CRISPY GOLDEN CUPS Crispy Cups:
50 g PrimaFlour SuperLite Flour
160 ml Coconut milk
1 tsp Castor Sugar
50 g Rice Flour
25 g Tapioca Flour
1 Egg Yolk
Cooking oil for frying
Pinch of Salt
A 'Pie Ti' mould can be used.
Instructions
Crispy Cups
Dissolve salt and sugar in coconut milk.
Sift PrimaFlour SuperLite Flour, rice
flour and tapioca flour into a mixing
bowl. Add egg yolk and mix well.
Slowly stir in the coconut milk.
Heat a Pie Ti mould in hot oil. Clean
off oil from the mould, dip into batter
and put it back into hot oil to fry.
When batter is firm, push cup away
from the mould and fry until light golden
brown.
Leave to cool and keep in an airtight
container until ready to serve.
Chicken Filling:
1 tbsp PrimaFlour Plain Flour
2 tbsp Butter
¼ tsp Pepper
150 ml Milk
100 g Mixed vegetables
100 g Cooked chicken (diced)
1 Onion (small, chopped)
½ tsp Salt
Chicken Filling
Fry chopped onion in butter.
Stir in PrimaFlour Plain Flour and then the
milk.
Add salt, pepper, mixed vegetables and chicken
and fry.
When filling is cooked, place in crispy cups
and serve.
GOLDEN SMILE
300 g PrimaFlour SuperLite Flour
150 g Castor Sugar
25 g Shortening
1 ½ tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Fine Salt
2 Medium-Sized Eggs
White Sesame Seeds
Instructions
Mix PrimaFlour SuperLite Flour and all
the other ingredients into a bowl. Blend
the mixture to form an even dough and
divide it into 40 pieces. (15 g each)
Mould into round balls and roll over
sesame seeds. (Less handling of dough
ensures better results).
Heat oil to 180? for deep-frying then
reduce flame to low heat.
Fry the ball until light brown and
a crack is formed on the Golden Smile.
HONG KONG STYLE STEAM BAO Starter Dough:
1st day
100 g PrimaFlour SuperLite Flour
55 ml Water
1 ¼ tsp Instant Dry Yeast
Mix to form a dough and ferment overnight
at room temperature.
2nd day
100 g PrimaFlour SuperLite Flour
55 ml Water
50 g Starter Dough from 1st day
Knead the above to form a dough then mix with
starter dough from 1st day and ferment overnight
at room temperature
3rd day
200 g PrimaFlour SuperLite Flour
110 ml Water
100 g Starter Dough from 2nd day
Knead the above to form a dough and then mix with
starter dough from 2nd day and ferment overnight
at room temperature. The starter dough is ready
for use on the 4th day.
Bao Dough
100 g PrimaFlour SuperLite Flour
300 g 3rd day Starter Dough
100 g Castor Sugar
10 g Shortening
2 tsp Baking Powder
1/4 tsp Ammonium Bicarbonate
1 ½ tbsp Water
½ tsp Kan Sui (Alkaline Water)
Instructions
Sift the PrimaFlour SuperLite Flour
and baking powder onto a table and make
a well.
Dissolve ammonium bicarbonate in the
water and place in the well together with
starter dough, kan sui and sugar.
Mix well and knead. Add shortening
and knead into a smooth dough.
Roll the dough into a long cylindrical
shape and divide into 25 pieces (20g each).
Roll each piece into a flat shape.
Place some pre-cooked Char Siew (BBQ Pork)
in the center and wrap to seal by pleating
the top.
Place the baos on square pieces of
paper and arrange in the steamer.
MOONCAKE Dough:
200 g PrimaFlour SuperLite Flour
125 g Brown Syrup
60 ml Oil (Peanut)
¼ tsp Lye Water (alkaline)
Filling:
1 kg Lotus Paste } mix
30 g Melon Seeds}
or Olive Seeds } well
Instructions
Sift PrimaFlour SuperLite Flour into
bowl and make a well in the center.
Pour in syrup, lye water and oil. Mix
well.
Knead dough gently and leave aside
for 30 mins.
Preheat oven to 160°.
Mix lotus paste with seeds and divide
into pieces of 160 g*.
Divide dough into pieces of 38 g each.
Roll out each piece to as thin as possible
and place the filling in the center. Wrap
it carefully.
Dust the mould lightly with flour and
press the mooncake firmly into the mould,
leveling the top. Remove it by knocking
it out.
Place the mooncakes on a baking tray
and bake for 10 mins.
Take out the egg wash surface
Bake for another 30-35 mins until dark
brown.
Leave mooncake to cool and keep in
a container at room temperature to 'mature'.
Mooncakes are best eaten after two days.
Makes 7-8 mooncakes.
Mooncakes with lotus paste and salted egg
yolk filling:
After step 5, wash egg yolk clean with lukewarm
water and leave aside to dry. Wrap each egg yolk
with 145g* of filling. Continue as in step 6.
*Quantity of ingredients
used depends on the size of the mooncake mould.