Tuesday, March 14, 2006

khanom Durian & Lotus Leaf Dessert

Khanom Durian





Ingredient:

200gm durian flesh (mango flesh)
100gm Hoon Kueh powder (any brand)
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp yellow coloring
1/2 coconut (or 250ml pkt coconut 'heng guan' brand)
350ml water
150 gm sugar
1/2 tsp durian flavour (or mango flavour if using mango)


Method

1. Prepare the durian meat put into a tray.

2. Mix the hoon kueh powder with salt, colouring, then coconut milk in a mixing bowl.

3. Use a whisk to stir until no lumps then sieve thru a strainer, then set aside.

4. Boil 350ml water then add in 150ml sugar to stir until sugar dissolves.

5. Until sugar dissolves, pour in well sieved mixture into the boiling pot gradually, use a wooden scoop to stir until transparent.

6. Once its transparent, add in the durian meat then keep on stirring.

7. Until the paste more smooth, then pour it into a tray.

8. Once it set, it will be ready to serve as cold dessert.

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Lotus Leaf Dessert





Ingredient:

70gm chinese barley
1 piece of lotus leaf (cut into few pieces)
500gm cucumber (cut into cube)
500gm watermelon (cut into cube then blend it)
240gm rock sugar
8 bowls of water

Method:

1. Use hot water to boil the lotus leaf for 5 mins then drain dry.

2. Bring water to boil with chinese barley for 1 hour or more.

3. After 1 hour, tear up the lotus leaf and add into the barley to be boil together.

4. Let it boil for 10 mins, then add rock sugar, let it boil.

5. Cut watermelon & cucumber into cube, blend the watermelon first, then put aside.

6. Put in the cucumber to the blender.

7. After blending cucumber & watermelon, put into a bowl n cover it. Do not prepare the blending process earlier, only once ur barley is boiled after 1 hour or more then you prepare, if not the vitamins of cucumber & watermelon will be gone.

8. Cook the lotus leaf until the fragrant is out, remove from pot.

9. Then pour the cooked barley water into a bowl, add in the blended cucumber and watermelon. Add some crushed ice, ready to serve as cold dessert.

10. This dessert cannot keep too long, cannot refrigerate it.

Black Vinegar Trotter/Chicken with Black Fungus

Black Vinegar with Pig Trotter



Ingredient(A)
1 kg pig trotter

Ingredient(B)
1 kg ginger (skinless)*do not cut*
50ml sesame oil
750ml Sweet black vinegar (chan kong thye brand - double)
1.5 ml of water

10 nos. of hard boiled eggs
2 tsp salt
300gm of dark brown sugar

Method
1. Parboil the pig trotter in hot water for a while then wash it.

2. Heat the wok with sesame oil and add in ginger to fry until fragrant.

3. Boil water in claypot (either blue bottom enamel kind), once water boil, put in vinegar and fried ginger to boil.

4. Once it boiled, add in the pig trotter in to the pot. Let it cook for about half an hour high fire, then add in dark brown sugar, reduce to medium fire, continue to boil for 2 1/2 hours with lid covered.

5. Ingredient(B) can cook 1 - 2 day advance.

6. After 2 hrs, add in hardboiled eggs to the pot. Hardboiled eggs cant cook too long, or it will be come rubber.

7. After 3 hrs, the pig trotter already soft. try use a chopstick to poke, if can poke thru the meat, its shown the pig trotter meat is ready for consumption.

8. Off the fire, let it simmmered awhile for 10 mins, then open the lid.

9. Add salt to taste, ready to serve.

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Chicken with Black Fungus in Wine

Saturday, March 11, 2006