Food you cook

[Endless Soul]

Originally Posted by MUAHAHAHAHAHA

This is a famous Malaysian cuisine, called “nasi lemak”. Malaysians love to eat this for breakfast. Actually, you can also eat it for lunch and dinner. This dish consist of sambal (spicy paste made from ginger, dried chilli, garlic and shallots), coconut rice, fried anchovies, peanuts, boiled egg and cucumber. Anyway, I have posted here step-by-step guidance with photos, so I hope you will be able to make it too! This recipe can serve up to 6 people.

Spoiler for tidiness:

Ingredients:
20 dried chilli
2 shallots
4 garlic cloves
1 can of coconut milk (about 400ml)
Dried anchovies (up to individual preference. For mine, I put 20-30)
A thick slice of ginger (about 3cm)
Salt
Water
Sugar
Cucumber (a few slices will do. Again, up to individual preference because it is only a side dish)
Chicken leg
Tamarind juice
Tumeric powder (just enough to marinade the chicken)


1.Soak the dried chilli in a pot of boiling water, until it becomes soft. This takes approximately 30 minutes.


2.Marinate the chicken in turmeric powder.



3. It’s now time to make the sambal aka chilli paste. Blend the dried chilli with some water. The result will be something like this:






4. Cut 1 onion, all the garlic cloves, and ¾ of the ginger into slices. Then blend it together with the blended dried chilli. Make sure that everything is blended to form a concentrated paste.



5.Heat pan and add oil. When it is hot enough, add the chilli paste. Before adding in the paste, reduce the heat first. It is imperative that you allow it to cook for 45m-1 hour. I know, I know, it takes forever but the result, I assure you are worth it. Stir the paste once in a while.




6.After cooking the paste for approximately 20 minutes or so, stir in tamarind juice, some sugar, and salt. The paste is cooked and ready when it begins to dry up.



7.Now, it’s time to cook the rice. For mine, I cook 3 cups of rice.


8.Pour in the whole can of coconut milk. If it is too concentrated, add some water. The can of coconut milk that I bought is 400ml, and fills 3 cups. Just nice! After pouring in the milk, add in the other 1 onion, a pinch of salt and the remaining ¼ ginger slices. After you are done, cook the rice!



9. While waiting for the rice and sambal, boil the eggs.




10.You can start frying the anchovies and the chicken. I removed the head because it tastes better without it.


11.Deep fry the chicken. After you are done, do the same with the anchovies.




12. Time to check the rice. The cooked coconut rice will look like the above pic.



13. Assuming everything is ready, assemble them!

14. Itadakimasu!!!

Now we're talking! This looks great!

Endless "Spicy!" Soul

[Byakou]

That looks like one hell of a healthy breakfast. A lot better than the nutritionally worthless toasts, pastries, muffins and cereal people eat here.

[Flower]

BTW - tried out making okonomiyaki the other day ... on paper it looks rather suspicious (mayonnaise topping to pancakes?) but when actually cooked it was surprisingly delicious!

[synaesthetic]

Sambal is a magnificent and glorious substance.

[MUAHAHAHAHAHA]

Originally Posted by synaesthetic

Sambal is a magnificent and glorious substance.

Agreed. You can use it for pretty much everything else-veges, eggs, prawns, even tofu if you like.

[Urzu 7]

I've seen this in animes: Rice omelette. Does anybody know how to make a basic/typical one? I'd like to try it.

Could someone post how to make one?

[MrTerrorist]

Originally Posted by Urzu 7

I've seen this in animes: Rice omelette. Does anybody know how to make a basic/typical one? I'd like to try it.

Could someone post how to make one?

Here's a quick guide to make one.

[Urzu 7]

Joined December of 2011, has two posts about MMO games, took four months to post second spam post. What the heck? Whatever, mods, ban this bot.

[Endless Soul]

Originally Posted by MrTerrorist

Here's a quick guide to make one.

Spoiler for Tidiness:

Chooped? Solt? White Source? Some interesting Engrish there. Is that cubes of butter mixed in milk?

Originally Posted by Urzu 7

Joined December of 2011, has two posts about MMO games, took four months to post second spam post. What the heck? Whatever, mods, ban this bot.

I don't think Mr. Terrorist is a bot.

Endless "Solt" Soul

[MUAHAHAHAHAHA]

Originally Posted by Urzu 7

I've seen this in animes: Rice omelette. Does anybody know how to make a basic/typical one? I'd like to try it.

Could someone post how to make one?

Ah, rice omelette! I haven't made that in a while. The egg wrapping the rice part must be done properly. Maybe I should make it again, it's been so long!

[Paranoid Android]

Originally Posted by Endless Soul

Chooped? Solt? White Source? Some interesting Engrish there. Is that cubes of butter mixed in milk?



I don't think Mr. Terrorist is a bot.

Endless "Solt" Soul

White Source sounds like a very undelicious (wtf) thing to have in your meal.

I don't think that was @ Mr. Terrorist, the post was probably removed. I mean Mr. Terrorist has been here way before Dec 2011 and has 2 posts.

[MrTerrorist]

Originally Posted by Urzu 7

Joined December of 2011, has two posts about MMO games, took four months to post second spam post. What the heck? Whatever, mods, ban this bot.

Originally Posted by Paranoid Android

I don't think that was @ Mr. Terrorist, the post was probably removed. I mean Mr. Terrorist has been here way before Dec 2011 and has 2 posts.

Actually before Paranoid Android posted, a bot posted a link to some untrusted website so i reported it to the mods. By the time Paranoid Android posted, the mods have already removed that post.

[Urzu 7]

Yeah it was some bot, not Mr. Terrorist. I reported the bot, too.

I found a good video for a traditional rice omelet (thanks to the person who posted a video to one, too, btw).

[NoemiChan]

Originally Posted by Urzu 7

Now I'm really hungry...!!!

[Urzu 7]

Same guy shows how to make gyoza. At the end of the video, he shows you how to make deep fried dessert gyoza (with fruit filling).

Here is a video for chicken spring rolls and pizza egg rolls.

[Roxey]

All these look great but I'm not too much of a cook T_T

[Urzu 7]

I used to have no real cooking skills at one point. I just started cooking more and more and I've gotten significantly better. If you want to get better at cooking, start making more meals and just start with things that are easy to do. Inform yourself on good cooking tips and techniques via information found in cookbooks or cooking and recipe sites.

You'll find that building up your cooking skills can be very rewarding.

[Paranoid Android]

I built up my cooking skills via trial and error. I can't stand recipes. They're so memory work and don't really help when you want to improvise something new.

I'm personally against learning to cook via recipes.

[Kakashi]

You're not supposed to learn how to cook using recipes. That's probably why people give up on cooking. Recipes are applying cooking methods in specific ways, and they assume a certain amount of knowledge, and often used specialized terms. You need to learn cooking methods first before you can feel confident with recipes. Either look online or get a book which that does this, for example Joy of Cooking.

[Urzu 7]

Originally Posted by Paranoid Android

I built up my cooking skills via trial and error. I can't stand recipes. They're so memory work and don't really help when you want to improvise something new.

I'm personally against learning to cook via recipes.

Following recipes can yield great results, but of course, you don't have to follow all recipes exactly as they instruct you. Most recipes I follow I end up changing at least a couple things around and improvising with them.

Recipes are great for cooking. You just have to do your own thing with them when you feel that is the best thing to do. Give yourself that flexibility. Recipes can be guidelines if you just want that from them. Often times it is best to follow technical instructions (such as how to cook things and/or how long to cook things), but for things like the ingredients to use, for an example, it is totally a good idea to be flexible with those things and have the ingredients to your liking.

Also, following a recipe in tandem with improvising is not only normal, it is how so many variations to a dish and new recipes are born.