Pandan Salmon Bundels

Oh boy. The second I, no, BEFORE I even removed these guys from the oven, I could smell how delicious they would be. The slightly charred pandan and the Asian marinated salmon together were so fragrant, I immediately started freaking out because I knew what I had created today was a success. 

Savory recipes are sometimes tricky, because salt adds a lot of flavour. But with these you won't miss the salt at all! The combination of the shallots, garlic, ginger, lemongrass, chili and pandan is absolutely divine. If you love pandan, salmon and lemongrass as much as I do, you HAVE to try this recipe!

Even better, it's so simple! Anyone can do this :-) 

Be sure to leave your pandan leaves wet after washing them to keep them from burning while on the grill!

What you'll need

125g salmon fillet, cut in to 4 pieces

1.5 tbsp shallot

1/2 tsp minced garlic

1 tbsp chopped lemongrass (white part)

1 tsp chopped ginger

1/2 red chili, chopped

1 tsp honey

1 tbsp water 

4 pandan leaves (leave wet)

How to

1. Blend all ingredients together EXCEPT pandan and salmon. Marinate salmon in the paste for 30min - 1h. 

2. Preheat grill. Roll each piece of salmon (along with some paste) in a damp pandan leaf. Keep the end of the leaf at the bottom of the salmon so it does fly out. Grill for 12min. If your pandan leaves look like their getting too brown, brush some water on and continue grilling! 

I served mine with brown rice, salad and tomatoes.

SGFS: Kaya Toast Panacotta

At my job attachment with the marketing department at Goodrich Global, I was flipping through magazines and tagging stuff. One of the magazines I really liked was epicure. I think I'm going to subscribe to it. Also appetite magazine had this little recipe book and I saw a kaya toast panacotta, which of course inspired me to create this healthy version!

Single serving and it can be made dairy free, vegan and paleo too. It's fun shaking the plate and wobbling the panacotta :P

Not very green cos my blender isn't the best at blending up leaves :(

What you'll need

3/4 level tsp gelatin

3 tbsp hot milk (whatever kind)

80g coconut milk

6 pandan leaves, cut up

1/4 cup milk (whatever kind)

1 tbsp honey/maple syrup

1 tbsp coffee

1/4 piece of toasted bread

How to

1. Stir gelatin into hot milk and let it dissolve.

2. Blend coconut milk with pieces of pandan leaves. My blender didn't manage to blend the leaves up completely they were a little piecey, but that's fine! As long as the coconut milk has got some green in there....

3. Strain the coconut milk and pandan leaves into the gelatin and milk. Squeeze it all out! Discard the pandan leaves. (There was some coconut milk hanging around on my discarded leaves, but I just couldn't get it through the strainer so whatever.)

4. Stir in the remaining 1/4 cup milk and honey/maple syrup. Pour into a ramekin and cover with cling wrap. Chill in the fridge (I did this overnight aka 8h but 4h should be okay too?) and then serve by running a knife along the edges and turning the panacotta out onto a plate. Pour coffee over and top with a piece of toast :)

Pandan Waffles X Raspberry X Chocolate

Best. Flavour. Combo. Ever. 

Seriously so asdfghjkl yummy (and healthy). But that's only if you like pandan. If you don't, go away. No I kid. These are also gluten free! 

My waffle maker seems to have lost its non stick properties. Parts of my waffle got stuck to the pan, 2nd time now! The other day I wanted to make marble waffles but they stuck ughhhhhh >:( At least I managed to cover up pretty well so you can't tell (I hope). Anyway enjoy the recipe! 

Ingredients 

Waffles:

1 egg

1 egg white

1/4 cup coconut flour 

1/4 cup milk

1 tbsp greek yogurt 

1 tbsp maple syrup 

2, 25cm pandan leaves, chopped

Toppings: 

1/4 cup raspberries

1 tbsp plain yogurt

Cocoa powder, water, liquid stevia 

2 butter cookies 

How to

1. Preheat waffle maker.

2. Blend waffle ingredients together. 

3. Cook waffles 2-3 min.

4. Microwave raspberries for 20s. Mix in yogurt. 

5. Mix cocoa powder, water and liquid stevia. 

6. Drizzle waffle with raspberry yogurt, chocolate sauce and top with butter cookies.

P.S I know butter cookies aren't healthy but they are sooo good and honestly two cookies won't do you any harm.