FRESH ORANGE JUICE WITH MANGO AND BITTER GOURD RECIPE

  ADDING BITTER GOURD AND MANGO TO FRESH ORANGE JUICE, MAKES THIS RECIPE  A  LOT MORE NUTRITIOUS AND FLAVORFUL

Ingredients: from cooking-varieties
1 small bitter gourd- seeded
2 oranges- peeled
Half of a medium size ripe mango
Sugar to taste (about 1 1/2 teaspoon)
Blend all of the above ingredients with 2 cups of mineral water.
Recipe is for two glasses of Fresh Orange, Mango and Bitter Gourd juice.
Add ice cubes if you wish.
Tips from my mom, on how to get rid of the bitter taste in gourd.
Cut bittergourd into paper thin slices, wash with salt water, then rinse.
Health benefits:
Bitter gourd is known to help improve diabetic conditions and
its high beta-carotine content to improve eyesight and alleviate eye problems.
Bitter Gourd is one of cooking-varieties favorite ingredient.

SALAD NUSANTARA RECIPE- AN ORIENTAL RAW VEGETABLE-SALAD RECIPE

RECIPE ON VEGETABLE-SALAD-NUSANTARA
 My very own Oriental Salad Recipe, a combination of raw vegetable ingredients
Ingredients:
1 cup ripe pineapple slices-see picture
1 cup cauliflower slices- see picture
2 ripe tomatoes- quartered
1 green chili- slice
3 pieces shallots- slice
1 teaspoon sugar
4 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoon preserved prune powder (use non-salted)
Salt to taste

Put shallots, chili, sugar, prune powder, vinegar and salt in a mixing bowl and mix until sugar dissolves. Add in pineapples (nenas/ anana), tomatoes and cauliflower.
Marinate for an hour. Eat by itselr or with rice and complimented with some other dishes like fish or beef curry and prawn crackers.
THIS "VEGGIE-SALAD-RECIPE" IS REALLY A  VERY SIMPLE SALAD-RECIPE TO FOLLOW.
Health benefits:
Pineapple contains vitamin A, B and C. Many belief that eating pineapple helps kill worms in the intestine and heal digestive infection. Also helps prevent stroke and heart problems. The best and sweetest variety in Malaysia is the "Sarawak pineapple" or "Nenas Sarawak". This is an image of "Sarawak Pineapple"

MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL, WHO IS THE SWEETEST OF THEM ALL ?  :)

OATMEAL-CHICKEN PORRIDGE- RECIPE ON OATMEAL PORRIDGE MADE SIMPLE

One of the best health cereal is oats. Oats cereal helps lower blood pressure, thus reducing hypertension tendencies- Researched by the American Heart Association. Oats is also believed to help lower cholesterol levels.

Chicken with Oatmeal Porridge-servings for two persons
Ingredients: from cooking-varieties
3 pieces boneless chicken breast- cut into small pieces
2 pieces garlic- minced
2 cm young ginger root- minced
1 carrot- slice 2 cm thick
Spring onion for garnishing- cut into thin slices
1 1/2  teaspoon Soup spice powder
Salt & pepper to taste
2 1/2 cups ‘quick cook’ oats
Boil 5 cups of mineral water with chicken, garlic, ginger, spice powder and salt.
When chicken is cooked take out about 1 piece of the chicken breast and set aside to cool.
When cooled, shred these chicken pieces and use them as garnishing.
Add in oats and pinch of salt and pepper inside the chicken soup. Put off fire after 2 minutes.
Serve hot. Place oats porridge in serving bowls. Garnish with shredded chicken and spring onions

HOW TO COOK FRIED-SALTED- FISH WITH CHILI AND SPICES OR SALTED-FISH WITH CHILI RECIPE (SAMBAL IKAN MASIN)

Chili Salted-Fish Ingredients
 3 cups (cut) salted fish –use the fleshy part and cut into small pieces.
Soak in water for 1 hour to wash excess salt
½ cup young ginger root- cut very fine strips- see picture
1 large onion- Coarse blend (dont add water)
1/2 cup coarsely blended pickled radish (lobak asin)
1 clove garlic-peeled. Do not slice. Wash and towel dry
10 pieces shallots- Do not slice. Wash and towel dry
5 tablespoon curry powder
4 tablespoon chili flakes
5 pieces buah keras (kemiri) powder (grounded)
2 1/2  cups vinegar
Mix curry powder, chili flakes and buah keras with vinegar to form a paste
1 piece lemon grass-cut into 3
1 cup cooking oil
Oil for frying salted fish
10 pieces (whole) chili padi (small hot chilis-see picture)
1 teaspoon sugar
Use non stick pan. Fry salted fish until brown. Drain fish and wash pan.
Heat up 1 cup cooking oil in non-stick pan. Add in ginger, blended large onion and
pickled radish. Stir continuously with a spatula, until onions turn light brown.
Cook on low fire. Add in lemon grass, garlic, shallots, chili, curry and buah keras paste.
Stir until onions are  half-cooked and crisp tender.
A pungent aroma here, due to vinegar content. Add sugar, chili padi and salted fish.
 Mix well for 1 minute and put off fire. This dish can last for 3 days without refrigerating,
 since no water is used in this recipe.
 



JELLY-CHOCOLATE PUDDING RECIPE. A VERY SIMPLE AND FLAVORFUL PUDDING RECIPE.



Cocoa trees bear fruit pods which contain cocoa beans. These beans are dried and turned into powder form and is easily soluble in water.

Jelly Chocolate Pudding Ingredients
3 large glasses of water
3 tablespoons pure cocoa powder
150 grams china grass

Chocolate-Pudding Milk Sauce Ingredients
2 egg yolks
2 ½ glasses or 500cc low fat milk
1 teaspoon fresh ground vanilla
150 grams sugar

Boil water, jelly and cocoa powder. Whisk until jelly dissolves.
Pour jelly inside a mould. Leave to cool. Refrigerate

Beat up egg yolks until slightly fluffy. Add in low fat milk, vanilla and sugar.
Boil until sugar dissolves, stir for another 5 minutes and put off fire.

When ready to serve, cut pudding into smaller slices and place in a bowl.
Pour in milk sauce. If you like cold pudding, add some ice cubes. Its great to eat, this pudding is not sweet and cocoa has anti oxidant properties.
Chocolate Pudding makes servings for six. My dutch artist friend loves this so much, that we decided to invite friends over for a special tea gathering and serve this as “The Vincent van Gogh-Chocolate Pudding" for our  tea gathering. Wow, how did he get the  inspiration to paint Mona Lisa- eat chocolate pudding ??

FRESH FRUIT JUICE- 4 TYPES OF ROSELLE FRUIT JUICE RECIPES

1. FRESH ROSELLE FRUIT JUICE RECIPE

ALSO KNOWN AS FLORIDA CRANBERRIES

This deep red color fruit comes from the Roselle plant. Boil 6 pieces fresh Roselle fruits with 4 glasses of water. Leave to simmer until 2 glasses left. Add sugar or honey to taste. Serve cold. Fruit juice serves 2.

2. HOW TO MAKE ROSELLE SMOOTHIES- FRESH ROSELLE SMOOTHIES RECIPE

In Malaysia, Roselle fruit is called “Roselle" also


Boil 8 pieces fresh Roselle fruits with 4 glasses of water. Leave to simmer until 2 glasses left. Leave the juice to cool. Remove residue if you wish. Blend with strawberry yogurt. Serve immediately. Roselle Smoothies serves 2.

3. HOW TO MAKE ROSELLE JUICE WITH DATES- ROSELLE AND DATES JUICE RECIPE

Blend 6 pieces fresh Roselle fruits and 10 pieces seeded dates with 2 glasses of water. Heat blended juice and let it boil for 5 minutes. Leave to cool. Serve cold with ice cubes.  

4. ROSELLE,CHAMOMILE TEA RECIPE.

Heat 6 pieces fresh Roselle fruits with 4 cups of water. When boiled, add 1 sachet of chamomile tea and sugar to taste. Leave to simmer until 2 cups left. Serve hot. Roselle Tea serves two.

SPICY FRIED RICE RECIPE- HOW TO MAKE THAI PINEAPPLE FRIED RICE.

Pineapple or "Nenas" in the Malaysian language or "Anana" in the Philippino's is a popular fruit. In Malaysia, the sweetest variety of pineapple is called "Nenas Sarawak"- originated  from Sarawak, one of the Malaysian, states. When ripened, the nenas sarawak tastes so sweet, eating it helps eliminate the uncomfortable  "full tummy" feeling.

RECIPE FROM COOKING-VARIETIES E COOKBOOKS

PINEAPPLE FRIED RICE RECIPE 
Servings for two
Cut 1 ripe pineapple in half lengthwise. Hollow out. Makes 2 pieces pineapple skin platter to serve pineapple fried rice.

Cook 1 cup of rice. Set aside

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup ripe pineapple slices
10 pieces medium size prawns- do not shell
3 pieces garlic – minced      3 small onions – fine slices
¼ cup canned green peas 1 red chili – slice
¼ cup fresh corn       1 tbsp chili flakes
1 tbsp mango chili sauce   1 cube beef stock
Salt to taste and 3 tablespoon vegetable oil

Fry garlic and onions in hot oil until brown. Add beef stock, prawns, pineapple and corn. Stir until half- cooked, add green peas, chili, sauce & chili flakes, salt. Leave for 1 minute, add rice and mix well. Pour fried rice inside pineapple hollow. Serve hot. This recipe comes from cooking-varieties

SAGO PUDDING RECIPE- USE SAGO PEARLS TO MAKE SAGO PUDDING WITH SYRUP- FROM COOKING-VARIETIES

For recipe,check Cooking-Varieties Arty Photographs at BLOGGERS LINK (right of this page).
Sago pearls are made from sago extracted from the pith of the Sago Palm.

ASIAN SALAD RECIPE. FRUIT AND VEGETABLE-SALAD RECIPE. ALSO ASIAN SALAD- DIP-RECIPE



DIP Recipe- 5 red chilies, 2 pieces garlic, 3 tablespoons prawn paste, 1 tablespoon date vinegar, 2 tablespoon coarsely grounded  peanuts (dont blend), 3 tablespoon brown sugar and salt to taste.
 Blend all ingredients. Then add in ground peanuts or you may add ground pistachios and cashew nuts instead... Mix well. You may dip in  your fruits and vegetables 
 OR cut them into small pieces and mix with the dip to form an Asian Salad Recipe. 
Other raw vegetable varieties include carrot, red cabbage, coral salads, long beans, green mango, half ripe papaya,lettuce, mint leaves, ripe pineapple and celery.



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