Chicken Soup ala Wedding Reception (Sup Pengantin)

There are various kinds of soup and we can find soup almost in any cultures or nations. One of many soups I remember dearly is the one which usually served during wedding reception in Indonesia. Since this kind of soup is identical to a wedding reception, it is called Sup Pengantin, literally means Bride Soup. It has many kind of ingredients, including meats and veggies and the taste is so refreshing. I would like to share this recipe to all my Indonesian foodie blogger in the event of Masbar February 2010 edition.

Ingredients:
- 3 whole chicken leg, cooked and cut the meat in cubes. Keep the broth aside
- 4 carrots, peeled and cut
- 3 potato, peeled and cut
- bunch of cauliflower, separate the florets
- bunch of snow peas, discard the hard parts
- 3 stalk of celery, cut
- 1 can of button mushroom or other mushroom as preferred
- 1 can of quail eggs
- 1/2 can of luncheon meat or chicken wiener, cut
- some cooked macaroni pasta as preferred
- 1/2 onion, chopped
- 6 cloves of shallot, chopped
- 1 Tbsp of margarine for sauteing
- water
- salt
- sugar
- ground white pepper
- ground nutmeg

Directions:

Put the broth in a pot and boil. Once it is boiling, add potato, carrot, mushroom, cooked chicken meat, and quail eggs consecutively. Meanwhile, saute chopped onion and shallot with margarine in a pan until fragrant and add luncheon meat or chicken wiener and continue to saute for 3minutes. Transfer all at once into the chicken broth in the pot. Add pepper, nutmeg, salt and sugar. Adjust the taste. Then saute cauliflower, celery and snow peas in a pan for 2-3minutes. Transfer it into a serving bowl to keep the crunchiness.
To serve: put some cauliflower, celery and snow peas in a bowl. Pour the chicken broth and soup over. Sprinkle some fried shallot.

Valentine's Cake - My Very First Cake Deco

This year we did not do much for celebrating Valentine's Day due to our busy schedule. Not that we usually made it big no, well..at least we always had some fancy dinner on that day. My husband is attending school again and he had exam after the long weekend. Thus I only baked some cakes and for the first time ever, I decorated them using chocolate ganache, cream cheese frosting and some colourful sprinkles. Bianca loves the chocolate and sprinkles while Jordan loves the cake, so they share it. Still need a lot of practice and learn. So here is the cake recipe to share with you my beloved readers.

Strawberry Sponge Cake

Ingredients: (good for 1 medium size heart shape pan and 6 mini cupcake)
- 10 egg yolk
- 6 egg white
- 180g granulated sugar
- 200g all purpose flour
- 120gr soft margarine
- 1Tbsp of ovalette
- 1tsp of baking powder
- 4Tbsp of coconut milk
- 1tsp of strawberry paste
- 1tsp of vanilla essence

For decoration:
- chocolate ganache
- cream cheese frosting
- sprinkles

Directions:
Using a mixer, mix eggs, sugar and ovalette at medium high speed until fluffy and reaching good overrun. Add vanilla essence. Lower the speed of the mixer and add the flour and baking powder gradually. Add coconut milk and strawberry paste and continue to stir at low speed. Add soft margarine and stir it well. Preheat the oven at 370F. Pour the batter into a heart shape baking pan which was previously layered with margarine and flour, and pour the rest into a mini cupcake heart shape mould. Bake for 25-30minutes. Let it cool off.
Once it is cool enough, take it out of the pan, then pour the chocolate ganache over until all surface is covered. Keep it in a fridge until the ganache harden. Take it out and decorate it with some cream cheese frosting using cake decorating tips as preferred. At last add some sprinkles on the mini cupcakes.

MASBAR FEBRUARY EDITION - VARIOUS SOUPs

Hello darling...

Since this is a month of love and caring, we would like to greet you all with an intimate hello. This month whilst we celebrated Valentine's Day, normally we are spoiled with so many sweet dishes, especially with chocolate as an ingredient. However, Masbar theme for this month is not related to chocolate. Instead we chose to share recipes of VARIOUS SOUPS. Soup is commonly served in a family where we can share loves, and it is a way to express our loves and caring to our family. We believe that you all are familiar to many kinds of soup. Mainly, soups can be classified into two groups, clear soups and thick soups. Soup can be found in any cultures and areas and gives specific character to its nation/ethnic. Soup is also acceptable for all ages groups. So, let's choose what kind of soup you would like to serve and share in our Masbar home.

As usual, these are the rules:

• You have to post your soup during the last week of Februari (Feb 21 until 27 '2010)
• It should be posted with Masbar Logo
• Send your data to masakbarengyuuk[at]gmail[dot]com, which includes:

1. Name
2. Blog Name
3. The Dish's Name and its URL
4. one picture of the dish
5. A description of the dish

Note:
There is no rule nor limitation upon recipes. Feel free to browse around or make up your own dish as preferred. However, please quote the source. You may use English or Indonesian as you like.

Menu theme, polling and schedule for next month will be announced after Round-Up posting. Stay tune for the updates and let's cook together!

Kue Pukis - One of Many Indonesian Street Vendor Snacks

Masbar event comes again this month with a very interesting theme: Food ala Street Vendor (Panganan Kaki Lima-Indonesian ). There are gazillion street vendor foods in Indonesia. They sell various items of food and open during different time of the day. And since I am living overseas, I have been missing some of those foods. Normally I try to prepare it myself with limited ingredients that I have in my kitchen. And they have been satisfied my feeling of missing home. This time I would like to share one of the street vendor snacks, called Kue Pukis. It is said that Kue Pukis is a modification of wafel (source: wikipedia).

Ingredients:
350g all purpose flour
150g corn starch
250g granulated sugar
500ml warm coconut milk
5 eggs
11g instant yeast
3Tbsp melted margarine
a pinch of salt
1sdt vanilla extract
Topping: chocolate sprinkles, raisin, cheese, peanuts

Directions:
Mix the eggs and sugar with a mixer at high speed until white and fluffy. Meanwhile mix the dry ingredients (flour, corn starch and yeast) in another bowl. Then add the coconut milk into the dry ingredients little by little and well mix it. Add the egg mixture into it little by little and continue to mix it. Add melted margarine and vanilla extract and mix it well again. Keep it aside and let it arise until the volume is twice as much as initial. Heat the moulding up on the stove. Pour the batter in it, fill it up until 3/4 of the hole. Put the lid on and cook it under medium heat for 2minutes. Open the lid and top it up with chocolate sprinkles or raisin or cheese or peanuts as preferred. Put the lid back and continue to cook until done (golden brown).

Recipe's source: Ine Elkaje

Beef Galantine - Our After New Year's Dish

We spent the New Year's eve at home, a simple dinner with family and some sips of ice wine was simply nice. I did not get a chance to take pictures of the foods nor the moment that nite. When Pepy posted her drool-worthy miso soup for the masbar event, I just realized I must have been missing this monthly event. But then she and Rurie told me that Jan 5 will be the last day to post. So I managed to cook something and take pictures of it. Beef galantine is one of my favorite dishes. I made it just today and served it as our after New Year's dish. Happy New Year every one!

Ingredients:
- 400gr ground beef
- 150gr bread crumbs
- 4 boiled egg
- 2 raw egg
- 4 cloves of shallot
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 2 tsp ground white pepper
- 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 Tbsp maizena/corn flour
- salt
- sugar
- oil for frying

Side dish:
- 3 carrot, cut into sticks and steam it for 8minutes
- 150gr harricot beans, discard the hard part and steam it for 8minutes

Crush shallot and garlic until smooth. In a mixing bowl, mix well all the above ingredients except boiled egg and corn flour. Mix it for sometime, until it is well mixed. Then add corn flour and mix it again. Place 1cm layer of this meat mix on aluminum foil and put the boiled egg in the middle (one for each). Wrap it as cylinder. Place all the cylinders inside a steamer and steam it for 45minutes. Cool it off and then fry it with enough oil under medium heat.

To make the sauce:
- 1 clove of onion (Indonesian-bawang bombay), chop thinly
- 1 tomato, cut into 12
- 3cm ginger, crack it with pestle
- 1 carrot, chop small and thinly
- 1 can of sweet green peas (I skipped it this time)
- 1 Tbsp tomato paste
- salt
- sugar
- ground white pepper
- water
- oil for saute
- 1 Tbsp maizena/corn flour

In a wok, saute the onion and ginger for 3minutes. Add tomato and continue to cook and stir. Add some water, app. 300ml. Add cut carrot and cook for 5minutes. Add tomato paste and adjust the taste with salt, sugar and pepper. Add green peas and lower the heat. Add the corn flour solution (which was mixed with some water beforehand) while stirring it until the sauce thicken.

To serve, cut the meat cylinder and place it on a plate. Arrange the side dish on the same plate as well and then pour the sauce on top.

Kue Sus Isi Fla Vanili (Choux Pastry with Vanilla Filling)

I've made these choux pastry months ago and kept the pictures in my file. Today I was going through them and would like to share it with you. I copied the recipe from here, thank Siany! I used to make the pastry with fresh milk, but I found out that adding water, instead of milk gave better result. So here is the English version of the recipe.

Ingredients:
For skin:
- 125g margarine
- 300ml water
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 150g all purpose flour
- 5 eggs

For filling: (Use 1/2 recipe of this filling for 1 recipe of skin)
- 150g all purpose flour
- 125g sugar
- 1tsp vanilla essence
- 1tsp rum
- 1 egg yolk
- 1L fresh milk
- 2Tbsp butter

Directions:
For making skin:
Preheat the oven at ± 200° C. Boil water, salt and margarine at low heat until boiling. Add flour, stir well until it does not stick on the pot. Turn off the stove, let it cool. Then add the egg one by one and stir well. Using pipping bag and tip, place the dough on a tray which has been layered with some margarine, gives enough space in between. Bake it in the oven for 30minutes. Do not open the oven door before it is done. Cool it down on a wire rack.

For filling:
Mix all of the ingredients except butter, vanilla and rum. Cook in a pot and stir until boiling. Remove it from the heat and add the remaining ingredients and stir well until all butter melted. Let it cool and stir it once awhile.

To serve, cut the skins in the middle and then fill it out with the filling. You may add some fresh/canned fruits into the filling as preferred.