Finger Rolls, Plaits and Scrolls ......Sweet Bread

I had a wonderful time in my bread making class today. We made 3 kinds of sweet breads - finger rolls, plaits and scrolls. Its really yum!!! We made our sweet dough and from there, we came out with Finger Rolls, Plaits and Scrolls. We used bread improver to speed up our bread production and its commonly use in commercial breads.  The basic sweet dough ingredients are bakers flour, yeast, salt, sugar, bread improver, butter, milk powder, egg and water.

Plaits without Toppings

Plaits with Almonds Topping

 

Finger Rolls with Coconut Topping

 Scrolls with Sultanas, Raisins, Cinnamon Sugar and Apples.

Curry Chicken

 

 Curry chicken or chicken curry...its a common meat dish in my household. However, I was quite surprised when my Caucasian friends called it a delicacy of Asia. I know that curry chicken is pretty huge in Australia, UK and of course all around Asia too.  In my household, our curry chicken tends to be more "lemak" (more creamy) which is from the coconut milk. Its a simple dish with simple ingredients.  Firstly, you will have to prepare the curry paste. If you are lazy, you can just buy the paste from the supermarket. However, I prefer to make my own paste. The ingredients are shallots, galangal, ginger, garlic, cinnamon stick, star anise, cardamon seeds, dried chilli & turmeric powder. Just use a grinder and grind it into a paste. Then you will fry it till its fragrant in your wok over low heat. Please open your windows and doors.  Once that's done, get your chicken, potatoes, slices of sweet onions (optional), coconut milk and seasonings and dump everything into a big pot and simmer till the chicken is cooked.  If  you feel that coconut milk is just too fattening, substitute it with carnation milk. However, the taste is just never there when I use carnation milk though.  This curry chicken can be served with white rice, glutinous rice (nasi kunyit), bread, roti channai / roti prata, naan, roti jala, etc...