Mazola Peanut Cookie

A Mazola Peanut cookie is one of evergreen biscuit that already exist since our childhood life. The Mazola comes from the ingredient that is used which is Mazola corn oil. Usually, it does prepare for celebration day like Hari Raya and also Chinese New Year. It’s very easy and simple cookies to make it. Below down is the recipe for Mazola Peanut Cookies and don't forget to try it for upcoming Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebration.

500 gram ground nut

500 gram wheat flour

370 ml corn oil (Mazola brand)

280 gram castor sugar

2 tea spoon of  baking powder

For gliss   : 1 egg yolk mix with yellow colour.

Methods:

1. Fried the ground nut without using oil, remove the skin after coking it and blend it until crush. 

2. Put in castor sugar, ground nut, baking powder and wheat flour into one bowl and stir it.

Put in corn oil drop by drop until it combine well. Make sure it will resulting t be a dough.

3. Make it into small round shape and push little in the middle of cookies using finger.

4. Gliss it with egg yolk and put on the top of cookies with ground nut as a garnishing.

5. Bake into the oven on 170'c - 180'c for 20 minute or until it turn into brown colour.

6. Put the cookies on the tray for cool it down and keep in airtight container.

The recipe is from : rosmarlina@ jintanmanis.com

A Delicious SOMTAM

Somtam, orignally from Thailand but in Malaysia there has a lot of Tomyam Restaurants that served somtam. Somtam,green papaya salad combines the five main tastes which are sour lime, hot chili, salty, savory fish sauce and the sweetness added by palm sugar. All these ingredients are mixed up in a mortar and there you have it !

Kacang Pool Haji

Kacang Pool Haji, another famous stall that located at Plaza Larkin,JB and their Kacang Pool was totally different in Middle East style where in Larkin they served Kacang Pool with thick bread. Kacang pool is eaten with a thick dipping sauce that made up from broad beans and beef mince. Once, you get your Kacang Pool dont forget to squeeze the lime as the additional flavor. There also has chopped chili and onions for those who love spicy taste. 

Sago Gula Melaka

The picture above is one of our member homemade Sago Gula Melaka or in English Sago with palm sugar. That dessert is one of our favourite Malaysian desserts as the texture of chewy pearl sago soaked in combination of sweet gula melaka (palm sugar) and fragrant santan (coconut milk). Actually what is sago? Pearl sago is a starch that comes from sago palm ang generally nutritious. It’s so easy to make Sago Gula Melaka or Sago Pudding. The ingredients that should be have are sago, palm sugar (gula Melaka), coconut milk (santan)and pandan leaves. Must Try It!!!

How to cook it?

·         In a pot : add 1 cup of sago and 3 cups of water and cook sago on low fire.
·         Keep stirring the sago as to ensure the sago pearls do not clump and cook until sago becomes transparent.
·         Pour sago into a strainer and wash off excess starch in running cold water.
·         Pour into small dessert bowls or muffin tray in which you’ll serve your dessert and put into the fridge to set and chill for an hour.
·         In other pot, pour in20 gm of  coconut milk, pandan leaves and salt. Stir constantly to avoid it becoming clump and boil in low fire until it bubbles. After done, set aside to cool.
·         In another pot, melt 200 gm chopped palm sugar and three tablespoon of water on low fire. It should take about 5 minutes.
·         Serve pudding with palm sugar syrup and coconut milk.

Clock Tower Cendol

Cendol Jam Besar was the most famous cendol in Melaka town. It was located in front of the Dutch square. Usually there will be so many customers on weekend and the main attraction of course the cendol itself. They also offer special ABC with ice-cream and Cendol Durian. The prices were quite satisfied and for those who come to Melaka, dont forget to stop by and try it.

Curry Puff

Curry Puff is one of my favourite foods. It is so delicious with the stuffing inside. Actually, if you want to know, this curry puff is a Malaysian, Singaporean and Thai snack. The fills inside consist of potatoes with chicken or sometimes meat and they are put together inside baked pastry shells. But, nowadays the fills inside are variety which it can be sardines, taro, egg, vegetable and paneer. The pastry is quite thick to prevent it from oozing out of the snack when we fried it or baked it. Besides that, this curry puff can be made in many different sizes. Usually in Malaysia, they are sell for RM1.00 for three pieces. It is cheap right! Curry puff also very popular in Indian bakeries. 

Kuih Bakar

This picture shows a traditional Malay food which is known as 'Kuih Bakar' or also can be said as 'Kuih Bingka'. The colour is green. This is because, it use pandan leaves  blend together to make it green and have the pandan leaves scent. Nowadays, most people will sell it at a price of only RM2.50 only for a piece of cake. Its still quite famous nowdays.

Porridge Marrow

Bubur Sumsum

It is called porridge marrow. It is is a type of food in the form of porridge eaten with white sweet sauce (water brown sugar ). Made from rice flour.Food apart in Indonesia also available in Malaysia .Name porridge marrow taken from her appearance like bone marrow. The taste is sweet as there is sugar pour with it which is the brown colour in the picture. The porridge is really soft and tender. You must try it and grab a chance..

Malaysian Indian Foods

Mamak culture is very common among Malaysians. Mamak which are Indian Muslims, have lots of restaurants in Malaysia. They are very well-known as they are open for 24 hours a day.What symbolise the 'mamak' restaurants is that they serve Indian foods to its customers.Although it is Indian foods, you will not find several of foods even in India like 'mee goreng mamak'. Malaysia Indian foods and the foods in India have slightly different. So, if you visit Malaysia don't forget to try delicious Indian foods in the 'mamak' restaurants.
 The common foods that been serve by 'mamak' restaurants:

Paper Tosai

Pictures credits to :
(http://www.backpackingmalaysia.com/food-drinks/paper-tosai)

Mamak Fried Noodles
'Mee Goreng Mamak'

Pictures credits to :

(http://www.benashaari.com/2013/06/mee-goreng-kambing-mamak.html)

Melaka Asam Pedas

Asam Pedas is one of signature dish for Malacca. Its look same as Asam Pedas Johor but the irony is Asam Pedas Melaka have slightly different taste with Asam Pedas Johor. The reason of this different taste is the ingredients. 

Recipe of Asam Pedas Melaka originally from 

About Rendang Daging Domba

Rendang is a spicy meat dish which originated from the Minangkabau ethnic group of Indonesia and is now commonly served across the country. One of the characteristic foods of Minangkabau culture, it is served at ceremonial occasions and to honour guests. Rendang is also commonly served among the  Malay community in  Malaysia, and is also popular in  Singapore, Brunei,  Phillipines and Thailand. Rendang is traditionally prepared by the  Indonesian and Malaysian community during festive occasions such as traditional ceremonies, wedding feasts, and Hari Raya . Sometimes it can become a non-spicy foods depending on certain people.Some people do not like it to be so spicy. For Indonesian, they called it as 'Rendang Daging Domba' .It can be meat or mutton.But, for me meat is the best! 

Cencaluk

Malacca cuisine is very popular among the tourist that comes to Malacca.

Basically, cencaluk or cincalok is fermented small shrimps which is udang geragau or squid that are added with equal amount of salt and rice that are mixed well and sealed in a glass bottle for fermentation process.

How to eat it? 

Just eat it with a rice as a side dishes but before that, cencaluk should be mixed up well with a chilies and red onion that already cut into thin slice or dice. Then , put some of lime juice into that mixing to make it more tastier and less salty.

Kimbap

I'm sure everybody keeps wondering what is this picture tells about. This is korean traditional foods and known as 'kimbap'. It can also been called as 'gimbap'.It is one of korean popular traditional dish.It is made up from steamed white rice and other ingredients such as fried egg, cucumber, squid,tuna and etc.Actually the other ingredients are depend on your taste and favourite.Then, all ingredients are rolled along with the steamed white rice, other ingredients and dried laver seaweed. Then, it is ready to be served usually during outdoor activitiy such as family picnic.There are 295 calories in a 1 Roll serving of Kimbap.Calorie breakdown: 22% fat, 64% carbs, 14% protein.