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

 

                                           

TANG YUEN (GLUTINOUS RICE BALLS)

Tang Yuan is a dish of glutinous rice balls served in a sweet syrup. In Chinese culture, it is traditionally served on Dong Zhi, the winter solstice. By eating tang yuan you become one year older. Hehe..
Traditionally people add colouring to the  dough to make coloured rice balls. for me I used natural ingredients for the colours.

Wishing everybody a happy winter solstice. Let us have some Tang Yuen.

TANG YUAN

 Strawberries.. puree them to get the red colour. Last year i used red dragon fruit. Dragon fruit gives a richer red colour

sweet potatoes... steam ,mash and add to the flour to get the yellow and purple dough.

Pandan leaves from my garden... blend to get the green colour

INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup glutinous rice flour
• 1/2 cup water for making dough
• steam sweet potatoes, about 2 pieces (yellow and purple varieties)
• 5 strawberries, make into puree

(A) Sweet Soup 

•  1 thumb sized ginger sliced
• 1 litre water
• 80 g rock sugar to taste
• 2 pandan (screw pine) leaves 

DIRECTIONS

1. In a large mixing bowl, add flour and sweet potato paste/strawberry puree. Gradually add water (you don't have to use all of it) and knead the dough until soft, smooth, yet not sticky to the fingers .

2.  Shape the dough to even-sized balls.

1. Bring a pot of water (enough water to submerge the dumplings completely) to boil. Add the tang yuan into the boiling water and cook until they float to the surface. Transfer them immediately to a bowl of room temperature water until cooled or ready to serve.
2. To cook the sweet soup, add (A) to a pot. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to a simmer until the sugar is fully melted.
3. To serve, add tang yuan to a serving bowl and ladle the sweet soup over.

ENJOY...

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