Third 14 Days of Stay at Home (Day 29)

15th April 2020, Wednesday

It's Wednesday and today is the start of MCO Phase 3 which means we have another 14 days to go. The important thing for now is to stay at home and always keep clean.

Well today seems to be quite a productive day for me in the kitchen. This morning I made this kueh / kuih penyaram or pinjaram. This is kuih originated from the Bajau people in Sabah as well as Bruneian Malay. It's one of my favourite traditional delicacies. During these MCO period, I saw many people out there on Facebook were trying to make this kuih. So I was thinking, why don't I give it a try too.

According this recipe that I saw going viral on Facebook, we need:

2 cups of flour

2 cups of rice flour

2 cups of sugar

2 cups of water

Pandan leaves / colouring

the ingredients

1. Blend the pandan leaves with one cup of water and get the extract of the pandan water. But in case you are using pandan colouring, skip this step.

2. Mix well the pandan extract / colouring, water and sugar (mixture A).

3. In another bowl, mix the flour and rice flour together (mixture B).

4. Slowly pour in mixture A to B and mix them well.

5. Finally, you will get batter / mixture that looks something like that (refer to photo).

kuih penyaram batter

6. Get a measuring cup / small teapot, fill in some batter.

7. Heat the wok with oil for deep frying (small wok will work better).

8. When the oil is hot, pour in the batter according to the kuih size.

9. Using slow fire, take a wooden chopstick to turn the kuih around and let it fry until it has golden brown ring.

10. Take it up and it's ready to be served.

It's my first time trying to make this and not really that perfect looking and we have some defects ones. However, all of them turn out to taste actually quiet nice ><

my kuih penyaram

defects ones hehe

For dinner, I cooked fish soup. Here's my recipe for the fish soup.

1. There were some leftover fish paste from yesterday. I made it into small pieces and then fry  it.

fish paste

frying the fish paste

2. Yesterday, after I debone the fish for making the fish paste, I kept the bones and skins for today's soup. 

3. Fry the the bones and skins for a while then add in water to boil it. 

4. After it is boiled, strain to get the soup only, we'll not be using the bones and skins anymore. 

boiling the fish soup

5. Prepare and cut some red onions, ginger, beancurd and tomatoes.

6. Heat up the pan. Fry the red onions and ginger, then add in the beancurd and tomatoes. Then add in the fried fish paste.

7. Pour in the soup and boil it for around 5 minutes. Add salt and pepper according to your taste. The soup is ready to be served.

Fish soup with beancurd and tomato

For tonight's dinner, we had Fried Egg with Long Beans, Pork and Black Bean Stew cooked by mum and also Fish Soup by me :) Thank God for the food :) 

I love this, want to try cooking this next too

Yummy :)

p/s: currently in a happy mood learning all this new skills especially in cooking for future use. hehe. I guess, this MCO period has some blessings in disguise for me, like spending more time with my family, learning new stuff and also to observe the full Sabbath. However, I miss my dear dear :(