KELLA CELOK CUKOK TONGKOL

KELLA CELOK CUKOK TONGKOL(TUNA TAMARIND in CLEAR BROTH)
Recipe since 1940s

INGREDIENTS:
-250-450 grams tuna fish (optional red snapper, mackerel or anggoli fish)– washed,
cleaned & cut into steak pieces.
-1 litre pot of water
-1 cup of tamarind juice (from 1 tbsp tamarind paste with 1 cup of water)
-1 stalk serai (lemon grass) – crushed
-1 pc red fresh chilli-sliced (optional green & red chili padi)
-1 pc green fresh chilli-sliced
-1 calamansi
-Salt to taste
PASTE*Ingredients to be pounded or blended together:
-2 red onions
-2 cm ginger
-2½ cm kunyit (fresh turmeric)
-1 tsp coriander seeds (fry without oil & grinded)
-1 fresh red chilli
-1/2 tsp belacan (dried shrimp paste)
Prepare Dish:
-Mix pastes into a pot of water & let it boil
-Add tamarind juice in a low flame for 10 minutes
-Add fish, salt & crushed lemon grass
-Cover pot & let it boil until fish is cook for about 10 minutes
-Add sliced green & red chili
-(Optional add lady’s finger-cut into 2 lengthwise or longbeans-cut into 4cm lengthwise or few stalks of laksa leaves )
-Remove from heat
-Squeeze calamansi juice before serving
Serving:
-Serve Hot Kella Celok with Plain White Rice compliment with Sambal Belacan Tomato.
Wish you the best of good luck for trying DIY cooking………….

ROTI BOYAN

ROTI BOYAN (POTATO PUFF)

Recipe since 1960s

INGREDIENTS: For Pastry
- 250gm Wheat Flour- (forming into 4 pieces round doughs)
- ¼ tsp of baking powder
- ½ cup warm water
- Pinch of salt
- ½ tsp of oil (any vegetable oil or gelatin/ghee)

Prepare Pastry:
1) Add and dissolve salt into warm water.
2) Pour mixture into flour with baking powder & knead
3) Add oil or ghee & knead again until become a consistent dough
4) Form into 4 round doughs & flattened into circle of 1cm thickness

INGREDIENTS: For Fillings
- 3pcs of Potato-boiled with skin - after boiled, skinned & coarsely mashed
- 1 bulb of onion-diced
- 2 beaten eggs
- 1 beaten egg yolk
- 1 tsp grounded black pepper
- 1tbsp of chopped chinese celery
- Salt
- Oil for deep frying

Prepare Fillings:-
1) Heat 1tbsp of oil in a pan and fry diced onion until fragrant
2) Add beaten eggs. While the top is still damp & bottom of the egg slightly cooked, immediately add on boiled mashed potatoes & fry
3) Add salt & grounded black pepper
4) Remove from heat & transfer into a bowl, drain oil, add chopped celery & let it cool

Method:
-Place 1tbsp potatoes filling onto pastry
-Fold in the edges together forming into rectangular in shape of 10cm x 5cm & glue with
beaten egg yolk
-Dust with extra flour before deep fry.




Wish you the best of luck for trying DIY cooking………….

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