food in malaysia /otak-otak and mixed vegetable

Spicy Fish Cakes In Banana Leaf (Otak-Otak)

Ingredients :
300 g
300 g
3
2
3 cups
1 tbsp
1 tsp
4
4
10 tbsp
1 tsp
40

To Pound Together :
5 cm
2 tbsp
5
10
5
3
2
8
3 cm
white fish flesh
fresh prawns, shelled and deveined
shallots, chopped finely
eggs, beaten lightly
thick coconut milk, extracted from 1 coconut
sugar
salt
turmeric leaves, shredded
lime leaves, shredded
water
salt
pieces banana leaves (17 cm x 9 cm)


piece turmeric
chili powder
red chilies, deseeded
slices galangal
candlenuts
stalks lemon grass, sliced
cloves garlic
shallots
piece shrimp paste
Method :
  1. Fillet the fish and cut finely.
  2. Mince together with prawns until fine.
  3. Add in salt and water and mix well.
  4. Put in the chopped shallots, pounded ingredients and eggs and mix well.
  5. Add the coconut milk, sugar, salt, turmeric and lime leaves.
  6. Mix well.
  7. Spread the mixture on the banana leaves and wrap well.
  8. Secure ends with tooth picks.
  9. Grill over a slow charcoal fire for about 15 minutes.
  10. Turn occasionally to cook thoroughly on all sides.
  11. Serve either as an accompaniment to rice or by itself as a snack.
Serves 6 - 8

Mixed Vegetables Recipe

(Chap Chai)

Ingredients :
500 g
30 g

20 g
30 g
2 pieces
1 piece
1 teaspoon
2 tablespoons
2 cups
Cabbage
Lily bud (golden needle
mushrooms), soaked
Cloud ear, soaked
Glass noodles (tang hoon), soaked
Fried beancurd sheet
Preserved taro curd
Sugar
Soy sauce
Water
Pepper to taste
Method :
  • Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a wok.
  • Stir fry the preserved taro curd and sugar till fragrant.
  • Add cabbage, lily bud and cloud ear.
  • Stir fry evenly.
  • Add glass noodles and beancurd sheet.
  • Pour in soy sauce, water and pepper.
  • Cover the lid and cook until done.
  • Serve hot with steamed rice.
Note : For the glass noodles to taste better, soak it in the sauce and let it simmer for a longer period.

food in malaysia /recipes coconut milk shrimps and sioh chicken

Coconut Milk Shrimps Recipe

Ingredients :
500 g
2
1 stalk
400 ml
200 ml


Ground
15
300 g
100 g
3
2 cm
1
2 stalks
1 tablespoon
Big shrimps
Large tomatoes, cut into small pieces
Ginger flower, sliced (bunga kantan)
Thin coconut milk
Thick coconut milk, 1 coconut
Salt to taste
Sugar to taste

Dried chilies, soak in hot water till soft
Shallots
Garlic
Candlenuts
Turmeric
Galangal, sliced
Lemon grass (white part)
Dried shrimp paste (belacan)
Method :
  • Heat 1/2 cup oil.
  • Stir fry the grounded ingredients until fragrant.
  • Pour in the thin coconut milk, tomatoes and ginger flower.
  • Bring to boil.
  • Add the shrimps and thick coconut milk.
  • Add salt and sugar to taste.
  • Bring to boil and serve hot.




Sioh Chicken

Ingredients :
1
10
1 tsp
2 tbsp
1 tbsp
10 tbsp
3 tbsp
250 g
2 tbsp
large chicken, cut into 4
shallots, pounded finely
pepper
thick soy sauce
salt
sugar
coriander powder, roasted
tamarind, mixed with 1 cup water and strained
salt dissolved in water
Method :
  1. Combine coriander powder, sugar, salt, soy sauce, pepper and shallots with the tamarind juice and stir well.
  2. Wash the chicken in the salt water.
  3. Drain and add to the mixture.
  4. Cover and leave overnight.
  5. Boil the chicken in the marinade for 20 minutes over moderate heat.
  6. Turn the chicken over, reduce heat and boil for another 20 minutes.
  7. Remove and serve.
Variation :
  1. Heat enough oil for deep frying in pan and fry the chicken until brown on both sides.
  2. Pour tamarind juice over the chicken and fry until fragrant and almost dry.
Serves 6 - 8
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food in malaysia / recipes clam and sea cucumber soup and mee siam

nyonya food


Clams and Sea Cucumber Soup Recipe

Ingredients :
1.2 kg
30 g
1

1 can
80 g
30 g
Whole chicken, remove skin
Dried scallops
Large sea cucumber, soak and
cut into big pieces
Clams
Fresh golden needle mushroom
Coriander leaves
Salt and pepper to taste
Method :
  • Boil 2.5 liters water in a pot.
  • Add chicken, dried scallops and sea cucumber.
  • Bring to a boil.


  • Reduce to low heat and simmer until ingredients become tender.
  • Add clams, golden needle mushroom, salt and pepper and bring to a boil.
  • Serve in soup bowl.
  • Sprinkle coriander leaves on top and serve hot.
                  




Spicy Fried Vermicelli (Mee Siam) Recipes



Ingredients :
500 g
500 g
600 g
2 pieces
2 tbsp
10
8
3
2
4
5
5
2 tbsp

rice vermicelli, soaked until soft
bean sprouts, tails removed and washed well
fresh prawns
bean curd, sliced thinly and fried
tow cheong
dried red chilies
shallots
cloves garlic
large onions, sliced
hard boiled eggs, quartered
small limes, cut into 2
stalks chives
oil
salt to taste
Method :
Heat oil in a deep pan and fry the ground ingredients until fragrant. Add in the prawns and fry until cooked. Put in the sliced onions and stir. Add in the tow cheong and mix well. Add in the bean sprouts and stir frybut not until too limp. Put in the chives and the fried bean curd. Add in the vermicelli and stir well to mix. Season to taste with salt. Dish out and serve immediately garnished with hard boiled eggs and lime.
Serves 4-6
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food in malaysia /recipes nyonya food

Nyonya food


Salted Fish Pineapple Curry Recipe

Ingredients :
300 g
1/2
2
2
500 ml

Ground
8
4 cloves
2
2 cm
10
1 tablespoon
2 stalks
Salted fish, soak in water for 1 hour
Pineapple, cubed
Green chilies
Red chilies
Coconut milk
Salt and sugar to taste

Shallots
Garlic
Candlenuts
Turmeric
Red chilies
Dried shrimp paste (belacan)
Lemon grass (white part)
Method :
  • Heat 5 tablespoons oil.
  • Stir fry the grounded ingredients until fragrant.
  • Add 3 cups of water.
  • Bring to a boil.
  • Add in salted fish, pineapple, green chilies, red chilies and bring to a boil.
  • Switch to low heat and cook for 15 minutes.
  • Stir in the coconut milk, salt and sugar.
  • Cook until it boils.
  • Serve hot with steamed rice.
Note : To reduce the saltiness, soak salted fish in salt water and then rinse. Salt water will remove saltiness from fish.











Pong Teh Chicken Recipe

Ingredients :
1.2 kg
200 g
5
5
1 cup
1 tablespoon
1 tablespoon
1 tablespoon
5 cm
2 tablespoons
1 tablespoon
3 cups
Whole chicken, cut into bite size
Bamboo shoots
Dried chilies
Green chilies
Shallots, sliced
Garlic
Sugar
Soy bean paste
Cinnamon stick
Soy sauce
Thick soy sauce
Water
Cornflour solution
Method :
  • Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a pot.
  • Stir fry shallots, garlic, sugar and soy bean paste till fragrant.
  • Add chicken, bamboo shoots, dried chilies and green chilies and stir fry evenly.
  • Pour in cinnamon stick, soy sauce, thick soy sauce and water.
  • Cover to simmer till done.
  • Pour in cornflour solution slowly with constant stirring.
  • Serve hot.
Note : The most preferred Nyonya dish amongst the elderly. You can also replacethe chicken with other meat.

food in malaysia /about little nyonya

About Little Nyonya
        
     Echnique of cooking does not differ much from Malay cuisine, a lot of steaming and simmering are involved and also cold preparation is also one of the typical ways of cooking, especially of their kerabu (raw salad).





  A typical Nyonya home had a large kitchen. Extended family lived under the same roof, in one long shop house. In this kitchen, the stove used wood and later charcoal as fuel.
     Spices were grounded manually, large granite stone mills were indispensable in a typical Nyonya household. During celebration or religious ceremony, the "tok panjang", a long dinner table that could  seat at least 16 people would be full of dishes painstakingly prepared for that special occasion




  Young girls were trained in the kitchen so that they would catch a rich husband. The way to the men's heart were supposedly through their stomachs. The young ladies were also taught other crafts like how to make beaded slippers or embroider intricate patterns on silk table clothes or bedspreads


 Nyonya food also places a lot of emphasis on how the food looks when served. Local kuihs are individually crafted, piece by piece. Each morsel is supposed to taste as good as it looks.

     Desserts can also include sweet broth (bubur). Almost anything can be added into this "bubur". Basic ingredients are palm sugar, coconut milk, sago and pandanus leaves. Then, it is up to you to put in any tubers or fruits for that tasty tea treat. Some of evergreen Nyonya dishes for lunch or dinner which are still served now include otak-otak, perut ikan, asam pedas, kari kapitan, kerabu bihun and a lot   




story about baba nyonya and nyonya food

 

Story About Baba Nyonya And Nyonya Food
 About Baba and Nyonya could be traced all the way back to the Chinese Ming Dynasty which is about more than 4 centuries ago. It was the Princess Hang li po(Hang Li-Bao) that left China to get married with the Sultan (King) of Malacca. The marriage established a kinship and diplomatic relationship between the two nations.                                                                                                                  
   At the same time many Chinese people started trading with or working in Malacca, Penang and Singapore. Some of them even settled down in these coastal cities and as most of these migrants were male, they started marrying the local Malay women which produced a unique culture. Their sons were then called "Baba" and their daughters were called "Nyonya".
    Baba and Nyonya( Peranakan), their olso can keep their Chinese names, but also got accustomed to worshipping their ancestors and eating pork like every Chinese do. In addition, they also inherited the Chinese conventional idea of "men leaving the house to work and women staying at home to cook the delicious nyonya food for the men".
   Nyonya food is also known as the Straits Chinese food which is an interesting amalgamation of Chinese and Malay dishes thought to have originated from the Peranakan of Malacca. Besides Malacca, Nyonya food is also native to Penang and Singapore. However, over the years, distinct differences have evolved in the Nyonya recipesfound in Penang than that in Malacca and Singapore due to the proximity of Malacca and Singapore to Indonesia and Penang to          Thailand.

    Nyonya recipes are complicated affairs, often requiring many hours of preparation and is about the blending of spices, using pungent roots like galangal, turmeric and ginger; aromatic leaves like pandan leaf and fragrant lime leaf together with other ingredients like candlenuts, shallots, shrimps paste and chilies. Lemon, tamarind, carambola and green mangoes are used to add a tangy taste to many dishes. For dessert, fruits are seldom served but instead colorful cakes are served. Nyonya cakes are rich and varied, often made from ingredients like sweet potato, glutinous rice, palm sugar and coconut milk.