴采用姜末，蒜蓉，绍兴雕花酒，还有辣椒，味道十分美味，一点都不腻。今天和大家分享如何做这道佳肴。

 材料:

1. 排骨 (500g +-)

2. 蒜蓉 (越多越香)

3. 姜末 (一点点就好)

4. 豆豉 (一点点就好，不然味道太重)

5. 蚝油 (3 spoons/agak²)

6. light soy sauce (lesser than oyster sauce by 1+- spoon/agak²)

7. big chilli (1 batang)

8. cooking oil (agak²)

9. 苏打粉(少许)

10. 料理酒(optional)

做法:

1. 加1-2 teaspoon 的苏打粉在排骨上抓2-3分钟然后冲洗干净 (用意是软化那个肉)然后沥干

2. 蒜头和豆豉切碎，姜切末，辣椒切片备用

3. 加入蚝油酱清，煮饭油 and 第二项的材料👆🏻搅拌均匀

4. 腌制越久越香

5. 大火蒸20-30分钟就可以了

黑木耳腐竹鸡

材料：
4 个 Chicken Thigh 切片
1 个姜头切丝
4 个Garlic
2 大片黑木耳
1 块腐竹
2 大叉匙 酱油
1/3 碗雕花酒
1/3 碗水
少许胡椒粉

1. Mix together 腐竹，酱油，雕花酒，水，胡椒粉。
2. Saute on high 姜丝，Garlic， 黑木耳，鸡肉片。
3. Pour in sauce mixture。
4. Meat mode 12 minutes.

Pok Chang Recipe

Ingredients:
古菜
大葱
虾米
胡椒粉
盐
面粉 (3-4 spoon)
Hup Liong 粉 (2 spoon)

Mix flour with some water until it reaches consistency.
Then add in the vegetables and stir it.
Fry it with oil.

How to cook Grandma Pat Ho's crab?

Ingredient: 

2 crabs

2 pcs garlic 

1 thumb size ginger thumb size

1 pcs chilli (deseeded)

1 tsp taucu

2 tbsp tomato sauce 

1 whole tomato 

0.5 cup of water 

Some pepper 

2 eggs (beaten)

2 tsp cornstarch 
2 tsp sugar 
Spring onion 

Method: 

1. Chop garlic, ginger, chili into small pieces/cubes together with taucu. Cut tomato into pyramidal slices

2. Mix tomato sauce with half a cup of water, corn starch, sugar and pepper 

3. Heat wok and stir fry taucio. Pour in tomato and crab and stir fry in medium heat, add in tomato sauce mixture and cook about 10 mins or until crab is cooked.

4. Add in beaten eggs and spring onion and quickly stir it

5. Cook a little bit more and ready to serve.

How to cook Singapore Chilli Crab ?

Cooking Instructions

Step 1 1 kg crab Clean the crab. Scrub shell with a brush to ensure no impurities. Cut crab into quarters. Crack the shell slightly and leave aside.

Step 2 6 chilli peppers (fresh) — 1 cm ginger — 2 shallot(s) — 8 garlic clove(s) — 2 tbsp oil Blend chillies, ginger and garlic and shallots. Heat oil in a pan over low heat. Then, sauté blended ingredients until fragrant.

Step 3 Add in the pieces of crab except for the upper section of the shell known as the carapace.

Step 4 1 tbsp fermented soybean paste (taucu) — 300 g water — 2 tbsp sugar — 4 tbsp ketchup — 1 tsp salt Add fermented bean paste and continue sautéing for 3 minutes. Add water to the pan and increase the heat to allow it to boil. Then, add sugar, ketchup and salt. Once it boils, place the carapace on top and cover with the lid. Cook at medium heat for 10 minutes

Step 5 1 tbsp corn four — 2 tbsp water — 2 egg(s) Mix cornstarch and water. Then, add to pan to thicken the gravy. Once gravy thickens, add beaten eggs to gravy and cook for 3 minutes.

Step 6 Dish it out and garnish with scallions and chilies. Serve with some fried steamed Chinese buns

How to make Lo Mai Kai with Philip Pressure Cooker

1. Pork , chicken marinated over night with oyster and soy sauces, sesame oil , sugar, salt and pepper, Chinese cooking wine and corn starch.
2. Glutinous rice soaked over night.
3. Mushrooms soaked to soften
4. Quick stir fry meat and sliced mushrooms and removed.
5. Drain rice, add oyster sauce, soy and dark sauce, sesame oil, Chinese cooking wine, sugar salt and pepper. Stir in well and cook the rice in pan until fragrant.
6. Place meat and mushrooms into a bowl and fill with rice, cover with aluminum foil
7. Place into PPC , steam mode.
Done! Bon appetit

How to make Char Siew with Philip Pressure Cooker

Recipe by Elise Lim 

Ingredients :

1kg Pork (五花肉)
2 Tbsp Light Soya Sauce
2 Tbsp Dark Soya Sauce
2 Tbsp Oyster Sauce
2 Tbsp Honey
3 Tbsp Sugar
3 Tbsp Lee Kum Kee Char Siew Sauce

1) Combine the light soya sauce, dark soya sauce, oyster sauce, honey, sugar and Char Siew sauce together.

2) Set to STEW Mode 20 Mins, Manual Pressure Release after keeping warm for 10 minutes.

3) Bake Mode (no cover) 8-10 minutes (or longer if u like) on each side of the meat to get the charred effect.

* I did not remove the remaining sauce from the pot.. just leave then together with the meat and it will thicken at bake mode.

4) Slice and serve 😋😋

5) Enjoy ♡♡

No-Bake Chocolate Biscuit Cake

Source of recipe : homecookingadventure.com

Recipe has been improvised to suit our own taste and quantity. We made this delicious no-bake chocolate biscuit cake using 8 inch round cake tin. 

Ingredients : 

Makes about 10 servings

500 g digestive biscuits (i used mc vites)

62.5 g nuts (mix of walnuts, hazelnuts), slightly chopped and toasted

Chocolate syrup 

125 g sugar

37.5 g unsweetened cocoa powder

150 g water

95 g butter

1 tsp vanilla extract

Chocolate ganache

75 g whipping cream

75 g bitterswweet chocolate, chopped

Method 

1. Break the biscuits into sall pieces into a  large bowl.

2. Heat non stick pan over medium high heat and toast walnuts or hazelnuts for about 5 minutes, stirring frequently to toast evenly, Add toasted nuts over the biscuits.

3. Prepare chocolate syrup. In a mdeium sauce pan add sugar and cocoa powder. Stir to combine and gradually add water, while stirring to combine well. Add butter and place over medium heat. Bring to boil for about 7-8 minutes stirring constantly. Remove from heat and add vanilla extract. Set aside to cool slightly for about 10-15 minutes.

4. Pour the syrup over the biscuits and nuts and combine welll using a large spatula or spoon. 

5. Transfer mixture into 8 inch cake spring form pan. 

6. Press well using the back of spoon or an offset spatula.  

7. Cover and refrigerate for about 30 minutes to 1 hour before preparing the chocolate ganache.

8. Prepare Choc Ganache. Place cream into a small saucepan and heat until just begins to boil. 

9. Pour hot cream over the chopped chocolate and let sit for 1 minute. Stir until smooth. 

10. Pour ganache over the choc biscuit cake and refrigerate to set for about 3-4 hours or overnight before serving. 

11. Decorate with orange zest, toasted nuts if desired. Cut into slices and serve.

How to make Chicken Rice Chilli Sauce Using Thermomix? (or alternatively with your blender)

Ingredients :
Part A : 

70g fresh red chillies
40g ginger
15g garlic

Part B : 

1tbsp sesame oil
1tsp salt
1/2tsp sugar
20ml fresh lime juice

1. Blend Part A ingredients TM bowl or your blender for 5 seconds on speed 8. Scrape down sides of bowl and repeat until smooth.

2. Add Part B ingredients and blend for 1 minute on speed 6.

3. Serve with hainanese chicken rice :D 

Can be kept in fridge for up to a week but we finished it before a week! 

Thermomix no-bake marie biscuit layer cheesecake (Grandma's cheesecake recipe)

Last week, my lovely bunch of friends organized a baby shower for me. I decided to whip out something in return -- So i made this simple recipe, given by my mom over the phone. She calls it Grandma's cheese cake recipe.

The recipe is really simple. 

Just follow the steps on the pictures and description below : 

Ingredient : 

Part A 

1 block of Philadelphia Cheese (room temperature)

1/3 bar butter (room temperature)

1/3 small tin condense milk

1/3 cup milk

Part B 

1 pack of marie biscuit

Method : 

1. Mix all ingredient (Part A) together in thermomix jug. (speed 2-3 for 3 minutes -- the mixture should be smooth)

2. Layer marie biscuit and the cheese mixture layer by layer, until cheese mixture is finish. You can put the cheese mixture in a plastic bag and make a hole to pump it layer by layer. this would result in more even layers of cheese and biscuits.

3. Set a side for 30 minutes.

4. Knock the container containing the layers a few times to let the cheese absorb and sink in to the biscuit. Before refrigerate, sprinkler some chocolate powder / cereal as toppings. 

5. Refrigerate overnight.

6. Ready to be served. 

Thermomix Jam : Orange Lemon Marmalade

After a long day working non-stop on model, which i am so depressed about..I returned home with the idea of trying some thing fun. On my way home in the cab, i had an idea of making marmalade. So after researching in the internet (http://www.orgasmicchef.com/preserves/orange-marmalade/), i decide to experiment on this by modifying the recipe as i have only 2 oranges and 1 lemon left in the refrigerator.

Ingredient :

2 Orange

Half of Lemon

125 g of castor sugar

100 g of water

Method : 

1. Place a plate in freezer.(this is to help jam set in later part)

2. Cut orange and lemon thinly. (see photo)

3. Remove seed if there is any. Put the orange slices in stack and cut it into quarters.

4. Add water, lemon and orange and cook for 10 minutes at 100 degrees on speed 3. The thermomix would be shaking and vibrating abit vigorously. Dont be afraid here. Just make sure the table is stable :)

5. When you hear beep sound, open lid and add in sugar. Cook for another 20 minutes.

6. When you hear beep sound after 20 minutes, uncover the thermojug, taste the sweetness, if you like it, proceed to pour it on the plate that's been in the freezer. 

7. Let it cool down and put it into a sterilized container. (to sterilize container, just put clean plastic container or glass jar into microwave and microwave it for like 1-2 minutes.

Happy trying :)

Chunkeat really love this jam:)

Thermomix Whole Tomato Rice with Steam Fish

Recently there is a rave in the internet on "whole tomato rice". http://createeathappy.blogspot.sg/2014/10/how-to-make-whole-tomato-rice-easy-and.html

Out of curiousity, Chun Keat and i tried it for fun, just want to know how to make it and how does it taste. It looks pretty funky and also fun to make. From the plan view, it look like a big sunny side egg. The thought alone about making this rice really excite me. We decide to eat this rice with our signature steam fish, except this time, adding lemon slice.

Ingredient for Rice :
Naturel Brown Rice 2 Cups

1 whole tomato

Soy sauce

Pepper

Ingredient for Steam Fish :

Silver Pomfret

2 red chilli (big)

Garlic

Ginger

Sour Plum ( 1 unit )

3-4 thin slice of Lemon

Water 

Cooking Oil

Pepper powder

Tips : 
The cheat trick to cook this Brown Rice in 20 minutes and achieve the right texture is to use boiling water to cook since the 1st minute.

Method:

1. Boil water using water boiler. Meanwhile, wash rice and tomato.

2. Pour Boiling water into thermomix cooking jug until it covers the rice fully just like in the photo below. Add in some soy sauce / salt and pepper.

 Cover thermomix jug lid.

3. Prepare fish. Put all ingredients for fish altogether on metal plate. Add in some cooking oil and pepper. Add in sour plum and water to make the soup base. See photo. Place metal plate with all ingredients on top of thermomix steaming tray. Put Varoma at Speed 2, for 25 minutes. 

 4. After 25 minutes, you will hear beep sound. Meal is ready. Open up steam tray lid and wolaaaa, steam fish is ready. Remove steaming tray and take out steam fish with care.

 5. Remove thermomix jug lid and the rice is nicely done.

6. Scoop everything on a big plate, smash the tomato and mix with rice evenly. It looks like spanish paella. Sprinkle some parsley flakes and chia seed.

 7. Ready to eat!

Happy Trying!

Cantonese side dish - Min Nam

My husband asked me to buy small celery leaves few days ago to blend and made it into paste to apply on his feet which has dead skin and developed into "chicken eye". It was such a coincidence that both of us bought the herbs and we had too much supply. So while blending the herbs, i found the texture and aroma is so similar to the cantonese side-dish which i had when i visited my family-in-love in bukit mertajam. So without giving a second thought. I gathered my pack of thin celery , few cloves of garlic and ginger.

Ingredients :
Celery

Garlic

Ginger

Soy Sauce

Spring Onion

Cooking Oil

Method : 

1. Blend celery and spring onion in thermomix by turning the knob to 10 for 2 second. Put it aside in a bowl.

1. Blend garlic and ginger in thermomix by turning the knob to 10 for 2 second. The garlic and ginger are nicely blended now.
2. Put some cooking oil into thermomix and varoma for 10 minutes at speed 2. Cook till you smell the nice aroma.

3. Open lid,, insert butterfly. Insert blended celery and spring onion. Add in soy sauce to preference. Close the lid and varoma it for 10 minutes, speed 2. 

4. When you hear the beep sound, open lid and check the mix. If satisfactory, pour out and scoop it using thermomix spatula. Leave cool and ready to serve.

I put in a clean jam jar and include it into our lunch box the next day. Its simply delicious. 

Lunchbox of the day : Thermomix Claypot Chicken Rice

Experimented and modified to my own version of thermomix claypot chicken rice. The outcome was very good, but probably just lacking the burnt (chau-huey-ta) effect but this version is good as it is less heaty to the body. It is very easy to prepare.

So this is how thelazypainter prepares claypot rice thermomix style without the claypot :

Ingredients : 
2 thermomix cups of rice
200g chicken meat
540g water
Ginger, garlic, dried shrimps, pepper powder
Mushrooms
Cut pumpkins
Chinese sausage
Spring onion
Sesame oil, dark soy sauce, light soysauce

 Method: 

1. Marinate chicken with ginger, garlic, dark and light soy sauce, pepper, sesame oil before hand.

2. Rinse rice in rice basket. Cut pumpkin to cubes, chinese sausages and mushrooms to thin slices, spring onions, and prepare some dried shrimps (soaked and cleaned). 

 2. Fill in 540g water in thermomix jug, water level touching the top circle part of knife )

3. Put rice basket in thermo jug. Put marinated chicken onto the rice basket and mix it, followed by pumpkins, mushrooms and Chinese sausage.

 5. Close lid and set to 25 minutes, varoma, speed 2.

6. When beep sound is heard, time is up. Open lid and breath in the aroma. Almost ready..

7.Scoop the toppings aside on a plate. We will have to scoop the rice out first. The rice is nicely cooked.

7. Garnish with sesame oil and Kuching pepper.

8. Ready to be served and packed for lunch. 

It is very delicious and Chunkeat likes it a lot.
Give it a try :) Enjoy!

Juicing : Watermelon and Apple Juice

It was a stressful day but i come home to a good power jar of thermomix juice.

Juicing had never been so fun and fulfilling.

Ingredients : 

1/2 portion of small watermelon, cut into pieces

3 apples, decored and cut into pieces.

Ice cubes 

Method :

1. Prepare all ingredient. Watermelon cut into pieces. Apples de-cored and cut into pieces. See photo below.

2. Put all fruits into thermo jug.

3. Add in ice cubes. I added 1 whole tray of ice.

4.Close the lid. Turn the knob to speed 10 for 30-45 seconds. The sound is loud because the ice are being crushed but dont freak out... Juice is coming your way ok..

5. Open the lid, juice is done, you will see some cold mist coming out like smoke. Thats the coldness of ice but the juice tasted so refreshing.

6. Ready to be serve. Just so delicious. Perfect for chilling out at night. 

Give it a try! Enjoy :) 

Other interesting combination to try : 

Top 5 Fruit Juices
Apple and Pear
Apple, Pear & Pineapple
Orange and Grapefruit
Apple and Watermelon
Cranberry, Grape and Prune