DRAGON FRUIT JELLY MOONCAKE

Yeah..i am back. Just to share my first attempt of doing this jelly mooncakes. My sister has asked for the recipe so i better update my blog. Let us see how I did it. To do this jelly mooncake, first we need to do the eggyolks. I used carrot for the colour. It turned out nice. It really resembled that salted eggyolk. Then when the 'yolks' set proceed to do the fillings. I used coconut milk for the filling. When the filling sets then do the outer layer. It is time consuming to do this. Eventhough it is time consuming there is a sense of satisfaction when you see your product. Ah.... i am getting longwinded...

Here is the recipe.

DRAGON FRUIT JELLY MOONCAKE 

For the egg-yolk 

Ingredients

1 1/4 teaspoons agar agar powder
70g sugar
200ml water
100 ml carrot puree
(Cook  carrot blend and then measure)
1pandan leaf.

Method

1. Boil everything together until sugar dissolves and remove from heat.
2. Pour solution into mold and let it set.

                                        Look like salted eggyolk?

For the Fillling

Ingredients

1 tablespoon agar agar powder 

80 g sugar 

200 ml water 

 200 ml coconut milk 

2 pandanus leaves

Method

1. Put everything in a pot and boil. Stir until sugar dissolves.

2. Pour into mould and put in 'salted eggyolk' and let it set.

       

For outer layer

Ingredients

4 teaspoons agar agar powder 

150 g sugar 

650 ml water 

50 ml dragon fruit puree

Method

1. Boil everything together in a pot until sugar dissolve. Stir.

2. Pour in to mooncake mould and put in filling. Fill up the moon cake mould with the solution. Let it  

    set.

 

                    Thanks to my girl for helping me to shoot this..

 To unmoould, use a toothpick to loosen the side and turn it upside down onto a plate.

              To get this color I added 2 tablespoons of coofeemate into the solution.

                            Hope you like my post today. Enjoy trying it.

 

                                    Wishing everyone a happy and blessed mooncake festival

 

                                           

CRISPY SQUID

     Crispy Squid

Ingredients

4 big squids

1 egg (beaten)

4tbsp corn flour

1 tbsp rice flour

1 tbsp self raising flour

Pepper, salt to taste

1 tbsp butter

20 curry leaves

Oil for deep frying

Method

1. Cut squids into rings. Pat dry the squids with kitchen towel

2. Season squids with some salt and pepper.

3. Dip squid in beaten egg.

4. Mix corn flour, rice flour and self-raising flour in a plate.

5. Coat squid with the flour mixture.

6. Deep fry squid in hot oil until golden brown. Dish out.

7. Heat up the oil again. Return the squid to the wok and give it a few stir to make the squid more crispy. In other word i fry the squids two times. Dish up.

8. In another frying pan, heat up 1 tbsp of butter and add in curry leaves. Fry until fragrant. Put in the squid and give it a good stir. Dish up and enjoy.

                          ENJOY !

             Hope you like my post today .

Photo credit to my daughter.

STEAMED PUMPKIN BUN

STeamed pumpkin buns

Ingredients

2 tsp instant yeast

300 ml water

650 g pau flour

100 g caster sugar

2 tsp DA Baking powder

50 g shortening

200 g steamed pumpkin

METHODS

1. Mix instant yeast and water together in a container.

2. Mix pau flour, sugar,baking powder , shortening and pumpkin purée in a big mixing bowl.

3. Pour No 1 into No 2. Mix we'll and knead for about 20 minutes or until the dough is smooth and shiny.

4. Cover mixing bowl and let it proof for 30 minutes or until dough double it size.

5. Divide dough into  30 portions of 35 g each. Put in filling. I used the pumpkin kaya which I made the other day.

6. Shape dough into the shape of a pumpkin . I use pumpkin skin as the stalk.

7. Cover the pau and let it proof for 20 minutes.

8. Arrange the pau on the steaming rack and steam over medium heat for about 10 minutes or until cook.

*you may put in any filling of your choice.

    My girl helped me to knead the dough. She complaint of shoulder pain after that. Hehe...

These are pumpkin skin which were used to insert into the bun to make the stalk

The buns before steaming

    

The buns after steaming

    

 

       Love the golden color of this bun.

    My girl does like sweet bun so she put in salted egg yolk as filling. Not bad! 

                                Hope you like my post today.