Satay Sauce Chicken

Ingredients:
1 kg chicken
1 pkt Satay powder
50g or 1/2c roasted peanuts, skinned.

1tsp dark soya sauce
3tsp palm sugar
1tsp brown sugar
salt pinch


Spice Paste ingredient:
1 lemongrass
3 gloves garlic
5 shallots
2 red chilis
1/2 inch galangal or ginger
2 tsp Coriander Powder


1. Marinate chicken with satay powder and salt. 
2. Chopped roasted peanut, Turbo 1 sec, set aside.
3. Put all spices in bowl, add 20g oil, Blend 20sec/speed10, then V/10min/speed1
4. Add chicken, soya sauce, sugar, 1/2c water, half the peanuts, V/10min/R1
5. When done, stir in remaining peanut and serve.

CURRY CHICKEN KAPITAN

Home Grown Organic Red Chilies

INGREDIENTS:
1kg Chicken (chopped)
10pc lime leaves (kefir leaves) shredded 
2 stalk lemomgrass
10-15g Lime Juice 
1/2 cup coconut milk (optional)

Spice paste Ingredient:
7 red chili
10 dry chili
15 shallots
12 gloves garlic
3 slices Lengkuas
3 Buah Keras
10g Belacan (shrimp paste)

Method:
1. Marinate chicken with salt and some lime juice for 20 min
2. Put all spices in TM bowl, 50 oil, 20g water, blend 20c/speed10
3. Install butterfly V/10min/reverse1
4. Add in chicken, 2tsp sugar, lemongrass (smashed) V/10min/reverse1. Add in coconut milk, lime juice at the last 3min.
5. Serve with shredded kerfir leaves.

Banana Walnut Muffin with Buckwheat flour

A super quick late night snack. Buckwheat is used instead of wheat flour, reduce sweetness on top of using low GI palm sugar. I don't like to store food so I only make half the original recipe. Good opportunity to use up over ripe banana. The muffin is light and so yummy! Since I only make such a small batch so I did not use my Thermomix, I can simply hand whip all the ingredient in a big salad bowl after all muffin do not like to be over beaten, and a six muffin tray fit nicely into my counter top toaster instead of churning up my oven.
The following recipe is converted to Thermomix friendly and you can double up the volume to make full batch of muffin.

Ingredients: (only 6 muffins)

Ripe banana 2
Buckwheat flour (home grind) 120g (1 cup)
Olive oil 30g (3 tbsp)
Palm Nectar Sugar  40g (1/3c)
Small Egg  1
Baking Soda  2/3 tsp
Chopped walnut some

1. Grind buckwheat grain 2min/speed10, set aside.
2. Mash banana with sugar (5s/speed6), scrap down
3. Add oil, egg, flour, baking soda. Speed4/10second (do not over beat)
4. Stir in walnut
5. Bake 12min 200c

Eat, brush teeth, sleep.......

Steamed 'Bun'ny and Porcupines!

Chinese steamed bun or (Man Tou) is the easiest to make, either you can add some fillings or just plain. But making them into these cute babies, that takes a little longer! But my daughter and I just had lots of fun snipped up those porcupine with a scissors. Yes, scissors will just do the tricks!
Unlike bread, Man Tau do not need to rise twice.

Recipe:
Water 120g
Yeast 1tsp
Sugar 20g
Oil 15g
Pau flour (or any bread flour) 250g
Salt 1/2 tsp

1. Place water, yeast, sugar, oil into TM bowl, mix 30s 37C at speed3
2. Add flour, salt. Knead 3min
3. Shape dough into oval for skinny bunny or round for well fed ones, use a sharp scissor to snip from the head onward. Add black sesame seeds for the eyes.  n let rise for 30min in warm place,
4. Steam for 20min Veroma speed1.