Jom Masak Nasi Daging!

Morning everyone! After about a week fasting, I have gotten into the groove of eating early in the morning and forgetting my morning coffee, first thing when I got to my work-station! I have tried a few new recipes, but somehow I have still yet to find the sparks to make cookies for Eid!...am soooo lazy to tend to those minute creatures! I thought of making macarons, but, my MIL's would be too full to keep them...so nah....maybe I'd make them when in Ayer Baloi...the kitchen is being renovated, and I haven't a clue of how it would turn out to be....not been back for quite a while!

Saturday....it was hectic, hubs got contractors to paint the house! With loads of magazines and books and other nooks and crannies.,..the house was a total mess!...anyway....I did this and I did that, I bought this and I bought that....no, no a new handbag or something of that vice, hehe.....but....hehe....won't tell you yet...

and after daily looking and drooling at all the cooks and bakes in arah's blog, I couldn't hold myself anymore! I had to make this yesterday! It's my hubs' favourite!

Nasi Daging

Ingredients

For Rice

4 cups Basmathi rice(about 300g, I used Jasmine's Pusa long grain)

400g topside beef ie daging lembut, daging batang pinang, thinly sliced

2 tbsp Adabi's Kurma powder, 1 tbsp Baba's Beef Curry powder

80 ml evaporated milk

2 large chopped tomatoes

1 sprig corriander leaves

1 spring curry leaves

5 1/2 cups water, I used the cup to measure the rice

To Sautee

1 medium onion, 5 cloves garlic, 2 inches ginger, pound uisng mortar and pestle or blend, I pounded mine

1 large onion, sliced

2 screwpine leaves

1 stalk lemongrass, lightly pound the tip

2 tbsp butter

2 tbsp cooking oil

Method

1.Wash rice, drain the water and set aside.

2.Heat butter and oil, sautee sliced onions and screwpine leaves until frangrant.

3.Add the pounded onion, garlic, ginger, throw in the curry leaves and lemongrass.

4.Add in the Kurma and Curry powder which you have added a bit of water to turn them into a paste. Over medium heat sautee until dry and oil comes out.

5.Add water and evaporated milk. Add the sliced beef.Add salt and a pinch of sugar to taste.

6.Let (5) simmer and beef is about 50% cooked. Add rice, corriander leaves and chopped tomatoes.

7.I let this simmer a bit before trasferring my pot into the rice cooker.

8.Rice will be cooked after about 15 minutes.

Air Assam MIL Sayang

...yup Mil loves it when I make Air Assam!

1 medium onion, sliced and lightly pound

3 red chillies, 2 cili padi, lightly pound with

1 tbsp belacan, prawn paste

2 large onion, chopped and light pound

1 torch ginger , thinly sliced

juice of 2 limes

200 ml cooled boiled water

salt and sugar to taste.

I just add all of the above in a large bowl and waited for iftar!

Thank you Arah for this recipe and all the recipes that you are posting! Think next year I'll take the entire Ramadhan off so that I can try all the recipes daily! pssst....you'll find that I have tweaked this recipe, as usual, hehe! And thank you also the original contributors Dapurku Sayang and Secubit GAram .

Guess who's most excited when Raya/Eid is coming??!! My hubs!...and this year (thank God) he started early! Curtains will be changed, pictures reframed, new cushion covers...amd he's talking about new plates and saucers! In the mean time, the house look like someone has gone amok! even the monkeys are playing elsewhere, haha! 

And, here's some macarons that I made for Fiza and Yusof on Saturday, Salted Caramel, Double Choc using Valrhona, and Raspberry Italian Meringue Buttercream! 

Till then, tra!