Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Durian..Durian..(mad rush to finish the durian)

Last call for durian lovers. Ramadhan is here but durian is still abundant. The ‘but’ is because many people don’t really eat durian by flesh during puasa times, not even for a hardcore durian lovers like me. I mean there is so much durian this season, a seller near my house sold it for only 10 ringgit a bag. And it is a whole lot of a good deal for kampong durian although it is not so musang-king neither it is D-series. But eating durian can only last before Ramadhan. Maybe people are more focus on sweet delicacies for Ramadhan compare to fruits. I remember last Ramadhan how buah duku from my tiny kebun is abandon just because people are not really into fruits in Ramadhan. Durian is just everywhere nowadays. Hubby’s office had a durian feast last Thursday and they bought a lorry of durian and he brought left-over home. On my way back from Kelantan, there was not one lorry moving on Karak Hiway not ferrying durian (must be durian Pahang), that I have this wishful thinking that one of it just skidded and cause the durian to fell down on the roadside and then they giveaway to passersby who happen to be us at that time and we go back home happily ever after… But of course none of it gets skidded…

Well anyway, as I have too much durian to play around with, I got to rid them in the most delicious way possible – before Ramadhan. It was previous week project actually. Can’t be doing kuah and pulut durian all the time. That would be too lame for my children and hubby who is hantu durian to just dunk into the same dish all the time. So what I do is revisit an old recipe of my mom – the grand murtabak durian – and lets add ‘royal’ to it. I actually never found Murtabak durian being sold or serve anywhere in the world. Perhaps people will give the ‘eeuwww’ look with the sound of murtabak durian, but it is actually not that far away from the more common but still exotic murtabak pisang. It is of the same concept. So guys – if you still have those creamy-sweet-tasty-yellowish flesh in your fridge, act now before it morph to tempoyak. Follow this….

First you buy a non-cook roti canai at mamak stall (I used to do it myself those days – sekarang nak ringkas saja). Murtabak d’raja durian needs to be layered with at least two layers. So I bought 12 piece. Next just take around two corelle bowls of durian flesh. Mixed in 6 egg, then to add a little sweetness and creaminess (as if the durian is not creamy enough la tu..) add in 4 table spoons of condense milk. Finally just a bit of salt to bring out the taste. Mix well with fork…then that’s about it..easy right. But it is super delicious super sinful (who cares..). Even the ‘durian commoners’ go crazy about it…

This is the durian filling ready to be wrapped in the roti canai dough

The finished products..Murtabak d'Raja Durian..
At home, it’s gone faster than the time I took to make it..tambah hujan pulak petang tu.. Everybody goes like ‘nape buat sikit sangat?’ That day the word ‘sikit’ has been redefined.

It doesn't ends there.  After all those murtabak – I still have leftovers. I kept thinking of the serimuka durian that somebody ordered during last two potluck at the office from Pondok Kuih (or is it Istana Kuih..?). So I put durian left-over for another good use. Its seri muka durian. Very simple to do – but there’s no other better words to describe the dish that can be alike to eating serawa durian with pulut but with your finger - YUmmmmmy…So here it is…
Topping of the seri muka before cook

Bottom part - pulut after being steamed - super white pulut from Kelantan (fr Siam actually)

Finish products - Seri Muka Durian

Gone in no time...
I actually still have an ice-cream tub of durian flesh well kept in the freezer even after yesterday's pulut durian for bukak puasa.  Got to think of another dish to finish it off...