August 24, 2008 on 2:20 pm | In Dessert Recipes | No Comments
Here are the ingredient for Honey Sweet Potatoes recipe.
| Ingredients |
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| Sweet potatoes |
300 g |
| Red dates |
20 g |
| Honey |
1-2 tablespoon |
| Sugar |
½ tablespoon |
Methods for this recipe
1.Remove sweet potatoes skin. Wash and cut it into cubes.
2.Wash red dates and soak it into warm water.
3.Boil a 4 cups of water. Add in cut sweet potatoes and red dates. Heat it for 10 minutes till the ingredients soften.
4.Add in sugar . Heat till sugar dissolves completely. Off the heat. Transfer it into a bowl.
5.Add in honey and stir till it completely dissolve, Serve hot.
Note: Choose sweet potatoes with red ‘heart’, it tastes better than sweet potatoes with white ‘heart’.
Reduce constipation and keep skin moist.
August 24, 2008 on 2:14 pm | In Dessert Recipes, Pregnancy Food Recipes | No Comments
Sugarcane was originated from South Asia and Southeast Asia. Ginger has been grown and cultivated for a very long time. It was originated from Asia but has also spread to places like West Africa and the Caribbean.
This is the free recipe for making sugarcane with ginger juice. It is actually not too difficult.
| Ingredients |
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| Sugarcane |
1 stalk |
| Ginger |
50 g |
Recipe Method:
1.Remove sugarcane skin. Squash into juice.
2.Remove ginger skin. Squash into juice.
3.Put both juices into a bowl. Steam till they are warm. Serve.
The juice is sweet tasting added with spicy ginger flavour.
August 24, 2008 on 2:27 am | In Pastry Recipes | No Comments
Mooncakes are eaten during the Mid Autumn Festival Lunar day – 15 August. The moon at this day is also found to be the biggest, brightest and roundest comparing to other days. Mooncakes are sweet tasting and comes in a variety of fillings (paste) such as red bean paste, green tea paste, yam paste, durian paste, etc. It would be an enjoyment to eat mooncakes served with tea with your family members during these days. On the other hand, the kids will be engrossed with playing with lanterns with their friends and relatives.
| Ingredients |
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| Snowskin premix (Cooked Glutinous Rice mixed with flour) |
260 g |
| Shortening |
40 g |
| Sugar Syrup |
400 ml |
| Lotus seed paste |
1.5 kg |
| A little colouring and banana essence |
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| Some Baked glutinous rice |
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Making Snowskin
1.Put premix in a bowl
2.Add in shortening. Use hand and mix the shortening with the snowskin premix until it blend thoroughly.(mixture A)
3.Mix flavouring and essence into sugar syrup - (mixture B) Add mixture B into mixture A. Use hand to blend ingredients thoroughly.
4.Leave it for 15-20 minutes for the premix to set.
Molding the mooncake
1. Divide snowskin dough and lotus seed paste into small portions. Usually a mooncake consists of 30 % snowskin dough and 70 % lotus seed paste depending on the mooncake mold (60g dough and 140g paste). Divide snowkin dough and lotus seed paste into 60 g and 140 g respectively. Roll snowskin and lotus seed paste into round shapes.
2. Flatten the one of the round shape snowskin, put in the lotus seed paste. Wrap lotus seed paste with the snowskin.
3. Sprinkle some baked glutinous flour on the mooncake mold. Put (2) into the mooncake mold. Flatten and shape it into mooncake. Put the mooncakes on a tray sprinkled with baked glutinous flour.
4.Continue with the rest portions of snowskin and lotus seed paste to make it into mooncakes.
August 17, 2008 on 7:57 am | In Pregnancy Food Recipes | No Comments
| Ingredients |
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| Fish head |
1 |
| Red dates |
10 g |
| Shanghai Choi (Chinese Vegetable) |
10 stalks |
| Ginger |
10 g |
| Olive oil |
1 tablespoon |
| Salt |
½ teaspoon |
| Pepper powder |
¼ teaspoon |
| Wine (use for cooking) |
½ teaspoon |
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Methods
1.Use a fork to scrub the fish scales away. Wash the fish head clean.
2.Remove ginger skin and cut into slices.
3.Wash red dates and vegetable with water, put it aside.
4.Heat the oil and stir-fry the fish head till golden at both side.
5.Put the fish head in a steaming bowl.
6.Add in red dates, wine, ginger and water.
7.Steam it for about 30 minutes till the soup turn milky colour.
8.Add in Shanghai choi, salt and salt. Steam for another 10 minutes to soften the vegetables. Serve hot.
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