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- Rec.Food.Recipes Digest #153
- Wed 03 Jul 1991
-
- OVl: Spicy Potato Curry (mary anne amirthi mohanraj)
- Cl: Anzac Biscuits (What a Guy!)
- Oo: Quail Egg hors d'oeuvres (Doris Woods)
- O: Vietnamese Spring Rolls (Anhtram Nguyen)
- O: Vietnamese Spring Rolls (Son Luong)
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- .RH REC.FOOD.RECIPES-#153 CURRY-POTATOE OVl "30 Jun 91" 1991
- .RZ "SPICY POTATOE CURRY" "quite spicy"
- .KY INDIAN
- This recipe is for all who wanted more vegetarian stuff. (For the meat-lovers,
- you can substitute beef (cubed), chicken legs (without skin), or lamb (cubed),
- and it works equally well.) You can also combine beef and potato - my
- personal favorite.
- .IH "serves 3-4 (with leftovers)"
- .IG "5 large" "potatoes"
- (peeled and cubed)
- .IG "2 large" "yellow onions"
- (peeled and diced finely)
- .IG "\(12 cup" "ketchup" "110 ml"
- (yes, the ketchup is authentic - they use it there)
- .IG "1-2 heaped tsp" "curry powder"
- - dark brown or red (if it's red, fry it in the oil ahead of time until it
- turns brown and smokes a little)
- .IG "" "black mustard seed"
- .IG "" "cumin seed"
- .IG "1tsp" "salt"
- .IG "~1/3 cup" "oil" "~75 ml"
- to fry (any vegetable oil)
- .IG "\(12 cup" "milk" "110 ml"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Fry onions on medium high with 3 pinches each black mustard seed and cumin
- seed until onions are golden brown.
- .SK 2
- Stir in potatoes, ketchup and curry powder (if necessary, add a little
- water here to keep curry from burning) and cook on medium until potatoes
- are tender.
- .SK 3
- Add milk and cook five minutes on medium high.
- .SK 4
- Simmer 5 minutes.
- .SK 5
- Serve hot over white rice with a sweet vegetable, eg. cauliflower, carrots,
- beans, lentils or broccoli, or with a meat dish.
- .SK 6
- Keep cold water handy and enjoy!
- .NX
- Optional ingredients to add variety to the recipe are soy sauce (skip salt) or
- Worcestershire sauce (add to taste).
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy.
- .I Time:
- Prep. time: 10 mins., cooking time: 30 mins.
- .I Precision:
- approximate measurements.
- .WR
- Mary Anne Amirthi Mohanraj
- moh2@midway.uchicago.edu
-
-
- .RH REC.FOOD.RECIPES-#153 ANZAC-BISCU-3 Cl "30 Jun 91" 1991
- .RZ "ANZAC BISCUITS"
- This recipe is from the back of a CSR golden syrup tin.
- .IH "Makes about 36 biscuits (cookies)"
- .IG "1 cup" "rolled oats" "85 g"
- .IG "1 cup" "plain flour" "125 g"
- .IG "1 cup" "brown sugar" "200 g"
- (lightly packed)
- .IG "\(34 cup" "desiccated coconut"
- .IG "4 oz" "butter" "125 g"
- .IG "2 Tbls" "Golden Syrup" "30 ml"
- .IG "1 tsp" "bicarbonate of soda"
- .IG "3 Tbls" "boiling water" "50 ml"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Combine oats, plain flour, brown sugar and coconut, blend thoroughly.
- .SK 2
- In a small saucepan combine butter with golden syrup; melt over a low heat
- and remove.
- .SK 3
- Add bicarbonate of soda to boiling water, then add to melted butter mixture.
- .SK 4
- Make a well in the centre of dry ingredients and stir in liquid, mixing
- thoroughly.
- .SK 5
- Drop mixture, by tablespoonful on to a lightly greased baking tray, leaving
- .AB "3 in" "8 cm"
- between biscuits for expansion.
- .SK 6
- Bake in a preheated oven at
- .TE 300 150
- for 15-17 minutes. Allow to cool on tray for 5 minutes, then remove to a
- wire rack to cool completely.
- .NX
- Here's a quick tip - cook biscuits in the top of a gas oven and in the bottom
- of an electric one.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy.
- .I Time:
- 40 mins.
- .I Precision:
- measure ingredients.
- .WR
- etrmg@levels.unisa.edu.au
-
-
- .RH REC.FOOD.RECIPES-#153 QUAIL-EGGS Oo "1 Jul 91" 1991
- .RZ "QUAIL EGG HORS D'OEUVRES"
- .KY FISH NO-BAKE
- Quail Egg hors d'oeuvres (or 'What to do with (hard boiled) quail eggs, other than eat them plain or with
- jalepeno dip').
- .IH
- .IG "" "quail eggs"
- .IG "" "dijon mustard"
- .IG "" "mayonnaise"
- .IG "" "caviar"
- of your choice (Depends on your budget. I like Sevruga but needless to say
- that only for special occasions at $28 an ounce. Beluga if it's very special)
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Cut eggs in half, take out the yolks and mash them with a little dijon
- mustard and mayonnaise until it's a light consistancy but not runny.
- .SK 2
- Take the egg white part and fill the cavity with the caviar of your
- choice.
- .SK 3
- Fill the cavity of a small pastry tube with a star tip and top the caviar
- with the yolk mixture. Now if your on a limited budget or can take or
- leave the caviar, do the opposite. Fill the white with the yolk mixture
- and top with caviar.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy.
- .I Time:
- 15 mins.
- .I Precision:
- no need to measure.
- .WR
- Doris Woods
- dfw@needle..bellcore.com
-
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- .RH REC.FOOD.RECIPES-#153 SPRING-ROLLS-1 O "2 Jul 91" 1991
- .RZ "VIETNAMESE STEAM SPRING ROLLS"
- .KY FISH VIETNAMESE
- .IH
- .IG "" "rice noodle"
- (not the thick one for "PHO" -pronounced [fou]- beef rice noodle)
- .IG "1 pack" "rice cake"
- .IG "a few" "fresh shrimps"
- (2 per roll)
- .IG "" "fresh mint"
- .IG "" "lettuce"
- .IG "" "shredded carrot"
- (optional)
- .IG "" "bean sprouts"
- (optional)
- .SH "Sauce for Spring Rolls"
- .IG "1 Tbls" "hoisin sauce"
- .IG "" "sugar"
- .IG "~1 Tbls" "peanut butter"
- .IG "clove" "garlic"
- well-chopped or ground (optional)
- .IG "" "chili sauce"
- (optional)
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Soak rice noodle in warm water for an hour - you need about 2 cakes of
- noodle to make 20 spring roles - I can get one 8-cake pack in Chinatown,
- N.Y, for $1.00. Boil some water in a pot; put the soaked noodle in, stir
- and wait for 1-2 minutes before draining it into a coriander - you can test
- it: if the noodle is as soft as rice, then it's done.
- .SK 2
- Remove shrimps' shells, devein them. Boil some water with a little salt.
- Put the shrimps in, stir, and drain them. Do not let the water boil again
- - the shrimps will not be crunchy.
- .SK 3
- Shredded the lettuce, carrot - they must be the same string-shape as the
- noodles.
- .SK 4
- Wet a few sheets of rice cake - only a few at once - you have to work on
- them right away, otherwise they will get dry. Avoid over wetting them -
- the best way is wetting each sheet on one side only.
- .SK 5
- Lay a sheet on a big disk. Arrange 2 shrimps on the sheet, one's head
- follows other's tail. Put some lettuce over the shrimps, then some
- carrot, some bean sprout, some noodle - the order here is not important.
- .SK 6
- Fold the sheet up - I hope you know how to fold it! Then, arrange it on
- another disk.
- .SH "Sauce for Spring Rolls"
- .SK 7
- Put about a tablespoon of peanut butter in a bowl. Pour some hot (really
- hot) water over, and smash it into a mixture, not too liquidly.
- .SK 8
- Mix in some sugar, hoisin sauce, a little chilli sauce and the garlic.
- Depending on your taste, you can put more sugar or more hoisin sauce.
- .NX
- Some people, who have time, can roast some fresh peanut and grind them.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- moderate.
- .I Time:
- 1 hour soaking + 30 mins. preparation.
- .I Precision:
- approximate measurements.
- .WR
- Anhtram Nguyen
- axn5551@acf5.NYU.EDU
-
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- .RH REC.FOOD.RECIPES-#153 SPRING-ROLLS-2 O "2 Jul 91" 1991
- .RZ "VIETNAMESE STEAM SPRING ROLLS"
- .KY FISH VIETNAMESE
- There are two types of spring roll: one is fried spring rolls (cha gio) and
- the other one is called 'bi cuon' (aka fresh rolls). The recipes are
- different for these, and I don't quite know the exact ingredients but here's
- roughly what's in them:
- .SH "Bi cuon"
- Wrapped in rice paper (these should be soaked in water ahead of time) are
- rice vercimelli, boiled thinly sliced pork (shoulder ??), boiled shrimp,
- lettuce & fresh cilantro.
- .SH "Cha Gio"
- Again wrapped in rice paper are raw minced pork, crab meat (imitation crab
- would do), thin rice noodles (similar to the above but clear in color instead
- of white when cooked, you can ask someone on this !!), chinese mushrooms (thin
- black mushrooms). Deep fry these until golden brown (when the rice paper
- becomes crisp).
- .SH "Dipping Sauce"
- This is a combination of fish sauce, vinegar, pickled carrots & dikons (sp ?),
- sugar and a pinch of salt. Just mix it to taste.
- .PP
- The above recipes are how I've seen my mom prepare them, so at least to me
- they're pretty authentic. You might find these prepared differently in
- restaurants but I could only tell you what I've eaten. Sorry I could'nt be
- more exact with the ingredients, but I'm a lousy cook when it comes to
- Vietnamese food.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- moderate.
- .I Time:
- ?
- .I Precision:
- N/A.
- .WR
- Son Luong
- sluong@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com
-