Homemade Yee Sang (Prosperity Toss Salad)

Homemade Yee Sang (Prosperity Toss Salad)
自制鱼生

Ingredients:
Colorful Vegetables (cut into strips)
- Yam Bean
- Carrot
-  Raddish (squeeze out the water, and keep in kitchen towel)
- Cucumber (squeeze out water, and keep in kitchen towel)
Instant Jellyfish
Salmon/Abalone Slices
Dumpling wrappers (cut into strips, fried)
Sesame seeds (roasted)
Peanut (roasted & crushed)

Sauces:
1/2 bowl honey
4 tbsp plum sauce
3 lime juices
(may add sesame oil, hoisin sauce)  

Method:
1. Arrange colorful vegetables on plate.
2. Garnish with toasted sesame & peanuts.
3. Pour in the sauce when ready for tossing.
4. Toss & ready to eat.

Simmered Pig Tail/Pork Trotter in Claypot

Simmered Pig Tail/Pork Trotter with Peanuts 

花生焖猪尾 / 猪手

Ingredients: 
800g pig tail/pork trotter
200g peanuts
10 cloves garlic (remove skin)

3 star anise 

 
Sauces:
1 tbsp fermented beancurd
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tbsp thick soy sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp sesame oil
3 tbsp Shaoxing wine
1.2 litres water

 

Methods:
1. Boil half pot of water.
2. Add in peanuts and bring to boil. Reduce to low heat and simmer for about 15mins. Drain.
3. Blanch pig tail/pork trotter in boiling water over medium heat for 10mins. Drain.
4. Heat 2 tbsp of oil in claypot. Fry garlic and star anise until fragrant.
5. Add peanuts and sauce. Bring to boil and reduce to low heat and simmer for 30 mins.
6. Put in pig tail/pork trotter and simmer for 1 hour or until meat tender.

Source: Recipe Book - 食尽天下 Best of the Best 2016 (pg64)

Pumpkin Rice

Pumpkin Rice
金瓜焖饭

Ingredients:
Shallots (minced)
Garlic (minced)
Dried Prawn
Dried Oyster
Dried Scallops (soaked, tear into shreds)
Mushroom (soaked, diced)
Pumpkin (diced)
Rice

Methods:
1. Fry shallots and garlic until fragrance.
2. Add in dried prawn, dried oyster and dried scallops.
3. Add in mushroom and pumpkin.
4. Add in rice and fry until fragrance.
5. Pour everything into rice cooker and add adequate water.

 

Steamed Prawn with Glass Noodles & Garlic

Steamed Prawn with Glass Noodles & Garlic
蒜蓉蒸虾

Ingredients:
15 prawns (cleaned, slit on back)
Glass noodles (soaked, cut shorter)  

Sauce:
6 tbsp chopped spring onions
4 tbsp chopped garlic
2 tbsp Shaoxing wine
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp water
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp sesame oil

Methods:
1. Arrange glass noodles onto steaming plate.
2. Arrange prawn on top of glass noodles.
3. Spoon sauce on each prawns.
4. Steam on boiling water at high heat for 5mins.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-7s1aeKD74

Red Bean Soup

Red Bean Soup
红豆汤 

Ingredients：
1 bowl Red Bean 
4 pcs pandan leaf 
Sugar

Method:
1. Clean red bean and put into slow cooker.
2. Measurement of red bean to water. 1:4
3. Add in pandan leaf.
4. Cook for 4 hours.
5. Remove pandan leaf and add sugar.

Peanut Cookies

Peanut Cookies
花生饼

Ingredients:
250g peanuts
250g superfine flour
100g icing sugar
100g peanut butter
70g-100g peanut oil
Egg yolk (add little water)

Methods:
1.  Roast peanuts at 200c for 15mins. (stir every 5mins)
2. Remove peanuts skins and blend (do not blend in large scale each time, or else it will be oily and sticky)
3. Mix all ingredients together (peanut oil to be added slowly until it form a dough)
4. Use 1 tsp spoon to divide each dough.
5. Shape into small balls, brush egg yolk wash and press round shape in middle using straw.
6. Bake at 160c for 18-20mins.

* Done when it do not stick on hand.
* More fragrance if it cracked.
* Tastier & look nicer on next day

Recipe: Mom

 

Butter Cookies

 Butter Cookies
牛油饼 

Ingredients:
125g Unsalted Butter (room temperature)
45g Icing Sugar
25g Custard Powder
100g Superfine Flour
80g Potato Starch (马铃薯粉)

Piping Nozzle : 854 

Methods:
1.  Beat butter and icing sugar until mix well. (no need become fluffy & pale white)
2. Sift in custard powder, superfine flour and potato starch.
3. Fold gently, do not overmix.
4. Put into piping bag and pipe into cookies.
5. Preheat oven. Bake at 160c for 18mins.

* to bake coffee flavor, beat in 10g coffee emulco after beating butter and icing sugar.
Recipe: Mom