Moules: Traditional Belgian Culinary

Have you ever heard about traditional Belgian culinary which has been popular caused of its delicious taste? Yeah, that is Moules! Moules is one of popular food consumed by Belgian people. This food is actually called as traditional culinary since it has been produced for long time ago. In the country, there is certain time to serve this food.

Basically, moules is created from seashells and it is served together with crusty bread or fried potato. The seasoning is also quite low price. This food will be appropriate as your friend when you are doing your activity in your house. Let’s check about the specific recipe of this traditional Belgian culinary.

Recipe of Moules

Moules: Traditional Belgian Culinary

Ingredients:

1 clove of garlic

250 grams of mussels

2 chopped shallots

20 grams of butter

2 thyme, pick the leaves

Parsley

100 ml of white wine

Bread which is crusty

Steps:

1. The first step that you should do in cooking this traditional Belgian culinary is preparing the mussels. Rinse them by using cold water and leave them for about 2 hours. Make sure that you remove the dead mussels.

2. In the other place, you may prepare a large pan. Pour the white wine, and add with chopped shallots, thyme leaves, and garlic. Mix them well. The, you may heat them and cook until the heat comes into medium.

3. After that, you can add the mussels to the mixture and cook them for about 3 minutes until the mussels are opened.

4. When it’s already 3 minutes, you may add the butter and let the butter melt.

5. Finally, you can serve this delicious dish by adding with parsley. Enjoy the moules with crusty bread. Try to cook this traditional Belgian culinary at your home and you will enjoy it.

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How to Cook Indonesian Beef Rendang Perfectly

How to cook Indonesian beef rendang becomes something interesting and it makes curious to most people. In the first time looking at the picture of this dish, I believe that you will definitely want to enjoy it immediately. Rendang is actually an Indonesian meat curry which is cooked with chilies, spices, and coconut milk. It is shimmered well until get the perfect taste with great fragrant. Don’t only imagine this delicious dish. You may try to make it right now, and here is the guidance.

Indonesian Beef Rendang Recipe

How to Cook Indonesian Beef Rendang Perfectly

Ingredients:

500 grams of beef meat

200 ml of water

400 ml of coconut milk

100 grams of coconut flakes, toast it

6 tablespoon of vegetable oil

2 Kaffir lime leafs

Seasoning:

3 lemongrass

1 teaspoon of salt

1 cinnamon stick

8 hot red bird’s eye chilies’

4 tablespoon of ginger, chopped finely

1 teaspoon of turmeric

4 shallots, chopped finely

1 tablespoon of sugar

Steps:

1. The first step of how to cook Indonesian beef rendang is making the seasoning. In this step, you may blend all the seasoning ingredients. 

2. Then, pour the vegetable oil into a frying pan. Heat it and fry the paste of seasoning until you get the delicious fragrant. When the paste becomes lightly brown, you may add the lemongrass, kaffir lime leafs, and cinnamon stick. When they are finely fragrant, you can add the water part by part.

3. After 45 minutes, you will get the water is absorbed and the mixture is quite sticky. At this step, you can add the beef meat. Cook them well until the meat color change into brown.

4. When the beef meat mixture comes dry, it means that you need to pour a little bit of coconut milk. Simmer them well, and repeat to add the coconut milk bit by bit.

5. After 45 minutes, Beef rendang is almost

ready. In order to avoid it becomes dry, you may add 20 ml of water. Lower the heat until the rendang becomes dark and rich thickness.

6. Serve the beef meat rendang on the plate together with kerisik that has been cooked by frying the grated coconut. You may also add the lime and cucumber salad as the complement.

The steps of how to cook Indonesian beef rendang are quite easy, right?

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Special Kebuli Rice Recipe from Arab Saudi

One of special menu which is usually cooked in the special day such us Eid al-adha and Eid al-fitra is special kebuli rice. This delicacy is original culinary come from Middle East, especially country with Muslim people such as Saudi Arabia. Kebuli rice can be simply described as steamed rice that is served with various kind of side dishes. It is almost the same with Biryani rice which is popular in India, Thailand, or Malaysia. But, don’t ask the taste. Since, it is much delicious.

In cooking special kebuli rice, you can use goat meat or other meat as long as you love the meat. Even, by cooking this culinary in your home, you can apply your creativity there to combine all of the lovely ingredients. So, don’t only imagine this delicious meal. Just practice the recipe and cook it in your home. Here is the guidance.

Special Kebuli Rice Recipe

Ingredients:

500 grams of rice

250 grams of goat meat

1 liter of milk

100 grams of raisins

Seasoning:

1 Bombay onion, grind it

1 teaspoon of salt

3 lemon leafs

3 bay leafs

3 spoon of care powder

5 cm of ginger, crushed

5 table spoon of vegetable oil

2 lemongrass

2 spoon of sugar

Complements:

Fried onion and garlic

Tomato, cut in slice

Crackers

Steps:

1. In starting the cooking activity of special rice recipe, heat the vegetable oil by using frying pan to fry. When the oil is quite warm, put the Bombay onion until fragrant. You may also add ginger, bay leafs, lemon leaf, and lemongrass. Stir them well until fragrant.
2. Then, you can add the goat meat that has been cut in cube 1x1 cm². Add care powder. Keep stir until they are mixed perfectly.
3. After the mixture is done, put in the rice and repeat to stir.
4. The next steps, you can pour the fresh milk, cook them for about 10 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients including salt and sugar.
5. When the milk is perfectly absorbed, steam the rice for about 30 minutes.
6. Serve the Kebuli Rice with the complement ingredients. That was the steps of making special kebuli rice from Middle East.

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Cooking Zuppa de Tomato in Simple Steps

Serving zuppa de tomato as one of your breakfast menu is a good idea. It is actually a kind of Italian food which has been popular all over the world. First time enjoying this food is when I stayed at Dafam Hotel Fortuna Malioboro for my work. At that breakfast time, I felt confuse in choosing the menu. The servant gives me suggestion to choose this menu. Without thinking other choice, I decide to take this food. When the breakfast menu has ready, I really surprised with my choice. Zuppa de tomato come with beautiful appearance in well serving, and the taste was really delicious. It is why I suggest you Ladies to try creating this menu. Below are some steps to guide you.

Cooking Zuppa de Tomato in Simple Steps

 Zuppa de Tomato Recipe

Ingredients:

1 pc of red pepper

1 pc of carrot, cut in dice

50 grams of sweet corn

2 pc of yellow egg

1300 ml of chicken broth

50 ml of thickened cream

50 grams of chicken meat

3 teaspoons of wheat

Seasoning Ingredients:

1 clove of bombay garlic, slice thinly

3 teaspoons of tomato sauce

4 spoons of tomato pasta

½ teaspoon of sugar

½ teaspoon of salt

1 teaspoon of pepper

2 spoon of butter

1 teaspoon of oregano

Steps:

1. Boil for about 1500 ml of water and put the chicken meat until it is ready to be cut in square.  Take the broth for 1300 ml.
2. After that, stir-fry the Bombay onion until fragrant. Add the wheat in to the frying pan and stir it until the grain appears.
3. Pour the chicken broth while stirring it well. Put the other ingredients including tomato pasta, tomato sauce, salt, pepper, and sugar. Mix them and wait until the water boils.
4. When it is boiling, you can add the other main ingredients such as meat, carrot, sweet corn, and red pepper. Cook them well.
5. Before turning off the fire, you can add the oregano and cream. Wait for 5 minutes, and the fire can be turned off.
6. Prepare a bowl and pour zuppa de tomato together with its filling, and the food is ready to be served.

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Tandoori Chicken Recipe: India Culinary

Tandoori chicken recipe is the other delicious recipe that I suggest you to try. This is Indian culinary and now it has been well known all over the world. In simple, tandoori chicken can be described as roasted chicken cooked with yogurt, seasoning, and it is served with rice, and fresh lemon. All of the ingredients are easy to be gotten in favorite supermarkets. Besides that, the steps are also much simple. Make sure you have prepared all of the ingredients, and look at these steps to practice it by yourself.

Tandoori Chicken

Ingredients:

500 grams of chicken, then you may fillet and trim it

1 cup of plain yogurt

2 cm of ginger

1 clove of garlic, grind

1 spoon of olive oil

1 teaspoon of salt

1 teaspoon of sugar

1 teaspoon of chili

1 teaspoon of turmeric

1 teaspoon of lemon juice

Complement:

Steamed rice

Lemon wedges

Steps:

1.   First step in practicing Tandoori chicken recipe, you may make a combination, between garlic, olive oil, lemon juice, salt, chili and sugar on the large bowl. Don’t forget to add yoghurt into the mixture. Leave them for 5 minutes.

2.  Make 2 slits on the top of every chicken. It is aimed to make the seasoning mixture is well absorbed by the chicken.

3.     Add chicken to the yogurt mixture for about 180 minutes in the refrigerator.

4.     Then oven them in the 220°C. Take the chicken and roast it on the oven for 30 minutes.

5.     After the chicken is ready, you can serve them on the plate. Enjoy it together with rice and lemon wedges. It is much easy to create tandoori chicken recipe, right?

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Simple Recipe of Tamales

It is the right place to get recipe of tamales. Tamale is a kind of popular culinary of Mexico. Moreover, it has been become the state culinary. As the time run, there are many adaptations of tamale that add the tamale variety such as vegetarian tamale, chocolate tamale, and chicken tamale. Here, I will provide you the recipe of basic tamale which uses beef or pork meat as the main ingredients. For you prefer chicken meat rather than beef or pork, can change the main idea base on your liking. Let’s check the wonderful recipe!

Beef Tamale

Ingredients:

250 grams of boneless beef meat, cut in cubes.

3 onions chopped

8 cloves of garlic

2 teaspoon salt corn, dried corn / maize

1 teaspoon of black pepper

1 pc paprika

2 teaspoon of cinnamon

1 teaspoon of sugar

10 dried corn husks (soak in the warm water during 30 minutes)

50 grams butter

1 egg, chilly

Steps:

1.     The earliest steps you need to do if you want to practice the recipe of tamales are preparing corn husks that will be used to cover tamale. Soak all of the corn husks under the warm water for about 30 minutes to make them soft.

2.    In the other place, you can create dough. Use a big bowl to mix maze, salt and baking powder. Then pour the broth to the mixture. Stir them well until the dough comes to the spongy texture.

3.      After preparing the dough, you may also prepare the filling. Place meat on the bowl and add with pepper, salt, onion, and garlic. Mix them and cook until the beef meat is quite tender. For about 2 hours. The color will change into brown. When the step is done, place the beef roast on the plate to make it cool.

4.      Make the sauce by blending chili, cumin, onion, garlic, salt and sugar. Cook them by adding it to the boiling water for only 20 minutes.

5.      After the sauce is ready, add the beef meat and refrigerate them for about 10 minute until they are ready

6.   Then, place corn husks on the plate pour some spoon of maze dough and make a spoon of beef meat with chili sauce. Make it into thin layer of maze.

7.      Fold the corn husks and punch it to close.

8.      Placed the tamales on the steamer and steam them in 2 hours

9.   After 2 hours soft and firm tamale is done. You can serve them in the plate together with remaining beef meat filling. Now, the recipe of tamales has been cooked and ready to be served.

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How to Cook Sate Ayam Madura Deliciously?

How to cook sate ayam Madura is one of recipe that I want to share to the readers. This culinary is my favorite when I looking for something delicious. First time I ate this food, I feel so surprised, since it was served with chili and onion that haven’t been cooked. After time, I knew that it was the characteristic of sate ayam.

How to Cook Sate Ayam Madura Deliciously?

Actually, sate ayam does not only come from Madura that was one of Indonesia country. There are many various sate in each region. But, most of the sate ayam seller comes from Madura. Therefore, people add “Madura” after the name of “sate ayam”. This kind of sate has a very special taste.

In general, sate is created from diced chicken, beef, pork, goat or mutton meat which is skewered and then grilled. It is served with complementary sauce including peanut sauce or ketchup sauce, lemon, condiment, onion, and cucumber. How to cook sate ayam Madura is quite easy to be practiced, so you should make it on your home as your dinner menu.

Sate Ayam Madura Recipe

Ingredients:

600 grams of boneless chicken (you can change by using other meat)

4 spoon of chicken oil

Ketchup

Bamboo skewers

Sate peanut sauce:

200 grams roasted peanuts and blend.

5 cloves of garlic

4 chili / pepper

5 shallots, cut in pieces

2 table spoon of sugar

1 teaspoon of salt

2 spoon of oil

20 ml of water

Complement ingredients:

Sambal / Condiment

Cucumber

Shallot

Steamed rice or rice cake

Steps:

1. As the first step of how to cook sate ayam Madura, you may create the sauce first by stir frying garlic & pepper, by using vegetable oil. Sliced shallot. Keep stir them until they are fragrant

2. After the mixture is done, blend together the peanuts, sugar, salt, and the frying mixture until you get smooth sauce of peanuts.

3. Place it on the bowl and pour hot water. Make it into thickened peanuts sauce.

4. In the order hand you also need to make basting to grill the sate by combining chicken oil and ketchup in the bowl.

5. Now is the time to make sate. Diced the meat into 2x3 cm². Then skew them to ease them while grilling.

6. When the sate in skew has ready, you may grill it. But before that, you should spread the mixture of chicken oil and ketchup to the sate.

7. Grill the sate until it is perfectly cooked and the color change in to golden brown and the texture becomes nice.

8. After all the sate is cooked, you may serve the sate ayam Madura with the complementary ingredients. The way of how to cook sate ayam Madura is easy to be practiced, right?

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