2015 Mooncakes

Steam Banana Cake

Ingredients

2 large eggs

80 gm castor sugar

2 ripe bananas

150 gm self-raising flour

1/4 tsp baking soda

75gm oil

Method

1.Sift flour and baking soda together.

2.Whisk eggs and sugar till ribbon stage.

3.Mixed in mashed bananas.

4.Gently fold in flour and oil till well mixed.

5.Pour into lined muffin .

6.Steam over high heat or 15 minutes.

                   

Roti prata wrapped with tee kueh snacks.

Roast pork belly using Air Fryer

2013 Mooncakes

Grilled Satay Chicken

Made these simple grilled chicken satay style using happy call pan . Blend 2 shallots,2 garlic 2 lemongrass with Kunyit powder and some meat curry powder with a little oil and marinade the chicken for 2 hours add salt and pepper to taste then grilled it .

Curry Chicken Bun

Made these buns this morning using the overnight sponge dough method yields a very soft buns.recipes taken from Nasi Lemak Lovers blog.

Vietnamese Popiah

Ingredients: Rice paper wrapper from Vietnam

Sauce ingredients: Kimball brand thai chilli sauce
Lime juice from small limes
Thai fish sauce
Sugar to taste

Vegetables : Lettuce
Basil leaves
Mint leaves
Wan swee (coriander leaves)
Shredded Japanese cucumber

Other ingredients: Store bought Black pepper roast chicken
Steam prawns
Shredded Fried omelette
Crab sticks

New year cookies

Hand made pineapple tarts

Baked Salted Chicken

Another bake and simple salted baked chicken without the hussle of using a lot of salt like the traditional way to prepare this dish.The result is still as good and yummy.

Ingredients:

4 whole chicken legs

2 tbsp hua tiow wine

2 thsp sand ginger

2 tbsp salt

8 slices dang gui

dash of pepper

4 pieces parchment baking paper

Method:

1.Marinade chicken with hua tiow wine,sand ginger.salt and pepper and dang gui.

2.Wrap each chicken with parchment paper.Bake in preheated oven at 220 degree C for 30 minutes.Remove and serve hot.

Bake Salmon With Golden Mushroom

Ingredients:
1 piece of salmon
1 bunch golden mushroom
1 piece of bacon-chopped
some chopped garlic
some butter

Method:
1.Prepare baking parchment paper big enough to wrap the fish.
2.Arrange golden  mushroom add some butter.
3.Then top with fish.
4.Top with bacon.
5.Lastly add garlic and some butter again.
6.Wrapped fish up.
7.Bake @ 200 degree for 15 minutes,can also use happycall pan to cook .



A very simple and yummy dish no need to do any cleaning up of splatters.Serve with some microwave broccolli.

Mooncakes

                                                Lotus paste with single salted eggyolk

                                                   Mini mooncake

                                                     Brandy chocolate truffles mooncake
                                                                                                                                                                                     

                                          Chocolate mint and redwine cranberries snowskin mooncakes

Cranberries and raisins Scones

These scones recipes was taken from Yum Yum recipes book.

INGREDIENTS
A

250 gm plain flour
15 gm baking powder
30 gm castor sugar
100 gm milk powder
1 gm salt

B

120 gm butter
30 gm raisins
30gm cranberries,soaked both dried fruits in hot water and drained
100 ml milk

Some beaten egg for brushing

METHOD
1. Put ingredients A into a mixing bowl add in butter and rub together with finger-tips until mixture resemble breadcrumbs.
2. Add dried fruits and milk mix lightly till well combined. Do not over knead.
4. Roll out dough into 2.5 cm thickness and cut into desired shapes. Brush with egg.
5. Bake in preheated oven at 180 degree for 18-20 minutes. Serve with jam.

Coconut Rose

I made these coconut rose today which i learn from my cooking teacher more than twenty years ago a very nice and fragrant kueh from rich aroma of pandan juice.


INGREDIENTS

3 cold eggs
45 gm ovalette (sponge stabiliser)
200 gm coconut milk
100 gm pandan juice
250 gm fine sugar
450 gm Hong Kong flour
3 tsp baking powder

METHOD

1. In a mixing bowl add in all the ingredients. Beat at high speed for 10 minutes till the batter is very thick.
2. Place paper cups in tarts moulds.Spoon mixture into paper cups till 3/4 full.
3. Steam for 15 minutes.

Mint and Butter Chicken

I cook this dish today recipes taken from my favorites recipe book Yum Yum , a simple to cook dish using mint leaves very rich and fragrant.

Ingredients
3 whole chicken legs cut into pieces
3 tbsp butter
30 gm mint leaves-chopped coarsely

Marinade
1 tsp salt
1 tsp ground black pepper
3 tbsp cornflour

Seasoning
100 ml milk
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar

Method
1. Marinade chicken with marinade for 30 minutes.
2. Melt butter in a pan , pan-fried chicken till golden brown on both sides and cooked through.
3. Add seasoning, stir fry over high heat and till well mixed.Lastly add in mint leaves. Dish and serve.

Pan Fried Fish with Mirin

Ingredients:

3 slices of fish fillets
1 tbsp plain flour
1/2 tsp salt
a dash of pepper

Sauce:
1 tbsp mirin
1 1/2 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tbsp water
1 tbsp tomato ketchup

Method:
1. Marinade fish with salt and pepper dust with plain flour before pan frying fish with oil till golden.
2. After fish is cook add in all the sauce ingredients and cook awhile, add in some chopped garlic.
3. Ready to serve.


A very easy and nice dish using only a few ingredients. Enjoy!This recipes is from  Taiwan cooking programme from TV.

Bread

                                         Bread dough after proofing.

Made the above bread cos want to try making these bread using my breadmaker only mixed the dough using maker and after that take out the dough to proof and bake in oven.Used the above cute small loaf tins my friend Penny bought for me, made three loaves two loaves closed cover and one did not.Thanks Penny for the loaf tins so cute and lovely and the  bread turn out nice and very tasty.

                                           

Weekend Meals

Today i cook nasi lemak with the above side dishes,assam pedas prawns,pan-fried chicken winglets marinade with spices and kunyit pan-fried using happycall pan.