Quick Bread Recipe

Since I have some ingredients left in the fridge and not sure what to do with it, I decided to make some simple quick Bread for the girl as snack tomorrow's trip. 

Ingredients for the dough:

• 3g instant yeast powder
• 60ml warm water
• 2 teaspoon sugar
• 10g flour with 60ml water, mixed together and cook in low heat, constant stirring, once thicken, leave it to cool to room temperature - tangzong
• 80g flour
• 30g high protein powder
• 20g sugar
• 2g salt

Steps:

1. Mixed the first three ingredients and set aside.
2. Mixed the other dry ingredients together (sieved the flour).
3. Once the yeast bubble up, mixed it to the dry ingredients along with the tangzhong.
4. Knead the mixture till even. Set aside to double for bout 35mins. Cover it with wet cloth.
5. Knead the dough again and give it some punch. And leave it to set again for another 40mins.
6. Preheat oven at 150 degree celcius.
7. Cut the dough to the size required, shaped and fill with filling (i used the salmon mayo and some cheese..
8. Bake for 15mins at 200 degree celcius. When times up, leave it in the oven for bout another 10mins before removing from oven to cool.

** Outcome, super soft and fluffy and the girl ate two pieces at one go right after her  big dinner.

Yam Abacus

Thanks to the big adverts from Ying Ker Lou, I had been wanting to attempt making Yam Abacus. Finally today, I got all the ingredients from the wet market and manage to make that for dinner.

For the abacus:

Ingredients:

• 211g yam (steamed till soft and mashed with the fork)
• 75g tapioca flour
• 60g warm water
• 1 teaspoon cooking oil
• a pinch of salt
• a teaspoon of sugar
• a pot of boiling water
• shallot oil

Steps:

1. Mixed all the ingredients till even and till it forms a soft looking dough, slightly dry.
2. Take a small pinch, roughly a teaspoon amount of the dough, roll it round n give it a pinch, set aside.
3. Boiled in a pot of boiling water, drain off when floating.
4. Spoon roughly a table spoon of fried shallot with some oil on the abacus so that they dont stick together.

For the frying stuff ingredients:

• a tablespoon of minced garlic
• 4 tablespoon of dried shrimps, soaked and chopped
• a handful of julienned carrot
• a handful of julienned black fungus
• 3 tablespoon of minced meat (marinated with salt, pepper, rice wine, corn flour and oyster sauce)
• a dash of fish sauce
• 1 handful of chopped parsley
• 1 teaspoon of oil
• 1 tablespoon of water
• a dash of pepper
• a pinch of sugar

Steps:

1. Stir fry the dried shrimps along with the minced garlic till golden brown.
2. Add in the carrot and fungus.
3. Add in the minced meat and stir fry, add in the water too.
4. Season with fish sauce, pepper and sugar
5. Add in the abacus. slightly fry and dish out. 
6. Served with the chopped parsley.