How to make Butter Rice

Serve this butter rice with curry, chicken roast or meat stew. Recipe for 6 people.

Ingredients for Butter Rice:

1. 2 cups rice - washed and drained
2. 3 cups water or chicken stock
3. 4 dessertspoons butter
4. 1 dessertspoons chopped onions
5. A small piece of cinnamon and 2 cloves or 1/4 teaspoon of powdered cinnamon
6. 1/4 to 1 cup raisins

Method:

• Put butter in pan and fry chopped onions till golden brown.
• Add rice and fry for about 2 minutes.
• Add water or stock, cover and cook on steady fire till water is absorbed.
• Lower flame and allow rice to cook slowly in its own steam. When rice is cooked, add salt, raisins, cinnamon and cloves. Add more butter if desired.
• Leave pan of rice on slow flame for about 10 minutes before serving.
• To serve, place butter rice on platter and decorate top with fried onions, blanched almonds - fried brown in butter.

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Coffee Butter Buns recipe

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The Arabic Food Recipes kitchen (The Home of Delicious Arabic Food Recipes) invites you to try Coffee Butter Buns Recipe. Enjoy the Arabic Cuisine and  learn how to make Coffee Butter Buns.   


Ingredients

For the coffee butter

1 cup butter, room temperature

1 1/2  cup powdered sugar

3 eggs, beaten

2 Tablespoon instant coffee dissolved in 1 tablespoon water

1/4  teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 2/3  all-purpose flour

For the dough

3 2/3  cup all-purpose flour

2 1/2  Tablespoon milk powder

1/3  cup sugar

1 teaspoon salt

2/3  Tablespoon yeast

1 egg, beaten

1 1/8  cup water

1/4 cup butter,room temperature

Method

For the coffee butter

- Cream butter with sugar using an electric mixer until light and fluffy.

- Gradually beat in eggs. Add coffee, while beating constantly.

- Sift the flour, add gradually, continue beating until well combined. Refrigerate for 20 minutes.

For the dough

- Mix flour, milk powder, sugar and salt using an electric mixer on low speed for 1 minute.

- Add yeast, eggs and water. Kneadon medium speed for 8 minutes.

- Add butter, kneading for 5 more minutes until soft, elastic dough is formed.

- Shape into a ball, divide into equal portions (around 55 gm.each ) ,shape into balls. Cover and rest for 10minutes.

- Poke the ball in the middle, fill it with a 10 gm butter pieces. Mold dough over filling and press seams to seal. Roll into balls.

- Arrange stuffed balls on a baking tray, cover and let rise for 45 minutes or until doubled in size.

- Preheat oven to 200 Celsius degrees.

- Put the coffee butter cream in a small piping bag, pipe in concentric circle pattern onto the buns.

- Bake for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown.

- Serve warm.

Chef Osama

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How to make Ikan Pepes

A slightly less risky snack of cooked fish, wrapped with pounded ingredients and grilled in a banana leaf parcel. Looks good, smells great, but wasn't anything special. Simple Singapore food.

Ingredients for Ikan Pepes:

• 4 medium sized fish (horsemackerel)
• 10 dried chillies (soaked in water)
• 6 shallots
• 3 garlic
• 1 thumb-sized turmeric
• 1 slice ginger
• 1 lemon grass
• 1 thumb-sized galangal (lengkuas)
• 1/2 grated coconut
• 1 tsp salt
• banana leaves

Method:

1. Wash and clean fish. Drain.
2. In a mortar, pound chillies, shallots, garlic, turmeric, ginger, lemon grass, galangal to a fine paste. Keep aside.
3. In a medium bowl, combine pounded ingredients, grated coconut and salt. Mix well and coat each fish with the mixture. Wrap each fish in banana leaf. Place in oven and bake (or grill over a charcoal fire) for 30 minutes, turning over once or twice during baking.
4. Enjoy!

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Chicken with Vegetables Recipe

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The Arabic Food Recipes kitchen (The Home of Delicious Arabic Food Recipes) invites you to try Chicken with Vegetables Recipe. Enjoy the Arabic Cuisine and  learn how to make Chicken with Vegetables. 

Ingredients

For the stock
1 chopped carrots in big pieces
1 chopped onion in big pieces
1/2 celery chopped in cubes
Parsley sticks
3 whole cardamoms
1/2 tea spoon whole black pepper
1 tea spoon whole carnation
Salt

For the Chicken
1 ½ kilo chicken approximately
¼ tea spoon Ground turmeric
¼ tea spoon Ground cinnamon
Chili pepper (optional)
¼ tea spoon Ground dry coriander
¼ tea spoon Ground cardamom
½ tea spoon whole black pepper
½ whole carnation
½ cup mashed tomatoes
1 Chopped potatoes in medium cubes
1 Chopped colorful pepper in medium cubes
1 Chopped eggplants in medium cubes

Method

For the stock
• Put water in a pan and add chicken wings, carrots, onion, celery, parsley, cardamom, black pepper, carnation and salt.
• Place over medium heat, cover but not completely.
• Remove foam and leave to boil then reduce to low heat.

For the chicken:

• Wash chicken well and cut in eight pieces.
• Mix turmeric, cinnamon, chili pepper, dry coriander, cardamom, little oil, in a pan, and then mix well until the mixture becomes like paste.
• Put chicken pieces on the mixture and roll well until they are covered completely. Set aside to marinate.
• Heat olive oil over medium fire and add whole cardamom, whole black pepper and whole carnations.
• Add chicken pieces and fry well from all sides.
• Add little stock and mash tomatoes.
• Add vegetable pieces, season with salt, cover and leave until the chicken is tender.
• Serve with vegetables.

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Stuffed grilled Colored peppers recipe

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The Arabic Food Recipes kitchen (The Home of Delicious Arabic Food Recipes) invites you to try Stuffed grilled Colored peppers Recipe. Enjoy the Arabic Cuisine and  learn how to make Stuffed grilled Colored peppers. 

Ingredients

4 colored bell peppers
¼ cup olive oil
4 cups mashed grilled eggplant
½ cup feta cheese
2 tablespoon chopped mint
1 cup fresh chopped sausage
½ cup cream
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
1 tablespoon lemon juice
½ cup burgle (soaked and drained)
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 cup chopped onion
Salt and pepper
2 tablespoon tomato paste

Method

- Turn the broiler on.
- Wash and dry the peppers, brush them with oil, arrange on an oven tin, grill for 10 minutes with frequent turn over.
- While hot, put in a plastic bag, this will make it easily to peel.
- Mix the stuffing ingredients (eggplant, cheese, mint, sausage, cream, coriander, parsley, lemon juice, burgle, garlic and onion, then season with salt and pepper).
- Stuff the peppers.
- In a skillet heat the oil over a medium heat, and then fry the peppers.
- Add the tomato paste, stir and let it simmer until thickened and cooked.
- Arrange on a serving plate , garnish with the tomato paste and serve hot.

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Moroccan rissoles recipe

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The Arabic Food Recipes kitchen (The Home of Delicious Arabic Food Recipes) invites you to try Moroccan rissoles Recipe. Enjoy the Arabic Cuisine and  learn how to make Moroccan rissoles.

Ingredients (serves 4)

400g lamb mince
1 long red chilli, deseeded, finely chopped
2 teaspoons finely grated lemon rind
3 teaspoons Moroccan seasoning
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1/4 cup finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves
yoghurt, lemon wedges and fresh mint leaves, to serve
Lemon and currant couscous
1 1/3 cups couscous
2 tablespoons currants
1 1/3 cups boiling water
2 teaspoons finely grated lemon rind
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 cup finely chopped fresh mint leaves

Method

Make lemon and currant couscous: Place couscous and currants in a heatproof bowl. Add water. Cover and stand for 5 minutes. Add lemon rind, lemon juice and mint. Stir with a fork to separate grains.

Combine mince, chilli, lemon rind, seasoning, garlic and parsley in a large bowl. Using clean hands, shape mixture into four 2cm-thick rissoles. Place on a plate.

Cook rissoles in a large frying pan sprayed with oil, over mdium-high heat, for 3 to 5 minutes each side or until cooked through.

Serve rissoles with couscous, yoghurt, lemon and mint.

Source
Super Food Ideas - March 2008, Page 51
Recipe by Liz Macri

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How to make Shark's Fin Soup

Shark's Fin Soup recipe.

Ingredients for Shark's Fin Soup:

• 300 g shark's fin
• 6 pairs of chicken feet
• 1 chicken breast - shredded
• 5 cups water
• Salt to taste
• 200 g crab meat
• 1 1/2 tsp cornflour mixed with 1 tbsp water
• 1 egg white - beat lightly
• black vinegar
• ground pepper

Method:

1. Wash shark's fin in warm water and strain. Keep aside.
2. Bring chicken feet and chicken breast to boil over high flame for 5 minutes, reduce flame to low and simmer for 20 mins. Strain the stock.
3. Bring chicken stock to boil with salt, add shark's fin, shredded chicken meat and crab meat. Simmer for 3 mins, thicken with cornflour.
4. Lastly add in egg white. Remove and serve with black vinegar and pepper.

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Hot Curried Crab

Hot and Spicy Curried Crab made with curry leaves, dried chillies, halba seeds, mustard seeds, black peppercorns, chilli padi and jintan manis.

Ingredients for curried crab:

• 2 kg fresh meaty crab - cleaned and halved
• Salt to taste
• 4 sprigs curry leaves
• 4 dried chillies, broken up
• Cucumber slices to serve with crab - optional
• 1 tsp halba seeds
• 1 tbsp mustard seeds
• 6 tbsp oil
• 20 twin shallots, sliced 
• 4 cm piece cinnamon stick
• 2 limes
• 1/4 litre thick coconut milk extracted from 1/2 scrapped coconut

Spices to grind:

• 1 tbsp black peppercorns
• 20 dried chillies
• 10 ripe chilli padi
• 1 clove garlic
• 3 cm piece turmeric
• 1 tbsp jintan manis

Method:

1. Heat oil in saucepan. Fry firstly the shallots till golden brown, adding dried chilli, mustard seeds and halba, cinnamon and curry leaves.
2. Meanwhile mix thoroughly the ground spices with coconut milk and salt, pouring this into the saucepan, stirring well.
3. Add the crab and cook quickly over high heat till crab is cooked and dry.
4. Lift from heat and squeeze limes over.

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Broad bean dip & Moroccan mezze platter recipe

The Arabic Food Recipes kitchen (The Home of Delicious Arabic Food Recipes) invites you to try Broad bean dip & Moroccan mezze platter Recipe. Enjoy the Arabic Cuisine and  learn how to make Broad bean dip & Moroccan mezze platter Triangles.

Serves: 6

Ingredients

2 x 300ml tins broad beans, drained
2 small garlic cloves peeled and crushed
1tsp dried thyme leaves
1tsp ground cumin
pinch of salt
5tbsp extra virgin olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
good squeeze of lemon juice
pinch of paprika, to serve

Place all of the ingredients in a food processor and blitz until smooth. Taste and add any extra salt or lemon juice if needed. Transfer to a bowl and just before serving drizzle with a little olive oil and scatter with a pinch of paprika.

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Red Pepper Hummus with Toasted Pita Triangles Recipe

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The Arabic Food Recipes kitchen (The Home of Delicious Arabic Food Recipes) invites you to try Red Pepper Hummus with Toasted Pita Triangles Recipe. Enjoy the Arabic Cuisine and  learn how to make Red Pepper Hummus with Toasted Pita Triangles.

Total Time: 18 min
Prep 10 min
Cook 8 min

Yield: about 4 to 6 servings

Level: Easy

Ingredients

4 whole-wheat pita pockets, cut into triangles
Cooking spray
Garlic salt
1 (15-ounce) can chickpeas, drained
1 cup sauteed red peppers
1/4 cup tahini (sesame paste)
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
3 to 4 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon ground cumin
Salt and ground black pepper
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley leaves

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Place pita triangles on a large baking sheet and spray the surface with cooking spray. Season the tops with garlic salt. Bake 6 to 8 minutes, until golden brown and crisp.

Meanwhile, rinse and drain 1 can of the chickpeas. Place drained chickpeas in a blender and add red peppers, tahini, lemon juice, garlic, and cumin. Process until smooth. Season, to taste, with salt and black pepper. Transfer to a serving bowl and top with parsley.

Serve hummus with toasted pita triangles arranged alongside.

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Build-Your-Own Shish Kabobs Recipe

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The Arabic Food Recipes kitchen (The Home of Delicious Arabic Food Recipes) invites you to try Build-Your-Own Shish Kabobs Recipe. Enjoy the Arabic Cuisine and  learn how to make Build-Your-Own Shish Kabobs.

Ingredients

Meats for Kabobs:

Dijon-Rosemary Steak:

1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons fresh rosemary, stemmed
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 pound sirloin steak, cut into 1-inch cubes

Citrus-Tarragon Chicken:

1 orange, zested, then juiced, remainder discarded
1 lemon, zested, then juiced, remainder discarded
1 lime, zested, then juiced, remainder discarded
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon fresh tarragon leaves
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup canola oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1-inch cubes

Lemon-Garlic Shrimp:

3 cloves garlic, minced
2 shallots, minced
1 bay leaf (fresh or dried)
2 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves
1/4 cup finely chopped fresh Italian parsley
1 teaspoon chili pepper flakes
1/4 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 pound (16 to 20 count) shrimp, shelled and deveined

Veggies For Kabobs:

Bell peppers
Onions
Cherry tomatoes
Mushrooms
Italian squash
Baby potatoes, boiled until cooked through
Corn on the cob, husked and sliced into 1/2-inch-thick rounds

Balsamic Basting Vinaigrette for Veggies:

1/4 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
Salt and pepper
If using bamboo skewers, soak them in water for 1 hour to retard charring.

Directions

Whisk together all of the Dijon-rosemary steak ingredients (except the steak) in a bowl. Toss the steak in the mixture until evenly coated. Cover and marinate in refrigerator for 2 hours.

Whisk together all of the citrus-tarragon chicken ingredients (except the chicken) in a bowl. Toss the chicken in the mixture until evenly coated. Cover and marinate in refrigerator for 2 hours.

Whisk together all of the lemon garlic shrimp ingredients (except the shrimp) in a bowl. Toss the shrimp in the mixture until evenly coated. Cover and marinate in refrigerator for 2 hours.

Cut vegetables into bite-size pieces.

Puree balsamic basting vinaigrette ingredients in a blender for 30 seconds.

Place meats, shrimp, and veggies in individual bowls and set out buffet style. Instruct your guests to skewer their own kabobs and baste veggies with balsamic vinaigrette.

Grill kabobs directly over heat source for about 10 to 15 minutes, turning 1/4 rotation every 2 to 3 minutes, or until the meat and/or fish is cooked throughout.

Recipe courtesy Bob Blumer

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