Easy Recipes

Giew Hor Cheese (Cheese Sacks with Chilli Sauce) Recipe

Ingredients

120 gms Wheat Flour
1 Egg
1 Tablespoon Oil
4 Small Spring Onions
Oil for Deep Frying
200 gms Brie Cheese

Rolling Pin

Preparation

Mix the flour with the egg and oil together and knead the flour for a minute until it forms a smooth dough.
Place the dough in a bowl, cover it with a damp cloth, and let it rest for 5 minutes.
Chop the spring onions into 8 cm long and very thin strips. You will use these as strings to tie the sacks with. Heat your deep-fat oil, and fry the spring onion strips for just a few seconds to make them soft. Do not let them go brown!
To make a pastry sack, roll the dough until flat and 1-2mm thick.
Cut the pastry into squares, 6x6 cm
Chop the cheese into small cubes to approx 2 cm on each side.
Place the cheese into the center of a square of pastry, pull up the edges into a sack shape, and tie it with one of the spring onion strips.
Get the frying oil good and hot before you fry these sacks (190 degrees Celsius).
Fry for 1 minute. The cheese will just melt and the pastry should just be browned and they should float to the top.
Serve with sweet chili dipping sauce, this sauce is essential to the dish.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon vegetable oil
2 tablespoons grated fresh ginger
1 stalk lemon grass, minced
2 teaspoons red curry paste
4 cups chicken broth
3 tablespoons fish sauce
1 tablespoon light brown sugar
3 (13.5 ounce) cans coconut milk
1/2 pound fresh shiitake mushrooms, sliced
1 pound medium shrimp - peeled and deveined
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
salt to taste
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro

Directions

Heat the oil in a large pot over medium heat.
Cook and stir the ginger, lemongrass, and curry paste in the heated oil for 1 minute.
Slowly pour the chicken broth over the mixture, stirring continually.
Stir in the fish sauce and brown sugar; simmer for 15 minutes.
Stir in the coconut milk and mushrooms; cook and stir until the mushrooms are soft, about 5 minutes.
Add the shrimp; cook until no longer translucent about 5 minutes.
Stir in the lime juice; season with salt; garnish with cilantro.

Ingredients

3 cucumbers - peeled, seeded, and grated
3 tablespoons crushed dried shrimp
2/3 pound long beans, sliced thin and mashed
5 cherry tomatoes, halved
5 Thai chilies, sliced thin
1 tablespoon palm sugar
2 tablespoons fish sauce
juice of 1 lime, or more to taste
3 tablespoons roasted peanuts, chopped

Directions

Toss the cucumbers, dried shrimp, beans, and tomatoes together in a bowl.
Stir the Thai chilies, palm sugar, fish sauce, and lime juice together in a small bowl; pour over the cucumber mixture. Toss to combine. Adjust seasoning to your taste. Sprinkle chopped peanuts over the mixture to serve.

Ingredients

- 250 g. suji (semolina)
- 250 g. sugar
- 150 g. ghee
- 6-8 cardamom

Doodhi is an extract juice of Suji or semolina.
To make doodhi, put Suji in a small saucepan add sufficient water and soak for at least 3 hours.
Wet a large piece of muslin and tie it securely over the top of a small bowl.
Place small amount of soaked suji on the wet muslin, pour little water at a time and rub vigorously with your palm and fist. Extract all juice and discard the residue, (phok).
Place this juice (doodhi) at room temperature for several hours or until the thick milk settle down at the bottom of the pan and clear water floats on the top. Carefully Drain off the clear water from the top.

Method

1. Put sugar, half cup of water, ghee and cardamoms in a karahi or heavy based sauce pan.
2. Stirring constantly cook over low heat until a thick and light brown syrup is formed. Stand well back, in case of spluttering, and pour immediately the juice (doodhi).
3. Stirring constantly fry (bhuna) till ghee float on the top.
4. Garnish with melon seeds, grated Coconut, Pistachio and almonds. Serve hot.
Can be stored in refrigerator for a month.
Origin of this recipe is Kalabagh district Mianwali.
This delicious dish is used in Mianwali, lakki Marwat, Bannu, kohat, Karak and Attock districts
of Pakistan.
Doodhi ka halwa can serve as a breakfast and as a sweet dish with meal.

Ingredients

- 225g basmati rice
- 400ml water
- 200g gur (break into small pieces)
-1\4 cup ghee
- 1 tsp. aniseed
- 8 green cardamom seeds,
crushed
- 4 cloves
- 100g blanched almonds, cut into slivers
- 50g unsalted pistachio nuts, cut into slivers
- 25g green raisins
- 1tsp. lemon juice

Method

1. Rinse rice in a sieve under the running water, then soak it in cold water for 30 minutes. Drain.
2. Put water and gur in a pan and bring to boil. Boil for two minutes, then remove from heat and strain.
3. In another heavy based pan heat ghee, add cardamom, aniseed and clove. Stirring all the time, fry these for couple of minutes. Stand well back, in case of spluttering, and add rice along with syrup. Bring to boil, then reduce heat to low.
4. Add almonds, pistachio nuts, green raisins and lemon juice. Stir just once, cover with a tight fitting lid and cook for 20 minutes until syrup is completely absorbed.

Sohan Halwa (Sohann Halwaa) Recipe

Ingredients

225g basmati rice
- 400ml water
- 200g gur (break into small pieces)
-1\4 cup ghee
- 1 tsp. aniseed
- 8 green cardamom seeds,
crushed
- 4 cloves
- 100g blanched almonds, cut into slivers
- 50g unsalted pistachio nuts, cut into slivers
- 25g green raisins
- 1tsp. lemon juice

Method

1. Rinse rice in a sieve under the running water, then soak it in cold water for 30 minutes. Drain.
2. Put water and gur in a pan and bring to boil. Boil for two minutes, then remove from heat and strain.
3. In another heavy based pan heat ghee, add cardamom, aniseed and clove. Stirring all the time, fry these for couple of minutes. Stand well back, in case of spluttering, and add rice along with syrup. Bring to boil, then reduce heat to low.
4. Add almonds, pistachio nuts, green raisins and lemon juice. Stir just once, cover with a tight fitting lid and cook for 20 minutes until syrup is completely absorbed.