Curry Pie - Support Curry Cooking Day for Singaporean Indian Family

I just cannot imagine that anyone would complain about the wonderful curry smell. A Chinese immigrant in Singapore reported to the Community Mediation Centre (CMC) about their Indian neighbour curry smell (link, Yahoo News). After reviewing the case, CMC requested the Indian family to cook curry only when the Chinese immigrant family is not at home. Well, I think this complain and decision by CMC is shear nonsense! Curry is part of our culture and many people loves this dish very much. I guess it is more of an attitude problem of that Chinese immigrant family rather than curry smell problem!

Therefore, I decided to cook this Curry Chicken Pie in support of the Indian family.

Ingredients 1 - Fillings
Chicken Meat, 300 gms, cut into small pieces
Potato, 1 large, cut into small cubes (use US Russet potato which would softhen easily)
Curry powder, 2 tablespoons
Onions, 1 pc, cut into small pieces
Salt to taste
Sugar to taste

Ingredients 2 - Pie Pastry (please refer to my previous Apple Pie Recipe)

Heat up wok and put in a little oil. Saute onions until fragrant and put in the potatoes. Cook until the potato turn a little soft. Add curry powder and chicken meat. Keep on stiring the mixture. Add a little water and boil until the potato is soft.  Put in the salt and sugar.
Pour the curry chicken with potato fillings into the pie pastry. Cover up the top part with the rest of the pastry. Bake in oven at 200 Dec C for 20 minutes.

I wonder if this Chinese immigrant family can 'tahan' (stand) the smells of my Durian Pie? ha ha ha!

Chicken Pie Recipe – One for the Office

I made these chicken pies last week and my wife took one plate to share with her colleagues in the office. For the pie fillings I used chicken meat with oregano and thyme as the main herbs. I also made some egg tarts with the left over pie dough. My son finished off all the egg tarts in one sitting! Boy, teenagers can really eat! LOL

For Pie Crust Recipe, please refer to my previous post, http://peteformation.blogspot.com/2009/06/tuna-fish-pie-recipe.html

Chicken Pie Fillings
Chicken Meat, 400 gms, cut it strips
Frozen Vegetables (green beans, carrot, corn mix), 1 cup
Onions, 1 pc, chopped finely
Oregano, 1 teaspoon (dried)
Thyme, 1 teaspoon (dried)
Potato, 6 pcs, boiled until soft and remove skins
Worcestershire sauce, a dash
Hickory Barbecue sauce, 2 table spoons
Salt to taste

Heat up frying pan and put in a little olive oil. Sauteed onions until fragrant. Then add in the chicken meat. Fry until it is cooked. Add frozen vegetables, oregano, thyme, potato, salt to taste, hickory bbq sauce and Worcestershire sauce. Put the filling in the pie dough, cover up and bake in oven at 200 Dec C for 20 minutes.

Egg Tarts Recipe: http://peteformation.blogspot.com/2009/07/eggs-tarts-than-dak-recipe-taiwanese.html

Cheese Egg Tart Recipe

Instead of making the usual egg filling like ordinary egg tart, I added in some cream cheese to see how the taste turns out to be. I made a mistake of adding biscuits crumbs on top of the pastry. I thought that by pressing the crumbs into the soft pastry should hold them in place but when I pour in the fillings all the crumbs floated on to the surface. Therefore the surface of the Cheese Egg Tart was not smooth. However the cream crackers biscuits that I added gave the Cheese Egg Tart additional crunchy flavour. Check this recipe out!

Pie Pastry
Flour, 4cups
Butter, 150gms
Salt to taste
Castor Sugar to taste (around ¼ cup) Iced cold water
Vanilla Essence, 1 teaspoon
Baking powder, 1 teaspoon

Fillings (All mixed together)
Cream Cheese, 100gms
Sugar ½ cup
Fresh milk, ½ cup 3 eggs
Vanilla essence, 1 teaspoon

Mix flour and butter until they form a granule like mixture. Add a little salt, sugar, baking powder and vanilla essence. Slowly pour in the iced cold water and mix well. Put the pie pastry in the fridge for half and hour. Flatten the pastry and put into a pie pan. Bake for around 15 to 20 minute in a preheated oven at 180 Deg C. Take out the baked pie pastry and let it cool down a little. Pour in the fillings and bake the pie in oven at 180 Dec C for 20 minutes.

Malaysian Chinese Style Durian Pie Recipe

I made dessert for my daughter’s birthday party recently. I wanted to have something different from all the dessert that I normally prepare for parties. Since I have some durians in the fridge, I decided to use them as one of the main ingredients in my pie. The pie turns out ok and my guest, especially my brother in law liked it very much! I used the same pie base just like the one that I have posted before this. The base ingredients for the filling are almost the same as the one for egg tarts but with fresh durians added. Here is the recipe of authentic Malaysian Durian Pie....yum, yum to all durian lovers!

Pie Pastry
Flour, 4cups
Butter, 150gms
Salt to taste
Sugar to taste
Iced cold water
Vanilla Essence, 1 teaspoon
Baking Powder, 1 teaspoon

Fillings
Eggs, 3 pcs
Durian paste from fresh durian, ½ cup
Brown Sugar, to taste
Fresh Milk, ½ cup

Mix flour and butter. Then put in, vanilla essence, salt, baking powder and sugar to taste. Slowly add in the iced cold water. Put the dough in the fridge for around half and hour. To make the durian fillings, put all the ingredients in a blender and blend them until very fine. Take out the pie dough mixture from the fridge, make it flat and press it onto your pie baking tray. Bake for 10 minutes in preheated oven at 200 Deg C. Take out the pastry and pour the filling mixture into it. Bake for another 10 minutes at 200 Deg C.

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Eggs Tarts (Than Dak) Recipe – Taiwanese Style

I bought some egg tarts baking trays from Tesco when they tag these goods as offer items. So, I got to try to make some egg tarts using these baking trays. The first batch of egg tarts turned out very nice but I burned the second batch when I set the timer too long and went to take my bath....oh oh! Luckily I still have the first batch that is nicely done and tasty too, especially when they are hot out from the oven.

Pastry
Flour, 4 cups
Butter, 125gms
Milk powder, 3 table spoons
Castor sugar, ½ cup 1 egg, slightly beaten
Baking soda, ½ teaspoon
Vanilla Essence, 1 teaspoon
Iced cold water

Mix the flour, vanilla essence, baking soda and butter. Knead the mixture until it turned into granules form. Add milk powder, castor sugar and egg. Continue to knead the dough until they are evenly mixed. Add a little cold water to the dough. Mix well and then put the whole dough in the fridge for 10 minutes Fillings Eggs, 3pcs Castor Sugar, ½ cup Salt, a pinch Custard flour, 1 teaspoon Fresh Milk, 1 cup Mix all the ingredients and stir until the sugar dissolves. Take dough, the size of a ping pong ball and use a rolling pin to flatten it. Press the flatten dough into the baking tray and cut away excess dough. Bake in preheated oven at 180 Deg C for 10 minutes. Take out the tray from the oven. Then pour the filling mixture into the pastry. Bake in preheated oven for another 10 minutes. The egg tarts are ready to eat!

Nice Apple Pie for a Light and Easy Sunday Morning Breakfast – Recipe

Apple pie hot out from the oven.............................Yummy, the first piece! Almost gone..............................................................Cooking the fillings for the apple pie! I learn this recipe from picking up bits of pieces of information while watching AFC. The apples that I bought from Tesco have been sitting for quite some time in my fridge and they have turned a little bit dry. One fine Sunday morning, everyone wakes up quite early and I decided to make an apple pie from these apples. As this is the first time I bake an apple pie, I am really not sure how the taste would turn out to be. Thank god, it turned out quite nice and really tasty when hot out from the oven. My family had a very nice breakfast of apple pie and my little toddler son loves it so much, especially the pie pastry! Here is my Apple Pie recipe

Pie Pastry
Flour, 7 cups
Butter, 170gms
Salt to taste
Sugar to taste Iced cold water

Apple Fillings
5 apples cut into big chunks
Brown Sugar to taste
Cinnamon powder, ½ teaspoon
Butter, 2 table spoon

A little water Mix flour with butter, sugar and salt until it turned into granules liked form. Add cold water a little bit the time to the dough. You don’t to end up with a pie pastry that is too soft to work with. Knead the dough until all the ingredients in it are well mixed. Put the dough in the fridge and then continue to work on the fillings. Heat up a little water in saucepan. Add butter, apples, brown sugar and cinnamon. Let the fillings ingredients simmer in the pan until thick liquid caramel form. Then turn off the heat. Take the dough out from the fridge and make the base for the pie. I actually use my hand to shape the dough instead of using a rolling pin because I wanted to have the ‘chunky’ and uneven effect to make the pie looks tastier. Pour the filling into the pie pastry base. Cover it up with the leftover dough. Poke some hole on the top to release the hot steam when it cooks in the oven. Bake in preheated oven at 200 Deg C for 20 minutes or until pastry turned dark golden brown.

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2) http://peteformation.blogspot.com/2009/06/tuna-fish-pie-recipe.html
3) http://peteformation.blogspot.com/2009/07/peteformation-chocolate-cake-recipe.html
4) http://peteformation.blogspot.com/2009/07/peteformation-marble-cake-recipe.html
5) http://peteformation.blogspot.com/2008/09/simple-recipe-muara-cawang-indonesian.html

Tuna Fish Pie Recipe

This is my first attempt at baking a pie. Actually, I am quite inexperience when it comes to baking pastries and cake but the pie turned out quite nice. My kids ate all the pie in one sitting. My daughter loves the flaky pastry, she ate all of it but she gave all her tuna fish to her brother! PIE PASTRY Flour, 5 cups Butter, 170gms Salt to taste A little sugar Iced cold water Mix the flour, salt and water with the butter until the mixture turn ‘granules’ like. Add iced cold water slowly to the pastry and let it rest in the fridge for 30 minutes. PIE FILLINGS Tuna fish, 1 can Onions, 2 pcs, chopped finely Chillies, (optional) 2 pcs, cut into slices Heat up nonstick wok and add 3 table spoons of oil. Then sautéed the onions until fragrant. Add in chillies and take out the fillings from the wok, to cool it down. Take half of the dough and make it into a round ball. Use a rolling pin to shape it to the size of your round baking tray. Put the dough it to the baking tray and then add the precooked pie fillings on top of it. Take the rest of the dough and roll it to the shape of the baking tray. Put it on top of the tuna fillings on the baking tray and seal the sides of the bottom and top dough together. Make two or three cuts on the top pastry to let the steam out when the pie is in the hot oven. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 Deg C for 20 minutes.

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