Let's Cook! BALA BALA teman masa Hujan :)

Everytime raining season came, I will consume food more since the weather so cold and I need it to warm my stomach. Don't you feel hungry all the time when it is colder? When the wind breeze our body and all you think of is hot food and drinks?

Normally, my favourite time during raining season is evening time around 5-7pm. When it's raining outside I always wanted to find something to eat. And if I'm at home, cooking is the only thing I can do since going out is not an option for me (malaaasss).

So, what I always had was TEA O PANAS (this is a must, hehe) and for finger food is BALA BALA or we can call it CUCUR SAYUR. I like this food since it is easy to make and it's fat free. I don't know la whether it's fat free, but since all the ingridients are SAYURAN, so I assume this don't contain fat. Lagipon, it's good for us yang jarang makan sayur kan?

So, to make it short, here's how to cook my BALA BALA.

Siapkan tepung gandum

Pour the flour together with pepper, salt, and chicken stock (like Maggi)

Mixed altogether with water (do not use hot water, just normal temperature water)

Don't forget chili padi potong... kasi rasa pedas sikit :)

Dah tue prepare cabbage and carrot

Hiris kecik2 yer... Just as in picture...

 

Nie dah siap dah...

Terus goreng jer...

(last image from Google)

Yang nie dah siap makan...

Hmmm.... seddaaaappp...

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Jimat Beli Ayam ala Ms Red Ribbon Part II

Okay, for those who missed the FIRST PART of Jimat Ayam ala Red Ribbon, please do check HERE.

So now you have chosen to buy the whole fresh chicken. Yes you gotta finish it up VERY QUICKLY if you don't want your whole chicken becomes membazir, getting busuk in only few days.

So here. Red Ribbon would like to share some tips for you...

Last time Miss Red Ribbon bought RM 14 chicken, that was like more than 2 kg of chicken! And how to make it last longer? It's only 3 of us at home!!!

 It is good to get fresh whole chicken, but as soon as you reach home, no need to put in the fridge first. Straight away wash and buang all the unneccessary lemak2.

First, get 3 tupperwares/plastic containers:

- For chicken soup
Choose part of chicken that will go too dry if you fry it. For example: kaki ayam, chicken wings, kepala ayam (yeaaa I do eat kepala ayam, eheh), any part that has many tulang2 are very good for soup. After washed, put this container box at the freezer. This one can keep up to 2-3 days before you cook it into soup :)


- For chicken lemon
What you do is wash the chicken, wrap it with garlic (dah haluskan so easier to absorb), put some salt and lil bit stock. After that get half lemon, squezze and pour the lemon water into the chicken. Don't forget to put a lil bit butter and lemon leaves (optional). Then put the container down at fridge (not on freezer) and leave there for an hour or two.

After that goreng the chicken (no cooking oil) until it well cooked, put some air santan and more garam, stock, lil bit sugar, and another half of lemon. Add more butter if you like (the one in picture kat bawah terlampau banyak butter, later you can just buang the butter only if it's too much). Stir slowly sometimes. You can add potato also (potong kotak2 kecil). That's it! Adjust the taste following your own taste yea. Ms Red Ribbon pakai daun bawang and chilli merah... :)

 You can straight away eat it and you can keep for 2-3 days (just re-heat it).

- For chicken kunyit
I can say that this is my favotire coz this can last long up to 7 days!!! Firstly, we do the same like chicken lemon, put some garlic (but no need lemon), if you have cekor you can blend garlic with cekor (haluskan yer) then apply to the chicken. Add some salt (ikutkan selera) then serbuk kunyit. Blend all together. 

Keep the chicken at fridge (not freezer) for 2 hours at least. But for me sometimes I keep more than 5 hours so the rempah fully-absorbed :) Then after that panaskan (masak) without cooking oil. Some water will come out from the chicken, just ignore it and cook until there's no water anymore. Dah masak you put inside tupperware and keep on fridge/freezer.

  

How to eat? Actually it's masak already but I like it to fry the chicken. If you have oven at home, you can bake also. Softer and tastier :) 

Just be prepare to eat chicken at home for the whole week, hehehe...

HOPE THIS TIPS HELPS. GOOD LUCK

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Jimat Beli Ayam ala Ms Red Ribbon Part I

Ntah hape2 nie been few days asyik cakap pasal ayaaaammmm je hehehe... Sebetulnya Red Ribbon nie suke sangat masak. But when people ask me HOW TO COOK, i just simply say, "I follow no specific recipe, I only cook based on my own taste and feel."

This time, Red Ribbon wants to share how to cook chicken efficiently. Pretty much a tips not recipes :)

Hidup membujang and nak berjimat are two main concern of Miss Red Ribbon. When planning to cook chicken at home, sometimes people have to buy parts of chicken seperately because he/she only stay alone at rumah sewa or with few housemates at home. So if we buy too much chicken pon in just few days the chicken will be rosak/busuk. As you may know, chicken ni xberapa tahan sangat even if you put on fridge/freezer. Lagi if you buy non-fresh chicken.

Ape tu FRESH CHICKEN & NON-FRESH CHICKEN? 

FRESH CHICKEN : seriously fresh, still got fresh blood.  Lemak kaler putih kuning. And when you press, it will elastically back to flat surface again. Oya btw the meat looks yellowish white and fresh! I suggest you keep max. 3days (no touching).

NON-FRESH CHICKEN : been a day or two at the supermarket, the outside looks pale, and the blood is not as red as the fresh one, in some part turns to green already (the green-look one i don't want buy). IAnd when you press, it will be dent and will keep that way. I suggest you straight away cook it, and max. the next day you have to cook and eat it (no touching).

That's why many bujangers (this is what I called us, or maybe family of 2, newly-wed?) opt to buy chicken part only, just because they afraid the chicken will be busuk in short time.

But in many times people buy whole chicken coz it's cheaper than if you buy only parts of it. Let's compare the price:

TIGHT = RM 7.39 / kg
WING  = RM 7.89 / kg
LIVER = RM 3.50 / pack

WHOLE CHICKEN = RM 6.39 / kg

(all price are for illustration pusposes only, subjected to change every day)

 

When you want different parts of the chicken, I suggest to buy the whole chicken. Like for me, I need to medically eat chicken liver, at the same time I don't want my chicken to be all tight (xberapa sedap when you cook soup coz less stock from the bone) and then chicken wing? For me the price too high for just chicken wing (smallest part which I hope the price should be cheaper).

So, WHOLE CHICKEN is my choice of buying. How about you?

If you want to check how to make your WHOLE CHICKEN last longer up to ONE WEEK? Even more?
Wait for Jimat Beli Ayam ala Ms Red Ribbon Part II

 (all pix from en.Google)

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