4th Iftar

Today is 4th Ramadhan.. to all my blogger's friend and silent visitors, hope Allah make your Ramadhan fruitful with ibadah. Is a race against time for us to perform as much ibadah as possible during this blessed month for time has never been on our side. It's up to us to make use of this opportunity. Hopefully this year of Ramadhan is better than the past years of Ramadhan, insyaAllah. Since the first Ramadhan, we have been breaking our fast with kanji or this kind of savoury porridge. This evening, I received a call from Kak Aniza. She's been asking me to post the recipe of my savoury oat porridge. I hope this could help you sis... and also for all my friends who would like to try the recipe..below is how I make my savoury oat porridge.

Ingredients (for 4 people):

• 1 cup of oat
  
• half onion - sliced
• some chicken / beef / lamb - small diced
• sliced ginger
  
• 1 tbsp of soup / korma powder
• 1 star anise
• 2 cloves
• 1 cinnamon stick
  
• 1-2 coconut milk/fresh milk
  
• whole black pepper
• fenugreek seeds
• salt
• half teaspoon of Maggie chicken stock
• scallion - for garnish

Methods:

1. Drizzle some olive oil in a hot pot.
2. Fry the cinnamon stick, star anise, cloves, black pepper and the fenugreek seeds for a while.
3. Then add the onion and ginger. Fry until the onion soft.
4. Add the soup / korma powder. Stir.
   
5. Add the chicken and the chicken stock.
6. Fry until the chicken is slightly brown, pour some water.
7. Bring to boil and simmer until the chicken is cook.
8. Add the oat. Stir and pour the coconut milk.
9. Add some seasoning; salt, ground black pepper and sugar.
10. Pour some water if the porridge is too thick.
11. Bring to simmer until the oat are ready.
12. Served. Garnish with some scallion.
13. You can serve this with fried anchovies or sambal tumis ikan bilis and fish /prawn crackers.

Besides this porridge, I made also the onde-onde potato.
You can find the recipe from the past entry. Oki doki.. Want to get ready for our iftar and tarawikh. Bye2.