NASI GORENG YANG CHOW (Recipe)

Pegel uga ya nulis bahasa enggres mulu, kalo kata anak alay keminggris HAHAHA. Tapi penting lho menggunakan bahasa inggris sebenarnya kalo nulis blog. Hey, yang pakai internet dan baca blog itu bukan cuma orang Indo kan ya. Jadi wajar kalo banyak blogger ngetop Indo yang blognya full english, karena memang lingkup audience mereka tidak cuma selebar daun kelor. I also plan to do that with my blog anytime soon.

Ever since i moved to The Netherlands i had been cooking fried rice with instant flavouring from various brands. This time i tried something else, chinese style fried rice called yang chow. GUESS WHAT, i don't find nor use any instant spices. Quite the turn-out, it's easy to cook.

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INGREDIENTS

a) Rice about 2 plates (kept in fridge for an hour or so)

b) Some Shrimp (you can change with chicken)

c) 2 Eggs

d) Chili flakes (or rawit chops)

e) 2 Spoons of Oyster sauce

f) 2 Spoons of Fish sauce 

g) Half carrot (julliene then make small dices)

h) Some other veggies you want

i) Little sugar, salt and pepper
j) Minceg garlic, 3 cloves should suffice

INSTRUCTION

a) Scramble the egg but don't burn it.

b) Put in the minced garlic and stir-fry, add the shrimp and carrot dice until it's all cooked.

c) Add the chili flakes, then the rice, try to stir it all together.

d) Add spoons of oyster sauce and fish sauce. Mix it well with the rice and everything else.

e) Add the salt, sugar and pepper as you like. Try the fried rice, if you like it, then you're done.

There you go Yang Chow Fried Rice, this kind of fried rice is typically colorless but very tasty and savoury. If you feel like it's not salty enough, add more fish sauce or salt. Please cook and enjoy. Share this recipe with your loved ones!

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SAMBAL TERONG GOGAGA (Recipe)

If you're an avid lover of spicy food like me, trust me, you would appreciate this post HAHA. As an Indonesian, one of the hardest thing about living away from home country is the inability to find excessively spicy foods. Lucky me to live in beautiful country like The Netherlands, they have tulips, windmills, chocomel AND RAWIT CHILIS. Not the same rawit that you'd find in Indonesia, but i found it therapuetic somehow.

So what do you know about Indonesian sambal? Sambal terasi, sambal tomat, sambal bawang, sambal hjau perhaps .. All of them are my favourite, but i would rather share my recipee on a peculiar sambal now. Speak of the devil, SAMBAL TERONG or Eggplant Sambal. It is greasy, it is spicy, and it is delish.

INGREDIENTS

a) Eggplants (1 piece)

b) 3 Big red chilis (add some more if you use more eggplant)

c) 12 Rawit chilis (add some more if you use more eggplant)

d) 1 piece of tomato

e) 2 cloves of garlic

f) 5 cloves or red onion

g) Dried Shrimp (ebi) or Terasi

h) A little water

i) A little red sugar

j) A little salt and sugar

INSTRUCTION

a) Grind or blend some of the ingredients using blender. Ingredients as follow: big red chilis, rawit chilis, red onion, tomato, garlic, little water.

b) Cut the eggplant and fry them until it gets a little brown, put them aside.

c) Heat some oils, stir fry the blended compound. Let it boil for a moment.

d) Put in the eggplant. Stir until the eggplant looks mushy and cooked enough.

e) Add a little sugar, salt and dried shrimp. Check the taste, if you like it then it's good like that. If you think you can add some more salt or sugar, please do.

f) Sambal terong is ready to be served.

Voila isn't that easy? If it's your first time trying to cook this, be careful with the steps and ingredients. The dried shrimp is just to give some ethnic scent on it, so you can let it go if you cannot find it. Please try this recipe out and share it with your loved ones, if you have question just let me know. 

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