5 Special Food Menu Recipes

 Cuisine is one of the things that can bring family members closer together, both nuclear family and extended family, especially with children. However, you and your family may sometimes feel bored with the same menu, so a variety of menus is needed to whet your appetite.

Therefore, this article will discuss recommendations for daily dishes that can be cooked with instant spices.

 How to Organize a Daily Menu

Arranging a daily cooking menu is indeed easy and difficult. Besides having to adjust to the tastes and needs of each family member, you also have to pay attention to whether the dishes meet the 4 healthy 5 perfect. To organize a daily cooking menu so that it is not bored and nutritious, try following the method below.

1. Develop a nutritionally balanced menu

The first thing to consider when compiling a daily cooking menu so as not to get bored is the combination of nutrients in the dish. Make sure the daily menu contains a balanced amount of carbohydrates, fats, animal protein, vegetable protein, minerals, vitamins, and fiber. For example, provide rice as a source of carbohydrates, vegetables and fruits as a source of vitamins, fiber, and minerals, and side dishes using eggs, meat, or tempeh. To make it perfect, complete the daily menu with milk.

2. Serving the main side dish alternately

The type of food that usually becomes the main side dish is animal protein, such as chicken, beef, eggs, or fish. In compiling a daily cooking menu so as not to get bored, you can alternate the main side dishes, for example if Monday cooks chicken, then Tuesday cooks fish, and Wednesday cooks fish. Besides not being boring, you can also get protein, fat, and omega 3 intake in one week.

3. Process one type of side dish into several types of dishes

The side dishes you buy to prepare your daily meals may be limited, but you can make 2-3 different dishes in one week. For example, 1 kg of chicken meat prepared for one week can be processed into fried chicken, soy sauce chicken, or chicken stew. If you have prepared 1 kg of carrots for a weekly stock, you can process them into vegetable soup, vegetable bakwan, pickles, or capcay.

4. Make a different menu every day

To make a daily cooking menu so as not to get bored, try not to make the same dishes, both the basic ingredients and how to process them. For example, don't serve mangut catfish with vegetable bobor because both contain coconut milk. If you already serve fried tofu and tempeh, you should prepare chicken or fish with gulai seasoning. In addition, vary the taste of dishes in one menu, some are savory, sweet, sour, or spicy.

5. Make a combination of easy and complicated dishes

Another thing that needs to be considered in compiling a daily cooking menu so as not to get bored is the time and difficulty of cooking. So that you don't spend too much time on just one type of dish, you should make a combination of dishes that are processed quickly and dishes that are somewhat complicated. For example, if you are cooking fish pepes, the spinach prepared is enough to be processed into clear vegetables.

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If you are still confused about what to serve in your daily cooking menu so that you don't get bored, you can make the following recommendations as a reference. For the record, the various dishes below can be cooked using instant spices.

Ingredients:

2 packs of oyster mushrooms

1/2 tempeh board

4 cloves shallots

3 cloves of garlic

5 green chilies

instant oyster sauce

instant mushroom broth

salt to taste

sugar to taste

How to make:

Wash and clean the mushrooms, then set aside.

Fry tempeh half dry, set aside into another container.

Sauté shallots and chili until fragrant, add mushrooms, oyster sauce, instant mushroom broth, sugar, and salt. Stir well in the stir-fry.

Add tempeh, add a little water, and cook until the marinade is absorbed.

If it tastes good, remove from heat and serve.

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2. Chicken Opor with Instant Opor Seasoning

Ingredients:

1 chicken cut into 8 or 10 pieces

1 packet of instant opor seasoning

Kencur to taste that is kneaded

250 grams of belimbing wuluh

1 tomato cut into 8 pieces

Thick or thin coconut milk to taste

How to make:

Combine all prepared ingredients in a saucepan. Stir until well combined.

Add salt or flavoring if you feel it is not savory enough.

Cook over low or medium heat until the coconut milk boils.

Wait for a while until the opor is warm and then serve.

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3. Sauteed Sausage with Instant Butter Sauce

Ingredients:

Sausage cut into 2 or 3 pieces

Onion

Saori instant butter flavored sauce

Cooking oil

How to cook:

Heat oil over medium heat and fry the sausage until yellowish.

Add chopped onion and sauté until fragrant.

Pour in 1 sachet Saori instant butter sauce.

Stir until smooth, let it absorb the seasoning, then serve.

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4. Tom Yum Meatballs-Seafood with Instant Tom Yum Seasoning

Ingredients:

4 beef meatballs

Thinly sliced dori fish

3 chicken meatballs

1 thinly sliced carrot

5 ear mushrooms

Chicken breast meat

4 bay leaves

Red chili pepper mashed

Large red chili pepper thinly sliced

Dried seaweed to taste

Dried fish and bonito to taste

Instant Tom Yum seasoning

Salt

Sugar

Black pepper

Olive oil

Water to taste

How to make:

Wash all ingredients, set aside.

Heat olive oil, stir-fry Tom Yam instant seasoning until fragrant, add bay leaves and crushed red chili, mix well.

Add dried fish, dried seaweed, and red chili extension, stir.

Add pepper, salt, sugar to taste, and stir briefly.

Wait for the oil to reduce to a paste, then add water to taste.

Add the carrot pieces, ear mushrooms, dori fish, stir for a while and wait for it to boil.

After boiling, add the chicken, fish balls, beef meatballs that have been boiled, and heat until the water seems to shrink.

Serve topped with kombu and bonito.

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5. Beef Rendang with Instant Rendang Seasoning

Ingredients:

2 packets of instant rendang seasoning

500 grams of thinly sliced beef

1 lemongrass leaf

2 orange leaves

1 bay leaf

Brown sugar to taste

Cooking oil to taste

Flavoring to taste

1 liter of water

How to make:

Heat oil, saute instant rendang seasoning with lemongrass leaves, lime leaves, and bay leaves until fragrant.

Add the beef and stir. Cook until the meat changes color and is tender.

Add water and stir to combine.

Cook the rendang until the water shrinks. If it is too salty, you can add a little brown sugar, or if it is not savory enough, you can add flavoring.

Rendang is ready to be served.

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