Pad Thai: Thai style Noodle Stir Fry!

Preparing Pad Thai sauce: For 2 servings. I have actually made this to make easy step by step follow for everyone to learn. Anyone who use to think Pad Thai is a complicated dish (like I thought before I actually try to make it), would be surprise themselves of how amazing it turns out, and most importantly very cheap to make. Like i said, this recipe is for serving 2, just the right amount to cook for you and your love...

2 Big tbsp. of palm sugar

3 tbsp. concentrated tamarind juice

3 tbsp. fish sauce

2 tbsp. oyster sauce 

Ingredients to cook the noodle: 

2 tbsp. vegetable oil

2 tbsp. minced shallot

1 tbsp. minced garlic

2 tbsp. cut yellow tofu

1 tbsp. sweet radish (minced)

2 handful thin noodle if you can’t find the specific one, just use any noodle, mung bean noodle is also good. (Soak the noodle in regular water for 2 hours) 

2 eggs

1 handful of a garlic-like vegetable >>> garlic Chives/ Chinese Chives. 

10 big shrimps (peeled, De-veined and cooked) 

Final Decoration: 

1 handful bean sprouts

1 tsp. dried red chili powder

2 tbsp. roasted peanut (crushed)

1 tsp. sugar

4-5 branches of Uuicnri leaves/ garlic Chives/ Chinese Chives. 

1 piece of sliced lime 

Yellow tofu

 

                                                            Uuicnri leaves

Cooking Steps:

 1. Heat the pan and add palm sugar, fish sauce, tamarind juice, oyster sauce and a little bit of water. Now used medium or low heat to let the sauce boiled and get thick. Keep stirring. Make sure you don’t burn the sauce. Gold pad Thai is good pad Thai. Be careful, it will be bitter if you put max heat and burn it. 

2. Taste the sauce and make it the way you like. Some people love it more sweet and some just love it a little more salty but the trick of Pad Thai sauce is the well-balance of 3 tastes, sweetness, sourness and saltiness. So change it the way you like. If you like it sweet, keep the taste the way it is will be right taste for you. However, my trick is to add some Maggi soy sauce to make it more salty as my husband love it that way. 

3. When the sauce get thick enough, remove from the cooker.

Next, we will cook the pad Thai noodles. 

1. In a different pan, heat the pan and add vegetable oil. When the pan is hot, add garlic and shallot Fry until it has aromatic smell. 

2. Next, add tofu and sweet radish. 

3. Now, add noodle and 4 tbsp of the sauce we made from earlier. (that’s for 1 serving). You can keep adding the sauce of the amount of the noodle is more than one handful. Make sure you don’t add too much because the noodle will be too wet and overcook. (add it little by little) Then, make a quick stir. 

You may want to pick the noodle and taste it to see if your noodle is cooked right. 

4. If you like bean sprouts and the sliced garlic Chives/ Chinese Chives to be cooked, add it in this step. 

5. Push the noodle aside. Add the egg and cook it until it is half way done then mix it with the noodle. Now add shrimps and mix. 

6. Turn off the fire. Arrange the noodle on a plate. Put dried chili pepper, sugar, roasted peanut, fresh bean sprouts, one piece of lemon and the garlic Chives/ Chinese Chives on a side. 

However, another option for Pad Thai, make an omelet from duck’s eggs. Make it as thin and as big as possible. Put the noodle in the middle of the omelet. 

Fold four sides then put another plate on top. Turn it upside down. Decorate it with bean sprouts, the genus Allium or scallion, dried chili powder, sugar, peanut, and one piece of lemon.

Hope you enjoy it, try it and let me know how it turns out for you.

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How to Make Okra with Tomato Stew - Eat With Amala

There are the usual draw soups that I grew up with, Okro cooked into a sauce with vegetables, like the one I made with a blend of  Ogbono,  But here is the okro soup which is a bit older and mostly commonly prepared by the Yorubas who stays in the southern eastern part of Nigeria.  

Here is how it is done, hope you enjoy!

Ingredients

Cut or blended fresh Okra
Broth if you have some
1/2 of a small sized onion
1 Fresh pepper
1 Knorr chicken cube
Salt to taste.

Directions

1. Put your broth in a small pot, start on slow heat
2. Blend you okra, pepper and onions to desired texture
3. Pour the mixture into the broth
4. Add salt and knorr  cube to taste
5. Simmer slowly for 10 mins, stirring intermittently.
6. Taste to ensure it is done, and remove from heat.

Ingredients for making Amala

Elubo
Water 

Directions

1. In a medium sized pot, bring the water to a slow boil. Also heat some water in an electric kettle, or set aside some of the boiling water in a cup.
2. Add the Elubo flour to the water in the pot, and stir.
3. If it is thick, add some boiled water from the kettle. If too soft, add some more elubo.
4. Continue to stir until you get your desired consistency, it should ideally be smooth in texture without lumps.

Your meal is ready for lunch or dinner, enjoy!

How to Make a Smoothie - Apple, Pear and Yoghurt

Some days you'll have so many fruits you don't know what to do with. Or you just feel too lazy or tired to chew your crunchy fruits. One way to enjoy eating such friends is to make them into a smoothie. I find that I consume twice as much fruits when in a smoothie, than not. You could juice the fruits, but with a smoothie, nothing gets lost. One evening, Atala and I did just that to some apples and pears we had.


Ingredients
1  cup plain low-fat yogurt
2  meduim size Bartlet Pears, cored and cut up
2  Fuji Apples, cored and cut up
1 cup of orange juice
1/2 cup ice cubes

Directions
1. Blend the yoghurt, cut up apple and pears, with the fruit juice on high speed. Add the ice cubes slowly till you get the consistency you want.

These fruits can be replaced with others of your choice. Enjoy!

Source- Myne

DO-IT-YOURSELF! BRIDAL SHOWER BOUQUET CUPCAKE TUTORIAL PLUS RECIPE

A bridal shower is a time to have fun, gossip, chat and indulge. Catch up with the girls, hear the news. If you’re hosting the party at home, then you’re going to need some refreshments to hand to keep you fuelled during all the wedding conversations. In which case it might be a good idea to set your drinks and food up buffet-style.

Your friends may all be bringing a dish to share. That’s why we've had to show you this tutorial for cupcakes which would be ideal to make for a bridal shower because they are delicious, pretty and would look great as a sweet buffet table centrepiece.

Even cuter, they come arranged as a cupcake bouquet – so if you’re looking to arrive at a bridal shower with a food offering, then these would just look fabulous. They make a perfect bridal shower gift. We discovered the recipe via Make Bake, a company who make all the decorations and embellishments you need for home baking. Stuff like edible glitter, special icing sugar, colours, cupcake cases.

Anyway, here’s the instructions for a bridal shower cupcake bouquet from. You’ll need a favourite cupcake recipe – here’s a basic one we’ve found for vanilla, lemon and chocolate cupcakes.

● 12 cupcakes
● Pink icing frosting
● Green Cupcake cases
● Piping Bag
● Small Flower Pot
● 6” Styrofoam ball ● Toothpicks
● Pink Ribbon Step

1: Bake 12 cupcakes to decorate your bouquet, any flavour of your choice (we would suggest creating the bride’s favourite flavour if you’re planning to give the bouquet as a gift). To add to the overall effect of the cupcake bouquet, you can also use green cupcake cases.

Step 2: Using a pink fondant and piping bag, gently squeeze the bag and pipe frosting around in a spiral onto each cupcake to create a flower effect. A top tip is to ensure your fondant is room temperature and your cupcakes are cooled before starting to pipe your icing.

Step 3: Place cupcakes in fridge while you prepare the Styrofoam so the icing becomes firm. Simply place a Styrofoam ball within a small flower pot, we would recommend gluing the ball to ensure it is extremely secure. We used a 6″ diameter which should neatly fit 12 cupcakes. Once the glue is dry, place two toothpicks in each area where you want a cupcake to sit around the bouquet.

Step 4: Once your cupcake icing is firm, it is time to add the cupcakes to the bouquet. Place each cupcake onto each pair of toothpicks, adjusting toothpicks as needed to secure each cupcake. Try to cover as much of the styrofoam ball with cupcakes as you can to give the best effect, and add additional toothpicks to secure each cupcake where necessary.

Step 5: Once you are happy with the layout of your cupcakes, add a sprinkle of edible glitter and a beautiful ribbon to finish the bouquet. We hope you enjoy creating this beautiful cupcake bouquet as much as we did. As well as a bridal shower gift, the bouquet also works well for birthdays and baby showers, and is a great way to showcase your cupcakes at a party or event.

Products to create the bouquet can be found online at www.MakeBake.co.uk (who also supplied the photograph).