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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Lazy-weekend Pancakes

Happy 2016 everyone!

It's been awhile. *Blowing dusts*

2015 was not the best year for me, hence the lack of posts and experiments. This year will be different. WAYYY DIFFERENT from last year. *Amin*

On weekends, my hubs and I would always choose between French Toasts and Pancakes for our lazy mornings. I came across this recipe awhile ago and like other kinds of pancake recipes, I'm sure you can add ANY additional ingredients like Chocolate Chips, Fresh Fruits, Nutella(why not?) even cinnamon and caramelized apples! This recipe is like a blank canvas, color it as you please!

I always use Martha Stewart's recipe because it doesn't require buttermilk or fancy techniques that my Sunday-brain could not comprehend.
Original recipe here.

Martha Stewart's Easy Basic Pancakes

1 cup all-purpose flour,
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
1 large egg
some oil for frying
  1. In a bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
  2. In a different bowl, whisk together milk, oil, and egg. 
  3. Add dry ingredients into the milk mixture; whisk until just combined (do not overmix; a few small lumps are fine).
  4. Heat a large skillet over medium heat. 
  5. Fold a sheet of paper towel in half, and moisten with oil; carefully rub skillet with oiled paper towel.
  6. For each pancake, pour about 1/4 cup of batter onto skillet.
  7. Cook until surface of pancakes have some bubbles and a few have burst, 1 to 2 minutes. 
  8. Flip carefully and cook until browned on the underside, 1 to 2 minutes more. 
  9. Repeat steps (5-8) with remaining batter.
  10. Serve with desired toppings. ( Butter, maple syrup, honey, whipped cream, etc.)



Cinnamon Apple Pancakes


We always have our pancakes with butter and honey. In my book, it may be a sin to serve pancakes without butter. Really *wink*.


Till then.


Sunday, May 24, 2015

Roti Jala

Happy Sunday all! Salam!
New 2015 achievement! I learned how to make Roti Jala! Woot woot. I was at the in laws house and my MIL made this DELICIOUS Roti Jala (they are called roti kirai up north!). I was surprised at how easy it is to make the batter and how quick it took to cook em. SO here is an easy peasy recipe for you Roti Jala lovers out there! 

Original recipe: here

Roti Jala

1 cup water
1/4 cup milk
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon tumeric powder
1 tablespoon oil
1 egg
More oil for frying
  1. In a blender (you heard me right, a blender), put in the water, milk, flour, tumeric powder,oil and egg.
  2. Blend until everything is well incorporated.
  3. Run the batter through a sieve to get rid of any lumps.Set aside.
  4. Using a non-stick pan, spray it with oil or grease the pan with a thin layer of oil.
  5. Once the pan is hot, but the batter into the mould and make net like patterns on the pan.
  6. The batter is cooked, when the top side of the batter is dry. There is NO NEED to flip it and fry the other side.
  7. Transfer the cook batter on a flat surface and roll them into small cylinders.
  8. Serve with any kind of curry.

We eat this for breakfast or during tea time. In Malaysia, it isn't offensive to serve Roti Jala when it isn't hot. We don't necessarily chill them, but room temperature Roti Jala will not make your relatives say nasty things about you under their breaths. Really. Perhaps a not-so-good curry will. Let's be honest, my curry is something that people will ask..."betul ke ini kari?rupa macam tak je".=.='


Till, then.

Love,
Sofhan Hasni