Thursday, February 28, 2013

Rosselle Cheese Tart

Not sure what happen, I was supposed to have this posted when we were still in KL, but it was under draft. So, just let me post this now :D





Ingredients A for Pastry
250gm plain flour
125gm butter
35gm sugar

Ingredients B for pastry
1/2 beaten egg + 1 tbsp water

For bake blind
some cupcake liners and beans

Method: 
1.Using a food processor, mix flour, butter and sugar together until resembles breadcrumbs. Remove from the machine to a big bowl.
2.Add in the (B) to make into a dough. Rest for 15mins.
3.Using metal tart cases, make a layer of pastry . Bake for bout 10mins at 150degrees


Cheese Filling
As I dont have cream cheese and dont intend to add on anymore stuff to my fridge that I'm trying to clear, I did some modifications:

200gms feta cheese
80gms caster sugar
100g plain yoghurt
20g milk
3 egg yolks
1 1/2 tsp lemon juice
some rosselle jam for filling

Method
1. Using high speed, beat feta cheese and sugar until feta cheese breakdown and gets a little creaming. Add in yoghurt and egg yolks slowly until well combined.
2. Stir in the lemon juice. Taste. You may want to add in more lemon juice if you want.
3. Scoop the rosselle jam on the middle of the tart, roughly a teaspoon.
4. Next, scoop in the cheese filling till the top of the tart..
5.Bake for 25mins at 150degrees. 

Homemade Egg Noodle Soup



Finally unpacked my wedding anniversary cum valentine's pressie from hubby. It arrives late afternoon on the day before our shipment arrives, so I wasn't too keen to get it unpack coz the whole place is so messy and not that I have the time to do anything with it yet.


And, the first thing I made was egg noodle. The girl loves noodle and I'm sort of worried that the dried noodle is not that healthy after all compared to the one mommy made with some love of course.. hehehe... :p


The noodle was served with honey soy pan fried pork (the pork was sliced, marinated with soy sauce and honey only, then pan fried with some olive oil).

After searching and searching, I finally settled for the recipe from http://chefwo.com/update-version-egg-noodle-recipe/ with some modifications to the method since I'm not using hand to do this.


Ingredients

  • 500gm all purpose flour
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 3/4 cup of cold water
  • 1 1/4 tsp of salt

Method

  1. Put in all the dry ingredients in the big bowl of the magi mix and then the egg and cold water.
  2. Blend with the dough mixer for about 5mins.
  3. Leave it to set for an hour while I go prepare the pork to marinade, cut the broccoli and setup the noodle maker (also a new toy.. kekeke)
  4. Take it out and knead and use the noodle maker to cut it as per instruction. Remember to keep dusting with flour. I used like almost another cup of flour for it.
  5. Time to test your noodle perfection. Hold one strand and pull, you should be able to pull it very long! Isn’t it great!
  6. Since I don't have a noodle dryer/rack and lack of time, what I did was laid it on the top of a big container straight to dry.
  7. While drying, pan fried the pork, boil the soup, add in the broccoli and then just dump all the noodle in it.
  8. Served... slurp slurp..
Next time, I'm gonna try putting in more eggs, less water.