【自家製比薩】Pizza

【自家製比薩】Pizza

Ingredients:
Dough:
250g plain flour
180g warm water
1/2 tsp instant yeast
pinch salt
drizzle olive oil

Toppings of your choice

Procedures:
1. Mix and knead the dough. Leave in a bowl covered and prove till double.
2. Knock out the air and roll out the dough.
3. Place your topping of choice on top.
4. Bake at a piping hot oven (to allow the crispy crust to form)
Around 220C to 250C for 10-15min.

Note:
To yield a crispy crust, you may make the dough a day before and refrigerate overnight before using it.
Warm water helps activate the yeast, but make sure its only body temperature. Or else it may kill the yeast.

Deep dish pizza

【海鮮派】Seafood pie

【海鮮派】Seafood pie

Ingredients:

Selection of sea food:

Sea bass fillet diced

Frozen scallops

Prawns

1 carrot diced

1/2 onion diced

1 pc fillo or puff pastry

Own choice of sauce:

1. Bechmel sauce: flour, butter, milk and stock

2. Passata: diced tomato

Procedures:

1. Fry off the vegetables in a pan.

2. Siere off the fish (depending on thickness, this step is optional)

3. Layer the seafood and pour over the sauce.

4. Layer pastry on top and eggwash.

5. Bake at 180C for 20min until crsipy and golden top.

【玉米餅】Corn Fritters

Never get the correct ratio for whole corn n corn puree.
This so so frustrating yet at the same time, the true spirit behind cooking. Trial, error and the will for perfection ><

【玉米餅】Corn Fritters

Western style
Ingredients:
1 canned corn
60g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 onion diced
1 egg
20ml milk/ cream
pepper n salt
grated cheese

Procedures:
1. Combine all together
2. Pour batter into pan and fry like pancakes.

Indian Style
Ingredients:
4 whole corn kernel
4 cloves garlic
3 shallots
4 Tbsp self-raising flour
2 eggs
pepper n salt

Procedures:
1. Blend all ingredients in a blender
2. Pan-fry

Quiche Lorraine

Quiche Lorraine
Ingredients:
Short crust pastry: (replaceable with filo pastry)
110g butter
250g flour
4tbsp water (or 1 yolk)

Filling:
1 pack of bacon diced
3 eggs
200ml milk n cream
1 onion diced
Grated cheese
(Additional veg: broccoli or leeks)

Procedures:
1. Blind bake crust for 15min at 200C
2. Pan fry bacon n onion, add into liquid and pour into crust.
3. Bake at 180C for 45min.

【豬里肌伴蘋果醬】Porchetta with apple sauce

【豬里肌伴蘋果醬】Porchetta with apple sauce

Ingredients:

Pork Tenderloin

Bacon

Spice rub:

1/2 tsp fennel seed

3 clove garlic

1 tsp sage

2 tsp rosemary

pepper

salt 

lemon zest

olive oil

Apple sauce:

2 apple diced

cinnamon

nutmeg

2 tsp sugar

Procedures:

1. Open up the pork tenderloin, and rub the inside and outside with the spice rub.

2. Wrap the tenderloin with bacon on the outside.

3. Chill the whole roll in the refrigerator for 1 hr in order to set.

4. Bake at 230C for 25min until internal temp reaches 57C

5. Let it rest for 10min