Category: My Kitchen

I was given a big bunch of bananas. We made banana fritters with it and still have some more left. So, I made a self-raising flour banana cake with those overripe bananas.

Ingredients:

3 medium overripe bananas (any type will do)
2 medium eggs
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/3 cup fine sugar
1/2 vegetable oil/melted butter
1 1/2 cup self-raising flour

Instructions:

1. Peel and mash the banana.
2. Add eggs, salt, vanilla essence, fine sugar, and vegetable oil.
3. Mix until incorporated.
4. Fold in self-raising flour.
5. Pour into a lined/greased baking tray. I’m using a glass baking dish (approx. 10cmx17cmx4cm) instead of the usual baking tin. You can get something similar here: https://invl.io/clltm4c
6. Bake in a preheated oven at 160 degrees Celsius for 45 minutes. It’s cooked once the skewer comes out clean.
7. Cool on rack and serve. The texture is less crumbly after 24 hours.

Happy trying!

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Before cooking the peach gum in a rice cooker, you have to prepare the peach gum and snow nest first. You’ll need to prepare them 8-12 hours before cooking.

For 1 or 2 pax consumption

7-10 pieces of peach gum
1 or 2 pieces of snow nest
5 pieces of snow lotus seeds
3-4 pieces seedless red dates (optional: cut into small pieces)
3-4 pieces dried longan (optional: cut into small pieces)
Brown sugar or rock sugar to taste

If you want to make a bigger batch, just multiply the above ingredients. Or just buy the soup pack that can feed at least 10 pax:

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Prepare snow nest and peach gum

How to clean snow nest https://youtu.be/WAxeEeP98t0
How to clean peach gum https://youtu.be/jacwPnn_21M

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Easy Rice Cooker Beauty Peach Gum Collagen Soup 电饭锅桃胶三宝

Steps:

1. Rinse the peach gum, snow nest, and snow lotus seeds with clean/filtered water.
2. Soak in clean/filtered water for 8-12 hours. Keep them in the fridge.
3. After soaking, remove the impurities/debris.
4. After removing the impurities/debris, rinse them under running clean/filtered water (use a colander).
5. Add 1.5L of water, peach gums, snow lotus seeds, red dates, and dried longan into the rice cooker.
6. Switch on the rice cooker, set it to “congee” mode (or “porridge” mode).
7. Cook for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
8. At the 1-hour mark, add in sugar of your choice. The amount is up to your preference. Let it cook again for 5 minutes.
9. 5 minutes later, add in the snow nest and let it cook for another 10 minutes.
10. That’s all. It’s cooked!
11. Serve it warm or cold. I prefer cold. How about you?

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Easy Rice Cooker Peach Gum Three Treasure Dessert with Milk 鮮奶桃胶三宝

Steps:

1. Rinse the peach gum, snow nest, and snow lotus seeds with clean/filtered water.
2. Soak in clean/filtered water for 8-12 hours in room temperature or the fridge.
3. After soaking, remove the impurities/debris.
4. After removing the impurities/debris, rinse them under running clean/filtered water (use a colander).
5. Add 1.5L of water, peach gums, snow lotus seeds, red dates, and dried longan into the rice cooker.
6. Switch on the rice cooker, set it to “cook” mode.
7. Cook for approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes.
8. At the 1-hour mark, add in sugar of your choice and snow nest. Let it cook for another 10 minutes.
9. That’s all. It’s cooked!
10. Serve it warm or cold. Add milk before serving.

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It’s my first time preparing snow swallow (also known as Gum Tragacanth / Snow Nest / Snow Bird’s Nest) to make collagen soup. I hope this video is useful to you.

IMPORTANT TO NOTE

For 1-2 person consumption, you just need 1 piece. It will expand! Don’t be too greedy! ONE IS ENOUGH! It will expand 30X or more!

How to clean?

1. Rinse it under running filtered or drinking water.
2. Soak in filtered or drinking water. Fill the bowl with water to the brim. Use a big bowl or container.
3. Soak it for 8-12 hours in the fridge or at room temperature. Best to keep it in the fridge if the weather is hot.
4. Once it’s ready, remove the visible impurities with a tweezer or your finger. Best to spread it on a flat surface. It will make your life easier, especially if it’s in big quantities.
5. Once it’s cleaned, pour it in the colander, run filtered/drinking water through it. Do it once or twice.
6. There you go! It’s ready to be cooked.

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I need to finish up the bottled orange juice that we bought. Since I still had some cream cheese left, I decided to make orange butter cheese cake. I reduced the sugar thinking that the orange juice was quite sweet. I didn’t taste it before using it haha… Anyway, it ended up not bad. The cake was rich, moist and buttery. Not too sweet too. Try it out.

Ingredients:

125g salted butter (room temperature)
75g cream cheese (room temperature)
40g castor sugar (if you want it to be sweeter, use 70g)
3 eggs (Size B)
A dash of vanilla essence
125g self-rising flour (sifted)
1/4 cup orange juice (fresh/bottled/boxed of your choice)
Orange zest (optional)

Instructions:

The mixer speed I used was “1” throughout the process.

1. Cream salted butter and cream cheese for 1-2 minutes.
2. Add sugar gradually while creaming. Cream for 5 minutes.
3. Add eggs one by one and vanilla essence. Beat for 10 minutes.
4. Fold in sifted self-rising flour until incorporated.
5. Add orange juice (and orange zest if you have) and continue folding until incorporated.
6. Pour the batter into a greased/lined baking tray. I use a 2lb loaf tin.
7. Bake in preheated oven at 160 degrees Celsius for 45-50 minutes. It’s ready once the skewer comes out clean.
8. Remove from the baking tin and cool on the rack.
9. Serve or store in a container. Can last 2-3 days.

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Oh! In case you do have XiaoHongShu 小红书, feel free to follow me there at 艾艾倪 . I used Chinese (Simplified Chinese) exclusively in this account.

By the way, I just started Lemon8, feel free to follow me there at Lovebellbelle. The language used here is a mixture of English and Malay.

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It’s my first time cooking Sarawak Laksa single-handedly. Filming and cooking on my own wasn’t easy. Finally I got the videos all up. I’m compiling it here for easy reference. This exclusive recipe was shared to me by a friend. I was asked to make a video with it. So, here you go! It’s not your typical Sarawak Laksa broth. You see it here first! It’s thick and flavourful. Everything I used in the videos were not sponsored.

Prepare Omelette Strips

Ingredients:
2 eggs
3/4 tsp salt
Enough oil for cooking

Steps:
Beat eggs and salt.
Pour oil on a cold pan then heat it.
Pour the beaten egg and cook it until it’s cooked.
Then cut it into strips.

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Prepare the Rest of the Ingredients

(1) Beehoon:
Boil a pot of water and cook the beehoon based on the instructions on the packet.
Drain it and set it aside.

(2) Chicken:
Boil 3 mugs of water with 1 tbsp of beaten ginger and 1 tsp of salt.
Put chicken in to boil then turn down the heat.
Cover the pot and cook for 8-9 minutes (depending on the chicken part you’re using) or until it’s cooked.
Bring out the chicken and let it sit to be aired.
After airing, cut into strips. If using breast meat, you can shred it.

(3) Prawn:
Bring the chicken soup to boil.
Put in the prawns (500g of prawns with shells on. Remove the shells before cooking. The shells are to be cooked with the broth).
Cook for 3 minutes max.
Bring out and set aside.

(4) Beansprouts:
Bring the chicken+prawn soup or a clean pot of water to boil.
Blanch the beansprouts.
Remove from the pot and set aside.

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Sarawak Laksa Broth & Plating

This portion can feed about 5-8 people, depending on how big the eaters are.
You can freeze the broth if you can’t finish it in one sitting.
You can get the ingredients from my affiliate links that I’m sharing below.

Ingredients:
(A)
300g Cap Helang Matahari laksa paste (get it here https://invl.me/clmpb9y)
2 mugs water
1 pcs nutmeg (get it here https://invl.me/clmow16)
1 tsp tamarind paste (get it here https://invl.me/clmow1e)
2 tsp sugar (get it here https://invl.me/clmow1r)
Prawn shells from 500g of prawns

(B)
1 tbsp water
200ml UHT full cream milk (get it here https://invl.me/clmow0g)
200ml coconut milk (get it here https://invl.me/clmow0s)
1 1/2 tsp seasoning powder (e.g powdered chicken stock or Maggi Cukup Rasa https://invl.me/clmow23 or Knorr Pasti Sedap https://invl.me/clmow2s)

Steps:
Heat ingredient (A) till boil. Then, turn down the heat.
Add 1 tbsp of water into the middle. Let it boil for 5 minutes.
Add milk. Let it boil for 1 minute.
Add coconut milk. Let it boil for 1 minute.
Add seasoning powder. Let it boil for 5 minutes.
That’s all! Filter it before serving.
Serve it with all the other ingredients.

Try it out if you want. The broth is so thick! You can even dilute it but it will be a totally different recipe which I’m not sure how hahaha! Diluting it requires different ratio of liquid and seasonings.

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Feel free to check out my YouTube channel and My Kitchen for more baking and cooking adventures.

Oh! In case you do have XiaoHongShu 小红书, feel free to follow me there at 艾艾倪 . I used Chinese (Simplified Chinese) exclusively in this account.

By the way, I just started Lemon8, feel free to follow me there at Lovebellbelle. The language used here is a mixture of English and Malay.

Only food & beverage-related topics are shared in these accounts. Hope to see you there!