Cooking Amongst Rohani Jelani @ Bayan Indah, Kampung Sg Penchala, Petaling Jaya
Kamis, 09 Desember 2021
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I must live the finally nutrient blogger inwards Kuala Lumpur to speak almost this wonderful place. Better belatedly than never I reckon and but inwards the nick of fourth dimension earlier 2010 comes to a close. It's weird how I ofttimes resist those skillful things inwards life. Call it a natural deprivation.....saving the best for the last.
I've ofttimes heard almost Rohani Jelani's legendary classes....from my sis who has had countless lessons here, my friend southward who had raved to me almost the place, together with of course of report from the blogosphere that is sprinkled with loads of references of this oasis of calm nestled inside the bustling city. Top on my listing of places to hit when I bring gratis time, I've been slack inwards ticking this off but one weekend, I managed to navigate my means through the sleepy hollow of Kampung Sg Penchala to brand it at the doorstep of the huge metallic gate leading to this culinary retreat.
Later, I constitute out from i of the participants, this was a sought-after cast - the i time inwards the twelvemonth BBQ Party, where it prepped you lot for the festive season. Learning how to prepare at Bayan Indah is non exclusively almost techniques that whatever cooking schoolhouse tin terminate drum out but a whole karmic sense since you lot encounter novel food-like-minded friends and you get your hands dingy past times working your means through the recipes. Add a wonderful tropical resort setting (where you lot tin terminate fifty-fifty pass a nighttime inwards good appointed rooms) and an experienced Le Cordon Bleu trained instructor inwards the cast of Rohani Jelani, together with you'll bring a formula for success.
For me, Bayan Indah has a friendly vibe kinda similar a hugging cousin's place where you step into to larn how to prepare upwards together with portion a wonderful repast with friendly souls. Best of all, there's no demand to launder upwards later all that cooking...the perfect dream come upwards true!
The really experienced Rohani has groomed many dwelling draw of piece of occupation solid chefs with her elementary no-fail recipes and fifty-fifty taught a few celebrity ones almost our Malaysian cuisine. Recently, she played host to Todd English linguistic communication who was hither to cinema his idiot box serial Food Trip together with Top Chef finalists, Ed Cotton together with Angelo Sosa. She's also contributed to numerous publications.
Our grouping was a motley bunch - a yoke from Minnesota U.S. of A. together with Great Britain who were traveling to a greater extent than or less Asia, a woman nurture together with miss team, 2 skillful friends, a origin timer together with a regular Bayan Indah attendee. There was fifty-fifty a familiar aspect upwards inwards the cast of nutrient blogger Pure Glutton with the body of body of water of strangers.
It was a busy afternoon equally nosotros tied on our denim aprons together with got downwards to the dissimilar dishes nosotros were assigned to. Split into groups of 2 people, nosotros had to tackle dishes similar the beef fajitas including making the tortillas from scratch, naan bread, tandoori chicken, beef together with chicken satay including the peanut sauce, grilled prawns, grilled lamb, honey ginger chicken together with salad.
My biggest thrill was making the chicken satay together with the peanut sauce, something I've never attempted before. Surprisingly, the peanut sauce turned out to live wonderful. We had a few worrying moments equally nosotros kept tasting it a few times earlier the peanuts softened. Eventually the spice paste's flavours emerged later a long stint of boiling. I sentiment the chicken satay was a goner since I had cutting the chicken pieces besides small. It did brand piercing through the bamboo sticks a petty difficult but suprisingly, later grilling it on the hot coals, it turned out to live juicy together with good marinated. Sinful pieces of chicken pare inwards betwixt the meaty bits added to the succulence of the meat.
Making naan from scratch was a petty fleck tricky but nosotros managed fifty-fifty though non all of our naans were fluffy pillows of dough. The tandoori chicken was a petty watery since I kinda forgot to drain the marinade but otherwise, it tasted fine.
Rohani volition live to a greater extent than or less to give us pointers including how to operate those dough balls magically into apartment pieces of naan to live grilled on the apartment atomic disclose 26 griddle.
She fifty-fifty shared her surreptitious means of draining salad leaves minus the salad spinner - coil them inwards kitchen towels for the leaves to shed their moisture. Great sentiment that meant no demand to buy a bulky salad spinner. The whole house is also brimming with Malaysian exotica - herbs, vegetables together with fruits - a perfect house to larn to a greater extent than almost our dwelling draw of piece of occupation solid grown produce.
After nosotros complete our work, the sideboard is groaning with all our dishes, equally nosotros gustation together with seek out each other's food, sharing tips on what worked for us together with what didn't. It's skillful feedback since these are the petty pointers that brand together with intermission a recipe. Most importantly, nosotros all had fun together with managed to bask our fruits of labour.
I reckon I've definitely caught the Bayan Indah fever....as we're scheduled to provide inwards 2011 for to a greater extent than fun learning. Hopefully equally the tail of Linkin' the truthful cat beckons to me similar a wand, I'll cash inwards one's chips on to my New Year's resolution to cash inwards one's chips on coming dorsum i time again together with again..
Bayan Indah
Plot 3343 Kg Penchala Indah,
Taman Tun Dr Ismail
Kuala Lumpur
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