Fresh Spinach Noodles Recipe

Fresh Spinach Noodles making...my Saturday stay home project 😅. 1st fresh noodle making for 2022 😁 I am happy I get to crank up the pasta maker again. I had make fresh noodles many times in 2021 but for this time I added blended spinach to the dough. Thank God it turned out great. I used the egg noodle recipe. I had to tweak the recipe a bit  because the spinach has water content, meaning I have to reduced the egg to accommodate the liquid from the blended spinach. The texture maintained the same as the egg noodles. A well balanced of nutrients in the noodles...iron from the spinach and protein from the eggs :)

beautiful strands of cooked noodles

crank crank crank I love doing it

I like what I am looking at

the speckled look on the rolled out

dough sheet

Fresh Spinach Noodle Recipe

Ingredients

300 gm AP Flour

2 eggs - removed a tbsp of white

1tbsp vegetable oil

1/4 cup or less juice of blended blanched spinach

1/2 tsp salt

( Total weight of eggs,oil, spinach juice shoul be 145gm )

2 tbsp of the pulp of spinach to be added to the dough for a speckled look on the noodles.

Combine all the ingredients together and knead till the dough becomes a rough textured ball. Do not worry if the dough looks dry. 

Wrap dough in a plastic bag and leave to rest for 30 mins. After which ,the dough will be more malleable.

Take out the dough and knead it lightly. Place dough between two plastic sheet and roll into a rectangular shape  and fold the dough like folding a letter. 

(A) Do the roll out and fold two times. 

Place dough back into plastic bag and leave the dough to rest for an hour. 

Repeat step (A) and rest dough for another one hour .

Divide dough into 3 portions

If using pasta maker. Roll out dough from #0 to #5, then cut into strands

Dust dough with potato starch before cutting , to prevent sticking.

Repeat until all dough are used up.

Heat up a pot of water. When water boils ,put in the noodles. Cook for 3mins. Take out noodles and add oil so that the noodles doesn't stick together. 

Enjoy!

2022 - Yam Cake Remake

2022 looks promising in Elin's Kitchen. Good stuff coming out from it 😂 My first Yam Cake in 2022. My hubby says " keep them coming " 🤣 His favourite kuih is Yam Cake😁

Recipe link is at the end of page.

I pray that I can continue to cook and bake till my last breath. 

May God continues to bless everyone on earth with good health and keep everyone safe from Covid and flood. Amen!

Recipe Link for the Yam Cake

 http://www.elinluv.com/2008/07/steamed-yam-cake.html?m=1

Salted Egg Yolk Chicken

I have added this dish to our dinner menu list. Salted Egg Chicken is a delicious fried chicken nugget dish that is stir fried with salted egg yolk , curry leaves, chilli and garlic. The chicken nuggets remain crispy on the outside and every bites full of the flavourful salted egg yolk.  Recipe link is shared at the bottom of page. 

I tweaked the recipe by using the salted duck egg white instead of using whole egg and coated the nugget sized chicken pieces with potato starch.  And deep fried in hot oil till lightly browned.

these are the ingredients used for making this delicious salted egg yolk chicken

Recipe link

https://youtu.be/UBxJEdqeKMA

 

Spaghetti Aglio Olio With Treasures From The Sea

New Year Dinner...we had Spaghetti Aglio Olio topped with treasures from the sea. We just wanna finish all the seafood in the freezer. So glad we managed to pull up this dish for our first dinner 2022 😂 I always have a reason for having these artery clogging goodness...simply coz it's still New Year. We can starve on seafood for the rest of the year okay. Actually these seafood were bought in November 2021 for Christmas but we didn't get to eat them all 😅

Hubby helped to pan fried all the seafood on the Lodge cast iron pan. Once they are cooked, he dished them up and start saute the freshly chopped garlic, chilli till fragrant. After which he added in the cooked spaghetti and mixed them well in the cast iron pan. He added in the store bought Aglio Olio seasoning powder and gives the pasta a quick stir and some of the pasta water. Add salt to taste and topped the cooked seafood onto the spaghetti before serving. What a wonderful pasta dish for our first New Year dinner.

Enjoy!

Homemade Pizza With Beef Salami

Our first meal of 2022.....my signature pizza 😂 My hubby loves pizza and all these years married to him, I learned to make them and the toppings are mostly his favourites...Beef Salami and plenty of Mozzarella but me, the home Chef ,will control his intake of cheese 😁. I added leftovers of roast chicken. The tomato sauce , I used the canned one with peeled tomato, so  I save buying fresh tomatoes. I added mixed herbs to the tomato sauce and thickens it. I also grated the Mozzarella and cheddar cheese and stored them in IKEA  Ziploc bags and throw the balance into the freezer for future use. It was worth the efforts making the pizza from scratch. It turned out yummilicious. A generous sprinkles of dried oregano on the top while it is still hot, adds flavour to the pizza. 

The crust dough recipe is shared below.

Dough Recipe for the crust base

1.5 cups AP Flour

1cup High Protein Flour

4gm instant yeast

1tsp salt

1tsp sugar

2tbsp olive oil

1cup warm water

Mix all the ingredients together and knead till smooth (abt 6 mins) Leave to rest for 30 mins. Divide dough into 2 portions. One portion of dough can fit a 8 inch dia. round pizza tray.

Toppings of your choice.

Enjoy!

Banana Butter Cake

Had a craving for baking last night. So Banana Butter Cake it is!  I have a comb of  banana at home and since the Hubby loves butter cake, I decided to make this delicious , moist and buttery cake, packed with sweet fragrant banana (Pisang Berangan ) We somehow prefer this banana for cake making as it is not overly strong in fragrance.  I decided to use a recipe that does not uses too much butter but yet give the cake its buttery taste. I made the right choice. The hubby loves the perfect ratio of butter,eggs and banana in the cake recipe. Easy to whip up and a healthier version of butter cake with the right amount of banana in it. Banana-ey yet has the texture of a butter cake.

 love the texture, the aroma and the top crusts of the cake

 you can even get the bits of banana in the cake.....beautifully baked

lazy me..just line the cake tin without cutting the parchment paper

 Banana Butter Cake -  recipe taken from Apron

Preheat oven to 160C for 15 minutes.  Line a cake tin with parchment paper. Baking tin is 14cmx6cm square mould.

Ingredients:

120 gm unsalted butter

60 gm sugar ( 50gm for me )

2 eggs ( of 55gm each egg)

180 gm mashed banana

120 gm cake flour

1/2 tsp salt 

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

Method:

Sieve cake flour,salt ,baking powder and baking soda together. Leave aside

Mash banana coarsely

Cream butter and sugar till fluffy, Slowly add in eggs and whisk till well incorporated into the butter mixture. Add in the mashed banana and fold into the butter egg mixture till well blended in. Fold in the flour mixture gently into the butter egg mixture in  two batches. Pour  cake mixture into lined baking tin and bake at 160C320F for 40 to 50 mins. Cool the cake before slicing.