Cooking Tackle

My interest to Southeast Asian food also included to sambal variety, it is an addicted spicy condiment that I can enjoy! This time I will write a recipe of sambal cincalok that given from my mother in law, is a traditional Southeast Asian food made of fermented tiny shrimps, pungent taste, salty and sourish. Sambal cincalok has characteristic fermented foods that are pleasantly stinky and to be frankly not many people could stand the strong aroma. There is a way to reduce the smell of cincalok overpowering and pungency, add lots of slices shallots, slices bird eye chilli and squeeze up some kalamansi lime to balance the saltiness. Sambal Cincalok Ingredient A bottle of cincalok 15 shallots, slice (the reasons for large amount because Indonesian shallots comes in small sizes) 10 bird eye chilli, finely slices *adjust the spicy level according to your preference 10 whole fresh calamansi juice 7 calamansi peel, finely slices 1 cu...

To make homemade snacks is always interesting, there is no rule but as a mom, i need to get an idea how to make a healthy snacking plan for the little one. The best snacks are the ones that easy to make, taste great to munch at home or bringing to school. Here is my personal recipe of   homemade Tofu balls deep fried (Tahu Bulat), its typical Indonesian street food snacks began to gain in popularity. Deep fried Tofu balls (Tahu Bulat) Ingredients 3 blocks firm tofu, weight about 265g *I used tahu Lombok Egg white of a large egg 1 teaspoon garlic powder or 2 cloves fresh garlic, grated ½ teaspoon white pepper powder Salt to taste Method Put the tofu into a mixing bowl and mash it with a fork. Using an electric food processor, add in mashed tofu, white egg, garlic powder, white pepper powder and salt, process into smooth consistency. Form the tofu mixture with your hands into medium size balls, a...

Rujak is Indonesian style fruit salad and very popular in Indonesia. Every region in Indonesia has their own version of Rujak, they are very interesting in both flavour and presentation. In Java, rujak is also plays an essential role to be a culture dessert of the traditional prenatal ceremony called Tujuh bulanan, its served and enjoy among the invited guests. I grew up with rujak in East Java, there’s always time to enjoy the feast of rujak with family and friends, and the moment turns fun when it called for ‘Rujakan’. Today I will share Rujak Jeruk Bali (Balinese style Pomelo salad ) The flavours just refreshing between sweet, spicy, sour and balancing with tiny pinch of sea salt. Jeruk bali (Balinese Pomelo) is iconically to Bali island, its taste sweet, mild grapefruit alike and definitely much larger than the grafruit. Rujak Jeruk Bali Bali style pomelo sweet salad Ingredients 1 whole jeruk bali,peel&break the pomelo using your han...

Savoury snack is always be my all-time-favourite especially when it tasty and load up with cheese. To me, snacking is a great way to combat hunger in between meal, taking the break to get knock off with cheesy nibble like this one. Gougeres, French cheese puff is perfect snack choice to share, its just taking an extra minute to prep. I relay on David Lebovitz  recipe, it’s well explained, both tips and photos. Jump over the original link for the love of classic  Gougeres Gougères Classic French cheese puff Ingredients 1/2 cup (125ml) water 3 tablespoons (40g) butter, salted or unsalted, cut into cubes 1/4 teaspoon salt big pinch of chile powder, or a few turns of freshly-ground black pepper 1/2 cup (70g) flour 2 large eggs 12 chives, finely-minced (or 1 to 2 teaspoons minced fresh thyme) 3/4 cup (about 3 ounces, 90g) grated cheese (See above for ideas) Direction 1. ...