Collagen Broth

I saw someone posted  collagen broth that she used as soup based and has lots of goodness, I decided to google it and give it a try.

It is sort of almost the same as preparing the soup based for ramen, but shorter time and less ingredients. There is no onion, leek, shallots, etc

I used mine for my ramen served with kimchi, shredded seaweed and air fried beef fingers slices.

Ingredients:

• a big handful, roughly 500g of chicken feet
• 1kg of bone marrow (that's the type of name labelled for the bone) 
• 1 chicken carcass
• 4l of water

Steps:

1. Boiled some water and placed the bone in there to boil for about 4-6mins. Washed the bones clean
2. Then put all the ingredients in the big pot and boil for 3-4hrs. Mine is sort of a cheat. I used the thermos cooker pot and I boiled it for 40mins, placed in the cooker pot for over night and boil it again and leave it there for another 3-4hrs.
3. Used the filter to filter the soup before storing in the container. I have one just in the fridge that I'm using it now and the other container in the freezer coz I'll be using it later.
4. Season with salt before using or you can omit that if you are like me, prefer the original taste.

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.

Tuna Muffin

It has been a long time since I last posted any recipe. Again, this is my own recipe.

Ingredients:

• 2 small cans of tuna (I uses one with spring water and the other is corn with mayo)
• 50g butter (melted)
• 30g flour
• 1/8 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1 handful of endamame beans
• 30g shredded mozzarella
• 1 egg

Steps:

1. Preheat oven at 180C.
2. Mix all the ingredients till even.
3. Scoop to the muffin mould.
4. Bake for 15mins at 180C

Yam Rice

Just saw someone's post in FB again and view thru the person's blog and saw yam rice. Hmm... looks kinda good and I haven't been eating this for a while, so maybe I should try it out since I manage to get yam which looks kinda nice and not too expensive from the fruit shop.

Ingredients:

For garnishing:

• Some crispy fried shallots
• Some chopped spring onions
• some hard boiled eggs, sliced

Main ingredients:

• 1.5cup rice (I used basmati here, washed and leave aside)
• 5 pieces of dried mushroom, soaked and water reserved
• 1 big handful of dried shrimp, washed and soaked, water reserved, chopped to smaller pieces
• 1 cup of small pieces of pork pieces, lean meat only (marinate with salt, pepper, sesame oil and corn flour)
• 1 chopped shallot
• 3 cloves of chopped garlic
• 1 teaspoon of minced ginger
• 250g of yam, cut to small cubes
• 1/2 teaspoon 5 spice powder
• 1/5 teaspoon of sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon of salt
• 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce
• a big dash of pepper
• 2 tablespoon of soy sauce
• 3 tablespoon of oil (i used olive oil)
• water (inclusive of the reserved water above, should make up bout 1.5 cup)

Method:

1. Saute the shallot till a bit yellowish, add in the garlic and ginger. Stir for about 1mins and add in the chopped dried shrimp. Fried for bout 3-4mins.
2. Add in the yam pieces and fry till all the yams are well coated with oil and a bit yellowish.
3. Add in the pork pieces and fry. Ensure the pork are cooked before adding in the rice and a little water.
4. Add in the seasonings and fry for another 2mins.
5. Scoop the mixture out on to a big bowl or rice cooker and add in the rest of the water.
6. If you using rice cooker, just cook your rice like normal. If not, place the big bowl in a double boiler, or big wok with water and steam for 7-8mins till the rice is cooked and all water absorbed.
7. Fluffed the rice, served and decorate with the garnishing.

Taiwanese Dessert - Sweet Potato Cubes

I had been wanting to try to make the sweet potato cubes or the taro cubes for some time but just not sure why I didn't get into it. But recently, looking the tapioca starch and also the soy milk that I had for a while, I thought why not? Instead of letting those stuff rot, let's try make taiwanese style dessert.

And someone's post in FB just came the right time to inspire me with this dessert.

Ingredients (I made 4 small bowls of these):

• 700ml soy milk (unsweetened)
• 25g sugar
• 10g gelatin
• 100g sweet potato sliced as thinly and small piece as possible
• 45g tapioca starch/flour
• a pinch of salt
• 1/2 tbsp of sugar
• a pot of water to boil the cubes
• 4 tablespoon of cooked and lightly mashed red beans
• 8pcs of grapes
• 8 pieces of mango slices

Methods:

1. Steam the sweet potato for about 5-10mins depending on the size you have cut it. To test if ready, just use a fork to try mash it and if it works, it is ready.
2. Premix the tapioca starch, salt and sugar (1/2tbsp) while steaming the sweet potato.
3. Once the sweet potato is ready and hot, pour it into the dry mixture and mix till even. You can use the fork or your hand to mashed the sweet potato.
4. Shaped it to desire shape. I make them squarish. If the dough is too mushy, add a little more of the flour. Set aside.
5. Heat up the soy milk and add in the sugar (25g), stirring to dissolve it. Once dissolve, remove from heat and let it cool for a while. Slowly stir in the gelatine. Pour to the bowl/container you will like to use. Leave it in the fridge to set.
6. Boil a pot of water and add in the Sweet potato cubes. It should take bout 3-4mins to boil and turn off the fire.
7. Take out the soy jelly that is setting in the fridge (bout 10mins) and it should be semi set.
8. Arranged the sweet potato cubes and the other ingredients on it. Leave it back in the fridge.
9. It should be ready to serve after about 30mins in the fridge.

Put Chai Kou - Red Bean Steamed Rice Cake

I had been wanting to make this steamed rice cake for a while but the other day when I wanted to make, I was out of rice flour and I spent half a day trying to make my own rice flour that totally spoiled the entire dish.

Finally this time, with the right proper ingredients, it is good and yummy.

This is with the red bean paste that I blended for the mooncake

Wondering how it taste with strawberry jam, yum yum too...

Ingredients:

*Just for the cake itself

• 40g rice flour (A)
• 13 wheat starch (A)
• 55ml water (A)
• 35g sugar (B)
• 115ml water (B)

Method:

1. Mixed all ingredients for A till smooth (preferably use a whisk).
2. Heat up ingredients B in the double boiler to melt the sugar. Once all sugar dissolved, remove from heat.
3. Leave the water to boil.
4. Slowly add in item B to the A mixture and stir till even.
5. Greased the mould (I uses 4 ramekins, or u can use teacups).
6. Pour the mixture into the ramekins or teacups and put it into the boiler and steam for 15-17mins.
7. Turn off the fire and leave the cake to cool down.
8. Remove from the mould and served with some red bean paste. 

* If you dont want to serve it separately, u can just scoop some red bean (cooked till very soft) into the mixture prior to steaming.