Bakso (meatball) recipe

I like making it from scratch rather than buying it, delicious, smooth and healthy (no MSG) :)

Ingredients:
 ++ meatball
600 gram mince beef
6 egg (only the white part)
1 big shallot
4 cloves garlic
2 tsp garlic powder
3 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp sugar
200 gram tapioca starch
water to boil


How to:
1. chopped garlic and shallot, fried it and set a side
2. Combine all meatball ingredients well
3. boil the water (enough to see the meatball floating)
4. wet your palm before you round the meatballs (so that the surface will be smooth)
5. put meatballs into boiling water, wait until it floats, scoop it out (you can put in ice water afterward if you want too, to stop cooking process and harden the meatball)

ready :), you can make a complete bakso meal, or use it to eat with fried noodles or fried rice.
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++ For the soup:
(when you do not have beef bones)

salt and black pepper

1 big onion

1 big carrots

1 big leek

How to:

Combine all and boil for about an hour. 

Notes: For a better soup, you can boil beef bones for up to 5 hours

** soup will taste better the next day too :)

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COMPLETE bakso meal:

Ingredient:

Bakso

pangsit (wantan skin with bakso filling)

bakso tahu (toufu meatball)

bakso telor (egg meatball)

 ** pangsit: take 1 layer of wantan skin > put the filling in the middle> close diagonally and put water to close it together

     egg meatball: boil the egg first > cover it with meatball (the one before rounding to boil stage) for the outside layer

     toufu meatball: cut square toufu to get 4 triangle > slice the middle corner to make way for the filling

           BOIL all the same way until it float

yellow egg noodle

bihun (rice noodle)

fried shallot

daun bawang (

vinegar

chili

kecap (black sweet soya)

How to:

1. let the noodle and bihun boil, once cook put in a bowl

2. insert the meatballs and scoop it out

3. put the rest of the ingredient on a bowl as per your liking.

For: 20 pangsit, 8 toufu meatball, 2 egg meat ball and lotsa meatballs (depending of the size of the ball)

citrus juice recipe

Ingredient:
1 big orange sunkist
1 box of orange juice
1 box pineapple juice
1 L sprite/soda
Ice

How to:
combine all of the ingredient to your desired taste, add slice of orange and ice cube

fruit salad recipe

this is the easiest fruit salad :)

Ingredient:
watermelon
1 can tropical fruit
papaya
grapes
orange
longan
1 lime juice
sugar
water

How to:
1. cut all ingredients to desired shape and size
2. add 1 can of tropical fruit (drained the water)
3. mixed all up
4. squeeze the lime juice, add sugar and water, and pour to the mixed fruit.
5. enjoy

additional:
MAKING FRUIT BASKET (simple and easy)

1 big watermelon, carved the handle, and the height of the basket, scoop away the inside, make zig zag to finished the side line of the basket. if the bottom not even, make a clean flat cut (make sure it doesn't leak)

Kelepon recipe

kelepon or Onde2x for padangnese people is an easy snack to make. It is not easy to find fresh grated coconut when you are not in a country which has a lot of coconut in their meal plans (nor the tree itself) :p. So we going to use desiccated coconut as a replacement for fresh grated coconut. Here's my mom recipe:

Ingredient:
500 grm tepung ketan (glutinous rice flour)
1 tsp garam (salt)
pandan extract # (can be found in asian supermarket)
gula jawa/melaka (brown palm sugar) ## (can be found in asian supermarket, taste will differ when you use light brown cane sugar)
kelapa parut (desiccated coconut)
water (to boil)

how to:
1. combine the flour + Salt + pandan extract and enough water to make the flour not sticky in your hand
2. make small balls (half of a ping pong ball) > make a hole with your thumb > fill the hole with gula jawa/melaka > cover the hole and roll it again to make a nice round ball
3. boil water high enough to cover the balls, drop the balls in, you know that they are cooked once it float
4. catch the floating balls, roll it over desiccated coconut straight away (this will make desiccated coconut wet and has the same texture as the fresh grated coconut)
5. serve and enjoy

Notes:
# for better taste and aroma, u can blend 12 pandan leave with 200ml water and extract the juices.
if you can't find any, you can use green food coloring and add vanilla extract (just for that missing aroma)
## gula jawa/melaka usually hard (in circle or square shape), make sure you cut/grate them in cube size (so that you'll get that sweetness palm sugar blast in your mouth sensation =))