Nothing but a tasty pancake

Today my daughter decided to do something on her own. She wanted to make some tasty pancake. So my wife dig up the following recipe. Not a Nyonya dish but it is edible and children love making and eating them. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients

200g wheat flour
300ml milk
1 egg
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoon sugar
Butter to fry

Method
Break the egg in a deep bowl. Add milk, butter and stir. Add wheat flour and continue stirring. Stir in salt and sugar. Make sure that all ingredients are properly mixed and not lumpy. Heat up a pan and add some butter. Once it is heated scoop about 4 tablespoon of the pancake mixture into the pan. Once it set, you can flip it over and cook until light brown. Serve plain or with kaya or honey. Kids will love them. The mixure should be able to make up to 8 pancakes. You can also use vanilla or strawberry flavoured milk to give your pancakes added difference.

Chicken Pong Teh

This is a traditional dish that most nyonya know how to cook. It is a must serve dish for the Chinese New Year. It is not that difficult to cook if you get the recipe right. Below is my wife's recipe and I hope you will enjoy cooking and your family members will enjoy eating.
Ingredients:
600g chicken
1 tablespoon cooking oil
4 medium size potatos
100g sliced shallots
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
2 tablespoon taucheo paste(fermented soya beans)
1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
2 tablespoon sugar
1 litre water
Method
Cut chicken into serving size
Peel potato and cut each potato into 4 cubes.
Heat oil in a wok and add in sliced shallots and garlic. Fry until light brown. Add in taucheo paste and fry for 1 minute.
Add the chicken, potato, dark soy sauce, sugar, and water. Cover and bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer for about 1 1/2 hour until meat and potato is tender and soft. Serve and enjoy.

Nyonya and Baba

If you want to know more about the history of Nyonya and Baba, you can visit this link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peranakan

The recipes that I will be sharing with your are very close to my wife heart as they are passed down from one generation to the next. I have tasted all of them and I hope you will be able to try it out yourself and enjoy the flavours of the rich cultural mixed of our country, Malaysia. Apart from the Nyonya flavours, I will include other recipe that we love so much in Malaysia, like the assam laksa, satay, mutton curry, soup kambing, ayam masak merah, bakuteh, chicken rice, char kueh teow, nasi beryani, chinese fried rice, curry laksa, steam siakap, deep fried garuppa, wanton mee and lots more.

So do come back and visit this blog often.