Cereal Cookies with Almond Nib and Coconut

A recipe created for this year Eid Mubarak.... Was scratching my head try to come out with new cookie idea and recipe...something different from last year Eid cookies... Alhamdulillah my mum like it...

Ingredients:

3 cups flour

1 cup corn flour

1 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/4 cup dessicated coconut

1/4 cup almond nib

1/2 cup cereal

Vanilla essence

Cooking chocolate

Methods:

1. Mix butter and sugar until completely mix or until sugar is dissolved

2. Add eggs and vanilla essence and mix till combine

3. Add dessicated coconut, almond nib and cereal, mix until combine

4. Sift flour into the mixture little by little, stir to combine and knead gently until smooth

5. Preheat oven at 180°C/160°C fan-forced. Lined baking tray with parchment paper.

6. Using spoon, drop heaping tablespoon-size balls. This recipe can make between 70-100 pieces depending on your cookies size.

7. Baked until the bottom of the cookie is slightly brown (about 15 - 20 minutes).

8. Remove from oven and let is cool on the baking tray about 1 - 2 minutes.

9. Transfer to wire rack and cool it completely for 

10. Melt cooking chocolate - double-boiled/ using microwave

11.Use Piping bag and drizzle the chocolate on the cookies

Stir Fry Cassava Leaves and Prawn With Fermented Durian

Created this recipe when I just realized that I ran out of coconut milk in my kitchen…. Which I usually stock up a few in a month.. This is the downside when I didn’t do my  monthly groceries shopping…..Sighhh.... 

Ingredients:

Cassava leaves

Prawn

Fermented durian (Tempoyak)

Shallot

Garlic

Bird eyes chillies

Anchovies

Salt

Sugar

Water

Vegetable oil

Methods:

1) Boil water in a pot and add salt and bring to boil

2) Scald the cassava leave in the water until cook for few minutes

3) Drain the water and rinse in cold water

4) Put aside

5) Mince shallot, garlic, bird eye chillies ad anchovies in a mortar or if you do not have mortar, you can just mince the ingredient using knife 

6) Put oil in a pan, and sauté the mince ingredient and fermented durian (tempoyak) until fragrant

7) Add a bit of sugar 

8) Add in prawn and stir fry for a few minutes 

9) Add in cassava leave and add some water and simmer for a few minutes 

10) Add in salt to taste

11) Ready to serve with rice

Tempoyak is referring to fermented durian and usually made from lower quality durian which is not suitable for direct consumption with salt and turmeric. This can be eaten directly or cooked with vegetable or fish or sometimes with meat. The paste is very popular in Malaysia and some part of Indonesia.