Resto Review : Sushi Matsu

Datang terlambat pada suatu event itu sebenarnya musuh besar saya. Apalagi pas acara review seperti ini. Akibat terlambat, saya jadi kehilangan info2 awal, yang justru biasanya penting dan selalu disampaikan di awal acara. Apa boleh buat, karena waktu itu jalanan mendadak tidak bersahabat, saya sampai ketika teman-teman yang lain sudah mulai motret dan bahkan ada jg yg sudah dimakan :D Untung saja tempat Sushi Matsu gampang dicari. Kebetulan juga saya cukup sering ke pasmod BSD, dan posisi resto ini persis di seberangnya. Jadi walaupun waktu itu saya naik taksi, ya gak pake nyasar deh.

Sewaktu tiba di lokasi, saya disambut dengan "Irasshaimase!" dan senyum manis pelayan resto. Hmmm tempatnya memang mungil, tapi nyaman dan homey. Lalu saya dipersilahkan untuk naik ke tempat review di lantai 2. 

Jujur saja saya tidak mencicipi seluruh makanan yang disediakan. Pertama, buanyaaaaak banget jenisnya....kedua, saya sambil ribet ngawasin anak-anak yang waktu itu ikut ke resto karena suami lagi keluar kota. Perhatian terpecah nih, ceritanya...

Nah, Sushi Matsu ini masih cukup muda usianya, berdirinya tanggal 18 Mei 2014. Matsu sendiri artinya Pohon Cemara Jepang, mengandung makna keberuntungan dan umur panjang. Walaupun muda, tapi menu2 Sushi Matsu gak kalah lho, kalo dibanding dengan gerai sushi lain. Mereka punya tim koki andalan yg memang sudah berpengalaman dengan masakan Jepang. Jadi terjamin otentik dan fresh makanan  di gerai ini. 

Nah inilah sebagian menu yang disajikan dan sempat terpotret :

Seger banget kan ikannya :)

Yang ini kalo gak salah namanya Hokkaido (IDR 45K) Salmon, crab meat dan omelette. Yummm!

Yang ini the famous Takoyaki (IDR 20K), enak deh ini, pake lelehan saus mayones yang yummy

Yang ini Inari Tuna Salad (IDR 33K), tuna dengan saus mayones dibungkus kulit tahu. Favorit!

 Chicken Omelette (IDR 38K)

 ini namanya Volcanoes (IDR 45K), udang, salmon dan crab meat ditutup dengan topping mayones yg lembut dan telur ikan terbang. Delish!

Maguro atau Ikan Tuna (IDR 42K), walaupun raw, tapi tidak amis

owww owww owwww, ngilerin bangetttt kaaaaaan! 

Dari kiri-kanan : Miso Ramen (IDR 45K), -, Avocado Salad (IDR 27K), Chicken Katsu Curry Rice (IDR 45K)

 

Naaah jadi tunggu apa lagi? Mumpung lagi ada promo nih, makan sebesar 150K, kamu dapet diskon 20K. Asik kaaaaan?

SUSHI MATSU:

Ruko Golden Madrid 2 Blok G no. 6

Telp : 021-53164795
Jam buka :
Weekdays : 11.00 – 21.00

Weekend : 10.00 – 21.30

Twitter : @sushimatsuresto IG : sushimatsu FB : sushi matsu

Oven Baked Sweet Soy Sauce Chicken

Most Indonesian loves sweet soy sauce. This earthy and humble ingredients is a must have on every Indonesian kitchen. We have plenty brands for this. Some region even produce their own sweet soy sauce, and each region has different taste, very unique. 

I believe that is why we can easily find dishes that use sweet soy sauce as key ingredient. As for this dish that I made, very simple. Yet it has wonderful taste.

Ingredients :
10 chicken wings
5 cloves of garlic, grated
1,5 cm ginger, grated
3 tablespoons of sweet soy sauce
2 tablespoons of worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon of oyster sauce
a pinch of ground coriander
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of ground pepper

For smearing
mix together 1-2 tablespoon of sweet soy sauce and 1 teaspoon of oil.

How to:
1. Preheat your oven, 180 celsius degree
2. Mix the all the ingredients together
There are two ways to cook it. Cook directly at the oven, or using stove top method.

For cook directly at the oven method :
1. Marinate the chicken with all the ingredients, refrigerate for 2 hours
2. Arrange the marinated chicken in a smeared baking pan,cover with alumunium foil. Bake for 40-45 minutes
3. open the cover, smear with sweet soy+oil, bake without cover for another 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool

For stove top method:
1. In a wok/pan, cook the chicken with all the ingredients for about 20minutes
2. Smear the chicken with sweet soy+oil, and bake for 15 minutes.

Talam Ubi Ungu (Steamed Purple Sweet Potato Cake with Coconut Milk)

This cake, or we call it kue talam, is my alltime favorite traditional cake. Bring back my childhood memories in every bite.

The original Kue Talam, is actually made from mixture of coconut milk, rice flour and tapioca. I'm adding purple sweet potato just to make it colorful and beautiful. You can also replace the purple sweet potato with pumpkin puree. 

The cake has two layers, the top one is usually the white one. In this photos, I have to turn the kue upside down as I don't have the right mold. The original shape is actually bowl-like. Mine was flowery (which is cute, btw)

The taste of this cake is satisfying, it is soft and a bit creamy. And also chewy at the same time, perhaps because I'm adding the purple sweet potato. But worry not, they are perfect companion for tea time.

Talam Ubi Ungu
recipe taken and adapted from Cooking Tackle 

Ingredients:

150 gr steamed purple sweet potato

200 ml thick coconut milk

50g rice flour

25g tapioca flour

100 gr sugar

2 whole eggs

½ teaspoon salt

Vegetable oil for greasing

Ingredients for the top layer

180ml thick coconut milk

40g rice flour

½ teaspoon salt

DIRECTIONS

1. Using hand blender or mixer or regular blender, mix the steamed purple sweet potato, coconut milk, rice flour, tapioca flour, sugar, eggs and salt. Set aside. Let it sit for a while.

2. Heat your steamer, when boiling, lower the heat.

3. Lightly grease your mold with vegetable oil.

4. Fill each cup with base layer up to 2/3 parts each cup

5. Steam for 10 minutes.

6. In a bowl, combine coconut milk, rice flour and salt, stir well until smooth. Add it carefully over the base layer, steam for another 5 minutes. 

Please remember to cover the steamer lid with clean kitchen towel, to avoid the steam fall down to the cake and make it surface's not smooth.

Nasi Tim a.k.a Steamed Rice a.k.a Rice Topped with Chicken and Mushroom

Honestly I don't know what this dish' name in English. So I want the title to be as informative as it can be, as this food is quite famous in our country, it is actually a mix Indo-chinese comfort food. Well, nasi tim often said to be the food for toddler and the seniors people. You know why? Because it has a smooth texture, easy to chew. Mild taste, but heavenly in your taste bud. And when people got sick, nasi tim is commonly found on the menu list. I also crave for this food when I was hospitalized back in 2009. Well of course to labeled it "food for toddler and senior" is not a fair judgement, as this dish is delicious that you can have it not in a specific age and condition.

There are many ways to make delicious nasi tim ayam, what I'm going to share is my version of nasi tim, the way I comfortable to make it, a.k.a the simple way, if you know what I mean *wink*.

It seems like there are so many stages, but if your cooking mood is up and down (like me), you can make a big batch and keep some of it in the fridge. Whenever you are in a hurry and feeling like making breakfast is such a burden, just heat them and you're safe from grumble-cooking time. Oh wait, that's me! Suit yourself with your own condition LOL

Oh, btw, I have never keep this dish in the fridge for more than 3 days, I think its best not to keep it too long. This what I do to fridge it, once the nasi tim is cool/room temp, transfer them to an airtight container. And you can re-steam them for 10 minutes before serving, or simply reheat with microwave. Of course the texture will be slightly different after microwave re-heating. Lack of moistness is happening, though you put a glass of water during the heating period.

Ingredients :

For chicken stock

chicken bones (i use 2 breast bones and 4 pcs of chicken feet)

2 L water

For Rice 

- 650 gr rice

- chicken stock, the amount of the stock should be as stated on the rice package cooking direction (i'm using 1 L of chicken stock)
- 3 cloves of garlic, mashed and finely chopped

- 1cm ginger, mashed and finely chopped

- 1 tsp salt

- 1 tbsp light soy sauce

- a dash of sesame oil
- 1 tbsp of oil

For chicken

- boneless and skinless chicken breast (I use 2 chicken breast @200-250 gr), cut into cubes

- gr mushroom, I'm using fresh  mushroom, but canned mushroom also ok

- 5 cloves of garlic, mashed and chopped finely

- 2 cm of ginger, mashed and chopped finely
- 2-3 tbsp of cooking oil

- 4 tbsp sweet soy sauce

- 3 tbsp light soy sauce

- 1 tbsp oyster sauce

- 2 tbsp sesame oil

- 250 ml water

- salt and pepper to taste

For soup

- 500 ml chicken stock

- 2 cloves of garlic

- 2 scallion, thinly slice

- salt and pepper

I'm also adding 12 hard-boiled quail eggs.

Directions :
Chicken stock

- Bring to the boil, about 2 cups of water. Add in the chicken bones. Reduce the heat, cook for about 5 minutes. Remove all the water. 
- Add 2 L water to your pan with all the bones

- Bring to the boil with medium heat, after the water is boiling, reduce the heat. Simmer for at least 1 hour

Rice
- Saute the garlic and ginger until fragrant, turn off heat.
- Use chicken stock as the liquid to cook the rice, the amount should be the same as the instructions. Add in the garlic and ginger saute, salt, light soy sauce and sesame oil. Cook until done, I am using stove top method, took about 15 minutes

Chicken and mushroom
- Heat the pan and saute the garlic, ginger until fragrant. 
- Add in the chicken cubes, saute until the color changed
- Add in the mushroom, saute again until the color changed.
- Add 250 ml water, add all the sauces and salt n pepper. Close the lid, let simmer for at least 15 minutes. Pour in the sesame oil, mix well, turn off the heat.

Soup
- saute the garlic until fragrant. 
- bring to the boil 500 ml of chicken stock, add the sauteed garlic, salt pepper and sliced scallion. Turn off heat 

How to Assemble
1. In a heat proof bowl, arrange the saute chicken mushroom,hard-boiled quail eggs and 2-3 eggs for a single serving. it taste heavenly after steaming. Cover the chicken with rice.
2. Steam for about 25-30 minutes
3. Remove from the heat, transfer to a plate, and serve with soup, sprinkle with onion and your favorite vegetable

Soto Betawi

I must admitt, I have less knowledge about soto. This dish is very popular in Indonesia. Almost each province or even state, have their special kind of soto. So hereby, I'm trying to introduce you to all the soto that I have tried. I'm trying to mastering in this field :D Hopefully it will help to introduce the variety of our cuisine, in this special case is : Soto. Soto is often considered as national dish and a comfort food. It served from every street corners until fine dining restaurants and luxurious hotels. It is actually contained broth, meat and vegetable. Best eaten when warm.

Today,  I am going to share the recipe for delicious soto. Soto Betawi, originally from Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. Its authenticity is actually the use of coconut milk, beef offal and potato cubes. But my hubby and I doesn't consume beef offal, so we use shank beef for this recipe.

SOTO BETAWI

Ingredients :
- 500gr shank beef, cut in cubes appx 3x3cm
- 2 potatoes, cut in cubes 
- 2 L water
- 500 ml thick coconut milk
- 3 lemon grass
- 4 bay leaves
- 3 cm galangal
- 6 keffir lime leaves
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 tsp sugar
- salt
- pepper
- ground nutmeg
- 3 tablespoons of cooking oil

Grind the following into spice paste:
- 12 shallots
- 6 garlic
- 1,5cm turmeric
- 2cm ginger
- 3 red chilies
- 6 candle nut
- 1 and 1/2 tsp ground coriander
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin

Accompaniments :
- 2 scallion, thinly slice
- 2 tomato, remove the seed, cut into small pieces
- fried shallots
- melinjo cracker
- sambal rebus

Directions :
1. In a soup pot, bring to the boil water and beef, once its boiled, use small heat and let simmer for 1 hour or until the beef fork-tender. If you want to go the fastest way, use pressure cooker. 
2. Saute the spice paste with galangal, kaffir lime leaves, bay leaves and lemongrass until fragrant. Add to soup pot.
3. Add in the coconut milk, continuous stirring needed. 
4. Add the potato cubes, and let simmer for another 30-40 minutes.
5. Serve soto betawi in a bowl. Garnish with sliced scallion, tomato, fried shallots, kaffir lime and melinjo crackers.

Moist Chocolate Banana Muffin

Quick post! 

This oooh so good muffin is actually quite the same with my previous Banana Muffin with lemon glaze, I only add chocolate powder and choco chips to the batter, the result is ......cannot stop chewing the muffin. They are chocolatey, moist and simply scrumptious.

Here is the recipe :

6 medium size banana, mashed (appx 2 cups)

3/4 cup vegetable oil

3 eggs

1 cup of sugar

2 cups of flour

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup chocolate powder

1/2 cup choco chips

How to :  

Heat your oven, 180 Celsius degree 

Mix together flour, chocolate powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside

Mix mashed banana and sugar, add oil, egg and some of the choco chips. (i'm using 3/4 of total amount of the choco chips, the 1/4 is use for sprinkle) Mix untill well combined.

Shift the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, mix until just combined. Do not overmix or your muffin will be tough!

Pour the batter into muffin cups until almost full (appx 3/4 full), sprinkle some choco chips. Bake for about 25 minutes, or until a toothpick insterted comes out clean.

Braised Chicken Wrapped in Steamed Buns

In my home, I strictly forbid my children to watch tv. There are specific schedule they must obey. Call me mean, I don't mind cos I'm doing it for their own good. So, in order to give them good examples, we, my husband and I rarely watch tv. We pay the cable tv for the cheapest package, not much channel included. I didn't even bother to browse what channels available, as I don't really have much time to sit down and watching tv. Busy buzzling like a bee the whole day. When nite comes, I am wearing out. So I fell asleep almost every time my children sleeps. 

That night, after my afternoon celebes coffee (support local coffee!), I feel so bright. Cannot keep my eyes close. Strange. So I decided to....watch tv! haha. Browse each channel and realized that my favorite channel was included. The show was Easy Chinese, don't remember the host name (sorry). The show was almost half part when I went watching. It was quite interesting, though. Too bad I didn't wrote it downed, so, what I make here was a duplicate that might be not too similar to the one I watched. However, the taste if surprisingly good. It is like a chinese style chicken burger. Even my picky eater son loves it! The next day, my eldest wants to bring that braised chicken for school. Happy mommy! He ate it with rice, not the mantou.

I believe you all now what mantou is, right? Mantou is often referred as Chinese steamed bun. The texture is soft and fluffy when warm. It gets a little tougher on room temperature. When I was a kid, I usually enjoy the chocolate mantou. Sometimes I dipped it in sweet condensed milk. Yummmmm. But for this recipe, you need the white classic mantou / the original. It slightly sweet actually, but it paired perfectly with the braised chicken I made. 

I don't make my own mantou :D Store bought is way more simple for me, no hassle! But surely you can use your favorite recipe if you are diligent enough :P

INGREDIENTS :

- 300gr skinless boneless chicken, cut into small cubes
- 1 lime
- 2 tbs of cooking oil
- 1 tsp dried shrimp powder, pan roasted
- 4 garlic, finely chopped
- 1 cm ginger, finely chopped
- 4 tbsp sweet soy sauce
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- water, about 70-100ml
- Salt n pepper
- sesame, about a handfull, pan roasted about 1 minute
- cilantro

Directions :
1. Rub the chicken with lime juice, let sit for at least 5 minutes. Wash clean, cut into small cubes
2. Saute the chopped garlic and ginger, add the dried shrimp powder. Keep saute-ing until fragrant.
3. Add in the chicken cubes, then add the sweet soy sauce, oyster sauce, light soy sauce, salt n pepper. Add water, and let it simmer for at least 10-15 minutes. When the sauce has absorbed, have a taste first and make correction according to your liking.
4. Turn off the heat. Serve the braised chicken in burger like mantou, topped with roasted sesame and cilantro.