Tuesday 4 September 2012

How To Cook Grass Jelly powder

Today is my first time I make Grass Jelly or in my country we call it Cincau.. My husband bought the packet of 100 grams of Grass Jelly powder in Asian shop. I dont know how to cook it because it very easy to get a ready one in my country.. I just love to have it with the Soy milk or Vanilla soy milk and add ice cube, really refreshing.

Steamed Buns with sweet Red Bean filling




For the Dough

Ingredients

500g all purpose flour
1 tablespoon active dry yeast
1/2 cup of sugar
1/4 cup of corn oil
1 cup of warm water
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder

Steps;
1. Dissolved the sugar in warm water,
2. Combined all dry ingredients with corn oil and mix well.
3. Add the sugar water and knead until the dough is smooth and elastic .. cover with clean cloth and leave it to rise about double size..
4. Punch the dough , sprinkle the board with flour and knead again about 5mins.. Make about 12 same sizes dough balls. Leave it to rise about 10 mins.
5. Put the filling inside and shape the balls into smooth surface up..
6. Put each ball in a wax paper circle. Let stand covered about 30 mins.
7. Make your steamer ready, when the water is boiling, transfer as many buns on wax paper into steamer and  leave about 1 to 2 inches between the buns. Cover the steamer. Steam buns over boiling water for 15 minutes. 
8.  REMOVE LID BEFORE you turn off heat, or else water will drip back onto bun surface and produce yellowish color on bun surfaces. Continue steaming batches of buns until all are cooked.

For the filling

200g of red bean in water.. easy because its already soft
6 tablespoon of sugar- I normally use brown sugar
2 tablespoon flour 

Boil the red bean with sugar and a bit of water until tender, cook until you got a paste.. you can use smasher to smash it.. add the flour to make it thicker.. off the heat and leave it to cool.. ready to fill in dough ball..