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Pineapple Upside Down Cake

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Mixed Berry Cream Cheesetart

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Cherry Cream Cheese Strudel

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Char Hor Fun

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Simple Banana Cake

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Thai Fried Rice

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Chocolate Caramel Slice

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Hummus Dip

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Char Kway Teow

Char Kway Teow

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Chicken Rice

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Lontong

Ingredients

To eat with:
*  Rice cakes/rice cubes

To blend:
*  1 large Onion
*  3 clove Garlic
*  1/2inch Ginger
*  1 inch Galangal
*  1 inch fresh Turmeric
*  10-15 small dried prawns
*  salt to taste

For the sauce:
*  1 tin coconut milk
*  Long green beans
*  Cabbage (thinly cut)
*  Carrots (thinly sliced)
*  Vermicelli rice noodles
*  Tofu slices or tofu puff

To garnish:
*  Dry fried onions/shallots
*  Spring onions (thinly sliced)

Method for sauce

* Cook the blended ingredients until oil arises.

* Add coconut milk and cook for 30 minutes, stirring.

* Add vegetables, tofu, vermicelli noodles, salt and cook on slow for 15 minutes.

* Served with rice cubes and topped with garnishing ingredients.


Method for rice cubes

* 3 cups rice, 6 cups water and cook in a rice cooker with a pinch of salt.

* Once cooked, pour into a rectangular dish tray and press the rice firmly. Brush with some oil.

* Leave to cool for an hour and then transfer into the refrigerator.

* Best left overnight or at least 4 hours to harden.

To save this free printable recipe in PDF format, please download the link below:

LONTONG

Pizza Dough

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Penang Asam Laksa

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Shepperd pie

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Learning Arabic through The Quran - Verbs 14-20

The seven Arabic words we’ll be covering today occur in the Qur’an nearly 200 times combined! This is because each of these words (and their various forms) are repeated very often. The 7 verbs included in the below PDF document are:

  • To Complete (occurs about 17 times in the Qur’an)
  • To Not Recognise / To Deny (25)
  • To Conceal / To Speak Secretly (18)
  • To Produce / To Create (22)
  • To Make / Cause to grow (16)
  • To Befall / To Inflict (65)
  • To Send Forward / To Proceed (27)

For each word, there are at least 7 examples of it being used in the Qur’an. This makes remembering the words easier inshaAllah. View or download the PDF using the below link. Continue Reading…