5th report

5 March 2010


Beef Chicken pineapple nugget

RECIPE
Main Ingredient=

• Chicken breast 250 g


• Tender loin 250 g


• Garlic (chop) 3nos


• Salt to taste


• Black Pepper powder to taste


• Mozzarella 1 packet

Salsa=

• Onion (diced) 3nos


• Pineapple (diced) 1nos


• Bird eye chili (chop) 5nos


• Asparagus (sliced) 1 packet


• Salt to taste


• Black pepper powder to taste

Batter=

• Egg 4nos


• Bread crumbs 250 g
  

Method
First of all marinate chicken and beef with Garlic, Salt, Black Pepper powder. Let it marinate for at least ½ hour to make the ingredient to get in the meat. In the mean time, prepare the salsa ingredient. Prepare a pot of boiling water, add in salt and then blanch asparagus. After that mix the entire salsa ingredient together and placed aside. Next, blend the marinate meat ingredient and then make the meat into small ball. Flatten the meat with your hand and take the salsa and placed the salsa on the meat. Cover the salsa by pressing meat with your finger and then steam the meat for a few minutes (note: don’t make the meat to thick and don’t steam so long or else it will turn out hard). Once steam placed the meat in the egg batter and then sprinkle bread crumbs on the nugget. Make sure to bath in the batter for two times, so that the outside texture will turn out crispy. Lastly, deep fry the nugget until it turn golden brown.

Our first trial

As usuall we, prepared all the item and then do some misen-plus. Later that blend and season the meat. Next after that we prepare salsa and following the steps. By blanching asparagus and then chopped them to small cube follow by the onion. Pineapple is also chopped to small pieces And then mixes with lime juice. After making salsa, place the salsa aside and then start shapping the meat into small ball. Then place filling in the meat and then close back again. After that steam the meat until half cook. Finally deep meat into the egg batter and then to the bread crumbs before frying it.

After that, we learn that the meat texture taste isn't salty enough. But so far the texture is alright.

So we came out a solution to marinate the meat before cooking them.



We also try freezing the nugget, trying to find out what will happen to the nugget.


Other comment:

We had learn that the filling is satisfying this time and it was better than last week. We learn that the meat should be thinner so that the texture won't be so hard. Pineapple filling was our subtitue ingredient because we had forget to order some manggo. Well at least we know that this time the nugget will pass.

4th Report

26 February 2010

Well today is the day we are going to test our fruity crunch product. Sounds kind of fruity right, but it is a nugget. Well stop wasting our time lets start the day with msyterious....

FRUITY CRUNCH RECIPE:

List of Ingredients:
=Mix dry fruit 100g
=Bread crumb 250g

=Strawberry 6pcs

=Chocolate chip 1/3 cup
=Oatmeal 200g

=Honey ½ cup
=Milk/cream ¼ cup

=Butter 20g

=Egg white 2nos
=Oil for deep frying.


Method:

1. Add mix dry fruit, oatmeal, honey, milk, butter. Mix all of them together and then shape them into desirable shape.
2. Make sure that it is sticky enough to hold the shape.
3. Pan fry the dough so that the shape hold together and cool them aside for a while. After when it is cold, dip the fried fruit in egg white.
4. Later that sprinkle some bread crumbs on it making sure that it cover the fried fruit completely.
5. Lastly, deep fry them until golden brown.

OUR first TRIAL!

Preparing and doing some mise-en plus will help us to cut short our time.

These our ingredient we going to use to make the fruity crunch..

First we placed the oat meal in a mixing bowl, then add in dry mix fruit and start mixing the ingredient. Continue by adding butter followed by honey and the rest of the items. What most important is to make sure that the taste is good, adding cream and cinnamon powder is to kill the smell of honey. In the mean time honey make the texture shining and sticky.

After that, we make the oatmixture into a small ball and then sprinkle with some bread crumbs

Lastly, deep frying it in a low flame until it turn golden brown. But it was a failure the texture itself can't hold together and break easily. Taste is kind of powderish.

OUR second TRIAL!

This time we washed the oatmeal to reduce the taste of powderish taste, and then continue the same atep but with additional strawberry and chocolate chip for its filling and some flour as well.

There a few adjustment by before adding bread crumbs, we dip the oatmeal in the egg batter first followed by bread crumbs then only fry. AGAIN!!! It fail but these time its not worst then earlier. The nugget it crunchy but it still easy to peices. The filling itself is still taste kind od lumpy and it taste like baby food.

OUR third TRIAL!

We followed accordingly the second trial but a little change when come to batter step. Before we dip into the egg batter. We pan fry the oatmeal first letting it to hold firmly, and then placed in the chiller to cooled down. Then only take it and placed in the egg batter and followed by sprinkling some bread crumb. Lastly deep frying until it turn golden brown.

The third trial we try was better than the previous, the outside texture is crunchy and it hold firmly but only the oatmeal taste kind of lumpy still. As you can see we try out another experiment when we did the third trial. We split the product to two by adjusting the quantity of flour. We found out that the more flour it have the harder it become.

These is what we get for today misterious day.

Well we guess using oatmeal is bad idea because today we had learn that the oatmeal absorb all the water and it just not suitable ingredient for frying. Quess today it was not our lucky day. But we will not give up so easily. We think of an different ingredient to subtitue the oatmeal, and hope it will be successful next week class.

3rd Report

12th Feb 2010

Our task for today is to make a fruit leather, well what we understand about fruit leather is that it is healthy snacks that have high vitamins. Because the food is processed directly and the contain of vitamin is still available. These can be eaten as snack of maybe can be served as breakfast.

Basic Formula Fruit Leather

Recipe:
=Strawberry,hulled and cut half 2 1/2cup
=Sugar 25g


Method:

1. Puree strawberry in blender until smooth. Stir in sugar.
2. Line jelly roll pan with aluminium foil and fasten it to the edge with masking tape.
3. Spread the fruit evenly in the pan. Dry in oven at 60C until completely dry and no longer sticky, approximately for 12 hour bake in the oven.
4. Remove from aluminium foil and roll up. Wrap the roll tighly in aluminium foil and store at room temperature in a tightly closed plastic bag or container. (Note: Apple leather can be made using 1 1/2cup of apples(peeled, cored and puree), 90ml water, 75g sugar and 0.8g cinnamon).
   

Today we only have two task which are:

1. Control-Prepare the basic formula.
2. Honey, 60C oven_prepare basic formula but subtitute honey 30ml instead of using sugar.

We start with doing some misen-plus so that the task is done in a short time.

Next we cut the strawberry to smaller pieces so that it can be blend easily. After that we measure it as usual and then seperate them into two.

Next, is to blend the items prepared earlier into a puree. We start by adding strawberry, followed by sugar and then, blend it until fine.


In the mean time, we continue the blending process which will be using honey. Start adding strawberry followed by the honey and lastly blend it to puree.

After all blending process is done, prepare two tray and put parchment paper then pour the puree on the paper. Then use a scrapper and distribute the puree over the paper making it thin so that it can dry faster.

Once done, label the tray first...

Baking starts at 9:30am.

At 12:00pm, the strawberry has started to dry at the side.

At last, the first one is done. Which is the honey strawberry leather. The time it was ready was at 12:50pm.

And it's time for the evaluation. By judging at the look, it looks darker pinkish and by tasting it, it have a sweet taste at first and slowly the taste of bitter. As for the tenderness, it is very chewy and the texture is kind of dry.

Next, is the sugar leather strawberry. It dried completely at 1:00pm.

Well for the sugar strawberry leather it look dark pink and when come to taste, the taste is sweet and there is a light taste of sour. The tenderness is chewy and the texture of it is dry as well.





After all the long wait we can see the achievements we had done. Well from all the fruits we used, we think peach taste better then other fruits. As we learn for today is different fruits has different content of water. As for example you can see apple takes the longest time to dry. Also we learn that using honey and sugar have a slide changes. Which you can see that honey help to make the fruits shine but, it will make the taste to turn bitter as well. For sugar it makes the taste better but it is not so appealing and shiny as honey. In the end, we gained new knowledge by using different kind of fruits will cause different effect.