Befarmaeed Sham: Maash Polow (Mung beans Rice)

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Maash Polow, Salad Fasl, Salad Shirazi & Potato Tahdig

Maash polow is so easy to cook. It is the right food to be cooked when you run out of time. In an hour, it is done. Now, maash polow has become one of my favorite and bff loves it too! 

Ingredients:

~ About 300g ground beef/mutton

~ 1 1/2 cup of rice, soak with water and salt for at least 20 minutes

~ 2 large onion, diced (i love to put lots of onion for its sweetness)

~ 1/2 cup of mung beans

~ 1 tspn turmeric powder

~ 1/2 tspn cinnamon powder

~ Potato slices for tahdeeg

~ Salt and pepper

Methods:

1. Boil mung beans until soft (approximately 15 minutes). Drain.

2. While waiting the beans to be cooked, par boil the rice (add 1 tbsp cooking oil) following methods to cook persian rice. Drain.

3. In a pan, heat some oil, fry the onion until translucent,, add turmeric.

4. Add the ground beef, blackpepper and cinnamon powder.

5. Cooked for about 15 minutes until it well cooked. Taste with salt.

6. Mix the mung beans with the meat mixture.

7. In a pot, Pour 1 tbsp of cooking oil. Place potato slices on bottom.

8. Layer rice and meat mixture alternately.

9. Cover the pot with kitchen towel to get beautiful tahdeeg. Simmer with low heat for about 30 minutes.

For salad fasl (season salad) dressing:

I mixed mayonnaise, ketchup, lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil.

For salad shirazi recipe: Click here. I add piaz che (spring onion) this time. 

Mirza Ghasemi

Mirza ghasemi. Sounds like a human's name right? I know a malay boy's name Mirza, while Ghasemi is a Persian family name. Hehe. But i havent know anybody with name mirza ghasemi yet. He/she might be delicious. :p 

Back to the dish, this is one if the pish ghaza (appetizer or side dish) that i really like. Previously i always ordered mirza ghasemi from a persian restaurant nearby, but unfortunately the taste of mirza ghasemi there is not as tasty as before. I also ate mirza ghasemi at naab restaurant at kl but the way they served it was different as they did not mix egg in the mixture but top it with fried egg. For me, i prefer the one that mix everything together. So yummy, with lots of garlics. Make sure if you make it at home, open your windows to let the air circulate well. If not, you'll smell like a garlic the whole day. :)

Lets check out the recipe!

Ingredients: 

2 medium eggplant, grilled, peel skin and chopped

7 garlic cloves, finely chopped

2 medium tomatoes, finely chopped

1 tspn tomato paste

1 large egg, slightly beaten

1 tspn turmeric

Salt and pepper

Cooking oil

Methods:

1. Heat some oil, fry garlic, add some turmeric, add chopped eggplant, cook for 5 minutes.

2. Add chopped tomatoes and tomato paste

3. Cook and stir continuously for 10 minutes

4. Pour the egg, sprinkle some salt and pepper to taste, stir gradually

5. Cook for another 5 minutes, done.

6. Serve with noon lavash

Nasi goreng cina - Chinese fried rice

For me, nasi goreng cina is the most easiest nasi goreng recipe. Not too many ingredients and no need to pound ingredients like nasi goreng kampung. Cook this when you are lazy. I guarantee the taste and satisfaction. But make sure you use fresh vegetables and shrimp and chicken. Check out the recipe:

Ingredients: 

- 3 cups rice, make sure to cool it down and separated grains. Persian way to cook rice is very good to get separated grains, but omit the oil and salt.

- 5 garlic cloves, mince

- chicken cuts, i used breast

- xl size shrimps, remove the skin (or shell?)

- 1 egg, slightly beat

- vegetables, this time i used diced carrot and spinach

- some cooking oil

- some seasoning, i used chicken powder and salt

Methods:

1. Fry some oil, stir in garlic. When the aroma arise, add in chicken, cook for 5 minutes.

2. Add in egg, when the egg cooked, add in shrimp. Once the shrimp turn to red color, add in the veges. 

3. Season with salt and chicken powder.

4. Add in rice. Stir gradually until all the ingredients well coated to the rice.

5. Done!! Easy right? The secret to have a nice nasi goreng is to cook it fast with high heat. The measurement of ingredients is up to your liking.

Ps: i received repeat order for this tonight. Hehe. 

Befarmaeed sham.....from azreen's kitchen

Weekend with the Kids

This is the routine. Saturday and Sunday my house will turned out to be kindergarten or I might change it to secondary school instead coz my nieces and nephews are all grown up. hehe. School without teacher of coz only a headmister-maksu-me.

Bff always tease me saying that I always 'bache bazi' (play with kids). I kind of used to it because I grew up with them. Even now in the 28th year I still being accompany by them every moment. I dont know how can I face the reality when I married later, that I have to leave them behind, without their annoying disturbance. :)

So this weekend (yesterday) was my nephew Haziq 14th birthday. But he did not want to be celebrated (you know kind of a boy who started his puberty, always shy and sulk). So his sister, Putri came front to take the chance to being photographed.

*I dont know why if I upload photo through blogger in ipad the photo couldnt be centered. :(

Putri, my sis and foods. I cooked yee mee too. 

Sorry put, maksu had to put this photo bcoz it is fun. Like ghost.haha

Then, they did what teenagers now doing, camwhoring and poyo-ing

Thenext day, normal activity when headmister said. No TV, no computer, no ipad, no phone. haha. pity

For more photos at Pantai Rambah: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3148538610564.1073741827.1778066642&type=1

Then in the evening, after thousands of request from them since morning, I took them to Pantai Rambah, around 8km from my house. We enjoyed our time together, watching sunset. And before maghrib, I sent them to their house respectively. That was my weekend with them.

I am glad because I have the chance to share my joys with them. When my other friends busying their lives with their children, me too have kids to cheerish my life. Insyallah I will always be there for them, now and forever. 

Yee Mee

What I cooked

What normally served in restaurant, in a hot plate. Thats why it is called, sizzling yee mee

Ingredients:

~ Dried yee mee

~ Half chicken, cut into small pieces

~ 3 2 inch ginger, slice thin

~ 10 garlic cloves, slice

~ 2 tbsp black pepper

~ 6 dried chillies, cut half inch long

~ 4 tbsp oyster sauce

~ 3 tbsp dark soy sauce

~ 2 tbsp light soy sauce

~ Some dried shitake mushroom, soak in warm water to soften and slice

~ Bunch of sawi (bok choy) i dont know the name in english :P

~ Cooking oil, salt, water

~ Corn starch

Methods:

1. In a pot, saute garlic, ginger and dried chillies for about 2 minutes.

2. Add chicken and blackpepper. 

3. When the chicken brown, add water, the 3 sauces. Let it boil. Simmer for about 20 minutes.

4. Add in the shitake mushroom and sawi.

5. Taste with salt.

6. Add in the corn starch to thickened the broth.

7. To serve, place the yee mee in a plate and pour the broth on top. The noodle will be softened by the hot broth.

8. For a kick, eat with cili padi.

Khoreshte Bademjan/Bademjoon - Eggplant and Meat Stew

I wanted to cook this dish for so long. I dont even remember when was the last time i cooked this. Maybe years ago. This is one of my favourite persian khoresht (stew). It is very easy to prepare.

Ingredients: 

- 300g stew meat

- 1 medium eggplant. Peel, sprinkle some salt on it and leave for half hour to get rid the bitterness

- 1 medium onion, dice

- 2 garlic cloves

- 1 tbsp tomato paste

- 1 tsp turmeric

- 1 medium ripe tomato, chopped

- juice of 1 lime

- salt and pepper to taste

- oil

Methods: 

1. Heat some oil, saute onion until translucent, sprinkle turmeric.

2. Add meat sear until all sides brown.

3. Add chopped tomato and tomato paste. Sprinkle some pepper.

4. When the sauce get thicken and dard red, pour water, covering the meat.

5. Simmer with low heat for 1-2 hours until meat tender. 

6. 20 minutes before ready, add lime juice 

7. While waiting for the stew to be cooked, pat dry the eggplant with kitchen towel and deep fry until golden brown.

8. Add the eggplant to the stew to absorb the flavors 15 minutes before turn off heat.

9. Serve with rice and your choice of salad. 

My Passion..Sigh

Academic is really not my passion. I hate sitting and reading academic materials which I think I couldnt broaden my mind with this kind of thing. It's not that I cant study, but most of the times it wont last longer. I will attracted to do other things. And in my opinion it is because I dont have passion in this job. Frankly speaking I was not sincere when I started my PhD. Just because it's hard to get good job and I got scholarship I continue my study. If these 2 things didnt happened to me, I might not be sitting now in front of computer doing silly thing - study.

If UTM allows me to terminate my study without paying back the scholarship, I've done that!

So what is my passion? Let me list down what are things that I dont wana do. Teaching, marketing or anything related to giving oral explanation. I hate to think. I love things that comes naturally. I want to involve with NGO association. I love cooking. I love non-high-level-job. I love to have small business.

It's my today's ramble. I still dont know what I want to be. I dont wana be lecturer but what else can I be after getting my PhD? Sigh...........................

Post Election Rambling

Hello. Hi. 5th May was Malaysia election day. This is my second time voting. Went to the poll station with my sis and bro around 12pm. Not many people as my place is in rural area so there are not many voters there. For DUN it wass BN vs PAS while for parliament BN vs DAP. What I crossed? Secret lah of course :P

Around 1250 midnight they conformed that government won more than half of the chairs, but less than previous election. It was expected to be like that. And for some reasons this time election is the worst phenomenon in my country. In social media especially people saying about the misbehaved of SPR (organization that handle the election) process. Regarding "pengundi hantu" (illegal voters) from bangla, about the sudden blackout during the process of counting votes and so many more. The opposition had tried so hard to show that the election was badly managed so that government still ruling the country. At the same time also, the other side saying that all these rumors were being planned by opposition to gather people's attention to change the government. At the time I am writing this, I heard that Anwar Ibrahim (opposition leader) is going to file petition to the court for the matter. Besides I heard that people with pea mind want to get help from the white house. One of the main contributor to the fight is that about discrimination between different races in Malaysia. Malay and Chinese particularly. It's like a time bomb that can explode anytime. True what bff said to me 1 time, if Malay and Chinese fight each other, Malaysia will 'begar' (riot). I just hope the current misunderstanding can be solve quickly. People unite regardless of race or nation. The new government need to prove Malaysian what they can do, not just spending money on gaining people attention without solving the problem from the bottomline.

Some pictures from the election scene:

Campaign - notes they delivered to home

The controversial blue ink for those who voted.

Random at home. Now you know which one i've crossed :)

The night before election, we had family gathering which means foods. I'll share another time ok. 

Khoda Hafez!

28th Birthday

*delayed post

25th April i\was my birthday. It's my 28th year. How can I describe myself? I am a woman not a girl anymore. I don't know why I have this feeling, but my mind was saying that when I am entering the 28 years. Well it's better, at least I am stepping on the right ground. I mean I accept the reality that the number has grow bigger, and I should not act like a child anymore. Nowadays I prefer to call salesgirls or waitress "adik"(lil' sister) rather than "kakak"(big sister). Even sometimes people doesnt believe than I am 28. Well..thanks to collagen and "single" status. haha :-P

Even I am getting older, I enjoyed my birth day. Thanks to facebook because without that, I wont be receiving many wishes by friends. Received some presents from myself (oh yeah, I reward myself for my birthday. Just in case nobody give me present lol!), sis and of course mr. boyfriend. Bff gave me mini ipad as I told him many times I love to have one. Well that is the trick. haha. 

All in all, this is me on my 28th year of living. I hope I'll have a better life and achievement from this point onwards. Thanks for those who wished and prayed for me on my birthday. Love you all.

I chose mantou and magnae for my birthday ootd

Maash Polow.For recipe: here

Ashe reshteh. For recipe: here