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.

Pineapple and Rosselle Tarts

The long long pending item is finally ready and taste super yummy.
Using the dough recipe from my previous post, chocolate tarts, I finally made the pineapple and rosselle tart.

 The pineapple balls

 The rosselle tarts, color does not looks so nice but taste good

The pineapple jam is cooked by my mom, kinda sweet for me. And the rosselle jam, i cooked them quite some time back when I bought some to boil water for the little girl, Instead of wasting the flower, I added some candied melon and sugar and cook it for like 40mins... still kinda wet, but good coz it gets just right under the heat.

Moist Chocolate Cake without Egg and Butter

Ingredients:

Dry Ingredients:

• All purpose flour - 1 and 1/2 cups (200 gms)
• Cocoa powder - 3 tbsp
• Baking soda - 1 tsp
• Baking powder - 1/8 tsp (optional)
• Salt - 1/4 tsp
• Granulated Sugar - 3/4 cup (165 gms) [Increase it to 1 cup if you dont use choco chips]
• Chocolate Chips - 2 tbsp

Wet Ingredients

• Water - 1 cup (250 ml)
• Vanilla essence - 1/2 tbsp
• Lemon juice / White Vinegar - 1 tbsp (I used lemon juice)
• Oil - 1/4 cup (60 ml)

Steps:

1. Take water in a mixing bowl, add vanilla essence, sugar, lemon juice and oil. Mix well till sugar completely dissolves . Keep aside.Now take flour, baking soda, baking powder and coco powder and sift together twice atleast to make sure the flour, soda and baking powder and coco powder is evenly spread out.Then slowly add the the sifted flour mixture to the wet ingredients mixture may be in 2 parts.
2. Gently mix in one direction, break the lumps forming...gently mix it.The batter is runny like you see in the pic.Fold in choco chips and give a quick stir. Preheat oven to 180 deg C for 10mins.Grease the pan with butter, sprinkle maida tap it so that it spreads on all sides.
3. Pour the batter into the cake pan. Bake it at 180 deg C for 35-40mins check with a fork if a fork inserted comes out clean

Easy Modified Tangzhong Bread

Enough of my own recipe, so this time, I google and thought of trying out this coz it looks so simple and easy. But due to lack of ingredients, there are some modification to the recipe (as usual). The original recipe is from http://munchministry.com/articles/the-joy-of-bread-baking-with-tang-zhong-method-汤种法/. 

Ingredients (my version):

• 120g tangzhong
• 125ml milk + one large egg
• 300g high protein flour
• 40g low protein flour + 10g corn flour + 5g double action baking powder
• 10g creamer
• 40g sugar
• 6g fast acting yeast powder
• 1/4tsp salt
• 25g olive oil

Steps: similar to the one posted on the original post :D

Conclusion: bread is yummy, soft and fluffy.

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.