Category: My Kitchen

I don’t really like the usual tang yuan or glutinous rice ball but I like those with fillings especially with peanut.

Went shopping the other day with my parents and I saw this frozen glutinous rice ball (RM4+) and decided to buy one to try.

It’s very easy to cook this. Great for lazy people like me ;p Just take out from the freezer, boil a pot of water, put the rice balls in and wait until they float. Add sugar to the water to taste.

Be careful though… They burst easily once they’re cooked as you can see in the photo, there are some peanuts in the syrup.

I really like it. Quick and easy.

Anyway, what I shared earlier is the lazy way. There’s a recipe provided at the back of the packet. I’ll share it here with you, also as a reference for myself:

Ingredients:
2 packets of glutinous rice ball
250gm soya beans
15 cups of water (I have no idea 15 cups refer to big, medium or small cup, I guess if you want it thick then use medium or small else use big cups for more diluted soya milk)
Sugar (depending on how sweet you want it to be)

Instructions:-
Make soya bean milk:

1. Wash soya beans and soak it overnight.
2. Blend the soya beans by adding water until it turns into liquid paste.
3. Boil remaining water.
4. Pour the soya bean paste into the boiled water and stir frequently until boil.
5. Filter the boiled soya bean milk.
6. Boil it again for 5 minutes.

If you want to save time or feel lazy, maybe just go to the market to buy the ready made soya bean milk will do. It’s the same thing. Not the box one OK? However, if you want to use the one from the box, I don’t think it’s wrong at all. It’s up to you.

Prepare glutinous rice balls:

1. Take out from the freezer.
2. Boil a pot of water.
3. Put the rice balls in and wait until they float.

Serve:
Serve the glutinous rice balls with the soya bean milk. Add sugar to taste.

One last recipe from the previous demo class. In fact this is just simple recipe to make jelly. Sometimes we did the first few steps wrongly but it’s usually fool proof.

Here are the ingredients:

• 1 tin cocktail fruit
• 60g instant jelly powder
• 1200ml Water
• 200g Sugar

Instructions:

1. Boil water.
2. When almost boil, add in sugar.
3. When completely boil, add in jelly powder.
4. Stir well.
5. Add a bit of syrup from the cocktail fruit if you want to add some flavour.
6. Place cocktail fruits into the mould. Up to your preference, you want more you put more.
7. Pour jelly into the mould.
8. Cool it and then place in the fridge.

Very easy right?

Actually I found this recipe long time ago at Jen Jen’s Place and thought of trying it out but I’m so lazy. I save it as draft for so long.

Before CNY, I bought the Cheese Sticks from tHe Spring CNY Bazaar. It’s not sweet at all. I love it! I notice there’s black pepper in Cheese Sticks. Then I remember I saw black pepper listed in this recipe before. I think this is the recipe for it, should be similar.

Ingredients:

• 250gm Butter
• 600gm flour
• 250gm grated cheddar cheese
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1.5 teaspoon salt
• 1/3cup fresh milk

Instructions:

1. Mix flour, grated cheddar cheese, black pepper, salt and butter in a large bowl. Mix them well.
2. You can use your hand or the mixer at low speed. You should be getting crumble texture at this time.
3. Mix in the fresh milk and knead.
4. The dust the table and rolling pin slightly.
5. Take 1/3 of the dough and knead into a ball.
6. Flatten out on the dusted table using the rolling pin.
7. Cut into desire shape and placed on butter baking tray.
8. Baked in oven at 200 degree for about 15-20 minutes or until it is golden brown.
9. Remove from oven and let it cool on the rack. Keep in airtight container.

Such long awaited recipe that I had forgotten to share since last year ;p This is not a muffin, it’s actually a cake. It was only placed in a muffin cup. Who says a cake cannot be placed in a muffin cup? Here’s the ingredients:

• 220g butter
• 180g sugar
• 3g salt
• 3 eggs
• 200g low protein flour
• 50g wholemeal flour
• 3g soda
• 5g baking powder
• 80g mashed banana

Instructions:

1. Beat butter and sugar until well-mixed.
2. Add egg one by one and beat well.
3. Add mashed banana. Do it early in the stage when you prepare the ingredients and then after mashed, you can also add in vanilla essence. Don’t worry about it getting brown, the browner the better.
4. Mix salt, low protein flour, wholemeal flour, and baking baking powder together then add into the mixture and beat well.
5. Pre-heat the oven, 160 degree Celcius.
6. You can then place the mixture into muffin cup or tray, only fill the muffin cup or tray 70% full as it will rise.
7. Bake for 15-20 minutes with 160 degree Celcius if muffin cups are used. If tray, then 180 degree Celcius for 10-15 minutes. In fact it’s all depending on the size of the tray or the cup.

Don’t they look easy? The thing is that I hate the cleaning up part hehehe…

Finally I bake something! Actually I found the recipe online few days back and since it’s so easy to do, I decided to try it. The ingredients are so easy to get, why not? As usual, I just don’t know how to follow a recipe, I always stray. I added flour to this recipe that doesn’t required flour at all and reduced the sugar too. If flour isn’t added, you won’t be able to do much and I bet the texture will not be the same also.

Ingredients:
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup flour
1/2 cup castor sugar
1 large egg

Steps:

1. Mix peanut butter, flour, and sugar.
2. Add in the egg and mix them.
3. The dough is done when it doesn’t stick to your hand.
4. Make a ball and press it with a fork to form the pattern.
5. Preheat the oven at 350 degree Celcius.
6. Bake it for 8-10 minutes with the temperature of 350 degree Celcius or until you think it’s cooked.

• Just mix manually you don’t have to use mixer.
• You can skip the cup if you have baking sheet. I ran out of baking sheet.
• For cup, use the same cup for all the ingredients. If you are using a big cup, then all the other ingredients are to be measured with the same cup or cups of the same size. If small cup, then do the same also.
• Any type of peanut butter can be used, if you use lousy peanut butter, then it will taste lousy also.

It’s so simple and make less mess. Try it out. You can try the original recipe which doesn’t need flour. You can find the original recipe here.