STEAMED HUAT KUEH

蒸发糕

Ingredients:
500g flour

2 tsp baking powder 

1 tsp yeast

300 ml water

6 pcs gula melaka (palm sugar, about 300g)

250-300 ml coconut milk. 

Method:

1) Boil the water and sugar and let it cool. 

2) Sift in dry ingredients and mix the rest of the ingredients until smooth. 

3) Rest for about 30 mins.

4) Steam at very high heat for about 18-20mins for small huat kueh(s).

Kek Hong 吉红

Ingredients:
700g glutinous rice flour
600g Sugar
800ml Water
1/2 tbsp banana essence
100g cooked rice flour


Method:
Mix glutinous rice flour, sugar, banana essence and water till the sugar dissolves. Pour the mixture into greased baking tins and steam at medium heat for about 20 minutes or till it's cooked through. Leave to cool. Toss in the cooked rice flour and cut into small pieces.

Steamed Tapioca Kueh with shredded coconut

Ingredients :
1 kg grated Tapioca/cassava
80g Tapioca flour
200 g Cane sugar
400 ml Water
1 pandan leaf
3 pandan leaves
Pinch Of Salt
250 g shredded coconut

Method:
1. Steam shredded coconut, pandan leaves and salt for about 10 minutes, leave aside to cool.
2. Heat the water, cane sugar and pandan leaf till the sugar dissolved, leave aside to cool.
3. In the mixing bowl, mix the grated tapioca, tapioca flour, sugar syrup. Mix well.
3.Transfer into a lightly greased 18 cm round baking tin and steam for about 40 minutes over medium heat or until it's done.
4. Remove the steamed tapioca Kueh from the steamer and leave aside to cool completely before cutting into bite-sized pieces.
5. Cut to desire shape, toss the shredded coconut before serving.

Traditional Butter Cake

Traditional Butter Cake

8-inch baking tin)

250g Salted Butter 

80g Margarine 

200g Caster sugar 

5 Eggs 

260g Plain flour 

1 tsp baking powder 

2 tbsp Fresh Milk 

1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence 

Method:

Preheat the oven at 170 deg C for about 15 minutes. Grease the baking tin and line the bottom with a round baking paper. 

Using an wooden spatula, cream butter, margarine, caster sugar and vanilla in a medium bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time,to combine. Add half the flour. Stir to combine. Add half the milk. Stir to combine. Repeat with remaining flour and milk.

Spread mixture into prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Stand in pan for 10 minutes. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool. 

Otah Sushi

This recipe is so simple and delicious!
Thanks Alix for sharing this wonderful recipe with us. ^-^

Here's the recipe:

Ingredients:

300g Fresh Salmon

3 Fresh Tomatoes (sliced)

Mixed together:

3 tablespoon Mayonaise

1 tablespoon Light Soya Sauce

1 teaspoon Sugar

Method:

Brush the Salmon with Mayonaise mixture.

Placed half of the sliced tomatoes on the baking tray (I wrap it with Aluminium foil) and put the Salmon over it and place the rest of the sliced tomatoes over the Salmon.

Bake in a preheated oven at 200 deg C for about 20 minutes or till the salmon is cooked through.

Rolled Oats Raisins Chocolate Chips Cookies

Oats and Wheat Cereal with Triple Berry Muffins

Oats and Wheat Cereal with Triple Berry Muffins

Ingredients:
110g Butter
110g Castor sugar
3 eggs 60ml Fresh Milk
150g Cake Flour
6g baking powder
70g aLive Low Fat Oats and Wheat Cereal with Triple Berry

Method:
Preheat the oven at 180 deg C.
Mix the butter and sugar till creamy and fluffy.
Add eggs and milk and stir gently.
Add cake flour, baking powder and Triple Berry Cereal and mix gently
Fill the mixture into muffin tray or line with papercups
Bake at 180 deg C for 20 minutes or till the skewer inserted comes out clean.
Serve warm or cold.

Stir-fry Sweet Potato Leaves

Hi, Sorry for not logging in for a while as I was busy with other things.


My mom's "hae bee hiam" is very hot, the ingredients are very basic, ie. dried chillies, chilli padi, dried shrimps and shallots. The "ikan bilis" shown above is added later after I fried the "hae bee hiam" with cooking oil till fragrant. Now ready to use it to fry with any vegetables. For example, long beans, brinjal, cabbage, lady fingers, wing beans, sweet potato leaves and so on..


All time favourite dish. Yummy!

Blueberry and mandarin orange muffin

We bought a carton of Mandarin Orange for celebrating Chinese New Year. With so many oranges still lying around in the kitchen, I went to look for recipes with orange in it. This is what we had for breakfast. My son likes it very much.

Blueberry Mandarin Orange Muffin

(makes 12)

Dry ingredients:

185g plain flour

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

1 tsp baking powder

170g castor sugar

1/4 tsp salt

Wet ingredients:

1 egg

125g butter, softened

1/2 cup mandarin orange juice

1 tin (425g) Blueberries in light syrup (drained) or use 125g fresh/frozen blueberries

Method:

Preheat oven to 200 deg C. Mix all the dry ingredients and add in all the wet ingredients and mix lightly. The batter should be lumpy.

Fold in the blueberries. Scoop the batter into a greased muffin tin or line with paper cups in the muffin tray. Filling 2/3 full and bake for 18-20 minutes until cooked and golden. Serve warm or cool on wire rack.

Happy Lunar New Year

After a long break, finally I'm back in the kitchen and ready to bake more cookies for Chinese New Year which is just a few days ahead.

Last night I pan-fried a packet of Tapioca Flour and 8 pandan leaves (cut and shreded). After about 10 minutes of frying, the flour was left to cool.

Today I made 4 trays of kuih bangkit, my son has eaten about half a tray.

The recipe can be found here.

MILO Chocolate Chips Cookie

This morning my kitchen was filled with MILO and chocolate aroma... my son quickly went to the kitchen and ate a piece of it and wanted to eat more...

MILO Chocolate Chips Cookie
(makes about 80 cookies)
Adapted from Jam's recipe

Ingredients:
225g butter
150g sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 tsp of cream of tartar
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 cup MILO powder
1 egg yolk
165g Hershey's semi-sweet mini chocolate chips
300g self-raising flour

Method:
Mix butter, sugar, vanilla essence, cream of tartar and bicarbonade soda in a mixer till fluffy, add in milo, egg and chocolate chips. Lastly add in the flour. Shape the dough using a teaspoon and bake in preheated oven at 160 deg C for about 15 minutes .