King's Hawaiian Sweet Rolls

Ever wondered how they (King's Hawaiian) make their absolutely delicious sweet rolls? My hubby got me hooked on these. Every time there is a chicken dinner sale at Meijer's with these rolls included in the meal, I'm on it. I could eat all the rolls to myself. I browse through the internet, on google and found this recipe for it. I stumble on a food blogger Pennies on a Platter recipe for King's Hawaiian sweet rolls. I was excited to give it a try.

Recipe: Hawaiian Rolls
adapted: penniesonaplatter (Hallmark Mag.)

Things you need...

• 1 1/4 cups pineapple juice
• 2 packages instant dry yeast
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature, cut into pieces
• 4 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 5 1/2 to 6 cups flour (1 1/2 cups of flour is use for better dough handling)

Step 1:
In a large bowl, with an electric mixer, beat together the sugar and butter. Beat in the eggs, vanilla, salt, powdered ginger, pineapple juice and mix well. Before adding the flour into the mixture, mix in the yeast. Then flour is added in slowly, a cup at a time and beat until smooth. Stir in enough of the remaining flour (about 5 cups total ) to make the dough easy to handle.

Step 2:
Knead the dough until smooth and elastic, using up to 1/2 cup more if necessary. Place the dough in a greased bowl and turn greased side up. Loosely cover with a kitchen towel and let rise in a warm, draft-free place until doubled in size, 1 1/2 to 2 hours. (Dough is ready if you poke it and the indentation remains.)

Step 3:
Punch down the dough and divide in half. Divide one half of the dough into nine equal pieces. Form each piece into a ball and pull the surface taut by tucking the dough in at the bottom of the ball. Place in a greased 9-inch round cake pan or any size pan, tucked side down. Continue until the pan is filled. Repeat with the other dough half. Cover the rolls and let rise until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.

Step 4:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Bake 30 to 40 minutes, until golden brown. Once the rolls are out, I quickly brushed butter on the top. Last but not least, enjoy your homemade King's Hawaiian Sweet Rolls. :)

Sugi Cookies

Recipe: Sugi Cookies
adapted: Little Corner of Mine

Things you need:

• 1 1/3 cup of unbleached shifted flour
• 2/3 cup of icing sugar
• 1/2 tsp of salt
• 1/2 tsp of baking soda
• 1 tsp of vanilla essence
• 1/3 cup of canola oil/veggie oil (add more if needed)

Step 1:
Mix shifted flour, icing sugar, salt and baking soda in a bowl (bowl A). In a separate bowl (bowl B) mix vanilla essence and oil together. Add in mixture bowl B to mixture bowl A. Mix well until a dough is formed. You need a little more oil to form the dough, you are free to do so.

Step 2:
Preheat the oven at 350F. While waiting for the oven to heat up to the desired temperature, knead the dough a couple of times to ensure all the flavors are mixed well. Then roll the dough into little balls. Place them in a greased baking pan.

Step 3:
Bake the cookies in the oven for about 18 to 20 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack and enjoy. :)

Beef Murtabak

I rate this a 1 on a scale of 5 for difficulty. It was so easy to do. I didn't have to make the wrapping for it. A ready made roti canai or paratha is ok to use.

Recipe: Beef Murtabak
adapted: MamaFami

Things you need:

• 1 cup of ground beef
• 2 minced shallots
• 2 cloves of minced garlic
• 1/2 tsp of kurma powder
• 1/2 tsp of sup powder
• 1/2 tsp of coriander powder
• 1 tsp of chili powder
• 1/2 of black pepper
• 1/2 of white pepper
• 1 chopped spring onion
• 1 egg
• ready made roti canai or paratha (leave at room temp.)
• salt & sugar to taste

Step 1:
Heat the oil in the pan. Once hot, add in the minced shollots, garlic and cook until fragrant. Then add in the ground beef. While the beef is cooking, add in all the powdered ingredients and all the peppers. Adding in the egg next and chopped spring onion last. Add salt & sugar to taste. Cook until done. Set aside and let cool.

Step 2:
Take out a roti canai or paratha and sprinkle the surface where you will roll out the roti canai with flour. Made sure you sprinkle a little flour on the rolling pin as well before you start rolling out the roti canai. Roll it out just enough to add some beef fillings but do not thin out the roti canai dough. Put some beef fillings in the middle of the roti canai and fold it like you would fold an envelope. With plain water, seal the end.

Step 3:
Last step before you enjoy your deliciously homemade beef murtabak. Preheat your griller on low to medium heat. Don't have a griller, a flat pan will do too. Cook your beef murtabak until golden brown. Enjoy while hot with a good chicken curry on the side.

Pulut Panggang

Another recipe I enjoyed making. I discovered this recipe while reading through a food blog called My Kitchen Snippets and had a major craving. Drove all the way to Grand Rapids on Saturday afternoon just to buy the banana leaves. Man, I remember whenever I need pandan leaves or banana leaves, I pigi behind my mommy's house and ambil. Now, I pay $1 plus tax and gas...huhuhu...sedihnya... Anywho, without further a due...

Recipe: Pulut Panggang
~Adapted: My Kitchen Snippets

Things you need...

• 2 cups of sweet rice or glutinous rice (soak for about 3 hours)
• 3 cups of coconut milk
• 1 cup of dried shrimp
• 3 shallots
• 2 garlic
• 2 thai chilies (add more if you like it spicy)
• 1/2 tbsp of salt
• 2 or 3 tbsp of shredded coconut
• banana leaves
• oil for cooking

Step 1:
While waiting for the rice, blend or ground your shallots, garlic and chilies. Do the same with your shrimp. Heat your pan and fry all the ingredients starting with the mixture of shallots, garlic and chilies, adding in the shrimp next and the shredded coconut last. Then set aside. This is your simple shrimp filling.

Step 2:
Clean your rice thoroughly and add in the coconut milk and salt. Cook on medium to low heat until done. Set aside and let it cool.

Step 3:
Now the fun part. Cut your banana leaves into your desired size. Spread the rice on the banana leaf and add the shrimp filling. Along with the banana leaf, roll your rice over your filling and secure both sides with toothpicks. It's like wrapping a present.

Step 4:
On a flat pan or grill, whatever you have on hand, grill your pulut until the banana leaf becomes slightly charred or really charred. The way I like it. Serve while hot.
Enjoy....

Pandan Chiffon Cake

This was a pretty easy recipe to do. I found it on MamaFami's blog and made a few changes. Just a little change...
Recipe: Chiffon Pandan Cake
~adapted: MamaFami

Things you need...

• 1 3/4 cup shifted unbleached flour
• 1 tbp. baking powder
• 6 egg yolks
• 6 egg whites
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup vegetable or canola oil
• 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
• heavy whip cream
• 1 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup fresh milk
• 1 tsp. pandan essence
• 2 to 3 drops of green coloring

Step 1:
(Bowl A) Beat the egg yolks with the mixer on high speed until it becomes foamy and pale. Set aside.

Step 2:
(Bowl B) Mix in the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, veggie oil, pandan essence, green coloring and fresh milk with a whisk. When a smooth mixture forms, then slowly add in the egg yolks from bowl A and mix well. Set aside.

Step 3:
(Bowl C) With a mixer on high, beat the egg whites until foamy. Add in the cream of tartar. Mix at high speed until soft peaks forms.

Step 4:
With a spatula, slowly fold the egg whites into bowl B. In a greased pan, add in the cake mixture and cook for about a hour in a preheat oven at 350F or insert a toothpick in the middle of the cake and it should come out clear. Let cool at room temperature.

Step 5:
Add pandan essence and 1 to 2 drops of green coloring into about 4 or 5 tbsp of heavy whip cream. Mix in about roughly 1 1/2 tbsp of icing sugar. When the cake has cool down, cut it in half. Add the whip cream mixture in the middle.

Enjoy! :)

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day everybody!!! I know I haven't been blogging lately. Just a little overwhelm. I have tried a few recipes but I just didn't have the time to post it up. The good news is that it will be posted before the end of the month and I know it's almost the end of the month. I also had done a little sping cleaning on my blog and I'm still trying to finish it up, so please excuse the mess. Anywho, I just wanted to say Happy Valentine's Day and hope to see you all soon. :)