Durian Cake

Ingredients :
1 x Durian
6 oz Butter (3/4 cup)
5 oz Sugar (2/3 cup)
4 x Egg, separated
6 oz Flour (3/4 cup)

Method :
* Preheat oven to 350 F.
* Remove flesh from the durian and discard the seeds. Puree the flesh in a food processor. Beat butter and sugar together until smooth, then beat in the egg yolks. Sift flour and beat it into the butter mixture. Beat in the durian pulp.
* Whip egg whites into stiff peaks and fold them into the mixture. Bake cake in a greased, 8" cake pan for 1 hour, or until cake is done when tested with a toothpick.
* Yield: 8 to 10 servings.

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Opor Solo

Ingredients:
1 chicken, 4 cups of coconut milk, 6 pieces of shallots, 3 pieces of garlic, 120 gram candle nut, 10 gram corriander, 5 gram jintan, 3 helai bay leaves, 1 batang daun sereh, 100 gr lengjuas, salt and pepper.

Instructions:
* Cut chicken into pieces
* Grind shallots, garlic, candle nut, corriander, and jintan
* Brown for a little bit.
* Boil chicken with 2 cups of coconut milk, put in sereh and galanga.
* When chicken is about done, put in more coconut milk along with the spice mix above. Add salt and pepper to taste

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Tahu Telor

Ingredients:
* 1 lb. purple eggplants
* 1 Tbs. lime juice
* 15 Tbs. vegetable oil

Spice Paste Ingredients:
* 100 gram red chilies
* ½ tsp. salt
* 1 tomato
* ½ tsp. shrimp paste
* 7 small-sized shallots

Instructions:
* Cut each eggplant in half and cut again in 2 or 4 pieces.
* Heat 10 Tbs. oil and deep fry the eggplant pieces. Cover the wok and let it stand for a while.
* Open cover and turn the eggplants side to side until soft and well cooked.
* Put eggplant pieces onto a serving platter.
* Combine all spice paste ingredients and grind coarsely.
* Heat 5 Tbs. oil over medium high heat and sauté the spice paste for about 2 minutes. Pour the lime juice over the spice paste.
* Then, lastly pour the sauted spice paste onto the eggplant pieces and ready to serve.

Makes 5-6 servings.

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