Mushroom Briyani (Veg)

Mushroom Briyani (Veg)

300g Basmati rice
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
4 tbsp margarine
250ml plain yoghurt
1 tsp salt
900g mushroom, chopped into large pieces
80ml cooking oil
2 tbsp ghee
5cm cinnamon stick, lightly smashed to break up

(A)
4 slices ginger
10 shallots, thinly sliced
3/4 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp coriander powder

(B)
5 cloves garlic
1 star anise
5 cardamoms, lightly smashed
1 tsp ground fennel
1 tsp poppy seeds

Garnishing
10–15 cashew nuts, deep-fried
50g raisins
1–2 tbsp shallots crisps

How to prepare:

1. Slice Onion into length-wise. Chop Tomatoes finely. Cut Mushroom into pieces. Grind and make a paste of the above mentioned ingredients. Soak Basmati rice for 15 minutes. Keep everything ready.
2. Heat Ghee and Oil in a pan. Add Bay leaf and fry for a minute. Add Onion and fry till it turns into golden brown in color.
3. Add ground paste and fry till raw smell goes off.
4. Add (A) and  (B) fry till it becomes smell. Add little salt.
5. Add Mushroom pieces and fry till it becomes little soft and the size of the mushroom pieces are reduced noticeably.
6. Add Chopped Coriander and Mint leaves and fry till it becomes wilted.
7. Then add soaked Basmati rice and fry for 2 to 3 minutes or till the water evaporates from the rice.
8. Now Transfer this mix to the rice cooker.Add 3 cups of water(either Coconut milk+water or water), Salt and Lemon extract. Cover and cook.

Serve hot

Hoen Kwe Pudding

Ingredient:
1tube hoen kwe flour(100g) (Green color)
460g coconut milk
85g sugar
pinch of Salt

300g Water

pandan juice

Instructions:
Sift together hoen kwe flour, and cook all the above ingredients over medium heat in a heavy-bottom saucepan till it thickens.

Meanwhile, pound pandan leaves, add water and squeeze out the pandan juice. Pour this juice onto flour mixture. Stir in colouring, sugar and water. Cook the flour mixture over low heat, stirring constantly until it starts to thicken and becomes crystal clear green. Pour hot mixture into prepared cake tin. Smoothen the surface with a spatula. Steam over rapidly boiling water for 20 minutes.

Allow pudding to cool before cutting into diamond shapes and serve.

By SaraPandian

Pandan Spider-man Cake

Ingredients

4 large eggs
125g castor sugar

Pinch of salt
125g self raising flour

1 tbsp pandan juice
1 tsp pandan essence
60g butter, melted

Topping
Sugar paper (Spider-man)
Chocolates
Hoen Kwe flour cake


How to make it
Beat egg whites with cream of tartar until stiff and then gradually add 1/2 of the sugar.
Mix flour, half of the sugar, Butter, egg yolks, and a few drops of the Pandan juice and Essence
Mix egg whites and flour mixture together.
Bake in moderate oven (180C/375F) for 45 minutes.

Hoen Kwe for Cake Filling and Frosting

Ingredients

1 kg (2.2 pounds) coconut milk (made from 2 coconuts and pandan leaf water) 
70g (2 1/2 oz.) sugar (if desired, granulated sugar may be used) 
1/2 tsp. salt 
100g (3 1/2 oz.) Hoen Kwe flour* (see note below) 
Small amount of green food coloring 

Instructions:
Stir and cook all the above ingredients over medium heat in a heavy-bottom saucepan till it thickens. Cool slightly (approximately 15 minutes) before spreading on cake. 

*Note: Hoen Kwe flour is a pre-mixed pudding flour from Indonesia. Hoen Kwe comes in a variety of colors; if you use "green" Hoen Kwe flour, you definitely don't need to add the green food coloring to the mixture. 

Final Decoration:

Place the Spider-man sugar paper

Arrange the Chocolates

By SaraPandian