Sweet potato Tung Yuen in ginger sugar syrup..

Not forget before Christmas,we chinese got one very big festival must celebrate.See the title already know what is the festival......Yes........Tung Yuen Festival.Time to eat tung yuen...Yesterday sitting in my office,suddenly want to eat tung yuen.So i call my mum and ask her got sweet potato or pumpkin at home.My mum say both also have.Then i choose sweet potato because yesterday my mum make pumpkin cake for breakfast and cook pumpkin rice lunch and dinner.So i don't want make pumpkin tung yuen,if not supper also eat pumpkin...hahaha....

Dough ingredients :

200g glutinous rice flour

50g rice flour

150ml-200ml hot water

150g steamed and mashed sweet potato

 

Syrup ingrendients :

1500ml water

4-5pcs pandan leaf

5cm-10cm ginger ( i like the ginger taste,so i put a big ginger in the syrup )

sugar to taste ( this depand on your own taste,some don't like too sweet )

Method for ginger syrup :

1. Combine water pandan leaf and ginger in a pot and bring to boil and simmer over low heat for 10 min.
2. Then add in sugar and boil until sugar dissolves.Taste it
3. Turn off heat and cover with lid to enhance further the ginger fragrance.

Method for the dough :

Put glutinous rice flour and rice flour in a mixing bowl.Pour in hot water and mashed pumpkin to mix.

Knead into a smooth dough.

Pinch off small portions and roll into balls,place onto a clean plate.

Cook all the small dumplings in a pot of boiling water until they float.

Remove and soak in cold water.

Remove the dumpling from the cold water.Then put the dumpling into ginger sugar syrup.

Serve immediately.

Wish all Happy Tung Yuen Festival.......

Red Yeast and Pandan Mantou

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I want my mantou in red and green colour.But i don't want put colouring.I want a healthy mantou.Green part i use pandan juice.I think what can i put to make my mantou in red.....So i find inside my ingrendients box,see what i have with red colour.Yes..........i found one bottle of red yeast.I bought it for my red yeast butter cake.

Ingredients for Pandan Mantou :

260g Hong Kong bao flour

5g Instant yeast

1tsp double acting baking powder

60g castor sugar

1tbsp shortening

150ml pandan juice

 
I use 20pcs pandan leaf.That why it in dark green.


Ingredients for Red Yeast Mantou :

260g Hong Kong bao flour

2tsp Red yeast

5g Instant yeast

1tsp Double acting baking powder

60g Castor sugar

1tbsp Shortening

150ml Water

Method :

Blend dough ingredients into smooth dough.

Pandan dough.

 Red yeast dough.

Divide dough to 2 portion.

Flatten the dough.Put the green dough on the red dough.

Roll it like swissroll.

Cut the rolled dough into small pieces.About 3cm.Let rise for 15 minutes.

Then steam the mantou for 7-8 minutes.Serve hot.

Super soft inside.

Wish all Have a Nice Day!!.......

Grilled Tuna Rolls

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Adaptation from:Chillies-Great recipe ideas with a classic ingredient

Ingredients :

Red and Green capsicums : 3,large

Canned tuna                   : 1 can,drained

Lemon juice                    : 2 tbsp

olive oil                          : 3 tbsp

Green or black olive         : 6,pitted and chopped

Fresh chopped parsley      : 2 tbsp

Celery                            : 1 stick,finely chopped

Salt and black pepper to taste

Method :

1. Preheat oven 180'c.Place capsicums on a baking tray and grill for 8-12 minutes until blackened.Transfer to a plastic bag,seal abd leave to cool.Peel,halve,core and seed capsicums.
2. Pre filling.Place tuna in a bowl add lemon juice,oil,olive,parsley,celery and salt and pepper to taste.Mix well.
3. Spread ouy capsicums flat.Spoon over enough filling to fill one capsicum and roll up.Repeat for the remaining capsicum pieces.
4. Serve warm. 

 

Cream Cheese Mix Fruit SwissRoll.....

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Half year i didn't made swiss roll.My sister almost every month say want to eat swiss roll.She like cream cheese and mango filling.Everytime she request me to made swissroll,i will try her i didn't buy mango.This time she buy the mango 1st then she ask me to made the swissroll.So i can not say can not.Hahaha......Have to made.But it abit boring,so i add kiwi and cherry.Plus i can submit to "The Christmas Giveaway in The Sweet Spot".Because it must have red and/or green colour.This swissroll recipe is from my friend Janice Thon blog.

 

INGREDIENTS

Egg yolk batter :

6 egg yolks

20g sugar

60g fresh milk

45g corn oil

100g cake flour

15g cornflour

Egg Whites :

6 egg whites

70g sugar

Cream cheese filling : 

120 g butter

250g  cream cheese

120g  icing sugar 

 

Fruit :

mango,kiwi and cherry.

Method :

First, preheat the oven at 180'C. Then lightly whisk the egg yolks together with 20g sugar, then add in fresh milk and coinoil and mix well.

Add in cake flour and cornflour and stir well. Set aside.

 
Whisk the 6 egg whites together with the 70g sugar until peak form.

Fold into the egg yolk batter.Divide into 2 parts.Add in red colour in of the part and green colour in another part.

Spoon into a piping bag.
Pipe the batter onto lined tray.

Bake at 175'-180'C for 15 minutes.

Transfer on to wire rack to cool completely.

Once completely cooled, spread the cream cheese and place the fruit on the cream and roll up.

 Three colour fruits.Look like traffic light colour.

 Cream cheese 

 

Keep the swiss roll chilled for at least 30 min before slicing.

The cake is super soft.My boyfriend and sister like it so much.

Wish you try it......HAPPY BAKING!!! :)

Wedding Week

 

2/12/2011 is my cousin sister wedding.i promise her will make a angry bird wedding cake for her.This is my 1st time made 2 tier cake.The fondant i use also i make myself.My homemade fondant is too dry.So it hard to cover the cake.I use 3 days to finish this cake.Lucky my friend FIONE helping me to made the fondant rose and the angry bird.

 My cousin also ask me to made some jelly and cupcake for her buffer party on the night before her wedding day.So i make 150 pcs mini cupcakes and some agar-agar and konnyaku.

My sister helping me to made the mini cupcakes.

150 pcs passion fruit mini cupcakes is done.

 

This cupcakes taste sweet and sour.

 

Special order from 姐妹 for 兄弟.

Wasabi cupcakes.Hahaha.......

In the same week on 4/12/2011 (Sunday) also my schoolmate Jeevan wedding.His wife is a chinese girl.A very pretty girl.This is my 1st time atten Hindu wedding.It fun too.