Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Recipe: Quiche

Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 8 minutes
Baking Time
: 30 minutes


Preparing ingredients...

Garlic, shallots, onions...

Fried bacon makes the Quiche much more delicious (remember to discard excessive fat, if possible).

Making pastry on pie dish using hands (remember to use a fork to press some holes on the pastry).

Ready to bake.

Those dark brown color things is not burn, it is Parmesan cheese.

This time I put bacon, mushrooms & garlic, shallots & onions.

Yummy yummy... ;)

Ingredients (Pastry):
  1. 120g Shortening
  2. 200g Plain Flour
  3. Pinch of Salt
  4. 1 Egg
  5. 2 Tbsp of Fresh Milk

Ingredients (Filling):
  1. 200ml Fresh Milk
  2. 500ml Whipping Cream
  3. 50g Plain Flour
  4. Parmesan Cheese
  5. 3 cloves of Onions (ring)
  6. 5 cloves of Shallots (minced by food processor)
  7. 5 pips of Garlics (minced by food processor)
  8. 1 can of Luncheon Meat (pieces) or bacon (pieces)
  9. 2 Tbsp of Oil
  10. Salt and Pepper for season

Optional Ingredient
:

  1. Different veges (corns, carrots, beans, sweet basils, celery, etc).
  2. Mushrooms
Steps:
  1. Mix all pastry ingredients to form a dough. Flatten the dough and shape it into a pie dish.
  2. In a medium heat pan, add some oil to stir fry onions, shallots and garlics till fragrant.
  3. Add luncheon meat into (2) and cook for about 2-3 minutes.
  4. Season with salt and pepper.
  5. Spread filling into the pie dish evenly.
  6. In a seperate bowl, mix fresh milk, whipping cream and flour well. Pour the mixture into the pie dish and spread some parmesan cheese on the top.
  7. Bake in a preheat oven at 200Âșc for 30 minutes.
Tips:
  1. Do not knead the dough too hard to prevent toughened pastry.
  2. Luncheon meat can be replaced with ham or bacon if you don't like can food or with optional ingredients if you prefer veges.
  3. Best to serve while quiche is warm.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Recipe: Organic Oat + Omlette + Seaweed

Preparation Time: 2 minutes
CookingTime: 10 minutes

Who say oat is tasteless? It can be varied to add flavour and suit your taste too.

Ingredients:
  1. 5 Tbsp Organic Oat
  2. 250ml Hot Water
  3. Japanese Instant Seaweed
  4. 1 Egg

Optional Ingredient:

  1. Veges for omlette (Spring Onion, Carrot, Bean).

Steps
:

  1. Mix oat and hot water in a pot. Turn to medium heat and cook for 10 minutes (you may add in seaweed in between the cooking).
  2. Meanwhile, in a seperate pan, add a bit olive oil and fry the veges (about 1 minute).
  3. Add in beated egg into the veges and stir-fry the omlette.
  4. Both oat and omlettle are ready to serve.
Tips:
  1. The cooking time of the oat depends on your preference. Longer cooking and more water will produce soft texture (like porridge).
  2. If you are new to oat products, you may find uneasy to consume it in 'hard' texture. So, you may want to cook the oat a bit longer.