Fried Vegetable Ote-Ote

Fried Vegetable Ote-Ote

"Golden Brown Ote ote"

Fried ote-ote!!! Never heard about them?? come on let's discuss what is ote-ote and how to make ote-ote. Although the name is wierd but this food is really tasty and delicious. Ote-ote is a traditional Indonesian snacks food. For how to make it it's very simple and quick, and today i will make a vegetarion version of this Fried Vegetables ote-ote so all vegetarian food lovers could join us to eat this delicious snack.

If you live in Indonesia now then you will easily get this ote-ote, lot of hawker food vendor who sells these snack because these snack also include street hawker food. But there are also great restaurants and famous make ote-ote with high quality ingredients, so their ote-ote have a high class and also expensive price.

Tell me the basic ingredients!!!

The basic ingredients of ote-ote snack are flour and water mix with vegetables, spices and herbs. From this basic you could create new and innovative ote-ote by adding your special ingredients.


How do you shape it like UFO?? it's easy, try to use a small stainless soup ladle and before you pour the ote ote batter into the soup ladle, try to heat up the soup ladle into hot oil first.

I tell you what, don't you forget to serve this meal at your afternoon tea time, trust me it's would be zero percent of regrets.

So, quick make this recipe now while there is still time before your afternoon tea time is coming.

"Looks Delicious Right??"

Update : Bored with fried foods?? try this Terang Bulan Pancake

Ingredients :

• 8 tablespoons high protein flour
• 6 tablespoons rice flour
• 200 ml water
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon M.S.G
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon kikkoman soy sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon white pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon sodium bicarbonate
• 50 grams white cabbage
• 1 pieces carrot
• 20 grams beansprout
• 1-rod leaf leek
• 3 cloves garlic
• 2 cloves shallot
• 4 cups cooking oil
• 10 pieces green chili

Directions :

1. Cut white cabbage, carrot, and leaf leek into thin sliced.
2. Chop the shallot and garlic until smooth.
3. Ote ote batter : Mix 8 tablespoons high protein flour, 6 tablespoons rice flour, 1 egg, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon M.S.G, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 teaspoon Kikkoman soy sauce, 1/2 teaspoon white pepper, 1/4 teaspoon sodium bicarbonate, chopped garlic, chopped shallot into a bowl, pour the water slowly and stir evenly, using ballon whisk or tablespoon add shredded cabbage, carrot, leaf leek and beansprout and stir again until mix well.
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Methods :

1. Heat 4 cups cooking oil into a pan, pour the ote ote batter into small stainless soup ladle then deep fried until the head of the soup ladle is sunk, deep fried about two minutes over low heat and then shake the soup ladle to pop off the ote ote, continue deep fry until is golden brown, remove and serve.
   
2. Garnish with green chili on top.

Terang Bulan Pancake Recipe

TERANG BULAN PANCAKE

Nicknames

Hmmm.... OK where should i start this, maybe i will start from the nickname history, this is original pancake from Indonesia and has a lots of nicknames, in Indonesia we call it "martabak manis", "terang bulan", "kue bulan" and still more I think,cause I can't remember it one by one. I think why this food has many names especially in Indonesia because Indonesia is composed of many islands and local languages.


Nutrition Facts

There is no doubt that these pancakes have a very high-calorie levels, so very unhealthy if eaten too much, I know it's easy to say but sometimes I can't stand the temptation of the delights of this food, am I right ? lol, yup 100% right.


Street Food

This pancake is classified as street food, why ? because almost every region in Indonesia you will find people selling this food, they sell using the cart and where they sell is on each side on the street, they start selling around 6 PM until midnight, you don't believe it ? then you should come to Indonesia, my friends. And about the price, this food is very cheap but the taste like five-star taste lol.

But today I'm made Terang Bulan Cheese pancake, it's more easy, simple and fast, just put a lot of cheese inside and voila it's done, actually, you could add more variation ingredients such as grated dark chocolate, chopped peanuts, sweetened condensed milk and butter. Okay, it's enough for descriptions,lol, it's time to write the recipe and how to make it.

By the way.....

I'm sorry about the photo, I forgot to take a picture step by step, but I promise to all of you food lovers, I will put more step by step picture next time if I forgot then forgive me okay ? lol, just kidding.

Happy Cooking Folks

INGREDIENTS :

• 300 grams high protein flour
• 300 ml milk
• 2 tablespoon melted butter
• 2 eggs
• 120 grams sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon baker's yeast
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• a lot of grated cheese

Directions :

1. Melt the butter and then let stand briefly until the temperature goes down.
2. Batter : Mix 300 grams high protein flour, 300 ml milk, 2 tablespoons melted butter, 2 eggs, 120 grams sugar, 1/2 teaspoon baker's yeast, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon salt into a bowl and whisk it until the batter mixed well.
3. Cover and let stand for 30 minutes.
4. Whisk the batter well before use.

Methods :

1. Heat up a medium size pan (diameter 20cm and height 4cm) at low heat and grease it well with butter.
2. Pour batter into the pan about half of the height of the pan, cover the pan about 7-10 minutes, open pan cover, check it (until you see pores).
3. Then sprinkle 1 teaspoon sugar (optional), and grated cheese on top, heat it more without cover about 1 minute and remove.
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5. Cut terang bulan pancake into half and fold it and cut again into 3 or 4 pieces, serve.

Notes :

• Here I use a pan that is equipped with a glass lid.
• You could replace glass lid with aluminum foil.

Fried Chicken Shumai

Fried Chicken Shumai

Shumai is most famous snacks in china, usually made form pork, shrimp and several types of seasonings and herbs, you can replace pork with chicken if you like. Shumai or I can call Chinese dumpling could also be steamed, fried, and boiled. It's more healthy if you steamed or boiled rather then fried but honestly, I like the fried one then steamed or boiled even fried much more cholesterol I still choose fried lol.


You can use tomato catchup as a condiment for this fried shumai or maybe you can try with thousand island sauce , hmmmm....i think is yummy, although I never tried it before but I can imagine it and I think it's delicious.


Shumai dough is ready to fry without being wrapped in wonton skin, you can form into a small meatball and simply fried. And congratulations you already create another new variant of this recipe, that's I call the art of cooking lol. I'm pretty sure if it formed into a small ball and simply fried, our kids are definitely like to eat.


There is a tip for you when to make shumai dough, after the shumai dough is well blended with all ingredients try to slam the dough again for 1 minutes. Slam ??? yup slams it, pick up the dough little bit high with your hand and slam it into the mixing bowl but don't too hard or you will breaking you kitchen ware lol.


Okay here I make it more simple to make shumai, I hope all the ingredients are easily found at the supermarket or traditional market. You can try the recipe below and good luck.

Ingredients :

• 200 grams chicken meat
• 100 grams shrimp
• 2 eggs
• 3 tablespoon high protein flour
• 2 tablespoon cornstarch flour
• 3 cloves garlic
• 3 cloves shallot
• 2 teaspoon white pepper powder
• 1/2 teaspoon M.S.G
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoon sugar
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 2 tablespoon sesame oil
• 3/4 cup cold water
• 10 pieces instant shumai skin
• 5 cup cooking oil

Directions :

1. Chop 3 cloves garlic and 3 cloves shallot.
2. Peel shrimp skin, head, and tail.
3. Chop chicken meat and shrimp until smooth.
4. Put chopped chicken and shrimp meat into medium bowl, add 2 eggs, 3 tablespoon high protein flour, 2 tablespoon cornstarch flour, 2 teaspoon white pepper powder, 1/2 teaspoon M.S.G, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoon sugar, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 2 tablespoon sesame oil, chopped garlic, chopped shallot and 3/4 cup water, whisk with your hand until mixed thoroughly.
5. Then fill with 1 tablespoon mixture shumai into instant shumai skin and wrap it like money bag (shumai dumpling)

Methods :

1. Heat 5 cups cooking oil, deep fry shumai dumpling over low heat stir evenly until golden brown,remove and serve.

Notes :

• Cooking oil must be clean
• You can replace chicken meat with pork meat.

Fritters of Twisted Dough aka.Cakue

FRITTERS OF TWISTED DOUGH (CAKUE)

Oh dear, I love this crispy crunchy cakue. Cakue is a type of bread but this bread cooked through a deep fried process, not baked process. Is it sweet ?? nope, the taste of cakue is salt but not too salt. But there is a specials thing from cakue, it has a special crispy level,it's so crunchy at the first bite than you will fill chewy in your mouth hmmm...so yummy.

In east Asian cuisine it's usually called "YOUTIAU" , but here I better call it cakue, it's easy to spell LoL. Cakue is usually served with chicken porridge or plain porridge and doesn't forget to accompany with a cup of hot Chinese tea.

By the way.....

I had a wonderful experience during the rainy season ago, at that moment my little family and I eat two pieces cakue with hot chicken porridge and cold from the rainy day is neutralized. There's one more and this is the most valuable, I feel the warmth of a harmonious from my family, hmmm..... perfect and delicious.

Tips for eating.

I recommend you to eat this cakue while it's hot or like chef said "fresh from the Oven" hmm...no no no, it's not oven I think but it's from frying pan Lol. When it is cold, the crispy crunchy will reduce. I've had several times tried to vary this cakue recipe but the end result always the same, it will reduce the crispy when it's cold. Why ?? Someone help me, pleaseee.

So if your place has a winter season now, this menu will be suited for you. Come on quickly read the recipe, buy and prepare the ingredients and... voila you were done but don't forget the most important thing, enjoy with your family and accompanied with a cup of Chinese tea. Agree ?? Anyone??

Ingredients :

• 600 grams high protein flour
• 9.5-gram baking soda
• 11 grams salt
• 11.5 grams ammonium carbonate
• 7.5 grams alum
• 1 pan fried oil

Methods :

1. Place ammonium carbonate, baking soda, alum and salt in a basin, mix evenly, add 360cc water to dissolve above material thoroughly, put flour in water, mix and form a soft dough.
2. Turn soft dough side over after 30 minutes (don't knead, or it will expel carbonic acid gas dough)
3. Turn dough side over thoroughly after 30 minutes, and make the dough in a long shape, then let yeast begin to work.
4. After yeast working about (7-10 hours), put the dough on the board, pull it long, then made it flat evenly, and cut into 1/2 inch pieces.
5. Twist both pieces, press with chopstick, pull it longer from both end with thumbs and forefingers
6. Deep fry in boiling oil, turn quickly till golden brown and serve.

Notes :

• Use high protein flour for it has elasticity
• when adding water to a material, it will have a chemical reaction and produce white froth and sound.
• While the yeast is working, dumb a little oil on it or cover with damp cloth to keep from dry
• The time of yeast depends on upon temperature, the higher more faster, the lower more slower.

Fried Tempe With Sambal

FRIED TEMPE WITH SAMBAL

Tempe.....this food almost every day available on my dining table, this tempe food can you eat as a snack, just cut into small pieces and then simply fried it, it's easy right.

The basic ingredients of tempe is a soybean, the soybean is processed through the fermentation for about 24 hours. But in this recipe, I do not discuss how to make the Tempe Ok. The tempe which I use here is ready to cook I simply bought it at a supermarket and the price is also very cheap. Even cheap doesn't mean there is no nutrition inside Tempe, to my knowledge Tempe has a pretty good nutrition content. And Tempe is now well-known to the outside Indonesia.

Sambal?? what's that?? Sambal is a spicy sauce made from a variant of chili and mix with herbs and seasonings, all the ingredients are blend with a blender until crushed but not to smooth, or also you can crush manually with "Uleg". Uleg is a traditional tool from Indonesia to crush food.

At this time, I would give the recipe of  Fried Tempe With Sambal as usually this is the simple food recipes, there is no distress level to make this recipe. Trust me and see it for yourself.

Ingredients :

• 1 whole square tempe
• 5 cup cooking oil
• 2 piece red tomato
• 100 grams chili
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon shrimp paste
• 3 cloves garlic
• 4 cloves red onion
• 1 piece small mango (unripe)
• 1 piece cucumber
• a dash of basil leaves 
• Shredded fried red onion for garnish and flavor

Directions :

1. Cut tempeh into square (about 10cm, 10cm wide and 1cm thick) marinate with little bit salt (mix salt with water).
2. Cut tomato and chili into random pieces, cut the mango into julienne strips.
3. Cut cucumber into four parts (about 5cm long)

Methods :

1. SAMBAL: heat 5 cups cooking oil over medium heat, put in tomato, 100 grams chili, 3 cloves garlic, 4 cloves red onion stir fry for 3 minutes and remove. Then mash using a blender and mix with 1/2 cup cooking oil and mix with 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1/2 shrimp paste.
2. Deep fry tempeh until crispy and remove.
3. Put sambal as the base then followed with tempeh on top and garnish with julienne mango, a dash of basil leaves, garnish with shredded fried red onion on top and serve.

Notes :

• This menu can be categorized as a vegetarian menu but you must eliminate the shrimp paste.
• If it's too spicy you can reduce chili and add more tomato.
• This menu is very famous in the Country of Indonesia.
• When you make SAMBAL you can blend with a blender or you can crush and mix it manually.

Gnetum Salty Chips

GNETUM SALTY CHIPS

Gnetum Salty Chips?? Alright, I will introduce you the most eccentric and addictive chips, this chip is made from the seeds of the gnetum fruit and you know what, this is my 1st ranked favorite chips. I always carry and enjoy this gnetum salty chips while watching a movie, although sometimes I eat popcorn but popcorn is my last choice if I'm out of stock of this gnetum salty chips at my home. 

Hey, come here!! I tell you my little secret, to be honest, no one dares to ask me to share this gnetum chips while I enjoy eating it and I could eat 300 grams gnetum chips  without anyone help LOL. This chips has its own addictive substances and also there is a slightly typical bitter taste but this bitter taste will be felt when we drink water, strange isn't it?? yup but I myself don't know the cause, but you could prove it by yourself.

How to make this addictive chips?? Ohh it's easy but you should make with patience OK, that's the KEY to making crunchy gnetum salty chips. For the ingredients of this gnetum salty chips are gnetum fruit seeds, salt, and sugar, that's it?? YUP, that's it, easy right.

For the dipping sauce you can use mayonaise, sour cream and onion dip and marinara dip, or maybe you have a special dipping sauce you like to combine with this chip it's up to you. But I prefer without any dipping sauce, I like salty and natural taste so I can feel the ORIGINAL taste from this chips.

So......

I insist you enjoy the taste of this gnetum salty chips with your lovely family at this weekend.

Ingredients :

• 1 lb riped gnetum fruit
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon sugar powder
• 3 cup cooking oil

Directions :

1. Peel the gnetum fruits until clean.
2. Prepare a wok and heat it without oil, stir and roast the gnetum fruit approximately 3-8 minutes until the clour little bit black and remove.
3. Crush gnetum hard skin until you can see white color.
4. Collect the white seeds, smash with meat tenderizer tool (flat side) until the gnetum seeds flat and thin.
5. Heat the flat gnetum with oven approximately 20-30 minutes at medium heat until 95% dry.

Methods :

1. Pour 3 cup cooking into a wok and heat, fry all dry gnetum until golden brown (turn into chips) and remove.
2. Prepare a big jar and put 1 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon sugar powder, put all gnetum chips while it's still hot, shake it until mix well.

Notes :

• Cool down gnetum chips temperature before stored in the jar.
• You could use sand in a roasted method.