Papaya Lettuce Salad

                                     

Hi bloggers, I'm sorry that I didn't post any recipes last months, it's because I had an holiday in Jakarta-Indonesia, to visited my mom, family and friends. The whole months I was treated with many delicious foods (Indonesian cuisine) mmm unforgettable tastes. My friends brought me to the best street foods and restaurants. My mom cooked many dishes for me.

The other why I didn't post the recipes here, it because I'm busy with my new food blog DesireToEat.Com , please check it out! :-)

This time I post Papaya lettuce salad, it's criss cross recipe created by me :-), mixed exotic fruit with my salad-eating-habit in Germany. Papaya is one exotic fruit in Germany, it costs quiet expensive about almost €9-10. In Indonesia you could buy with small amount of money about €1-2. The ripe fruit of papaya is usually eaten raw, without skin or seeds. The unripe green fruit can be eaten cooked, usually in curries or stews. In Indonesian cuisine, the young leaves are boiled or steamed and eaten like spinach or serve as side dish. The black seeds of the papaya have spicy taste, it can used as a substitute for black pepper.

Ingredients:

• 200g papaya, peeled, diced
• 100g lettuce, sliced
• 1/2 orange, press the juice
• 1/2 lime, press the juice ( 1 tablespoon lime juice)
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 teaspoon apple vinegar
• a pinch of sugar
• a pinch of salt
• black pepper

Instructions:

1. Prepare a bowl, mix olive oil, lime juice, apple vinegar, sugar, salt and black pepper together, stir well.
2. Add diced papaya, sliced lettuce and orange juice. Combine well and ready to serve.

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Plum Oatmeal Bars

 

Early in the morning, I'm always making breakfast for us. For example, these are recipes that I've posted; Raspberry Red Currant Pancake, Zucchini Date Muffins, Toast bread with Scrambled egg and Avocado, Gouda Herb French Toast . Everyday looking for idea to make something delicious to eat with coffee. I had stock of plums in the refrigerator, and thought about making breakfast with plum, and I found on Pinterest many delicious recipes. At the end I decided to make Plum oatmeal bars for breakfast.

This plum oatmeal bars recipe ist re-post from DesireToEat.Com 

Plum Oatmeal Bars

Ingredients:

CRUST:

• 150g (1 1/4 cup) flour
• 100g (3/4 cup) butter, melted
• 50g (3 tablespoons) brown sugar
• 50g (1/2 cup) ground almond
• 6 tablespoons oats
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

FILLING:

• 8 plums (400g), seeded, diced
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 2 tablespoon butter, melted
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon powder
• zest and juice of 1 lemon (1 tablespoon zest, 1/4 cup juice)

Instructions:

1. For crust, combine all ingredients, stirring until crumbly. Reserve about 1/3 of crust for topping, spread 2/3 of remaining crust on the bottom of a greased square pan or dish.
2. Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes, until brown.
3. For filling, combine all ingredients in a bowl, tossing until well coated.
4. Spread filling over baked crust, then crumble reserved crust over the top.
5. Bake at 350°F or 175°C for 30-35 minutes, until brown. Let it cool.
6. Cut dice the bars.

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Cranberry Cookies

I'm sure everybody loves cookies, me too, it can be enjoyed anytime, in the morning, in the afternoon or at night. I've made many different kind of cookies on my new blog, like Chocolate Chip Cookies. This Cranberry Cookies is re-post from DesireToEat.Com

Cranberry Cookies

Ingredients:

• 300g flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• a pinch of vanilla powder
• 200g unsalted butter, room temperature
• 50g white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 200g dried cranberries

Instructions:

1. In a bowl, mix flour, baking soda, salt and vanilla powder.
2. In mixer bowl, cream together butter with sugar for 2 minutes, add eggs (one by one), beating well, add flour mixture. Stir in dried cranberries.
3. Preheat oven 190°C.
4. Prepare baking sheet underlined with baking paper.
5. Drop 2 tablespoons mounds of the dough onto baking sheet, give 2cm space between the mounds.
6. Bake the cookies 190°C / 375°F for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.
7. Cool down the cookies on baking sheet for 2 minutes and remove it at wire rack to cool down completely.

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Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

I just made this muffin tonight for dessert and eat it tomorrow for breakfast. On this recipe I used overripe banana, so that the taste a little bit sweet. This recipe inspired by simply sweet 'n savory with banana peanut chocolate chip muffins, I didn't have peanut stock, so I skip it. It's simple and delicious recipe, try it.

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Ingredients:

• 135g (about 1 cup)flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• a pinch of vanilla powder
• 3 small overripe bananas, mashed
• 100g (6 tablespoons) melted butter
• 50g (1/4 cup) brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 75g (1/2cup) chocolate chips

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven 180°C (356°F).
2. Mix all dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, salt and vanilla powder) in a bowl, set aside.
3. Whisk butter with brown sugar, add mashed banana, add egg, stir well. 
4. Add dry ingredients into the mixture, stir well. 
5. Add chocolate chips, stir with spatula.
6. Bake for 20 minutes. Cool down and remove it on wire rack.
7. Ready to serve. 

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Apple Raisin Breakfast Cake

I was looking for fast breakfast recipes with apples, normally I made cereal with sliced apples or apple mix with banana to make smoothie, but I was thinking to make something that I can eat it with my morning coffee, so I've made this apple raisin cake for breakfast, it's quite simple to make and the ingredients also easy to find. 

Apple Raisin Breakfast Cake

Ingredients:

• 2 Apples
• 3 Tablespoons Raisins
• 6 Tablespoons Flour
• 6 Tablespoons Cereal / Oatmeal
• 2 teaspoons Baking powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3 Tablespoons Sugar
• 20ml Milk
• 1 egg

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven 180°C. 
2. Wash apples and slice. 
3. Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl (flour, cereal, baking powder, cinnamon powder and salt).
4. Prepare another bowl, whisk egg with sugar, add milk.
5. Add slowly the flour mixture, whisk until smooth. Add raisins and stir with spatula.
6. Underline rectangular baking tin with baking paper and grease with butter.
7. Spread the sliced apples into the baking tin, pour the batter.
8. Bake 180°C for 25 minutes. Cool down.
9. Prepare a plate, put the plate above baking tin and turn it upside down, remove the baking paper, and you can see the slice apples is on top of the cake. 

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Buttermilk Banana Pancake

I've made this pancakes for breakfast today, I still had buttermilk in my refrigerator and thought about what should I made with 500g buttermilk. I decided to make buttermilk pancakes with mashed banana. It's very simple recipe, but this recipe is for big portion, I still have the rest of the batter for tomorrow.

Buttermilk Banana Pancake

Ingredients:

• 500ml buttermilk
• 2 banana, mashed
• 2 egg
• 100g butter, melted
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 150g all purpose flour
• 50g wheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda 
• a pinch of salt

Serve with:

• a flock of butter 
• maple syrup
• fresh fruit (banana)

Instructions:

1. Mix all dry ingredients ( flour, wheat flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, baking soda) in a bowl.
2. Whisk egg, add buttermilk, add melted butter.
3. Add slowly dry ingredients mixture.
4. Add mashed banana.
5. Heat a pan with medium heat, grease with some oil or butter, pour one ladle of pancake batter, cook for about 2 minutes, flip the other side, until the color turns into light brown.
6. Serve with a flock of butter, maple syrup and sliced banana.

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Apple Cinnamon Muffins

This cold sunday... I just made Apple cinnamon muffins to eat it together with hot green tea. 
I'm sitting in the sofa , watching favorite film on TV. 
Relax weekend on snowy day (-5°C in Hannover-Germany). 
On this recipe I used Granny Smith apples (green color apples), grate it and for tasty aroma, I used cinnamon powder. 
It was really delicious. 
This recipe inspired by Tracy's Culinary Adventures website. 

Apple Cinnamon Muffin

Ingredients:

2 Granny smith apples, peeled, cored and shredded
170g (1 1/4 cup) flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon powder
1/2 teaspoon vanilla powder
2 eggs
60g (1/2 cup) brown sugar
120ml Canola oil

Instructions:

Mix all dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon powder and vanilla powder)
Prepare another bowl, whisk eggs with brown sugar until smooth.
Add oil, add slowly flour-mixture.
Add shredded apples.
Preheat oven 180°C (350°F).
Prepare muffin baking form and muffin paper-form.
Pour muffin dough into muffin form.
Bake for 20 minutes. Cool down. Ready to serve with tea or coffee.

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