Articles About Online Chatting And Family

Discover Traditional Asian/Malay Desserts - Impress Your Family and Friends

One of my favourite hobbies is baking western and making Asian desserts and that is why I get frequent requests to make sweet or savoury goodies for a gathering or a function.

When I was learning about baking and making desserts, I dedicated a day in the week, when I was not working, to learn and to try different recipes. At the end of the year, I would have done 52 different new recipes, and usually at weekends I would drop in on some friends or relatives with these goodies.

It made me really happy to see their gratified faces when they tasted the goodies. The ones that usually get the top votes, are the Asian traditional Malay desserts which are probably still less known amongst foodies in US, Europe or Australia.

If you are a foodie and you can go weak with chocolates and cheesecake, you will want to know about these desserts which we call Malay kuihs. They originate from the deep villages of Indonesia and Malaysia and have now emerged in big cities and served at hotels and restaurants.

While many people enjoy eating them, very few know how to make them and what ingredients go into these delicious and delicate desserts. If you think that chocolate cakes, cheesecakes, moist puddings and fudgy brownies are the ultimate sinful foods, you have been deprived!

Malay kuihs use basic ingredients from flour made from yam or tapioca or beans, and a good measure of palm sugar and coconut - either as grated coconut or milk. These days coconut milk is substituted with cream or fresh milk for dietary reason. The kicker is in combining different flours and create layers of different tastes and colours.

In those days, the old womenfolks were resourceful in creating desserts for the family as afternoon snack and these kuihs also made use of fruits such as bananas, sweet potatoes or jackfruit.

You can get these recipes on the internet but many of the authentic ones are limited and written in Malay language. Allow me to share one favourite recipe of mine called Kuih Ondeh-Ondeh Keledek. Made largely from sweet potato, the ball is stuffed with melted palm sugar and rolled into grated coconut. Deliciously moist when you bite into the goeey filling.

Ingredients

625g white sweet potatoes (steamed till tender) 3 tbsp thick pandan juice (squeezed from pandan leaf or screwpine leaf) 2 tbsp tapioca flour 2 tbsp wheat flour 125g palm sugar or gula melaka, crushed 2 tsp granulated sugar Pinch of salt ? of a large coconut (to grate without skin)

Method: Bring a large pan of water to the boil. Peel the sweet potatoes and mash well. Then mix the pandan juice and sifted flours. Knead into a smooth dough. Roll dessert spoonfuls of dough and flatten. Mix together both the granulated sugar and the palm sugar. Place a piece of sugar mixture in the center of the dough ball. Join opposite ends together, press slightly and roll into a ball. Drop into boiling water and cook till they float. Drain. Mix together the grated coconut and salt on a tray or flat plate. Roll in the cooked kuih altogether and pack in the grated coconut till the external is covered.

Serve when it is cooler otherwise the melted hot palm sugar will burn your tongue.

Click the link to get your free Malay kuih recipes and view the pictures and video. Noraini Maskuri is an advertising professional who is also trained in bakery, a food enthusiast and likes to share her love for east/west cooking and baking. Visit her blog at http://www.mycookery.com/blog and download a free chicken cookbook as well.

Other Article Sites

findabook.com  moneycd.info  a-mortgage.info   about-lemon-laws.info  aboutstudentloans.info
all-about-publishing.info  auctions-articles.info  bestcollege-university.com  bestispconnection.com
biblefolder.com  blogger-website.com  books-used.info  brokers-guide.info  buywindows.info  cable-dsl.info
career-miner.com  carpel-tunnel.info  cashinaflash.info  cashloanreviews.info  casinobell.com  chat-house.info
clearmycredit.info  collegeloantips.info  crones.info  depression-articles.info   dirnic.net  dishguides.info
divers-below.com  expodog.info   financewizz.com  fire-insurance.info  getgood.info  handleit.net   it-idea.info
health-supplies.info  hosting-right.com  insidealert.com  insurance-facts.info  jobs-employment.info
justgood.info  lookgold.net   lowcost-travel.info  money-source.info  myhostzone.info  numisblog.com
peoplesearchfinder.info  pr-articles.info  realeas.com   refinancing-guides.info  spyware-remove.info
telelot.info  the-law.info   toppaid.info  travel-deals.info  travelcorrect.com  wedding-guide-site.com
your-blog.info  your-credit.info

MORE ARTICLES:

Mobile Adult Content Market to Approach $3.5 Billion by 2010, Driven by Streamed Video and Video Chat Services, Says Juniper Research
The increasing adoption of streamed video and video chat services, fuelled by a sharp rise in the adoption of 3G services, will push revenues derived from mobile adult services to nearly $3.5 billion by 2010, according to a new report by Juniper Research.

Ten Ways to Help Your Child Make Friends
Nothing touches the heartstrings of a parent or teacher more than the plaintive cry "nobody likes me" or"I don't have any friends." We wish there were something we could do to insure the child will be, if not the most popular, at least included in the games on the playground.

Planning A Family Reunion: How To Get There And Where To Stay
Finding the perfect venue is an important step in the family reunion planning process. If you are a one-person committee, you would go about this by soliciting suggestions from family members who are attending the family reunion and perhaps doing a vote. If there is a committee assigned to find the venue for the family event, they will deliberate among themselves, present it to the members and then handle the logistics.

The Quogue Wildlife Refuge Receives Brine Family Charitable Trust Grant
The Quogue Wildlife Refuge (www.quoguewildliferefuge.com) received the Brine Family Charitable Trust Grant to support preservation of natural habitats, environmental education, and nature exploration.

Hurricane Victims Find Friends in San Antone
If you have ever been to San Antonio you have seen how nice and generous the people are. It is a big little town I like to say.

Top 5 Family Fun Beaches
Planning a vacation with the whole family means you have one primary consideration: keeping the kids happy. If planning a beach vacation, it seems you already have taken care of that main consideration, but not completely. You want to be sure you choose a kid-friendly beach that will also keep the adults happy.

Find Support At One Of Many Parenting Chat Rooms
A few decades ago, if you told an expectant mother there will soon be a way for her to get in contact with other expectant mothers all over the world -- and that it would not be necessary for her to use the telephone to communicate with them -- do you imagine she would have taken you seriously? Seriously, the correct answer is a definite no. During the last ten years, the popularity of parenting chat facilities has ballooned all over the planet.

How To Find Affordable Family Dental Plans
Have you been considering a family dental insurance plan? If so, then you need to read the following article. We've done a direct comparison between dental insurance plans and dental discount plans and the results between the two, good and bad, are below. This should allow you to make an informed decision before you make a purchase. Read on.

Sport Court® Outdoor Game Surfacing Makes a Parking Lot Into a Playground at the Irvin Deutscher Family YMCA
San Francisco's East Bay Area Y serves children, adults and families with new game court facilities.

We Discuss Musical Instruments - Musical Instruments Woodwind Family
In this article we will talk about the musical instruments in the woodwind family. These have always been instruments of interest because they are some of the most natural instruments available to play. Most people enjoy playing these instruments for this reason.

Management Consulting Group Expands Corporate Family with CBH Acquisition: Company Poised to Carve out Global Leadership Position in
Management Consulting Group PLC (MCG) announced today that it is expanding its capabilities in the area of performance management with the acquisition of CBH, a leading provider of performance management solutions including financial planning, metrics management, business intelligence and workflow technologies.

How to Balance Moms Work & Family
Sometimes we are asking ourselves, "How can I do all this?", "Work at home and take care of my family?", "My kids, my home and my husband?", "Can I take this risk?".Well if you do not try, you will never know how challenging is your life and how much you can handle.

Divorce Can Destroy Family If Not Careful
Few things are as tragic or traumatic as a divorce?especially for any school-aged children who may be involved. It is almost a given that despite the best intentions of the parents to keep everything civil, children will still generally choose sides and ultimately decide who they believe caused the divorce. For this parent, reconciliation can seem like an unending nightmare. In many cases, the scars caused by a divorce will linger on in a family for generations to come. While many families choose the ?let?s not talk about the divorce? strategy, few children can accept such a closed-minded answer.

Capitol Nannies is Teaming Up with Parent Magazine to Present the 2006 West Virginia Family Expo
This is a fun family event geared to showcase family focused services and merchandise.