Then’s Musings

Jelly Anyone?

Cooking  has been my therapy rather than a task. So whenever i’m tired of doing my routine work at home, i will find  my soul enlightened whenever i’m in the kitchen trying any new recipe.  Since jelly is one of the dessert that easy, fast and fun to make, so i decided to spare some time this evening to indulge myself with the pandan flavored jelly:)

Here is the simple way of making hassle free jelly

Step 1: Make a time to got for shopping and get any brand of jelly/agar-agar

Step 2: Find time to do it

Step 3:Place the agar-agar strips in a pan.Boil in approximately 1400 ml of water until the gar-agar dissolves.

Step 4: Stir in sugar and colouring desired. At the same time you can put in the pandan leaves into the boiling agar-agar mixture.

Step 5: Pour into yout favorite moulds

Step 6: Leave it to cool and set

Step 7: heheheh…makanlah

My first trial Kurma Curry;)

Cooking never been my passion. But somehow recently i realise, cooking has been passion rather than a torture;)Is it because i’m getting fedup of eating out many years or just tht following the saying that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach:)

hmm..so here is my first trial of Kurma curry.Since this is my hubby’s favorite, i thought of give it a try;)

Ingredients as follows:

Eggs 4 nos/500g chicken /mutton/vegetables

Coconut milk - ½ cup

Ghee 150 g

cinnamon,star anise,clove,cardamon,fennel and cumin,(fry food 10g)

Green chillies 4-6 nos

Kurma curry powder(Babas brand)

Onions 50g

curry leaves 2g
Tomatoes 200g

Ginger 50g

Garlic 60g
water 700ml

salt 16g

Cooking Method

Pour 150g of ghee into heated wok

Then fry cinnamon, star anise,clove,cardamon,fennel and cumin (fry food) into wok

Add 50g of onion rings,2g of curry leaves,200g tomatoes(cut into 4) and followed by blended 50g ginger and 60g garlic

Add 500g of chicken/mutton/vegetables and stir for 1 minute. Then add 65g of Babas kurma curry powder,250g of potatoes,700ml of water and 16g of salt and cook covered for 15 minutes or until the meat becomes tender.

Then add 50g of coconut and 20g of cashew nuts,blended with 200ml of water and allow it to cook for 2 minutes. (Grated coconut can be replaced with full cream milk or yogurt.)

Decorate Babas kurma curry with 5g of coriander leaves.Babas kurma curry is now ready to be served.

Enjoy!!!

Want to chill out;)here it goes…

hmm…let me tell you a simple way to chill out:)But you must spare 15 min with me..

Lemon,Lime And Soda with Citrus Ice Cubes

Preparation Time:15 min+freezing time

Makes 2*375ml glasses,8 ice cubes

Ingredients

1 lemon

1 lime

2 1/2 tablespoons leon juice

2/3 cup (170 ml) lime juice cordial

2 1/2 cups(625ml) soda water,chilled

step 1: using sharp knife, remove th epeel and white pitch frm the lemon n lime.On a chopping board, cut between the membranes to release the segments. Place a lemon an lime segment in each hole of an ice cube tray and cover with water. Freeze for 2-3 hrs or overnight until firm.

step 2:combine th elemon juice,lime juice cordial and soda water

step 3:Pour into long,chilled glasses with the ice cubes

Note- nutrition:Protein 0.5 g;fat 0 g;carbohydrate 40g;dietery fibre 1.5g;cholesterol 0 g; 715kj(170 cal)

Hope u will enjoy try this recipe:)