Steamed Glutinous Rice

Everytime someone posted something I like on Facebook, it gets me wanting to cook them. And here it is steamed glutinous rice. Cooked this few times de but just didn't blog down the recipe each time.

The glutinous rice served with a quick curry chicken.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of glutinous rice (I uses the thai one this time), soaked for 3hrs with cold water
• 4 tablespoon of finely chopped shallots
• 2 tablespoon of finely chopped garlic
• 2 pieces of lap cheong (waxed sausage), cut to small slices (roughly 0.5cm each) 
• 3 pieces of chinese dried mushroom, soaked and cut to small slices
• 1 big handful of dried shrimp, soaked and roughly chopped
• 1/8 teaspoon of five spice powder
• 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce
• 1/8 teaspoon of salt
• a big dash of pepper
• 4 tablespoon of oil
• a big handful of chopped spring onion for garnishing

Steps:

1. Heat up the oil and fry 1/2 tablespoon of the shallots. Once brown and crispy, set aside for garnishing.
2. Heat up some water in the steamer.
3. Then fry the lap cheong for about a 1min before adding in the  dried shrimps.
4. Stirring for another 1 min, add in the shallots. When they are about to brown, add in the garlic and mushroom.
5. Finally stir in the rice and seasoning. Cook for about 4-5mins.
6. Scoop the rice into a bowl and leave it to steam for about 20-30mins, depending to how soft you want the rice to be. My hubby likes it "al dente" so I had mine steamed bout 25mins.

Mooncake

Last year, I just suddenly feel like making moon cake but realised that I have no mould for it so there is no shape and just simple one. I cooked up some red beans and mashed it and that's the filling. Even the golden syrup was cooked by myself... hehehe...

Then I decided to order the mould online but didn't get the chance to bake it given the morning sickness that just kicked in at that time.

So, this year, I try to make use of the purchase and not waste it. First I make the baked version using the same filling, cheese.

For the filling, I'm trying to clear the mascarpone stock I have from the tiramisu recently.

Ingredients:

• 100g mascarpone cheese
• 100g cream cheese
• 50g sugar

Steps:

1. Cream them till sugar is well mixed and the cheese is creamy and a little hard.
2. Scoop them up according to required amount on greased paper and leave it to chill in the freezer. This will make it easier to fill up the moon cake.

This, the recipe I adopted from the Facebook Healthy Meal for babies.

Ingredients:

• 90g of golden syrup
• 38g peanut oil
• 150g flour
• 1 egg

Steps:

1. Mixed all the ingredients (except the egg) till it is all even and form a proper ball dough.
2. Pinched out the required according to the size of your mould, mine was roughly 60g (can be more if need it taller). Flatten the dough and filled up with your preferred filling (approximately 25-30g).
3. Roll up the dough and insert into the mould to shape.
4. Knock the moon cake out.
5. Brush with egg wash and bake at 180c for 20-25mins (I uses air fryer 160c for 15mins)

Meanwhile for the snowskin, this is the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 25g glutinous rice flour
• 25g rice flour
• 20g corn flour
• 50g brown sugar
• 120ml milk
• 20ml peanut oil
• 25g fried glutinous rice flour (just put on the pan and fry till it is light brownish, stirring it constantly. should take less then 5mins to get this)

Steps:

1. Mixed all ingredients properly (except for the fried glutinous rice flour) till even and non clumpy.
2. Steam over high fire for 15mins.
3. Let it lightly cool to warm and dust with the fried flour. Kneed till soft, fluffy and smooth.
4. Pinched out the required according to the size of your mould, mine was roughly 60g (can be more if need it taller). Flatten the dough and filled up with your preferred filling (approximately 25-30g).
5. Roll up the dough, dust with fried flour and insert into the mould to shape.
6. Knock the moon cake out and done.