Baked Lamb With Creamy Mushroom Sauce

Salam Eid Ul Fitr everyone..

How was your Eid?? Mine was very simple..finally i manage to baked a couple of layer cake for my mom & my MIL. Hope they like it. But now i ended up having a lot of leftover egg whites in my fridge. Hmm...what i'm going to do with that?? haiizzz..i think i should ask Mr. Google.

Ok, this recipe its not from egg whites yeah...heheh...i made this way before fasting month. I don't know why i still not publish it. So today i decided to publish it for my future reference, just in case i forgot the  recipe, coz i'll definitely going to make this again coz we (me & my hb) loves it ^^,. Here the recipe...

Baked Lamb With Creamy Mushroom Sauce

• 4 lamb shoulder


• 4 cloves garlic, pounded


• 1 1/2 inch ginger, pounded


• 1 tbsp rosemary, pounded


• 2 tbsp lemon juice


• 1 tsp worcestershire sauce


• Salt & pepper to taste


• 1 tsp paprika


• 2 tbsp olive oil

Marinate the lamb shouder with all the herbs & spices, put it in the fridge for 24 hours or overnight.

Preheat oven for 180C & baked for about 40-45 minutes (i like it well done :)).

• 1 package white button mushroom, sliced


• 1 tbsp butter


• 250 ml heavy cream


• 1/2 cup chicken or beef stock


• Salt & pepper to taste

In the medium sauce pan over medium low heat, melt the butter & saute the mushroom until soft.

Add heavy cream, stock, salt & pepper. Let it simmer & turn off the heat.

For mash potatoes, u can click here.

Smoked Beef In Spicy Coconut Sauce

Salam all,

Today i would like to share with u my parents all time favorite dish, smoked beef in spicy coconut sauce. If i told u its my parent favorite thats mean our (me & my siblings) favorite too :). But its not easy to find a smoked beef here in Shah Alam. My parents found it somewhere near Cheras, & bought it almost every week!! My mom gave it to me  for me to cook at home...errr...ookk..(actually i really like it if my mom cooked for me hahah). A few days later, i called my mom to ask for the recipe, its not that i don't know the recipe, but i'm afraid it turns out not like what i expected. Well..u know mom...her recipe was a little bit of this....a little bit of that...& so on, no exact measurement. So i do it myself, & its turns out delicious hahah..my hb love it, but not my kids of course, coz its quite spicy for them...here the recipe...

Smoked Beef In Spicy Coconut Sauce

• 500g smoked beef


• 1 cup water


• 3 shallots


• 1/2 inch ginger


• 6 bird eye chillies (u can add more if u want)


• 1 inch turmeric


• 1/2 cup water


• 1 lemon grass, pounded


• 1 potato, peel & cut into 6 pcs


• 250 ml coconut milk


• Salt to taste

In the medium pot over medium high heat, boil smoked beef with 1 cup water until the beef soft & tender & water reduce to half.

Meanwhile, in the blender, blend shallot, ginger, bird eye chillis & turmeric with 1/2 cup water until fine blended.

Pour the blended mixture, lemon grass & potato into the beef & let it boil until the potato soft & tender, reduce the heat, add coconut milk & let it simmer for a few minutes. Add salt, & done :).

Meatballs with Lemon Cream Sauce

I felt very tired nowadays, my 6 mths old baby boy become more active every single day. At this age, his favorite now is trying to put everything in his mouth and he sleep late at night. That means, i sleep late too. Then need to woke up early in the morning to go to work...haizzz...thats why i try to look for the 'make ahead' recipes and this is one of them. Every 2 weeks i went to the market and buying 1/2 kg of minced meat, marinated it with some herbs & bread crumbs & store them in the fridge so that every time i want  to prepare a quick dinner, i just thaw them & form it into beef patty or meatballs & i'm good to go :). Here my recipe..

Meatballs with Lemon Cream Sauce

Meatballs

• 500g minced meat
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 1 bunch coriander leaves
• 1 tbsp black pepper
• 1 tbsp Italian herbs
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 cup bread crumbs
• 2 eggs
• 3 tbsp butter (for frying meatballs)

Mix all ingredient until well combined & form into a small balls.
Heat the butter in a large frying pan, cook the meatballs until its browning on all sides and set aside.


Lemon Cream Sauce

• 200ml heavy cream
• 1 tsp black pepper
• 2 tbsp beef stock
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• salt to taste

Use the remaining butter left in the same frying pan.
Stir in the beef stock and heavy cream, keep stirring until well blended & the sauce slightly boil.
Add black pepper, lemon juice & salt to taste.

Creamy Beef Broccoli

I'm a big fan of simple dish. I admit. Being a mother of 3 (6 yr to 6 mths) & a worker makes me want to act & move fast. Cooking included :), and i'm well aware that stir fry is one of the fastest way to do it. As usual, i pick up my kids after work & think what i'm going to cook for my family all the way home. To cook something that only needs 30 minutes to be done. So i decided to try this recipe. I saw it somewhere online, but i didn't keep it. This is one of the Chinese cooking, but i add something which is not 'chinese' haha..i add heavy cream. Simply because i want my beef taste creamy & its still taste good. This is what happened when u read too much food blog & too much cookbook..heheh..u will mess up with the original recipe. Here is my version...

Beef Broccoli

• 1 bunch fresh broccoli (cut into florets)
• 500g flank steak (thinly slices)
• 1 tsp cornstarch
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 tsp black pepper
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 garlic cloves (minced)
• 2 slices fresh ginger (finely minced)
• 2 tbsp heavy cream
• Salt

Marinate beef with cornstarch, oil, soy sauce & black pepper for 30 minutes.
In the meanwhile, steam the broccoli until soft & tender, set aside.
Heat the frying pan & add oil.
Add minced garlic & ginger & stir fry over medium high heat for 20 seconds.
Add beef & stir fry for another 3 minutes.
Add heavy cream & salt to taste.
Place steamed broccoli on the plate & the beef on top of the broccoli.

Ginger Scallion Beef

U know, i start to like chinese food since i start working after i graduated from college. Coz, every company i joined so far, majority staff in the finance department is a chinese. Like now, i'm the only malay in this finance department. They introduced me with their food and their culture & i really2 like their food, its simple and not too spicy. Soy sauce always used in their recipes & i found a lot of recipes using it whether its dark or light soy sauce. This ginger beef is one of my favorites. Thank god i found this recipe in Ellie's blog. Thank Ellie for this recipe & i definitely going to make this again...

Ginger Scallion Beef

• 600g beef, thinly sliced
• 4 stalks scallion
• 100g ginger, sliced
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp cornflour
• 1 tbsp oil
• Salt & white pepper
• Splash of sesame oil

Marinate beef slices with soy sauce, cornflour and oil for 15-30 minutes.
Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a wok under high heat until smoking hot.
Add sliced ginger and give it a quick stir for a minute.
Add beef and scallions and quickly stir fry for a further 1-2 minutes until the beef turned brown and just cooked and scallions are slightly wilted.
Season with salt and white pepper and add a splash of sesame oil. Mix well and serve immediately with steamed rice.