Homecooked - Lor Bak & Ayam Balado

Brocolli with dried scalop and carrot, with oyster sauce. It explains everything that goes in already :)

Ayam Balado: (Second attempt)

- Chicken fillet (seasoned with lime and bay leaves), fried till turn yellowish.

- Seasoning (To be blended):

- 5 Big chillies

- 2 Small chillies

- 8 Shallot

- 1 Garlic

- 1/2 tomato

- 4 cm lemongrass (the thin end)

- Sugar and Salt

- A pinch of terasi
- After putting the fried chicken aside, fry the seasoning till it changes color. (Chili becomes darker when it is cooked).

- Add in the chicken and continue to cook, add water when necesssary so the seasoning blend with the chicken.

- Serve.

Things to improve:

I still dunno why the chicken fillet feels dry and hard. Maybe I shouldn't fry separately, but that's what everybody doing I thought.. oh wells.. try again next time :P

I am thinking how to cook this for sometime coz it looks easy enough but looks complicated kinda dish haha, so wanna try but don't have any recipe or anybody to ask. So I just google and read roughly what people use to cook this dish. But I didn't particularly follow one and just add in from whatever I can remember and what happen to be available in the kitchen. The taste is ok and the meat is tender so I start to like to cook this haha..

Stew Pork (Lor Bak):

- Pork brisket and pork meat that have a bit of fats, not the lean kind (but I guess is optional, the lean one won't be too tender and crumbly coz no fats, that's what I deduce)

- Tau Pok

- Hardboiled Egg

Seasoning:

- 8 garlic (smashed and leave the skin on)

- 2 cm Galangal, big slices so easy to spot and not eaten mistakenly

- 1/2 tsp 5 spice powder

- 1 tsb honey

- 1 tsb dark mushroom sauce

- 1 tsp soy sauce

- 1 tsb oyster sauce

- Salt, pepper and sugar to taste

Method:

- Season the pork with the seasoning

- Use a bit of oil and pan fry the pork so at least its cooked on the outside

- Pour about 1 bowl of water in pan and let boil.

- When it boil, pour the pan fried pork in and throw in the garlic and galangal as well.

- Cook in small fire and top up the water at times to prevent it from drying.

- When the pork shows indication of softening, add in the hardboiled egg and tau pok

- Continue to simmer and off the fire when it is tender enough

- Serve.

Cooking time: About 2 hours.