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Golden Sesame Fried Fish Bites: The Ultimate Crispy Asian Snack You Can Make At Home

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Crispy Asian Sesame Fried Fish Bites : a quick and easy homemade appetizer. Whether you are craving a late-night snack, looking for a simple bite to share with family, or hosting friends on the weekend, this recipe delivers honest, high-quality flavor in under 30 minutes. Rolling the tender fish in a mixture of toasted white and black sesame seeds gives every bite a rich, nutty crunch that makes it hard to stop at just one. Best of all, because you are cooking at home using fresh, clean oil, you get all that golden crispiness without any of the heavy, greasy aftertaste of commercial takeout. What really turns plain fried fish into something special is sesame . Asian kitchens have used sesame seeds for generations, mostly because of the rich, nutty aroma they release as they cook. When you coat the fish in a light batter and drop it into warm oil, the seeds turn beautifully toasted right away, giving the crunchy crust with an amazing flavor from the very first bite. Don’t Worry Abo...

Spicy Coconut Rice In Banana Leaves, Arem-Arem

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Coconut Rice Filling Wrapped In Banana Leaf, Arem-arem is one of unique dish from Indonesia , It is a filling coconut rice cake wrapped with banana leaves. The filling has several varieties that can be adapted to personal preferences, such chicken, meat and vegetable or combination meat and vegetables.    Arem arem is very popular as a substitute for breakfast or snacks, it usually made by a small portion that satisfied to start the day. According to a source, arem-arem is very popular among people especially in central Java, however as the time goes by it spread widely throughout java, Bali island and perhaps be famous all over Indonesia by now. Do not feel so intimidated by the look and the process, it really easy to make it at home. You can always have your own way to prepare, for an example, you can make the filling ahead, refrigerated and used in the next day.  One of interesting step in the method is roll up the rice wit...

Steam glutinous rice balls drench with coconut milk (Putri mandi)

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I still keep on with Indonesian traditional cake (kue/jajan pasar) that I grew up with, the sticky and chewy of steam glutinous rice flour with sweet coconut filling and drench with coconut milk. A tinge of savory and sweet of coconut filling adds special favor to the cake. The fact, this cake turns out to have many names, such kue mendut, kue bugis, lepat bugis, lapek bugis and rukuk-rukuk. The main ingredients used are remain the same, glutinous rice flour mix with coconut milk as the dough base, the recipe calls for pandan extract to give a natural color, it gives a characteristic traditional delicate scent at the same time . Not to forget, the dough has stuffed with grated coconut cooked with coconut sugar (gula jawa) I have to admit, this is one of the missing cake of my younger age, if you ever know, how much I love the cake and impatiently waiting until my mother had done all the process. My mother call it as Putri Mandi (a princess shower cake) because ...
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