Bakpia / Pia / Tau Sar Piah

It's no secret that I love to visit a thrift store and most the time I hunting for bargain book even my step daughter, gave me I-book for Christmas present but, nothing can change my habit to read from actual book. I always love the crisp sound of paper, especially an old paperback novel. So, when I visit the thrift store last time, my eyes hooked to a red simple book . 'Peony In Love' - oh, wow .. a new York best selling book and just only $1.50 andsince I came on Tuesday I got additional disc.20% for every book . No hesitate, just grab and pay for several good book too.

I thought I will read a boring love story book but not at all, I'm so obsess with this book . The book it's about an amazing unforgettable l journey of a young girl's love and loss through her life and her death. In some part of the story is base on a real story and some Chinese people still practicing ritual as same as like the author wrote in Peony In Love Book. What I can say is I have no regret to  spend my free time reading this book and forget about my sewing stuff for awhile :D

Anyway, back to my kitchen .. I've been craving for Bakpia since long time ago ; Bakpia is are small round-shaped Indonesian pastries made  usually stuffed with mung beans.I've been tried several recipe, but never happy with the result. The cookies layer become hard after next day. So frustrated, until I found one recipe via goggle . Ola..la.. I'm so glad the result comes as perfect as I want ; too much work to make this tiny cookies, but worth it. And you know what, actually, Bakpia is not only known by Indonesian people ; Malaysian ; Singaporean and another Asian country people known this cookies too with pretty similar name 'tau sar piah' oh .. wow.. cool.

So let's try this recipe than :

Bakpia / Pia / Tau Sar Piah

Recipe : Sonia - http://nasilemaklover.blogspot.com/ - modify by Fitri

Filling :

400g peeled mung beans (soaked overnight, steamed and mashed),

2tsp salt

250g fine sugar

100g cooking oil

Oil Dough (A)

125g flour

35g vegetable shortening

35g cooking oil

Water Dough (B)

250g sifted all-purpose flour

1/2 tsp fine sugar

65g vegetable shortening

120-130ml water

Method

Filling :

1. Combine sugar, salt, and mashed beans in a large bowl. Mix well. (you can use food processor too to make it faster)

2. Heat oil in wok or pan. add the bean mixture, stir-fry on low heat till it becomes dry and able to form a ball. 

3. Remove from heat . Cool completely, divide and shape filling into 34 equal portion balls (around 20-22g).

To make Tau Sar Piah

1. Prepare dough A and B separately using the same method. Bring together all ingredients for each dough, mix well and knead to form soft dough. Cover and let them rest for 20 minutes. Divide and shape each dough into 34 equal portion balls.

2. Wrap dough A with dough B. Roll it out into long rectangle shape. Then roll up the dough like the swiss roll. Repeat this step twice.

3. Roll it out into a circle and place the filling at the center. Bring all edges together and pinch to seal.

4. Egg wash and bake in preheated oven at 180 degree C for 20 minutes or till golden brown.

Note :

The original recipe is using slice shallot from 1 bulk of shallot and white pepper- but I skip this part

I found interesting method to roll bakpia here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryWDFF_OCFo&feature=related

Dirty Rice

Oh..wow, first time posting for New Year 2012 - No bad at all :)

This dish is pretty simple and one of alternative to clean up your refrigerator. You can use almost all ingredients you can find on your kitchen :)  Inspired by Paula Deen - with several modification from me, since we didn't eat pork , I add some green healthy veggies.  And one note from me is , using BASMATI RICE or long grain rice only ; so the texture of rice will still look nice and you won't find broken rice when the rice is cooked (this is big NO .. NO when you serving rice to my Iranian's Husband  ^-^  )

Dirty Rice by Fitri Rumah Manis

Ingredients

4- 5 chicken liver (you can skip the liver if you don't like the taste, but trust me..you will never taste the liver after you mixed all the ingredients together)

1 pound ground beef

1/4 cup oil

1 cup chopped onion

8 garlic cloves, chopped finely

1 cup chopped celery

1 cup green onion

1/2 cup chopped green onions, both white and green parts

1/4 cup chopped parsley

2 tomato, seedless, diced
4 cups basmati rice, cooked

1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Red chili flakes

Directions

Put liver in separate saucepan. Cover with water and simmer until tender. Chop fine and set aside. Saute ground meats in oil until well done. Add onion, garlic, celery,green onions,green beans. Cook until tender. Add livers, parsley, and Worcestershire sauce. Cook about 15 minutes. Add rice then season with salt, pepper, and red chili flakes and add tomato dice at last. Serve immediately