Here's a quick and easy guide to make your very own homemade kaya without using any fresh pandan leaves or any other essence using the Thermomix machine. We prefer to have it slightly thick kaya paste and with a more eggish taste.

Chinese New Year is around the corner and definitely with this MCO2.0 we're looking into having much more fun activities at home for the family. This time around we shall try to bring out the CNY festive mood a little bit by getting everyone participate in a little pre-CNY snacks preparation activity. We'd start it off by making our very own ngaku a.k.a arrowhead chips. 

These crunchy arrowhead snack is rather popular during the CNY ..trust me, once you have a bite...you can never stop crunching on them. No doubts that this definitely is an addictive snack to binge during this festive season and it is also found much easily at the hypermarkets during this period. Personally, it's a much healthier snack to have during this time, as we can personally have it made with strictly no salt and preservatives added.

To have these chips homemade is rather straightforward, all you need to do is to follow the instructions below and you can enjoy your very own arrowhead snack!! If you're still wondering what's an arrowhead bulb...here's a picture of it right after purchasing them and before it's being cleaned and sliced. 

Thinly sliced arrowhead bulbs, ready to be fried.

4. Next, heat up the oil in a frying pan/wok once step 3 is completed.
5. Throw in the sliced chips into the hot oil & let it fry over medium heat till it turns golden brown.
     (PS: Ensure that the chips does not overlap too much as it would stick to each other)

6. Take note once the bubbling of the oil starts to die down, the chips are now ready to be retrieved            from the frying pan/wok.

7. Place them onto a rack to cool before keeping it into an air tight container.

Based on the above steps,  we managed to get slightly more than 2 average sized plastic containers of fried Ngaku chips. Not forgetting that there were some tiny teeny yummy bits that went into our tummy along the process.. 😂😂

Oh well, it looks like we've gotta go grab more arrowhead bulbs this weekend as these would definitely finish within less than an hour. 

Special request to have pizza once again today.

Thus, this time around, we're gonna go with the conventional pizza. No more manual kneading of pizza dough for this round BUT we're gonna have the dough kneaded by using the Thermomix. Having used this machine, the time needed for kneading the dough had definitely reduce immensely and no more sticky dough on hands ..tsk tsk.. All in all, it takes about 1 and 1/2 hours to get the end result.

Pizza Dough Recipe with Thermomix:

1. Dry Yeast
2. Room Temperature Water - 400g 
3. Sugar - 1 Tsp
4. Bread Flour (High Protein Flour) - 400g
5. Olive Oil / Sunflower Seed Oil (3 Tbps)
6. Salt - 1 Tsp

1. Insert ingredient 1 to 3 and mix for 30sec/ Speed 2
2. Next, insert ingredient 4 to 6 and let it knead for 2 mins.

You would get a nice, soft non-sticky and soft dough mixture as per picture below. Pour the dough out onto a tray and make it into a ball size. Cover the dough up and let it rise till double in size for approximately 30 - 45mins.    

Once the dough had doubled up, press it out onto a tray. It's gonna be square pizza for us 😁😁 

Then, add your favourite toppings. Get as creative as you can for your love ones. Here we're gonna add our favourite ingredients tomato paste, ham, mushroom chicken sausage and Mozzarella Cheese.

Once you finished decorating your pizza toppings, put the tray into the oven and bake it at 200degrees for 25mins. 

Yakisoba a.k.a Japanese stir fried noodles are yellow noodles made from ramen noodles. Similar to the chinese yellow noodles but it's slightly thinner and faster to cook when stir frying.

Ingredients:

1. Ramen noodles - 300g
2. 1 Tbsp Sesame Oil
3. 2 Tbsp Peanut Oil
4. 250g pork thinly sliced 
5. Beans Sprout
6. Fish Cake
7. 3 Shiitake mushrooms sliced thinly
8. 1 Medium Sized Carrot - thinly sliced
   
9. Eggs
10. Spring Onions

Steps:

1. Boil a sufficient amount of water in a sauce pan and boil the noodles for 1 minute.
2. Drain and sprinkle sesame oil over the noodles and mix until all noodles are coated. This is to prevent the noodles from sticking to each other.
3. Heat oil in a wok or a large frying pan over medium high heat. Add the pork and saute untill the pork is almost cook. Approximately 3-5mins, depending on the thickness of the pork slices.
4. Then, add the fish cake and carrots. Stir fry the ingredients for 30second before adding in the bean sprouts.
5. Next, add in the noodles and mix it well with the ingredients.
6. Add the sauce and mix quickly to ensure that all the noodles are coated with the sauce, and the colour of the noodles is consistently light brown.
7. Finally, transfer the noodles onto the plate, ready to be served.