Macarons

I'm so happy!!!! This is my 10th attempts!!! Finally can see the feet!!!

Watermelon Kueh

Steamed Watermelon kueh
A very easy recipe. Will post recipe soon.

Steamed Pumpkin Kueh

Since dh don't like to eat sweet stuff, decided to steam this pumpkin kueh. This recipe was extracted from a book I bought recently from my KL trip.

Pumpkin Steamed Kueh

Ingredients
300gm rice flour
600gm pumpkin (remove skin and shred)
6 cloves of mushroom
100gm minced meat
900ml water

Seasoning
1 tbsp salt
½ tbsp pepper

Topping
Some white sesames
Fried shallots
Spring onions

Method

1) Rinse pumpkin, remove skin and cut into shreds. Rinse mushroom, soaked till soft & cut into shreds
2) Pour rice flour into a big bowl, add in 400ml of water & mix well
3) Heat the wok with 3 tbsp of oil, fried the shallots used for topping. Dished up the fried shallots and used the oil to stir fry mushroom, minced meat over medium heat until fragrant, then add in pumpkin and stir fry for 2 mins. Add in the remaining 500ml water, seasoning and cook for another 3 mins.
4) Gradually pour (2) into (3) and then stir cook till it become thicken. Pour the mixture into greased baking mould (or you can lay the plastic paper meant for kuek making) and placed into a preheat wok and steam over high heat for 40 mins.
5) Spread shallot, sesames and spring onions

Black Glutinous Rice Chiffon Cake

Black Glutinous Rice Chiffon Cake

Banana Chiffon Cake

Have been lagging in posting again! This time round will try to add in recipes. Okie let this be my first recipe posting.....BANANA CHIFFON CAKE..oops no picture to go with! Anyway this recipe is extracted from a Chinese baking book SY bought from me while she was at Taiwan early this year. I hope I am hardworking enough to continue to post recipe........ By the way I have reduce the amt of sugar since I don't like my cakes to be too sweet.

Banana Chiffon Cake
* yield 4 mini chiffon or 17cm chiffon
*Approximately baking time of 25-30mins for mini or 30-35mins for 17cm
*Oven temperature 170C
*Per slice of cake from 17cm chiffon (Can yield 10 slices) is about 148 kcal

Ingredients

Set A
Cake flour 90gm ( If no cake flour used 80gm plain flour add 10gm corn flour)
Baking powder 1/2 tsp
Salt a pinch

Set B
egg yolks 3 nos
Sugar 40gm (Original 60gm)
Oil 40gm
Banana 150gm @ 3 small nos
Banana essence 2 drops (Optional)
Lemon juice 1/2 tsp

Set C
Egg white 3 nos
Sugar 20gm (original 30gm)

Method
1) Preheat oven
2) Sieve Set A & placed aside
3) Mashed the bananas and added in the lemon juice
4) Whisked egg yolk and sugar in Set B till light clour
5) Add in oil & continue to whisk till smooth
6) Add in smashed banana
7) Add in Set A and blend well. Do not overmix. Set aside
8) Whisked egg whites till big bubbles appear
9) Add the sugar gradually preferably at 3 different time
10) Add 1/3 of whisked Set C into (7) & fold well.
11) Fold in the remaining whites into the batter.
12) Pour into mould (do not grease or lined mould) till 3/4 filled. Bang the filled mould to remove trapped air and they are ready to bake
13) Once baked, overturn the mould to cool and serve