Kugan's Kitchen

Dev if you want to use the chillie paste often, what we do is blend the soaked dry red chillies with little garlic and small onions.
Then add oil and cook the sambal till oil comes out and the sambal turns a darker shade. You can use this paste for other dishes also.
But if you want fry the noodles just once, you can use plain chillie paste.

In resturants what they do is they blend, soaked chillie,onions, garlic,shrimp paste, anchovies,sugar and salt and they cook the paste with oil and use it to fry noodles, and fried rice.

CHILLIE PASTE


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Selviem please try this moist chocolate cake.
This is a fool proof cake.
You can even ice it with chocolate frosting.


MOIST CHOCOLATE CAKE

250 grms butter
250 grms castor sugar
4 large eggs A grade

Sift together

70 grms Cocoa powder
150 grms self- raising flour
¼ cup evaporated milk

Method

Line a 22cm round cake tin with greased, grease proof paper.
Cream butter and castor sugar until light and creamy.
Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Fold in sifted dry ingredients one- third at a time.
Lastly stir in the evaporated milk.

Turn the mixture into prepared pan.
Bake in preheated oven 175oC for 45—50 minutes or until cooked
You can ice the cake with choclate frosting.

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Kugan, can u give the ratio of onions, garlic & chillies for the chilli paste...or is it that any ratio works fine?... I guess it would taste good when used in fried rice too...

Also, can u post Thai red curry & green curry recipes when u find time... & also the olive rice served at thai restaurants!!... Take ur time...no hurry...:) anyway it takes sometime for me to try new recipes coz my lil one doesn't give me much free time & i don't prefer trying new recipes in a hurry...

o.k Dev if you are using about 5 dry chillies,
add 1 pip of garlic and 1/2 a small onion.


Do you want to know how to make the red curry paste
or red curry itself. I know you are a vegetarian.
So I have to make a vegetarian dish. Am I correct?
kugan98

kugan,
definely i will try ur cake and let u know .thanks

Kugan, I want the recipe for red curry itself(which will include the recipe for red curry paste I guess)...Yeah, i prefer the vegetarian version...:)

I've left the mung bean to sprout... let me wait & see how long it grows...:)

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Ingredients:

¾ cups of flour
½ cup sugar
1/3 cup of butter
2 medium eggs
½ cup almonds chopped
350 grms of choclate chips
2 tbs of water
1 tsp vanilla essence
¼ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt

Method:
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
Grease a 9x9 inch baking dish.

In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt and set aside.
In a saucepan, bring the butter,sugar and water just to a boil.
Remove from heat and add ½ choclate chips and vanilla.
Stir until smooth. Cool a bit.

Place the choclate mixture into a mixing bowl, add the eggs one at
A time and beat after each addition.
Blend in the flour mixture.

Stir in the other half of the choclate chips and all of the chopped almonds.
Spread into the greased baking dish and bake for 30 minutes.
Allow to cool and cut into squares.

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Thai Basil Fried Rice

Ingredients:
2 cups of cooked cold rice (long grain)
¼ cup carrot cut into sticks
¼ cup sliced beans
50 grms prawns shelled and deveined ( optional)
1 tbs garlic minced
2 fresh red chillies finely chopped
½ a cup of green and yellow capsicum cut into ½ inch square
1 onion cut into ½ inch square
2 tbs light soya sauce or fish sauce ( more or less to taste)
1 tsp white pepper
2 pinches of sugar
1 hand ful sweet basil leaves, torn by hand
2 tbs oil

Method:
Heat a wok with oil and add the garlic.
Now add the onion, and the cut chillies.
Add the prawns, white pepper, sugar and stir fry for about 30 seconds.
Now add the carrots and beans, and the soy sauce.
Stir for a minute and add the rice.
Toss the rice and veggies well, so that the rice grains are properly coated with oil. Taste the rice for salt. Add more sauce if nedded.
Now you add the basil leaves and stir the rice for a minute.
You will get a nice aroma of the basil.
Take off the heat and serve.

Note: You can omit the prawns and fish sauce and make it
Into a vegetarian dish.
You can add any vege of your choice.

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Kugan, sweet basilku edhavadhu Indian substitute irukka?...

Kugan, it's 3 days since I started soaking & sprouting the beans & they've grown really big now... much bigger than what I see in the pic u've posted...It should grow almost the size of beansprouts we get in the stores by day 4... I use the hotpack to sprout beans... :) Eagerly waiting to use it in mee goreng...:D :slurp: