Cooking #1 : Ayam Masak Sambal Tumis
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Salam dear readers.
Sorry for the silence on my blog and the absence on
my Instagram account. I have been unwell but I’m recovering now.
Here’s one of the things I managed to do while I
was at home with Wan, my mother, last week. I randomly cooked ayam masak sambal tumis for the first
time with my mother on 16th April 2014 for dinner with my husband and the family...
and I thought it would be good to just share the ingredients, recipe and step
by step pictorial below. I’m sharing the steps translated into Malay Language
too at the end of this post.
This is my first ever post on cooking. Many know
that I love food very much, yes, I am a foodie. I eat a lot. But it is always
either my mother’s cooking (my fav) or us eating outside. My mother loves to
cook and I just realized that whatever she cooks is always delicious BECAUSE
she loves to cook and she cooks a lot. The skills, the talent and the awesome
cooking. It didn’t happen overnight. I can’t believe I just realized that.
I don’t actually cook. I can probably count with
the fingers on my two hands the number of times I cooked in this past few
years, with my mother. Thought I wouldn’t be good at it as I thought I would
never enjoy cooking. Never say never.
Looking back, I have been too much of a career
woman that I didn’t actually have time to cook or do housework. When I was in
high school, I was busy studying and cheerleading and dancing. When I was in
university it was all about exams and campus life (there was a rule that we
cannot cook in campus) and after I graduated I was just too busy chambering and
busy with work that not only I did not have time to cook (or learn how to cook)
but I did not even have time to actually eat at home with my husband for dinner. 110% of my
life after university life was dedicated to work. I gave all my time to work before the two major lifechanging events that happened to me this past two years. Those two events
made me realize that there are more things to life.
I’ll continue talking about that in another post.
But in this post, I am going to share what I
learned when I cooked ayam masak sambal
tumis monitored and tutored by my mother. I thought of putting this on the
blog so that if I forget how to do it I can go back here to see how it is done.
And also, if there are any readers of mine who also doesn’t cook like me, maybe
they can also learn to cook too. (Anybody
out there?? Anyone?? Just me??) Never too late right?
Baby steps : )
I must say though that it was pretty challenging to
cook while taking photos of almost every step. Haha. It took longer because I
had to wash my hands every time I wanted to hold my camera! But I just thought
that it might be beneficial for myself and probably others?
So, every time I learn a new dish I’ll try to share
it here, if God wills it.
Here goes the first dish :
AYAM MASAK
SAMBAL TUMIS
(Sambal Chicken?)
Wan’s recipe
INGREDIENTS :
1 whole chicken
4 big yellow onions (bawang kuning)
6-7 cloves of garlic (bawang putih)
2 inches of ginger (halia)
30 dried chili (cili
kering)
2-3 tea spoons of turmeric powder (serbuk kunyit)
2 lemongrass (serai)
1 cup of frying oil
1 tablespoon of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
Half tablespoon of tamarind mixed with water (asam jawa) or 1 small cup of tamarind
juice
You will need two woks (kuali) for this.
STEPS :
The sauce
1. Slice
the big yellow onions finely.
2. Pound
the garlic, ginger and lemongrass.
3. Cut
the dried chili, wash it and get rid of the seeds and then boil it in boiling
water for about 5-10 minutes. Try to discard all seeds. Drain the water and
blend it in the blender for 1-2 minutes.
4. Put
1 cup of frying oil in the wok.
5. When
the oil is hot, put the yellow onion in the wok and fry it.
6. Once
the yellow onion is golden brown and smells nice, put in the pounded garlic,
ginger and lemongrass and mix.
7. Stir
until the smell is even nicer, put in the blended dried chili.
8. Then
put in the tamarind juice, salt and sugar.
9. Stir
well.
The chicken
(This should be done right after step 3 for the
SAUCE above)
1. Season
the chicken with the turmeric powder, pepper and salt.
2. Heat
up the oil in another wok. When the oil is hot put the chicken in and fry it
until golden brown.
Final step
Now that both the fried chicken and the sauce are
ready, it is time to mix it up!
Put in the fried chicken into the wok and mix well
till the chicken is fully covered with the sauce.
Try it and add in sugar or salt as you like.
Note : I
did this with my mother so it was easier to cook both the chicken and the sauce
at once.
However, if done alone I would probably start off with frying the
chicken first and after that is done start with the sauce.
Tadaa!!!
For those who haven’t cooked ayam masak sambal
before, try it! This is not the first time I cooked this year (that sounds so
bad) but from what I’ve learned from the limited number of cooking experience I
had is that we tend to make mistakes. Especially during the first time. So we
keep on improving, improvise and try to make it better the next time.
Cooking just like other things in life, will get
better through experience. Practice makes perfect.
I didn’t ever thought I would like cooking
eventhough I love to eat. But, it turns out, after a number of times cooking
with Wan this year I actually enjoy it. Eventhough I am a beginner and still
learning I find it quite enjoyable especially when they actually finish eating
the dish!
If I can do it, you can too! Hehe.
Do share with me if you have any cooking tips for
beginners ya? : )
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Saya ada terima
komen dari pembaca-pembaca blog untuk saya terjemahkan beberapa post terdahulu di
blog saya. Belum berkesempatan. Jadi ini cubaan pertama saya untuk cuba terjemahkan
tulisan saya ke dalam Bahasa Melayu. Memang saya berborak dalam Bahasa Melayu
in real life tapi bila menulis saya lebih selesa berbahasa Inggeris kerana bila saya menulis dalam Bahasa Melayu secara
otomatik akan jadi bahasa baku. Awkward. Saya cuba yang terbaik ya? Kalau silap
atau salah harap tolong betulkan : )
Cara memasak AYAM MASAK SAMBAL TUMIS
Sos sambal tumis
1.
Kisar
bawang kuning.
2.
Tumbuk
bawang putih, halia dan serai.
3.
Potong,
basuh dan buang biji cili kering kemudian rebus dalam air mendidih selama 5-10
minit. Keringkan dan letak dalam blender selama 1-2 minit.
4.
Letak
satu cawan minyak masak dalam kuali.
5.
Bila
minyak dah panas masukkan bawang kuning yang telah dihiris ke dalam kuali.
6.
Bila
bawang kuning sudah harum baunya dan warna keemasan masukkan bawang putih,
halia dan serai yang telah ditumbuk. Gaulkan sehingga sebati.
7.
Gaul
sehingga wangi kemudian masukkan cili kering yang telah diblend.
8.
Masukkan
air asam jawa, garam dan gula.
9.
Gaulkan
Ayam goreng
(Mula goreng
ayam sebelum masuk minyak untuk sos sambal tumis)
1.
Gaulkan
ayam dengan serbuk kunyit, garam dan lada hitam.
2.
Panaskan
minyak dalam kuali lain.
Bila minyak dah panas masukkan ayam dan masak
hingga warna keemasan
Langkah terakhir
Sekarang
kedua-dua sos dan ayam goreng dah sedia masak, jadi sudah tiba masa untuk
gaulkan kedua-duanya!
Masukkan ayam
goreng ke dalam kuali yang ada sambal yang telah ditumis dan gaul hingga
sebati.
Harap terjemahan
di atas ini bermanfaat dan bukan jadi bahan gelak sahaja. Hehe.
Selamat
mencuba!
PEACE & LOVE!
6 comments
Waaaaaah so rajin la u, took photos while cooking! haha! looks yums too! :)
ReplyDeletedo more of this kinda post!! :)
ReplyDeleteI tried your recipe today. Yum yum! Problem is mine is too dry. No gravy but oil. I also didnt use whole chicken ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: add a little more water for the tamarind juice. Good luck
DeleteWhen you have a child/children, you'll love/learn to cook, believe me. I don't know how to say...but it feels like kesian bila tengok anak x makan makanan yg kita masak sendiri..
ReplyDeleteresepi akak sama macam mama Fidah buat...memang sedap sangat2
ReplyDelete