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Outdoor Cooking
Hello! :)
This week's activity was Outdoor Cooking - the first one for the Year 5s!!
Below is a blogpost by Rui Qi :)
On 22 April 2015, we had Outdoor Cooking which
was planned by the Year 5 ICs (Wen Ting and Natalie), as majority of the Year
6s had to attend the speech day rehearsal.
The menu consisted of Nasi Lemak as the main
course, potato salad, and pancakes with fruits for dessert.
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| Lynette mixing the pancake batter |
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| Pancakes!! |
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| Looks good? :) |
We started off with preparing the rice for the Nasi Lemak as this would take a longer time to cook, then began to work on the other dishes simultaneously by splitting up our manpower effectively.
The recipes were relatively simple to follow,
so we did not expect many difficulties along the way. However, one major
challenge we faced was that the heat from the gas stove was not high enough, so
it took a very long time to cook. Thankfully, we had a rather strong fire from
the barbecue pit which helped to speed up the process.
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| BBQ Pit set up by Chelsea and Lynette |
Here are some of the recipes we used:
Nasi
Lemak
Ingredients
2 cups of uncooked rice
135 ml coconut milk
135 ml water
1 pandan leaf, split and tied in a knot
½ tsp salt
2 packs of sausages
Dried Ikan Bilis
4 eggs
A few teaspoons of Vegetable Oil
Instructions
1.
Rinse rice
2. Place
coconut milk and water into a large pot.
3. Heat
it on high heat until mixture boils.
4. When
mixture boils, place uncooked rice, salt and pandan leaf into the pot and let
it simmer.
5. Cover the
pot with a lid and turn the heat down to low.
6. After
16-20 minutes, check on the rice.
7. When
rice is no longer crunchy and is slightly sticky, turn off the heat.
8. Drain
any excess liquid and fluff the rice with a spoon.
9. Prepare
sausages by slicing them with small diagonal cuts
10. Heat
up a pan with some vegetable oil.
11. Fry
sausages until crispy.
12. Beat
eggs
13. Add a
little more oil if necessary.
14. Fry
beaten eggs into a thin pancake.
15. Fry
Ikan bilis and serve.
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| Nasi Lemak, missing the anchovies! |
Potato Salad
Ingredients
1 bag of potatoes
5 tablespoons of Mayonnaise
1 teaspoon of Sugar
Sufficient Bacon Bits
1 Onion
4 eggs
Instructions
1. Mix
mayonnaise, mustard and sugar together
2. Place
potatoes and eggs in a pot of water and bring up to a boil.
3. Peel
potatoes and eggs
4. Cut
the potatoes into cubes and eggs into slices
5. Chop
onions
6. Lay
potatoes, onions then egg slices into an aluminium tray
7. Place
sauce into aluminium tray
8. ‘Bake’
using barbecue pit
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| Ruo Rou checking the potatoes and eggs |
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| Potato Salad!! Best dish of the day :) |
After all the food was prepared, we also had
a mini competition between the Year 5s and Year 6s to see who could make
whipped cream the fastest! Although all of us were very excited about it at the
start, the enthusiasm died down when both sides still could not produce whipped
cream even after 15 minutes. Despite so, it was a great bonding session for us
as we all had fun in the process.
This activity was definitely a very
fulfilling one as it was a good opportunity of us to put our cooking skills to
good use, and also to learn by sharing our cooking know-hows with one another. :)
Labels: Outdoor Cooking