Prawn Pullao

Saw this easy to prepare one dish meal from Stefanie's Cumin & Coriander Blog where she introduce this Prawn Pullao recipe. It simple taste great with all those common spices that we can get from those Indian stall in our neighbourhood market area.


Instant of using basmati rice for this recipe, I just used the normal long rice grains that we commonly used at home. I can said the combination of spices for this dish was not very strong type, it's just nice for our family. And thanks to Tracy who introduce me to this web.....

Other than following the ingredients given from the site, I also add in some golden raisins to cook with the rice. Then upon serving, I spinkler some ready bought toasted cashew nut to increase the crunch of the dish. You can serve this with some chicken or mutton curry if you want so extra gravy to go with the rice.

Assorted Sweet Potato & Red Bean Rice

Sometime rather than a bowl of plain white rice, you can actually come up with different combination of ingredients to make it more tasty and interesting. For eg: This Assorted Sweet Potato & Red Bean Rice. The sweetness and aroma of the sweet potatoes together with some crunch of the red bean will sure made you wants to have a few more spoonful of it.

Sweet Potato are rich in dietary fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, and vitamin B6. Sweet potato varieties with dark orange flesh are richer in Vitamin A.


Ingredients:
1 Cup Uncooked Brown Rice Mixture/Rice
100g Sweet Potatoes
50g Red Bean, soaked till soften

Methods:
1. Rinse the rice accordingly and soak with the cooking water for about 30 minutes.
2. Rinse red beans in a few changes of water then put it in a small pan cover with water lever above the bean, bring to boil and switch off the heat when it boiled.
3. Let it soaked for about 10 minutes, pour away the water, rinse and repeat the cooking process for about 3 times.(this is shorten the process of cooking the red beans, as well as remove the raw taste and smell of the beans)
4. When it's time to cook the rice, wash and peel the sweet potatoes then cut it into small cubes.
5. Add all the ingredients into the rice cooker, add water and cook until done.

Notes: If you prefer you can add in pumpkin instead of sweet potatoes.

Doggie Malted Cookies

Look are these cute little "Doggie Malted Cookies".... Isn't it too adorable to be eaten? Saw these cookies from MyCoffee's Blog and m4m forum(accordingly to the forum, you can on the link for the recipe). So after getting all the ingredients I decided to give it a try since the recipe mention it contains no Egg and Sugar.

I made two batches of these cookies base on the recipe given and come out to a total of 92 cookies for my son to bring to his playgroup class tomorrow. The process creaming and shape is rather easy, but the most time consuming part is the decoration on the eyes where you need to use the chocolate rice to stick on each cookie.

When you bite on the cookie, it's very crunchy and the fragrant of the horlicks really make it "Yummy"! I think this cookie recipe is good to be make together with your kids and I am sure it's a all time favour of both adults and kids. Even for my son and hubby who is very choosy on cookies ate 4 or 5 straight away when it's out from the oven.... :) Because it's really very irresistible when you start popping in one.

Tips:
For those who interested to make this cookies. Maybe you can take note of these:
1. Top Flour = Hong Kong Flour
2. You can wrap each individual 10g dough with chocolate chips filling first.
3. Upon finished the dough, then you take out the chocolate chips(from the fridge in case it melt) and add on the nose, then the eyes and lastly the ears.
4. When baking, it depend on your oven, so it might take more than 25 minutes to brown the cookies, do check after 25 minutes if still not ok, bake for another 5 - 10 minutes.