nasi beriani, ayam masak merah, malay style pickled vegetables

Is a  Malay dishes,can be seen served in malay wedding or kenduri.  In my younger working day,I have known three malay  girl,they are married,one of them ,her cooking is very nice. I asks her to lend me the malay magazine.she do lend me some. Flipping through pages to pages ,.I came across this three delicious dishes. I copied down these recipes. This recipes is for keep.It has been with year with me. I would like to share this recipe with other

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NASI  BERIANI   ( served  12 plate)

1 kg basmati rice

100g shallot ( peeled and slicely thinly

150g ghee

1 small can evaporated creamer

3 star anise

3 pcs cardamons

2 inch cinnamon

4 clove

5 cm ginger (slicely thinly)

6 clove garlic 1 big tbsp of  korma powder

1 tbsp salt,  1.3 litre of water

dash of yellow colouring powder

METHOD :

1.Wash the rice a few time, drain

2.Heat the ghee in the wok , put in star anise,cardamons,cinnamon, onion fry till fragrant .

3.Add in garlic and ginger,fry for a min or two

4.Put in the rice, fry for a min.

5. Transfer the rice in the rice cooker, add in 1,3 litre of water to cook.

6. when the rice is about to dry,add 1 small can of evaporated creamer,keep on cooking 

7. When the rice is compelety dry,added in korma powder to stir to mix well.

8. Lastly add in the yellow colouring stir the rice together to the uneven colouring

AYAM MASAK MERAH

INDREDIENT:

1 whole medium chicken ( to bigger pcs)

1.5 cup cooking oil

3 tbsp coriander seed

2 tbsp cumin seed

2 tbsp aniseed

60g  ginger ,60 g garlic - grind to paste

100g onion sliced thinly 

3 stalk lemongrass (bashed with knife)

1 whole botol tomato sauce plus 4 tbsp tomato paste

1 big can evaporated creamer

2 inch cinnamon

6 tomato halved

Some turmeric powder

salt to taste

METHOD ;

1.Clean,wash the chicken and drain. mix chicken with turmeric powder,salt until  combine well in a pot.

  set aside to marinate for at 15 mins.

2. Heat 2 cup oil in a pot,put in the marinated chicken to deep fry in a medium heat. Half cook,dish out the chicken.

3.Leave one and half cup oil in the wok,sauted cinnamon,cardamon,lemongrass, garlic and ginger paste,onion stir until fragrant.

4.Put in the spice -coriander,cumin,aniseed  grind to paste. Cook and keep stirring till the spices are cook.

5.Add in the whole botol of tomato sauce,tomato paste.

6.Add in the half fried chicken ,stir well to mix,lastly added in the evaporated creamer till boil,lower the heat .7.Keep stirring to prevent  from burnt until sauce thicken and the oil appeared on the surface.Off he heat.

Malay cooking they use lot of oil so they they won't look dry,taste nice.

I scooped out the 1 1/2 cup of oil that appear on the surface.

MALAY STYLE PICKLED VEGETABLES

INGREDIENT;

1 cucumber slice
small pineapple,skinned,sliced cut into small pcs
1 big onion peeled,sliced,cut into bite size
2 red chilli,sliced

PICKLED SAUCE;

small bowl of white rice vinegar,4 tbsp of sugar

METHOD;

Mix all ingredient and pickled sauce together  in a bowl. Stir to mix well.
Keep in the fridge for 1 to 2 hour, take out  and ready to serve with the Nasi Beriani Rice and the Ayam Masak Merah.