Empal Gepuk (sweet coconut fried beef)

Ingredients:

500 gr beef shank 

250 ml coconut milk

2 bay leaves

1 lemongrass stalk, bruised

Spice Paste:

2 cloves garlic

4 shallots

2 tbs brown sugar

1 tsp galangal powder or 1 cm galangal minced

1 tsp coriander

How To Make:

• Boil water with the beef until tender approximately 1 hr.
• Cut the beef square and 1 cm thick, beat with meat tenderizer.
• In a cooking bowl boil the coconut milk with the spice paste, bay leaves, lemongrass, keep stirring.
• Add the beef, cook until the coconut milk is drained. Remove from heat.
• Heat oil in a pan, fry the beef until golden brown. Serve with fried shallots.

Nasi Goreng Capcay

Ingredients

For the fried rice: 

1 1/2 cups rice, cooked

2 tbs margarine or 2 tbs cooking oil

2 eggs 

2 cloves garlic, minced

2 tbs maggi seasoning

Salt and Pepper

For the chicken veggie mix:

2 cloves garlic, crushed

150 gr chicken breast fillet, cut into cubes (marinate for about 1 hour with 1 tbs oyster sauce, 1 tbs soy sauce and pepper)

1 cup fresh mushroom, sliced

1 carrot, diagonally sliced, cooked (shortly in boiling water) and drained

1 cup baby corn, diagonally sliced

2 cups broccoli florets, cooked (for 2 minutes in boiling water) and drained

2 stalks spring onion, sliced

1 tbs soy sauce

A dash of sugar

1 tsp chicken stock powder

Salt and pepper to taste

100 ml water 

1 tsp corn starch mixed with water

How To Cook:

Rice

Heat the wok with margarine, add garlic. Cook until fragrant, add the eggs let it stand for few seconds then stir it until it is fully cooked. Then add the rice, stir continuously. Add maggi seasoning, a little bit of salt and pepper to taste.

Chicken Veggie Mix

• Heat the cooking pan or a wok over medium high heat, add garlic. Cook until fragrant, add the chicken cook until its golden brown.
• Add all the vegetables, cook for 2 to 3 minutes, add soy sauce, stir for few seconds then add the chicken stock, water, sugar, let it boil.
• Add 1 tbs of corn starch (mixed with a little bit of water), stir until its thickened. Remove from heat.
• Put the cooked rice on every single plate then pour the chicken veggie mix on top of the rice.

Singkong Goreng Renyah

Ingredients:

750 gr cassava peeled, square cut (deep fry for about 3 or 4 min)

3 or 4 cloves garlic crushed

2 cups warm water

1 tsp coriander powder

2 tsp salt or more (it depends on how you like it, you can add 1 more tsp salt or garlic salt)

How To Make:

Mix warm water with garlic, coriander, and salt. Add the fried cassava, let it stand for 2 hrs or more and turn  the cassava around every hour.

Deep fry the cassava until golden brown.

Nasi Goreng Kepiting (crab fried rice)

Ingredients:
2 plates of rice
1/2 medium onion, thinly sliced
3 cloves garlic, minced
150 gr crab meat (fresh or canned)
1 egg
2 big red chillies, thinly sliced
1 habanero chili or thai chili, thinly sliced (optional)
1 spring onion, sliced
2 tbs oyster sauce
1 tbs fish sauce
1 tbs soy sauce
Salt & pepper to taste

Garnish:
Fried shallots
Cucumber, thinly sliced

How To Make:
Heat 3 tbs cooking oil in a wok, add garlic, onion, chillies cook until fragrant. Add egg, let it stand for about 10 seconds second and continue stir it with garlic, onion, and chillies and then add the crab meat cook until the color change. Add the rest of the ingredients, stir until rice well covered. Serve with fried onion and sliced cucumber.

Pan Fried Sirloin Steak w/ Mushroom Sauce

Ingredients

Steak:

2 slices sirloin steak about 1" thick cut

Garlic salt

Black pepper

Olive oil

Mushroom Sauce:

3/4 cup button mushroom, sliced

2 tbs A1 sauce

1/2 onion, thinly sliced

1 tbs red wine

Salt to taste

Dash of sugar

Olive oil


Sides:
1 can of sweet golden crisp corn
1/2 onion thinly sliced
Salt and sugar to taste
French fries (frozen)


How To Cook
Steak and the sauce:

• Pierce the meat with fork. Season steaks with garlic salt, black pepper and olive oil. Let it stand for few hours.
• Heat a non-stick heavy skillet with olive oil (i use about 2 tbs) over medium high heat until hot and begins to smoke.
• Sear the steaks on one side about 4 or until 6 minutes (depends on how you like it medium well or well done) then flip the steaks and cook them under the same time (searing without moving the steak will form a crust). The steaks should be nicely browned on both sides. Remove steaks from the pan. Let the juices and crust stand on the skillet.
• Wrap the steaks with alumunium foil to keep it warm.
• Put the pan back on heat, sautee onion for about 2 min or until fragrant then add mushrooms cook for about 3 min.
• Add the red wine, A1 steak sauce, salt, and sugar to taste. Let it simmer for about 3 min or more. 
• Serve steaks topped with mushroom sauce and the sides.

The sides:

• Heat 1 tbs of cooking oil, sautee onion until softened.
• Add corn, salt and sugar to taste. Cook for about 3 min.
• Fry the fries

Udang Goreng Mayonnaise

Ingredients:
200 gr medium shrimp, peeled, deveined, tails left on
1 clove garlic, minced
Lime juice (3 tbs for marinade; 1/2 tsp for mayonnaise)
1 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp chicken bouillon cubes
Salt & pepper to taste
1 egg, beaten
3 tbs all purpose flour
2 tbs mayonnaise
1 tbs sweet condensed milk
1 tsp sesame seeds

Directions:

1. Marinate shrimp with garlic, lemon juice, sugar, chicken bouillon cubes, salt & pepper for about 20 min.
2. Preheat cooking oil in a shallow pan over high heat. Dip the shrimp to the egg mixture then to the flour, make sure shrimp is well coated. 
3. Drop coated shrimp into hot oil, do not overcrowd the pan with the shrimp. Fry the shrimp until golden brown on all side.
4. Sauce: Mix the mayonnaise, sweet condensed milk, and lime juice.
5. Pour sauce over the shrimp and sprinkle with sesame seeds or you can also put the sauce on the side as a dipping sauce.

Crispy Potato Cubes (Taste of Home)

INGREDIENTS

• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1/2 teaspoon dried marjoram
• 1/8 teaspoon pepper
• 5 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes
• 1/4 cup butter, melted
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 1 bay leaf

Cooking Directions

• In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the flour, salt, thyme, marjoram and pepper. Add potatoes; seal bag and shake to coat. Pour butter into a 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish; stir in the garlic. Add potatoes and bay leaf.
• Cover and bake at 450° for 20 minutes. Uncover and stir; bake 15-20 minutes longer or until potatoes are lightly browned and tender. Discard bay leaf.

Bisteak

One of my favourite dishes from home, back in Jakarta my mom often made it for us. The meat were so tender with tasty sauce and crispy thin sliced fried potatoes hmm.. yummy... Don't forget to sprinkle some fried shallots on top of it.



Ingredients:
1 pound thinly sliced beef loin
2 cloves garlic
1 medium shallot
3 medium potatoes (thinly sliced & deep fry until golden brown)
3 tbs oyster sauce
1 tbs chinese cooking wine
1 tbs sweet soy sauce
1 tbs salty soy sauce
1 tea spoon corn starch or tapioca flour
Salt n pepper to taste
Fried shallots (garnish)

How to make:
1. Well covered the beef with corn starch, then marinate the beef with 2 tbs oyster sauce and chinese cooking wine for about 15 min.

2. Heat 2 tbs cooking oil in a wok. Add garlic & shallot, stir fry until fragrant.

3. Add the beef, cook until tender. Then add the rest of the oyster sauce, sweet soy sauce, salty soy sauce, deep fried potatoes mix well. Add salt & pepper to taste.

4. Garnish with fried shallots.

Fried Noodles w/ Chinese Sausages

Ingredients:
1 package Lo Mein Noodle (see cooking direction on the package)
3 medium shallots, minced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 candlenut
3 red thai chilli (optional)
1 package of fish meatballs, cut into 2 pieces each.
2 Chinese sausages, diagonally sliced
Chinese cabbage,only the leaves
250 gr chicken breast fillet cut into cubes
2 eggs
1 small carrots cut into matchsticks
1 tbs salty soy sauce
11/2 tbs oyster sauce
2 tbs sweet soy sauce
Salt n Pepper to taste

How to cook:

1. Ground spices: In a food processor blend shallots, garlic, candlenut, chillis, u can add some oil to blend it well.

2. Add some cooking oil and then crack the eggs. Scramble the eggs set aside, and later mix in with the noodles.

3. Heat the wok with 2 tbs cooking oil, stir fry the spices until fragrant. Add the carrots & chicken, cook for 10 min or until tender. Add sausages, fish meatballs, chinese cabagge and the eggs cook for about another 5 min. Then add the noodles, stir and add the salty soy sauce, oyster sauce, sweet soy sauce, mix it well.

4. Garnish with fried shallots & indonesian pickles


Indonesian pickles:
1 cucumber cut into small cubes
1 carrots cut into small cubes
5 green thai chillis
1/2 cup cider vinegar
1/4 cup water
3-4 tbs sugar

Mix all the ingredients

Macaroni Pizza

Ingredients

• 8 ounces uncooked elbow macaroni
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese
• 1 pound ground beef
• 3/4 cup chopped onion
• 1 can (15 ounces) pizza sauce
• 1 can (4 ounces) mushroom stems and pieces, drained
• 28 pepperoni slices
• 3/4 cup crumbled bacon
  
• 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Mexican cheese blend
• Salt & pepper to taste
  

How To Make

• Cook macaroni according to package directions; drain. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, beat the eggs; stir in cheddar cheese and macaroni. 
• Spread macaroni and the mixture onto a 13-in x 9-in baking dish or greased pizza pan. Bake at 375°F for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, cook beef and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink, add salt & pepper. Stir in pizza sauce.
• Spread over macaroni crust. Sprinkle with mushrooms, bacon, pepperoni and Mexican cheese. Bake for 20 minutes or until the cheese is melted. Let stand for 5-10 minutes before slicing.