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INGREDIENTS FOR CONTENTS:

• 250 grams mung beans / green beans, soaked in water for 2 hours
• 500 ml water
• 100 grams palm sugar
• 200 ml thick coconut milk
• White sugar
• 2 pandan leaves
• Kraft cheese, grated

HOW TO MAKE:

1. Pour water into Cooking Mama Pot – the Cooking Pot.
2. Add the mung beans.
3. Place Cooking Mama Pot – the Cooking Pot on the stove and cook over high heat for 10 minutes to boil. Add palm sugar, pandan and coconut milk. Stir evenly and add sugar if not sweet enough.
4. Turn off the stove and transfer Cooking Mama Pot – the Cooking Pot into Cooking Mama Pot – the Heating Pot, leave it lid-covered for 60 minutes.
5. Serve in bowls. Sprinkle some grated cheese at the top, ready for consumption.

Di bulan Februari yang penuh dengan cinta ini, apa yang akan Anda lakukan? Sibuk mengurus acara romantis Anda di hari Valentine yang jatuh di hari Minggu 14 Februari? Atau anda masih bingung memilih restaurant untuk tempat dinner anda dengan si dia? Apapun yang anda rencanakan, inilah saat yang tepat untuk anda mencurahkan isi hati anda dengan si dia.

Sebetulnya rumah anda-pun dapat digunakan untuk acara dinner romantis valentine day’s anda, asalkan didukung dengan dekorasi dan suasana yang tepat seperti lilin dan musik – terutama bagi anda yang dalam kondisi money tight, ini tidak berarti anda berdua tidak dapat menikmati fun. Oleh karena itu, kami ingin memberikan anda “back to basic” recipe untuk memasak “fine dining style” Indonesian Beef Rendang:

INGREDIENTS

• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1kg diced beef
• 1 onion finely chopped
• 50g sachet Rendang spice paste
• 400ml can coconut milk
• ½ cup beef stock
• ½ cup desiccated coconut
• 2 tsp brown sugar
• 1 tbsp kecap manis
• Tomato wedges, diced cucumber and sliced red chilli, to serves

METHOD

• Serves: 6
• Preparation: 15 mins
• Cooking: 2 hrs

PREPARATION

1. Heat the oil in a large, deep frying iPan. Cook beef in 4 batches over medium high heat until browned. Transfer to a plate. Reduce the heat to medium and add the onion to the pan. Cook for 5-7 mins until onion is soft and brown.
2. Add Rendang paste and cook, stirring, for 1 min. Return all meat to pan. Reserve 2 tbsp of coconut milk and add rest to pan with stock. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to very low and simmer, uncovered, for 1 hr, stirring occasionally.
3. Stir in coconut, sugar and kecap manis, and cook for 30 mins, stirring often so it doesn’t catch on bottom of pan, until liquid is almost all reduced. It should be quite a dry curry.
4. Serve topped with tomato, cucumber and chilli, with reserved coconut milk drizzled over.

This recipe is specially brought to you from MasterChef Australia.

Today we will learn some techniques for creating a tasty and mouth-watering meal from a whole chicken. One way is to cook it as a yummy crispy roast chicken.

1. Butterflying
   Flatten a whole chicken by cutting the chicken along the backbone, and then press the breastbone tightly to make it flat. This method is named spatchcocking, which allows us to give flavours on both inside and outside of the chicken easily. By flatting the whole chicken, it will reduce the cooking time.
2. Speedy Solution
   Cut the butterfly whole chicken breasts lengthwise carefully by utilising a sharp knife; however do not cut it all the way through. After that, fold the butterfly chicken breast out. The shape of the butterfly chicken breast will look like a heart, which is great to be pan-fried, grilled and barbecued. This way will reduce your food preparation time.
3. Stuffing
   Wash a whole chicken before stuffing it (preferably fresh chicken rather than frozen chicken). Then slap the chicken with absorbent paper to dry it. When the chicken has dried, spoon your choice of stuffing loosely over the cavity of the chicken. Do not pack it too tight as it will not heat all the way through. To keep the shape of the chicken and prevent the stuffing to come out from the cavity while it is roasting, tie the legs of the chicken together by using cotton string until both legs almost touch one another.
4. Roasting Times
   Firstly, put the chicken on a ‘Chefer’ jumbo double pressure pan. Sweep the chicken with minimal oil and coat it with salt. Spill out chicken stock to the base of the pan, and then bake it at 190°C (375°F) for about 1 hour until the chicken is tenderly cooked and roasted nicely with brown crisp colour. With ‘Chefer’ jumbo double pressure pan, you get a lot of benefits. Firstly, you do not need to turn back the chicken, just turn back the pan to the other side with the pan still closed. Hot oil will not splash or spill out of the pan – you are protected from getting oil burn.
5. Roasting Tips
   To check whether the chicken is cooked or not, we can skew the flesh at the thickest point of chicken which is under the leg or part of the thigh for about 8 cm. The chicken is cooked when the juice looks clear, not red or pink. The other tip is to check whether the stuffing of the chicken is heated properly or not. We can test it by inserting a metal skewer into the stuffing area and hold it for 6 seconds. If the part of skewer in touch with the stuffing area is hot then the yummy chicken is ready to be consumed. However, if it is still warm, cook it for longer.

So, what are you waiting for? Let’s try roasting a scrumptious whole chicken!