It is weekend. It is Summer time, so…picnik and swimming are the most wanted activities. No need to stay calm my lovelies, time for summer is near ended in this lovely end of August. Just buckle up Your seatbelts and lets roll to do the biddings 😃.
We are so gratefull since Jo and Marin have a great idea for this lil Ausflug aka going out somewhere. And they suggested to visit Wolfsee, a lovely lake in Duisburg. And for this picnik since we do not prepared before, I just baked Brownies, fried Perkedel Kentang or Potatoes’ Burgers with rice and Ote-ote or Vegetables Fritters with rice . Well You might think it is impossible to prepare some cooking food for 4 grown people only in 3 hours . But You can my lovelies….just juggle here and there and “kick” Your lovely Hubby out of Your ways😁. Definitely it is a worthy job in the end, when You see all the food clear from the plates on Your picnic mat.
And for this short time of prep, I was making a Brownies without consulting my magic cooking notes, so no hope for shiny crust on the surface -like what some folks are persisting in one of my cooking group- just simple Brownies, a sweet dessert that is heavenly taste for chocoholics😃. Here they are ;
Ingredients
For Brownies
2 eggs beat lightly
10 spoonfulls (high) of castor sugar (make half of it brown sugar)
200 gr melted chocolate block with 50 gr of butter
10 spoonfulls (high) of flour, sifted before the usage
3 spoonfulls of cappucino powder
1/4 tea spoons of salt
50 gr butter in room temperature
3 spoonfulls of cooking oil
Make the Brownies
1. In a bowl put the butter and sugar then use spatula to mix them.
2. Then add the eggs into the mixture. Put the melted chocolate bar into the bowl. Then add the flour, cappucino, and salt. Mix using Your spatula. Then lastly put 3 spoonfulls of oil to make the dough a little bit goey.
3. Heat the oven until it is pinged. Then the brownies in a square cooking pan that has a greasy paper on it. Bake in 130 grad for 35 minutes. And wait until it is a bit cold before You cut them my Lovelies.Incase You would like another way of knocking Yur kitchen in making Brownies, here is another Brownies recipe.
Ote-ote
Vegetables Fritters
Ote-ote or Vegetables Fritters is a common street food in Indonesia. But with no deep wok and avoidance in using a lot of oil in frying, made me find this delicious and healthy morsel, that will guarantee You in non-stop taking it again and again😃.
Ingredients
6 leaves of cabbage, sliced nicely
150 gr champignon, sliced nicely
1/4 onion, sliced and chopped nicely
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp corriander powder
1/4 tsp blackpepper powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp sugar
1 egg beat lightly
6-9 tbsp flour
1/2 cup of water (more if it is needed)
Oil to fry
How to
- Put Your veggetables in a bowl. And in other bowl put the flour, sugar, salt, onion, blackpepper, corriander, and garlic powder.
- Mix it good before You put the egg.
- Then add the water bit by bit and You mix it well.
- Pour the dough on top of the bowl of veggetables. Mix it until the consistency is light but not too liquid.
- Heat up Your non stick frying pan with oil (just till You see the oil is about 0,5 cm from the bottom or less), and spoon by spoon fry the dough (5 fritters in a big non stick frying pan). WHen the color is brown (the bottom) flip them. Do the same to the other side. And take them out when it is already cooked.
Note:
You can change the veggies option as You like. So far my best suggestions are carrots, beansprout (mung beansprout or Soja beansprout), spinatch, or corn.
Oseng-oseng
Saute Vegetables
150 gr beansprout
100 gr green bean
2 leaves of cabbage
4 sausages, cut nicely as You like
2 Tomatoes cut as You like
1/4 tsp blackpepper
1/4 onion, chopped
1 garlic, chopped
Salt and sugar as needed
1/4 tsp Bamboo instant “Semur” (You can skip if You cant find, or replace it with Indofood instant package)
1/4 cup of water
2 stems onion leaves, chopped
2 chilli , chopped (skip if You dont like hot taste)
Oil for saute
How to
- Put 5-6 tsp of oil on a frying pan, heat up in middle heat. When it is hot enough (around 4 minutes) then put all the onion and garlic. Keep on moving with the spatula so they wont be burnt.
- Remember my Lovelies, Asiatisch cooking always started with this process, it needs a hot pan,a hot oil, and onion, garlic and shallot (if You use it in the recipe) to be fried until we can smell the delicious aroma permeated from the pan. Then reduce the heat, before You go to the next part.
- When it is already giving a great aroma, then add the sausage and fry them till it is browning a bit. Put the Bamboo instant inside the wok, and keep on stirring the spatula.
- Add the vegetables (except the sprout and onion leaves), blackpepper, chilli, salt and sugar. Keep on stirring and add the water then close the lid to simmer. Dont forget to taste it, for me I do love when my Oseng-oseng is savoury and hot.
- Cook until the vegetables is cooked (about 6-7 minutes) before we add the sprout and onion leaves. Close the lid and turn of the stove. Let the pan on top of the stove, so the cooking can absorbp the heat but wont make it burnt.
Note:
You can change the veggies option as You like. Basically all vegetables are so yummy to be cook like this. The instant package from Bamboo or Indofood are so various also, just grab as You like. But my favourite for Oseng-oseng are Sambal Goreng Ati or Semur by Bamboo.
Perkedel Kentang dan Daging
Potatoes and Meat Frikadeln
Ingredients
7 normal size potatoes, peeled and cooked inside the water until tender (about 25 minutes in middle heat) and please make it sure Your potatoes is the one for Crokete not for soup or pure.
150 gr mince meat
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tbsp sugar
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp blackpepper and white pepper (more if You like it tastier)
3 Shallots and 3 garlics, cut roughly and fried with 4 tbsp of oil until it is soft
1/2 onion, cut and sliced roughly
3 tbsp fried shallots (buy it in the store) You can skip it if You want
1-3 tbsp flour , only if it is needed
1 egg beat lighly
Oil to fry
How to
- Mesh the cooked potatoes until become a pure.
- Grind or blender the shallots and garlics with the peppers until You have them mixed and soft.
- Mix the poultice with the potatoes, add the meat, sugar, salt, nutmeg, fried dry shallots and egg. You can taste it until the taste is a bit sweet and savoury. When the batch is too wet, then add 1-3 tbsp flour. But as long as You choose the right potatoes, the batch is still manageable to be formed though it is a bit soft and squishy.
- Put Your nn-sticking frying pan and fill it out with 0,5 cm oil from the bottom. Heat it up with middle heat. Wait until it is hot before we can start to fry.
- Form the batch like a meatball (I used an ice cream spoon) and put it in the frying pan, then using the bottom of the ice cream spoon flattened up the shape like a small burger. Flip when the bottom is already brown. And set aside when it is cooked.
Chicken Baked
1/2 kg chicken, wash and cut as You like
a pinch of rosemarry
1/2 tsp blackpepper
6 tbsp olive oil
1/2 tsp corriander powder
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp salt (more if You like)
1/2 tsp sugar or honey
How to
- Heat Your oven into 150 grad, and while we are waiting until it is pinged, mix the oil with all the ingredients except the chicken. Divide the marinate into 2.
- Put the chicken in the baking bowl.
- Slather one side of the chicken with the marinate herbs and put inside the oven. Bake for 50 minutes. In the minutes of 25, take it out the chicken, flip it and slather the rest part of marinate herbs on the other side of chicken. Let the chicken rest in the oven even after the baking is finish, but leave the door open, to reduce the heat but keep the cooking process by using the remaining heat. And voila….our picnic is ready…
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