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Ramadan Recipes - Peanut cookies

Peanut cookies
INGREDIENTS
180g peanuts, roasted
30g white sesame seeds, roasted
180g butter
180g icing sugar
200g plain flour
60g corn flour
1 egg yolk, beaten
Peanuts, halved

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Ramadan in Kedah

Ramadan is a Muslim religious observance that falls on the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. During this month, Muslims observe fasting, they do not eat or drink anything from sunrise until sunset. Fasting also teaches the person patience and humility.

(Photo: Kedah, Malaysia. There are often numerous stalls selling food for the breaking of fast and goodies for the coming Hari Raya celebrations at the end of Ramadan)

Kedah's Prime Ministers

FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA - Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah Fondly known as "The Father of Malaysia"

The Longest Serving Prime Minister of Malaysia - Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Ex Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Read more on Kedah at History of Kedah in myKedah

Recipes from Kedah

Some great recipes from the northern part of Peninsular Malaysia.

Here's our Simple Ayam Rendang Kedah:

Ingredients
I whole chicken
1 ½ cups santan or coconut milk (freshly extracted from grounded coconut / prepare from 1 cup coconut cream)
1 cup desiccated coconut
3 leaves of limau perut or kafir lime
2 tumeric leaves
2 star anise bunga lawang
5 cloves or bunga cengeh
2 cinnamon stick or kayu manis
5 cardamoms or buah pelaga
2 tbsp brown sugar or gula melaka/merah
Salt to taste

Grounded ingredients:
- 100 gm dried chilies
- 10 shallots
- 10 cm piece lengkuas or blue ginger
- 5 cm piece ginger
- 3 cm piece kunyit or turmeric
- 5 serai or lemon grass

Method
Cut the chicken to bite pieces.
Grind or blend the chilies, shallot, lengkuas, ginger, turmeric and lemon grass with a little water.
Heat oil in a wok/pan/pot. Add the grounded ingredients, star anise, cloves, cinnamon stick and cardamom and fry unit fragrant and the oil surfaces.
Put in the chicken pieces and mix well in the pot. Cook with the lid partially close for about 15-20 minutes. Pour in the coconut milk, kafir lime leaves and turmeric leaves.
Lower the heat and add in the desiccated coconut, sugar and salt to taste and cook for another 5-10 minutes. Ensure that the chicken is cooked and remove the rending from heat.

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