Christmas Cooking Workshop @ Panasonic Singapore

By finger counting, Christmas is just left a few days from now.
Oops pocket money will be lighten corresponding to the Christmas festive.
Some of you probably will be having a Christmas ala-carte gourmet at your favourite
restaurant or heading for Christmas Buffet.

How about by doing your own Christmas Feast ?
If you think that it is trouble and especially the cleaning part is so troublesome.....
But if you have with friends or families along, why not just helping each other ?

I attended the Christmas Cooking Workshop hosted by omy.sg and Panasonic Singapore .
It was a Fun & Great Experience Workshop ! Interesting ! Not only get to know
how to prepare salad dressing but gotten a recipe and useful method on how to prepare
delicious dishes thru the High Tech of Microwave Oven .

On top of that, Panasonic has launched a Veggie Life !
The First Indoor Vegetable Farm in Singapore of Premium Japanese Crops.
I will be covering more on the Panasonic Salad on the later part together with the salad dressing

All the dishes were cooked using different Panasonic appliances such as rice cooker,
microwave steam oven, bread maker, and hand blender. In just a short within 3 hours,
' Fast Hand Fast Leg', the workshop had prepared 5 number of dishes without a cooking pan.

Glutinous Rice

Glutinous rice need a shallot to complement with it in order to make it more tastier.
Shallot Tips : Btw, do you know that you can cook shallot by using a Microwave ?
Here the fragrance crispy shallot cooked on a High Power in a microwave for 3 mins.

After all the needed ingredients were well prepared, pour everything into the Rice Cooker
to cook glutinous rice by set it to delicious mode - Panasonic Rice Cooker SR-HB-184.

Here is the glutinous is ready to serve. It looks appetizing and taste not bad
For those who like to make glutinous rice can consider to use Rice Cooker method as it is easier

Black Pepper Roast Chicken With Stuffing .

Stuffed Chicken with a cooked Glutinous Rice.

Before putting into microwave steam oven :
Tips : The chicken need to brush with oil and place in a rack to allow the underside to brown.
Set to option roast chicken pad, key in the weight of chicken - 1.5kg and set to 45 minutes.

Tips : In a half way of process, the chicken brush with oil so that i won't dry up - over roasted.

Nahh!!! Roasted Chicken is ready to glaze with honey.
The smell was making me hungry. It is one of the most dishes that i was waiting for to try.

Steamed Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache
Recipe inspired by Diana Gale (http://thedomesticgoddesswannabe.com/),
winner of Singapore Blog Awards Best Cooking Blog 2014 and 2015

Usually after the pouring well mixed mixture ingredients into a lined baking tin, the bubble
will be popping out so here is the Bubbling Tips : lift the baking tin about 10cm off the table
and drop it onto the table to remove the larger bubbles. Repeat for twice more.

Stem the cake into Panasonic Steamed Microwave Oven NN-CS894
Set to steam mode #2 for 55 mins or until an inserted skewer emerges cleanly.

Tips to make chocolate ganache : Firstly heat a milk in microwave oven on a medium c
asserole - high power for 50 secs. After the heating, mix it with chocolate chips.
Stir in between and cook on high power for 2 and half mins.

How make sure the cake is completely done with the baking ?
Tips: Use a satay stick inserts into the cake and make sure it is clean when you take it out.
If there is no satay stick, you can also use chopstick but take note there will be a big hole on the cake.

Tips: Best to cool the cake completely before removing

The Chocolate Ganache is done ! Spreading over with spatula to cover the whole cake

Cinnamon Buns

The buns is baked using a Panasonic Bread maker SD-P104. After the 55 mins of bread
doughing in Bread maker, take out the dough and roll it into a size of 22 x 32 cm.

Coat dough with milk and sprinkle the cinnamon sugar, cocoa chips and
chocolate chips and banana on the dough

Rolling up the dough before cutting into 4 even pieces to make it become a buns shape

Here is the ready Cinnamon buns. Isn't it interesting you can make a bun, a bread by yourself ?
The bun is soft and if you don't have a high expectation on bread, it can be a simple x'mas bun.

Sesame Sauce Salad Dressing

How to a make hand made Salad Dressing instead of buying from outside ?

Put all the ingredients into Panasonic Hand Blender MX-GS1 / MX-SS1
Remove the Blender up and down to achieve a smooth blending result .

Panasonic Veggie Life

Panasonic Factory Solutions Asia Pacific is proudly claimed that they are the first indoor
vegetable farm with HACCP certified. With an agriculture facility, currently they produces
10 types of vegetables : green and red leafy lettuce, mizuna (potherb mustard), mini red &
white radish, rocket lettuce, basil, ooba (mint herb), mitsuba (wild parsley) and baby spinach.

Both leafy and root vegetables are cultivated in the controlled soil-based environment
with LED lighting. These premium Japanese crops are grown in optimum conditions,
where temperature, humidity and CO2 levels are monitored and controlled, ensuring stable,
high-quality production throughout the year end.

The vegetables are freshly delivered to Ootoya restaurant on daily basis.
With over 90% of the food consumed in Singapore being imported, Panasonic hopes the
indoor vegetable farm can contribute to the nation’s food self-sufficiency levels and
at the same time provide a better life and a better world through improved food quality.

There are 3 type of different Japanese salad, each has a different function.
You can find it at certain supermarket
GREEN - NOURISH MIX : Contains Vitamin A ( Antioxidant that essential for eye function )
ORANGE - VIBRANT MIX : Contains Zinc and Magnesium ( Zinc is essential for growth and
Magnesium helps in the absorption and retention of Calcium.
PURPLE - FRESHLY PICKED : Contains Vitamin C ( Antioxidant for the immune system )