Pizza base - quick w/o yeast version

COVID-19 Stay at home... Trying to make food with whatever we have... try to reduce the no. of time going out for groceries.. Here found 1 recipe from my friends fb post.

I need to x 2 the ingredient as need to make 2 pizzas to feed the hungry kids :)

DRY INGREDIENTS:
1 1/3 cups bread flour ( x 2 = 2  2/3 cups)
2 tsp baking powder (x2 = 4 tsp)
3/4 tsp salt (x2 = 1  1/2 tsp)
3/4 tsp sugar (x2 1  1/2 tsp)

WET INGREDIENTS:
2 tsp olive oil (x2 = 4 tsp)
1/2 cup water (cold tap water x 2 = 1 cup)

OTHER
1 tbsp Extra Flour , for dusting
2 tsp vegetable oil (optional) , for brushing crust (or canola or other neutral oil) (Note 3)

Instructions
- Preheat oven to 250°C / 480°F (230°C fan) (Note 4.) Place shelf in the top quarter of the oven.
- Spray pizza pan or baking tray lightly with oil.
- Prepare pizza sauce and toppings. Keep shredded mozzarella in the fridge (Note 5).

Bread Machine

Just put all in and set for Dough function

ROLLING OUT DOUGH:

1. Dough should be soft and elastic, and not stick to your hands. It will not be completely smooth like yeast dough (video 38 sec)(Note 6).
2. Shape dough into a ball. Roll out into a 30cm/12" round.
3. Transfer to pizza pan, preferably with holes (for crispier base), or a baking tray (Note 7 pizza stone). Use your fingers to pull from the centre to fill the pan to the edge - avoid pinching the edges (to ensure puffy crust!).

TOP & BAKE:

1. Top with 1/4 cup pizza sauce and toppings of choice.
2. Brush the crust edge (just exposed edge with no toppings on it) with oil.
3. Bake 12 minutes, until the edges are crispy and golden. Cut and serve immediately!

Mang Zhang Kueh 曼煎糕

又一个我们‘巴刹‘的食物。。早餐。。点心。。什么时候都可以吃。。嘻嘻。。通常都会在’早市‘ 里找到。。

这边天气冷，很难发。。第一次做效果没那么好。。但孩子们（除了老三）都一上碟就吃完了。。说明还是不错。。快快把食谱写下。。

Youtube reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tADmevpjW2Y&list=PLoG7DKzmawqDZh07Rec5kfk3GuTcjBOPv&index=2&t=0s

曼煎糕
材料：
220克面粉 (1.5 cup + 3 tbsp Flour)
1/2茶匙苏打粉 (1/2 tsp Baking powder)
50克糖 (4 tbsp Sugar)
3/4茶匙干酵母 (3/4 tsp yeast)
2粒鸡蛋 (2 eggs)
310毫升水 (310 ml water)

馅料：
120克花生，烤好，去皮及搅碎。(I used ready made peanut powder - not that tasty)
一些幼砂糖
一些cream style 罐头玉米/玉蜀黍
一些牛油

做法：
1. 把面粉过筛入一个大碗 。
2.加入酵母，糖和苏打粉拌均，
3.加入水和鸡蛋，搅拌至所有材料充分混合。用保鲜纸包着让混合物休息30分钟。面糊会在烹煮之前出现一些小泡沫。
4.热平底锅。搽上一层薄薄的牛油（这个步骤只需要做一次）。倒入适量面糊，把表面涂抹平均厚度。盖上锅盖 大约五分钟。当表面出先小洞，表示就快熟透了。这时候可以放入馅料，折半切块，可以上桌了！

虾肠粉

First time making this... and yes! Kids love it and i am sure I will do it again next time, but this really time consuming as I only use 1 square pan for the steaming as others pans seems not suitable .. will get another steaming pan so it will make the whole process faster.

I am refering to this youtube ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6H4bS33TfA&list=PLoG7DKzmawqDZh07Rec5kfk3GuTcjBOPv&index=4&t=0s

and I convert it to my own measurement as I don't normally use measurement machine for the grams.. I prefer to use cup and spoons measurement.

I had increased the amount to suit for my family of 5,which turned up just nice.. I made 11 pieces with 6 medium prawn each.

Here my measurement for 11 pieces.

Ingredients:
Shrimp (medium 6 x 11 pieces)
Spring onion (chopped)

Batter:
Rice flour(1 cup)
Tapioco starch / Corn starch (nearly 0.4 cup)
water( 2 cups )

Marinated (prawn):
Oil,salt,white pepper, cooking wine.

Sauce:
Soy sauce( 20ml)
Sugar(5gr)
Water (20ml)
Sesame oil (1ml)

Steam 2 minutes then put shrimps in and spring onion, and steam for another 2 minutes.

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.