Home made rice noodle aka 粿条 aka kuey teow

I love kuey teow.. second favourite is Mee Hoon, then only yellow noodle .. also depends what to eat.. During this COVID-19 pandemic, always try to reduce the times of going out. Somehow, when we really feel want to eat it.. then have to do it ourself :)

This is the 1st time i made own rice noodle.. and I would adjust a bit on water to make it more 'soft' next time.

Ingredient:
1 cup rice flour
1/4 tapioca starch
1/4 cup arrowroot starch
1 and 1/2 cups water  (Add additional 1/4 water if want to be more soft)
Cooking oil (enough to coat pan and noodles)

Instruction:
1. Mix all the ingredient together.
2. Steam one tray by tray.

Reference : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj8POsM7tYE&list=PLoG7DKzmawqDZh07Rec5kfk3GuTcjBOPv&index=5&t=0s

Char Kuey Kak 炒粿角

        

INGREDIENT

Steamed Rice Cake (overnite rice)

1. 剩饭 200g + 水 300g （blender打滑）(3/4 loose rice in red bowl, 1 bowl of water)

2. 加入盐 （1 茶匙），玉米粉 100（ 1 杯），面粉（0.6 杯）

3. Add 200ml water mix

4. 蒸盘搽油，大火蒸30分钟。

5. 放凉后切。

Tau geh :

1. Use 100-120gram green bean.

2. Soak over night.

3. Put in 1 L milk carton.. cut 'hole' bottom to rinse water.

4. Rinse the bean every morning and night.

5. Hot weather: harvest in 3rd day. Cold weather harvest in 7th day. 

Fried kuey kak Reference : http://www.echoskitchen.com/2017/05/fried-radish-cake-char-kueh-kak.html

INSTRUCTION:

1. Fry garlic mince ... add 'chai bo' if you have. I had cut some bacon fat to add in as well.

2. Add in kuey kak to stir for a while.

3. Add 1.5 tablespoon of mixture of sauces.

4. Make the kuey kak a bit burn to increase the 'wok hei'

5. Make a hole in the middle, add in egg + tau geh + chinese chives, chilli and another 2 tablespoon of mixture of sauces. 

6. Stir fry till the vege is cooked and served immediately.

Note:
Cut the kuey kak into smaller pieces, you can cut while cooking too :)

Dinner Roll

终于第一次成功烘面包！！

I saw one simple recipe and think to give it a go! And GOT IT!!  I better note it down before i forgot.

Starter:
Water - 3 tbsp
Milk - 3 tbsp
Bread Flour - 2 tbsp

Dry Ingredient:
Bread Flour - 2 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/4 cup
Salt - 1 tsp
Yeast - 1 tbsp

Wet Ingredient:
Warm Milk - 1 cup
Butter - 1/4 cup (60 gram)
Egg - 1

Instructions:
1. Mix the starter and stir in a small pan until sticky. Put in a bowl, cover with cling wrapped, freeze for 1 hour.
2. Mix the dry ingredient. I just pour into the bread maker.
3. Mix the wet ingredient with starter and pour into the bread maker container.
4. Turn on dough function or manually dough, let it sit for 1 hour. (If using bread machine, it will sit inside within the dough function to doulbe the size).
5. Take out the dough , use some oil to dough a bit and divide into 9 portion.
6 Optional : You can put in pulled pork, BBQ pork belly, etc. Or just plain.
7. Let it sit for another 40 minutes.
8. Egg wash the top and put in the oven for 25 minutes (185 degree fan-forced)

AND DONE!!

Sweet Potato Balls 番薯蛋

Sweet potato balls番薯蛋 is a street food for Malaysian. You will definitely spot this store in any of the night market (pasar malam) in Malaysia. I usually is 'rice' people, moving here for 9 years making me started to miss a lot of malaysian food, especially I wanted my kids to remember all those 'local' food from their birth country.

My kids not really like sweet potoatoes (same as me when i was kid). But know the good thing about sweet potato and we can get it quite cheap here. I have to find ways to make the kids eat it. :) This is my 2nd attempts, the first one failed, as I poured the steamed water into making the dough, which make it too moist and have to add more flour, and leaded to tensed texture and mm. not nice. In fact this is very simple snack to clear any sweet potato, the only thing is need to deep fried.

     

Ingredients:
Sweet potato (any colors) 3 medium size
Tapioca flour
 Sugar 4 tbsp

Instructions
1. Cut the sweet potato and steam it. (approximately 15 min). Until it soft.
2. Smash the steamed soft sweet potato with some sugar ( i put 4 tbsp)
3. Add in Tapioca flour ... make it like it can roll into balls.
4. If it's too dry, just add water.

Marble Cake

Recently really do a lot of baking.. Getting recipe from friends and try out. Having 3 kids, good thing about this is they can simply finish whatever i bake very quickly. (of course with the condition of the taste not too bad, haha)..

Here come my easy marble cake
 

Ingredient:
Butter - 250g
Sugar - 200-250g (0.9 cup) I prefer not too sweet
Egg - 4 Vanilla - 1 tsp
Self-raising flour - 250g (1.9 cup)
Milk - 3 tbsp
 Coco mixture 1. 1 tsp of coco powder + 3 tsp hot water

Instruction: Preheat oven 180c
1. Add melted butter into a bowl and beat with electric mixer.
2. Slowly add in sugar and mix.
3. Add in egg 1 by 1 and mix.
4. Add in vanilla
5. Add in Self-raising flour (can split in 3 times)
6. Add milk
7. Take out 1/4 cake batter and mix it with coco mixture.
8. Pour in the 3/4 cake batter into cake tray.
9. Slowly added the coco mixture on top, take a skewer or chopstick to swirl it :)
10. Bake for 35 min... and Done!!

Another way is divide the batter into 1/2, mix the coco with the other 1/2 batter, then scoop in the cake batter with the mixing of 2 color.. but i just too l lazy to do that. :p

Sausage Bun

During this Covid-19, kids study at home.. I am more busier than normal day.. Normally i am not interested in baking espeically bread, etc. But this time had started to try bakery > <

Here my first try on sausage bun. The recipe should be either 4 big sausage or 6 smaller sausage, I was using the small frankfurt, end up we made 13 buns + 4 small cinnamen bun (extra dough). As my daughter kept telling me the more the merrier ...hahaha... she was helping me to do as well.

I am using Christine recipe.. but i had amended to suit the kids, which all of them said very nice. And my youngest daughter would love to have it for brekky, lunch and dinner (yes... seriously ..hehe)

 湯種材料：
高筋粉 50克 (約 1/3 杯)
水 250 毫升 （即 1 杯。可用牛奶代替。或一半水，一半奶）

材料：
香腸 13條 (small frankfurt)

麵包材料：
高筋粉 350 克 （2 1/2 杯）
糖 55 克 （3湯匙 + 2茶匙）
鹽 5 克 （1茶匙）
全蛋液 56 克 （大隻雞蛋 1隻）
奶粉 7克 (1湯匙 +1 茶匙。增加香味，可不加)
牛奶 125毫升（1/2杯）
湯種 120 克 （把上述已煮好的湯種分半）
快速酵母（Instant Yeast）5至6克（2茶匙）
牛油（奶油，置室溫放軟，待麵糰起筋才加入）30克 (3湯匙)

做法：

1. 把所有材料（除牛油外）依次倒進麵包機（先放濕的材料，然後才放乾的材料）：牛奶，蛋，湯種，鹽，糖，奶粉，高筋粉，最後放酵母。我習慣 在麵粉中央撥開一小洞，把酵母放進去。
2. 選擇麵包機的 dough 功能，材料搞拌至成一麵團，就放進已融解的牛油，繼續搞拌，成一光滑麵團 （可測試麵團搓到是否合格程度，參考溫馨提示）。
3. 當麵包機停機，等待麵團第一次發酵完畢，見麵團發大兩倍。就取出，放在清潔的工作台上，灑點高筋粉。
4. 用手按壓麵團，擠出空氣。切割成13等份，滾圓，收口朝下。用保鮮膜蓋著，靜置 15分鐘。
5. 把每個麵團分別搓成長形，把腸仔捲起。如是者，把所有腸仔分別捲好，放在鋪了 baking paper的焗盤上。蓋上保鮮膜或濕布進行最後發酵，至兩倍大，約 45至 60分鐘。
6. 塗上蛋汁，放入預熱至 180C (356F) 的焗爐中，焗約 35分鐘，直至轉金黃色為止。放在鐵架上放涼，即成。

I am refering to Christine recipe : https://www.christinesrecipes.com/2010/03/hong-kong-style-sausage-rolls.html

Air fry roasted pork belly

Finally, before i forgot, better note down the recipe I used for my successful roasted pork belly. Really yums, skin crispy ... whole plate gone with wind within 5-10 minutes.

I am using the recipe from this site.

https://purplebowl.blogspot.com/2015/06/airfry-roasted-pork-belly-siu-yuk-recipe.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR22qVetnMhF-ZQSy1ltvV7t1DwyLjuON20OfYPh1J10oNn_cfcb4mBpbK0

In fact, I do not need to 'boil' the pork.. straight to the air fryer once marinated and air dry the surface. 

25-30 min with 180 degree, followed by another 10-15 min with 200 degree and Ta La!! DONE!!

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Recently found another recipe

Few cut on the skin

190 degree

1. put hot/normal water (easy cleaning) , 5 minute

2. put the pork in with salt - 35 min 

200 degree

1. take out the salt + aluminium = 25 min

2. another 5 min