it has been a long time since i touched e stove to cook anything except maggi mee and frying an egg.. or boiling water..

but.. thanks to LAB1201, Bahasa Indonesia I, i touched e stovE!

haha.. really okie.. no bluffing u.. went to liwei's hse on thurs to do e project cause we had to cook 40 croquettes (krochets in bahasa indo) each for e next day's project day.. ya.. its sth tt's not doing presentation or research.. juz cooking.. cool right? so off i went..

here's e recipe:

Ingredients (for 40 Krokets):

Filling:
Carrots x 5
French Beans x 30
Minced Chicken x 500g
Spring Onions x 1 pack
Celeries x 1 pack
Big Onions x 1
Salt
Pepper
Sugar
Butter
Milk Powder x 3 tablespoons
Plain Flour x 3 tablespoons
Water

Ingredients for the skin:
Big Potatoes x 5
Milke x 5 tablespoons
Butter x 3 tablespoons
Egg Yolk X 4
Eg White x 4
Pepper
Salt
Sugar
Bread Crumbs

Steps to do Kroket:

Filling:
1. Cut the carrots, French beans, spring onions, celeries and big onions into thin and small shapes.
2. With butter, cook the onions until soft.
3. Put in the spring onions and minced chicken and cook well.
4. Put in the carrots, French beans, celeries, pepper, salt and sugar and cook well.
5. Mix the milk powder, plain flour and water in a glass and pour the mixture slowly into the chicken mixture. Cook well.

Skin:
1. Cut each potato into 5 pieces and steam them until soft.
2. Peel the skin of the potatoes off and mash them.
3. Put in the milk powder, butter, egg yolk, pepper, salt and sugar to the mashed potatoes and mix well.

Wrapping & Frying:
1. Take some of the skin mixture and flatten it.
2. Put some filling in the middle of the skin mixture and carefully wrap the filling with the skin mixture.
3. Shape the kroket into a round shape.
4. Put kroket in the egg white followed by the bread crumbs.
5. Fry the kroket until the outer skin turns golden brown.
6. Serve kroket.

well... so here goes.. cut like dunno how many carrots.. and we took like almost 2 hrs to cut it la.. u need to cut it into small small cubes.. den while liwei and me were cutting e carrots with his maid.. his mother cut up everything liao.. tis shows how diff it is to cut carrots.. not i slack okie..even cut my finger.. okie wats new right.. haha.. den e its super hard to make e shape of e kroket and wrap all e ingredients inside..siao.. made my hands oily..den tot wasnt enough so made some extra skin.. so in e end cooked some for ourselves since there was super alot of filling left.. brought back some for my family

but damn.. mother say she dun like cause inside taste like indian food... hmm.. my mother's oso racist la.. haha

made e kroket but did not fry it till e next day at e hall of someone in our project grp..so almost all e grp mbrs met and we went frying e krokets.. i made mountains of bread crumbs to do it.. haha.. quite fun.. tink liwei had a harder time frying it..set up at e project day venue.. and yeah!!

all e 240.. well okie ard 200 krokets were finished ard e same time as some other grp's 100 pcs of some food!! shows tt we are good! pity nv take photo.. wasted.. my first jie zuo..

mayb i shld go learn cooking.. haha