Recipe: Glutinous Rice Ball Fillied with Red Bean & Coated with Black Sesame Powder

Preparation Time: 30 minutes
Cooking Time: 60 minutes

First 10 minutes in high heat & remaining 50 minutes in low medium heat.

Keep on stirring to avoid the red beans burn & stick on bottom.

Red bean paste (blended cooked red beans, brown sugar, cinnamon powder & salt).

Mixed black sesame seeds powder, brown sugar & salt.

To make a rice ball: Firstly, roll it.

Secondly, make a hole.

Thirdly, seal it to close the gap.

Rice balls in boiling water (they sink when you put them in).

Then they float (to show they are cooked).

Rice balls in ice water.

Remember to drain the rice balls.

Coated with sesame powder.

Of course you need to roll all evenly.

They smell great.

And taste delicious too!

"ta-rang! Glutinous Rice Balls Filled with Red Bean Paste & Coated with Black Sesame Powder".

Enjoy! ;)

Ingredients:

1. 4 cups of Glutinous rice flour
2. 1 1/2 cups of Boiling water
3. 1 cups of Red bean (washed)
   
4. 2 cups of Brown sugar
5. 1 1/2 cups of Black sesame seeds (rise & drained)
   
6. 2 3/4 tsps of Salt
7. 1 tsp of Cinnamon powder
   

Steps:

1. In a pot, cook red bean with 4 cups of water (heat over high heat for 10 minutes, then simmer in low medium heat for 50 minutes).
2. In a bowl, mix glutinous rice flour, 4 Tbsp of sugar & 2 tsp of salt.
   
3. Pour 1 1/2 cups of boiling water into (2) little by little & mix to form a dough. Cover with plastic bag & set aside.
4. Cook sesame seeds in a pan over medium heat (remember to stir).
5. Lower the heat once the sesame seeds pop, keep on stirring until they are crispy (about 5 minutes).
6. When the sesame seeds cool down, grind them into powder form.
7. In a separate bowl, mix sesame seeds powder, 4 Tbsp of brown sugar & 1/4 tsp of salt.
8. Once the beans are fully cooked, crush or blend them with 1 cup of brown sugar, 1/2 tsp of salt & cinnamon powder.
9. Divide dough into 2 & roll each to form a cylinder shape with your hand .
10. Divide & cut the dough into 40 pieces.
11. Roll each dough & make a hole in the middle with your thumb.
12. Put some red bean paste into the hole & close it tightly.
13. Repeat previous 2 steps until all rice balls are filled with red bean paste.
14. In a pot with boiling water, put in all rice balls carefully & cook them until they float (about 3 minutes).
    
15. Transfer the cooked rice balls into ice water & drain them.
16. Roll the rice balls in the bowl with sesame seeds powder.
17. Ready to serve.
    
    

Tips:

1. Remember to keep on stirring the red beans while cooking.
2. You may need to add more cups of water if the heat is too high or the red bean is too dry.
   
3. You can roll the rice balls according to your preference sizes (but too small is difficult to close the section).
4. Don't put too much red bean paste into each rice ball (it makes the rice ball difficult to seal).
5. When you seal the rice balls, press slowly with gentle (pressing too hard will break the rice balls).

Recipe: Carrot Cake

Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Baking Time: 40-50 minutes

Ingredients:

1. 4 eggs
2. 1 1/4 cups of Vegetable oil
3. 1 1/2 cups of Brown sugar
4. 2 tsp of Vanilla essence
   
5. 2 cups of All-purpose flour
   
6. 2 tsp of Baking soda
7. 2 tsp of Baking powder
8. 1/2 tsp of Salt
9. 2 tsp of Cinnamon powder
   
10. 3 cups of Grated carrots
    

Steps:

1. In a large bowl, beat eggs, oil, sugar and vanilla essence.
2. Add in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon powder. Beat well.
   
3. Stir in carrots until the mixture form evenly.
   
4. Bake in a preheat oven at 175ºc for 40-50 minutes.

Tips:

1. When you prepare the grated carrots, there is excessive juice extracted from the grated carrots. Do not throw it (mix the juice into the mixture).
   
2. The mixture will look quite wet and liquid-type (don't worry).
   
3. You can substitute grated carrots with grated pumpkin (it tastes nice as well).
   

Recipe: Sesame Seeds Sweet Buns

Preparation Time: 90 minutes
Baking Time: 20 minutes

Finally, I make it... ;) All together 15 breads.

Though is a bit dark, hehe... (9 here)

Need to fit into other 2 small baking trays... (3 here)

Ops! Change shapes, may be it is too packed (3 more here)

Soft inside. [ding dong ding dong, successful v(==)v ].

Let me slice it...


Into 6 pieces...

Really soft (better consume within 2 days)

Ingredients:

1. 600g High Protein Bread Flour
   
2. 1 1/2 tsp of Instant Yeast
   
3. 1 tsp of Bread Improver
4. 1 1/4 tsp of Salt
5. 100g Brown Sugar
   
6. 3 Tbsp of Milk Powder
   
7. 1 Egg
8. 300 - 350ml Water
   
9. 50g Butter (room temparture)
10. Some White Sesame Seeds
11. Melted Butter (for brushing)
    

Steps:

1. Mix ingredients 1-8 and knead till it can stretch into thin sheet (about 10 minutes).
   
2. Add in butter and knead till smooth. Cover dough and leave it to prove till double in bulk.
   
3. Knead again till smooth (about 10 minutes). Cover and rest for 15 minutes.
4. Divide dough into 15 portions and shape each into a ball.
5. Arrange onto a baking tray. Leave to prove till double in bulk.
6. Spray little water onto the dough and sprinkle some sesame seeds on top of it.
   
7. Bake in a preheat oven at 200ºc for 20 minutes.
8. brush with melted butter.
   

Tips:

1. In step 1, mixual of ingredients will turns separated doughs to a sticky dough. The longer time you knead it, the less stickiness of the dough. (somehow, there is few that sticks on your fingers)
   
2. In step 2, adding butter into the dough will first cause the dough to separate apart. Don't worry, as you knead it longer, a whole dough will be formed slowly.
3. In step 5, as the dough will raise into a double size, so leave some space between them.
   
4. You can cover the dough with cling wrap or clean cloth.

Recipe: Banana Cake

Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Baking Time: 40-50 minutes

In the baking process...

Start rising...

In 175ºc, hot...

Turning color...

Few cuts to test whether the internal is cooked. (Initially, I bake for 40 minutes - follow the original recipe - but, it is not fully cooked)

Emm, it doesn't looks nice externally (maybe the color of banana slices is too dark).

However, it really tastes good. Must try.

Ingredients:

1. 250g All-purpose Flour
   
2. 1 tsp of Baking Powder
3. 1/4 tsp of Bicarbonate Soda
4. 250g Butter (room temparture)
5. 200g Brown Sugar
6. 1/4 tsp of Salt
7. 5 Eggs
8. 1 tsp of Vanilla Essence (optional)
   
9. 250g Mashed Bananas
   

Steps:

1. Shift all-purpose flour, baking powder and bicarbonate soda.
   
2. In another medium bowl, beat butter, brown sugar and salt until well-blended. Add in eggs one by one and vanilla essence and beat well.
   
3. Fold in the flour mixture into (2) until well-combined.
   
4. Fold in mashed bananas into the batter.
   
5. Place a piece of baking paper on the cake tray and pour the batter on it.
   
6. Cut and place banana slices on top of the cake batter.
   
7. Bake in a preheat oven at 175ºc for 40-50 minutes (until golden brown).

Tips:

1. You can use white sugar to substitute brown sugar (but brown sugar is more healthier). If the bananas that you bought is not sweet enough, you can add more sugar.
   
2. You can use a fork to mash bananas.
3. You can choose not to place banana slices on top of the cake batter (if you think it doesn't looks good).

Recipe: Chocolate Chips & Almonds Cookies

Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Baking Time: 10 minutes

My end products. Let's take a picture: Pose 1.

How about Pose 2?

My cookies look bigger (I use table spoon and scope too much, hehe ;)).

A clearer view. Do these look delicious?

I got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc, about 12 big cookies.

Actually more than that.

Testing time. Now, you see it.

Now, you don't. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

1. 125g All-purpose Flour (1 cup)
   
2. 1/2 tsp of Baking Soda
3. 1/4 tsp of Salt
4. 115g Butter (room temparture) (1/2 cup)
5. 100g Brown Sugar (1/2 cup)
6. 50g Sugar (1/4 cup)
7. 1 Egg
8. 1 tsp of Vanilla Essence
9. 80g Chocolate Chips
10. 80g Almonds

Steps:

1. Shift both all-purpose flour and baking soda. Mix them well with salt.
   
2. In another medium bowl, beat butter, brown sugar and sugar until well-blended. Add in egg and vanilla essence and beat well.
   
3. Fold in the flour mixture into (2) until well-combined.
   
4. Fold in 60g chocolate chips and all almonds into the batter.
   
5. Place a piece of baking paper on the tray and scope the batter using a tea spoon on it. Make sure there are some spaces (about 2 inches apart) between 2 cookies.
   
6. Bake in a preheat oven at 175ºc for 10 minutes.
7. In minute 6th, put the remainder chocolate chips on top of the cookies.
   

Tips:

1. You can replace almonds with other nuts of your choice.
2. Why I use teaspoon to scope? Actually, I use a tablespoon to scope the cookies that I bake (shown in picture), so you can see some are really big. Of course you can decide the size.
   
3. Do not flatten the battle that you scope on the baking tray as it will be shaped during the baking process.
4. Why I separate the chocolate chips? So that the cookies look nicer whereby some chips are seen on the top. (Hehe, I forget to add chips on top this time, may be next time).
   

Recipe: Quiche

Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 8 minutes
Baking Time: 30 minutes

Preparing ingredients...

Garlic, shallots, onions...

Fried bacon makes the Quiche much more delicious (remember to discard excessive fat, if possible).

Making pastry on pie dish using hands (remember to use a fork to press some holes on the pastry).

Ready to bake.

Those dark brown color things is not burn, it is Parmesan cheese.

This time I put bacon, mushrooms & garlic, shallots & onions.

Yummy yummy... ;)

Ingredients (Pastry):

1. 120g Shortening
2. 200g Plain Flour
3. Pinch of Salt
4. 1 Egg
5. 2 Tbsp of Fresh Milk
   

Ingredients (Filling):

1. 200ml Fresh Milk
2. 500ml Whipping Cream
3. 50g Plain Flour
4. Parmesan Cheese
5. 3 cloves of Onions (ring)
   
6. 5 cloves of Shallots (minced by food processor)
   
7. 5 pips of Garlics (minced by food processor)
8. 1 can of Luncheon Meat (pieces) or bacon (pieces)
   
9. 2 Tbsp of Oil
10. Salt and Pepper for season
    

Optional Ingredient:

1. Different veges (corns, carrots, beans, sweet basils, celery, etc).
2. Mushrooms
   

Steps:

1. Mix all pastry ingredients to form a dough. Flatten the dough and shape it into a pie dish.
   
2. In a medium heat pan, add some oil to stir fry onions, shallots and garlics till fragrant.
3. Add luncheon meat into (2) and cook for about 2-3 minutes.
   
4. Season with salt and pepper.
   
5. Spread filling into the pie dish evenly.
6. In a seperate bowl, mix fresh milk, whipping cream and flour well. Pour the mixture into the pie dish and spread some parmesan cheese on the top.
   
7. Bake in a preheat oven at 200ºc for 30 minutes.

Tips:

1. Do not knead the dough too hard to prevent toughened pastry.
2. Luncheon meat can be replaced with ham or bacon if you don't like can food or with optional ingredients if you prefer veges.
   
3. Best to serve while quiche is warm.
   

Recipe: Organic Oat + Omlette + Seaweed

Preparation Time: 2 minutes
CookingTime: 10 minutes

Who say oat is tasteless? It can be varied to add flavour and suit your taste too.

Ingredients:

1. 5 Tbsp Organic Oat
2. 250ml Hot Water
3. Japanese Instant Seaweed
4. 1 Egg

Optional Ingredient:

1. Veges for omlette (Spring Onion, Carrot, Bean).
   

Steps:

1. Mix oat and hot water in a pot. Turn to medium heat and cook for 10 minutes (you may add in seaweed in between the cooking).
   
2. Meanwhile, in a seperate pan, add a bit olive oil and fry the veges (about 1 minute).
3. Add in beated egg into the veges and stir-fry the omlette.
4. Both oat and omlettle are ready to serve.
   

Tips:

1. The cooking time of the oat depends on your preference. Longer cooking and more water will produce soft texture (like porridge).
2. If you are new to oat products, you may find uneasy to consume it in 'hard' texture. So, you may want to cook the oat a bit longer.