Cooking… This is one of something I like to do recently. Attempting for some recipes and seeing that everybody in my house enjoying the dishes made myself want to try and try another menus. So, recent this one month I made three recipes, those were bitter ballen, lasagna, and chicken teriyaki. Check these out…!
- Bitter Ballen
What is it: a savoury dutch meat-based snack, typically containing a mixture of beef or veal (minced or chopped), beef broth, butter, flour for thickening, parsley, salt and pepper, resulting a thick roux, served with, a ramekin or small bowl of mustard for dipping. Eaten in Suriname, the Netherlands, Belgium, to some degree in Indonesia, and hardly anywhere else. It is very similar to kroketten. (Adapted from Wikipedia)
Level of difficulty: medium.
Time to cook: 45 minutes
How to cook:
To prepare this dish we need margarine, flour, milk, potato pure, minced celery, salt, pepper, nutmeg powder, cheddar cheese (dice cut). For coating ingredients, we need bread flour, egg white for dye stuff.
Firstly, heat margarine, put the flour, stir until clot, and add milk gradually. Lift it. Then, put potato pure, celery, cheddar cake, salt, pepper, and nutmeg powder. Stir well. After that, form the dough into small size of ball. Roll to the bread flour, dye to egg white and roll again to the bread flour. After all done, dry to the hot oil at medium heat until it cooked well. Present those bitter ballen.
Why I said the level of difficulty was medium, because it’s kinda hard when I had to form the batter into balls.
Result: Mom said delicate, Husband loved it, sister enjoyed it but said too salty, and cika tend to like it.
- Lasagna
What is it: a wide, flat pasta shape, and possibly one of the oldest types of pasta. The word also refers to a dish made with several layers of lasagna sheet alternated with sauces and various other ingredients. Originated in Italy, traditionally ascribed to the city of Naples (campania), where the first modern recipe was created and published and became a traditional dish. (Adapted from Wikipedia)
Level of difficulty: easy
Time to cook: 75 minutes
How to cook:
To prepare this lasagna, we need boiled lasagna, garlic, minced meat, boiled tomatoes without seed and skin, black pepper, tomato pasta, milk, oregano, salt, basil, olive oil for cooking. For sauce ingredients we need margarine, milk, flour, cheddar cheese, salt, pepper.
Firstly for the sauté we will cook yellow onion, garlic, and add minced meat until the color changed. Then add tomato and tomato pasta, stir well, add milk, salt, pepper and cook until well done. For cheese sauce we will heat the margarine, add flour, and gradually add milk until it’s smooth. And then add cheddar cheese, salt, pepper, cook well. Arrange lasagna in the pan, add sauté, rearrange, do it until completed, pour the cheese sauce. Baked, until 50 minutes at 170 degrees.
Result: Husband said yummy delicious for a new home cook, sister and mom enjoyed the taste, brother ate two plates as much as cika ate, hmmm….
- Chicken teriyaki
What is it, teriyaki is a cooking technique used in Japanese cuisine in which foods are boiled or grilled with a glaze of soy sauce, mirin and sugar. Fish yellow tail, marlin, skipjack tuna, salmon, trout and mackerel is mainly used in Japan, while white and red meat- chicken, pork, lamb, and beef is more often used in the west. (Adapted from Wikipedia)
Level of difficulty: easy
Time to cook : 20 minutes
How to cook:
We need teriyaki sauce, sweet ketchup, salty ketchup, chicken fillet, cut 2×4 cm, garlic, yellow onion, cut it longwise, paprika, sesame oil, and cooking oil.
Firstly, marinate chicken fillet with teriyaki sauce, sweet ketchup and salty ketchup for about 45 minutes. After that, heat the cooking oil and sesame oil, add garlic, yellow onion, teriyaki sauce, cook for a while then add some water and then add chicken fillet until the color change and sauce being thick.
Finally present the chicken teriyaki onto the plate with sesame topping.
Result: Husband said even the look wasn’t convincing but the taste said so. Sisters said so yummy and cika loved it until the last dip.
Well… I think i have to try another recipes to complete my cooking dictionary.
Happy Cooking!!
Mamacika 