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Pineapple Tarts

Pineapple Tarts

200g of pineapple fillings
200g of plain flour
140g of cold unsalted butter
2 tbspoon sugar

Methid
1) Sift the flour and sugar. Mix well.
2) Cut butter into small cubes and add to flour mixtures
3) Use fingertip to rub the butter into the flour.
4) lightly beat egg yolks and vanilla essence and add ot butter mixture. Combine and knead lightly to form a dough. Wrap dough in clingwrap and chill it for 1 hour to firm it up. Chilling the dough makes it easy to handle.


5) Line a baking tray with greaseroof paper. Divie dough into two potrtion to a thickeness of abt 7mm. Dip cookie cutter and cut out shapes.
6) Use a scraper to lift the shapes nad place on the tray.
7) Create a dent in the middle of the cookies shape
8) Brush egg glaze over the edges of the shapes.
9) Pinch abt 1/2 tablesspoon of pineapple filling and neaten it to form a ball. Compress it lightly, then place on a cookies shape.
10) Preheat the oven at 190 degC for 10 min.
11) Bake for 12 to 15 min, Allow the tarts to cook completely before storing in an sirtight container.



Note:

This is the pineapple filings that I made myself. Using 1 pineapple and 3 tbspoon of brown sugar shown below.




Beside that, I recommending this Organic Pure Vanille extract which is so fragnant that u will throw away your artifical Vanilla essense immediately,.
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Hokkien Mee

Hokkien Mee

Ingredient
Shell Lala - 200g
Pork - 30g
prawn - 6 pc
Squid
Minced garlic
Yellow flat noodles
Vegetable

Seasoning
Black soya sauce
Oyster sauce
Fish sauce
Water / Stock - 2 cups




Method
1) Heat up the wok with oil, add in garlic, pork and stir fry for 1 min
2) Add in prawn, then add in 2 cups of water / stock. Bring it to boil.
3) Once boiled, add in prawn and squid, cooked for 1 min
4) Add in lala and vegetable
5) Once the Lala has started to open up, add in the noodles.
6) Season it with oyster sauce, black soya sauce & fish sauce to taste.
7) Cooked abt 5 - 8 mins and dish it out and serve.





Note: I am not using the Singapore Yellow noodles for this dishes as I really dun like the "gi" taste at all. So happen that I got a packet of Fuzhou noodles from Yong Peng during a one day makan trip tour. I used it to cook the Hokkien mee instead. This noodles is really good, it doesnt turn soggy easily and very chewy. Best of all that it doesnt have the "gi" taste at all.

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CNY planning

I have the intention to make some CNY goodies for the coming new year to welcome the Tiger Year. I have a few receipe books to look into and I need a quick experimental period to try out the goodies before I roll up my sleeves and start making in large batch.

Will short list the goodies I wanna make for the coming years soon.......

I have shortlisted this CNY goodies as my 2010 CNY project.

1. Kueh Bangkit
2. Coated Syrup Walnuts with Sesame
3. Golden Rose Biscuit / Honey Bee Hive
4. Baked Spicy Soy Bean
5. Love Letter
6. Coconut Candy
7. New Year Cake
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Wanton

Wanton

Ingredient
Minced pork - $2
1 egg
Wanton Skin

Option
Waterchest nut
Black Fungus.

Seasoning
Soya Sauce
Sugar
Sesame oil

Method
1) Marinate minced pork with the sesaoning & egg for 1hr or more
2) Wrap the meat in the wanton skin.
3) Cook the wanton in boiling water till the wanton floated. Dish out and serve..

Note:
I got my wanton skin from Yong Peng, a Fuzhou noodle making factory. The wanton skin is very thin yet very strong and wun break easily. It doesnt have the "Gee" smell or taste at all.
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Marmite Chicken

Marmite Chicken

Ingredient
250ml oil
2 Chix thighs, abt 500g cut into cube

Marinade
1 tsp light soya sauce
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1 tbsp corn flour

Sauce
2 tbsp Marnite yeast extract
1 tbsp maltose, 1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp light soya sauce
dash of pepper and chix stock granules
100 ml of water

Method
1) Mix chicken with marinade and marinate for 1 hour. Deep-fry in hot oil for 2 minutes or unitl cooked. Dish and drain.
2) Leave 1 tbsp oil in wok, pour in sauce and cook at medium heat unitl thick. Put in fried chix and mix well. Dish up and serve.
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KUEH KERIA (Sweet Potatoes Donut)

KUEH KERIA
4 (agak agak) sweet potatoes
130 g glutinous rice flour, more if necessary
pinch of salt

Coating1 rice bowl sugar
50mm water
3 pandan leaves

skin and boil sweet potatoes till soft. Then mash and mix with sifted flour. Add the flour in small batches. Adjust if necessary until you get a soft but pliable dough. Add salt and shape into rings the size of doughnuts. Set one side.
Boil sugar in water and add pandan leaves.
In a kuali, heat up oil for deep frying. Deep fry the kueh until nice and brown. When all the kueh has been fried, remove the oil, but don't clean the kuali. Add in the sugar syrup and stir until it it thick.
Switch off the heat and put in all the kueh and coat all them of them with the syrup. Shake the kuali around until the sugar coating looks powdery.
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Pizza Dough

Pizza Dough



Ingredient

150gm plain flour

1 tsp sugar

1 tsp instant yeast

1/2tsp salt

110ml water

1 tbsp olive oil

Method

1. Mix dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Add in oil and water, knead into a pliable dough. Continue to knead until very smooth. Cover with damp kitchen towel and leave to rise until it doubles in volume for about 60mins.

2. Punch down dough and shape it into a ball and rest for 10 mins.

3. Roll dough into a round shape - the size of your pizza pan; or divide dough into 2 portions for super thin crusts and shape to round. Use fork to prick holes onto the dough. Rest dough for 20 mins.

4. Half-bake the pizza dough at preheated oven 200 deg cel for 10 mins., remove from oven.

5. Spread tomato paste onto the pizza dough. Spread some cheese over follow by toppings. Lastly top with balance cheese.

6. Bake at 200C for about 12 mins. or till cheese turns golden brown. Serve hot.

After punching the dough.




The amt yield 372g of dough.



Shaping the dough into big round flat base.




Laying on the pizza pan.




Close up of the base. I add flaxseed into the flour to make it healthier.





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