Sasha Bakes: Pumpkin Hokkaido Bread

Harvested 6 pumpkins from my garden a month ago and gave 5 away. Left with one and wondering what to do with it. A quarter went into the soup. And left with 3/4. Many people in my FB asked me to make bread with it and so I thought , why not?

So googled for pumpkin bread and end up with a few versions of pumpkin Hokkaido bread and I wrote down till I have no idea where I got it from. Anyway I tried to add in and minus some of my own and here's the final recipe:

Pumpkin Hokkaido Bread

• 100gm Steamed pumpkin (you don't have to mash it up, just dunk it into the Bread Maker)
• 125 fresh milk
• 1tbsp milk powder
• 8tsp castor sugar
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1 egg
• 75gm Whipping Cream
• 330gm Bread flour
• 1/4 tsp Clabber Girl Double Action Baking Powder
• 40gm cake flour
• 1tsp yeast (make a well in the flour)
• After first beep add in 1 tbsp softened butter
• Raisin, chia seed, pumpkin seed/sunflower seed (add in according to your preference)

Add in the ingredient from top to bottom following the sequence.

Sweet mode
Light crust
Big loaf

And your bread is ready in 2:55 hours.

Your can omit the double action baking powder, it's just that when I use that for my bread, the bread remains fluffier longer for few days. By then everything should be gone :)

The bread is cakey-bread feeling. It's sweet and very filling. You can eat it just like that, like a cake.
Definitely a keeper. Love the colour especially!

Tips:

• To get evenly cut bread, you can buy the bread slicer from Mr.DIY for rm7.90.
• A good bread knife is very crucial to get nice cut.

Shrimp Paste Air Fried Chicken Wing

When I saw someone shared about frying shrimp paste chicken wing on FB, I thought "Hey. That's so awesome cos there is another way to marinate the chicken!" My JD loves chicken wing and I'm out of ways to cook it for him. So when I saw the little lorry that sells Thai food stuff (will post about it later) I quickly buy this shrimp paste.

And it looks like this inside. Like our typical belacan but then it's soft. I guess using our belacan also can-lah

So I marinated my chicken wing in a zipper bag (the best way to marinate without making your hands dirty and smelling like ....shrimp paste) Marinate with some shrimp paste, sugar, shaoxingwine and garlic. (I think adding an egg will make it nicer)

And then give it a massage like this. Zip it up and keep in your fridge. Better if its overnight otherwise 1-2 hours is good enough.

So one hour before you want to fry your chicken wings, prepare the coating. I used plain flour and also a little bit of Clabber Girl's Double Action Baking Powder.

How much? this much. Agak-agak. According to many people, this is the ingredient to make your chicken wing much crispier. And I agree.

Give it a good coat. Or if you want, you can marinate it in a zipper bag again. And leave it for an hour.

Toss them into air fryer. Set temp 180 at 15 mins. However, depending on how fat your chicken wings, better to check if it's fully cook or not.

And Tadaaa! Shrimp paste Air fried Chicken wing without any oil!

Crunchy Pork And Corn Fritters

This is one of my JD's favorite. He told me last night to share it on Facebook. And some friends asked for the recipe, so here goes :) 

The original recipe uses chicken, however I forgot to put the chicken that I bought from the wet market and I had no choice but to change it to Minced pork.

The ingredients:

Plain flour 125gm

Salt 1/4 tsp

Eggs 2

Milk 180ml

Chicken/Pork 150gm

Corn Kernels 175gm

Green capsicum 1 (finely chopped)

Cooking oil for pan-frying 

Method:

1. Sift flour and salt together. Make a well in the centre and add eggs

2. Gradually add milk, drawing flour from the side of the side of the bowl. Mix until smooth, creamy batter is formed.

3. Stir in chicken, corn and capsicum. Leave to stand for 30 mins.

4. Fry until golden brown and puffy around edges.

5. Remove and drain fritters on absorbent paper.

recipe is adapted from "Eggs: Great recipe old was with a classic ingredient in 60 ways".

Sasha Cook: Thai Pork Appetizer Wrap

Water is back and will be gone tomorrow. So today I have to cook more. Ai that's my routine now, chasing and counting days of water come and go. 

Anyway this morning got abit crazy an decided to cook this.

According to the recipe, you can also use chicken.  I think I cooked it for tad too long and it became abit crunchy and I added extra red chillies, chopped cilantro and abit of sugar. Try lah, quite nice to eat with lettuce. Something different from what I usually cook. Cook until blur edi, don't know what else to cook and i'm a very lazy cook. So this will do for today :p 

Sasha Cook: Hidden treasure bomb

Headache thinking what to cook everyday. Even if my kids eat whatever I serve, I myself feel bored if I cook the same thing over and over again. So to make things "happening"I thought how to  combine food but also easy to prepare.

So tadaa!!!

My so called HIDDEN TREASURE BOMB

Haha what a name! But I cannot think of anything fancy. Aisay i should have dress it up more with cucumber or tomato slice or what not to make it more nicer. but nevermind la hor??? Anyway for own record (cos I usually forget after I blog it out) the ingredients are (in agak-agak qty)

Marinate Minced Meat (chic/pork) with:

Oyster sauce

Soya sauce

Sesame oil

Abit of sugar

Abit of pepper

Some chopped coriander

ShiaoXing wine

Fish paste (I bought from wet market) 

Hard boiled quail eggs

Egg

Breadcrumbs 

Here's both the meat and fish paste

Mash both of them up ,equal amount

Wrap the quail egg with the meat+fish paste

Dip in egg

Dip in breadcrumbs. 

Carefully place the bomb into oil. And fry it till its golden brown. 

Tadaa! 

Here's how it looks like when its sliced into 2. My kids love this.

I survived another day of cooking :) 

Sasha cooks: Herbal coconut chicken soup

I was going through my old post and realized that some pictures of the coconut soup that I've cooked few years ago went missing. You see, I've previously uploaded onto a website, and the owner sold the website without informing us about it and auto deleted all the pics. TERRIBLE!

Anyway, it made me thought for a while and then I realized that it's been a long time since I've prepared this soup. So when I saw the coconut man in the mkt, I bought a coconut home for Rm1.80.

Previously the other coconut man helped me to saw the coconut. But this man didn't. So I've to saw the coconut myself. Not that hard actually, you just gotto put the coconut on something to hold it. Like me I've used my big mug.

Then put in chicken and herbs( you can buy from medical shop) and fill it up with water and don't forget some salt.

Double boil it in slow cooker or on stove for few hours.

Voila! Healthy coconut chicken soup

The taste is sweeter compared to the herbal soup we usually cook in pot.

I used it as soup based when I prepared mee suah for my kids lunch.

They Love it!