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Showing posts with label dim sum. Show all posts

Showing posts with label dim sum. Show all posts

Golden pumpkin cake

Golden Pumpkin Cake 黄金南瓜糕

One of Cantonese favourite Chinese New Year's cake is lo bak goh (turnip or mooli cake). This year I subbed mooli with pumpkin. The cake has a mild sweetness and lovely pumpkin flavour. It has a nice golden colour. Gold or golden colour is auspicious during CNY to symbolise wealth and prosperity. So why not try this to celebrate with friends and family. I know it's a

Hakka steamed dumpliings 客家茶粿

Chinese name: Hakka chai guo 客家茶粿 or Hakka chai bao 客家菜包 In Brunei we called these dumplings chai kuih. I remembered in our family we used to have them for breakfast nearly every weekend, we buy them from the kuih lady in the market. Eventually we learnt how to make them and have them as and when we feel like making some. I have never seen these dumplings in UK restaurants, the only way I can

Stuffed pancakes with garlic chives 韭菜盒子

A simple dough and some tasty garlic chives filling make really good stuffed pancakes or pasties. This is a classic Chinese snack called jiu chai hur zi 韭菜盒子. In Chinese it means garlic chive box, box being the pastry. This snack is one I like to make for weekend brunch, simple and filling. What is garlic chive or jiu chai 韭菜? It's a vegetable similar to spring onion (scallion) but the green '

Char siu bao using water roux

I made these char siu bao (bbq meat steamed buns) with a simple yeast dough. This is not the traditional smiling (cracked top) bao recipe which takes about 2 days to prepare. Traditional smiling bao also needs super white bleached fine milled flour (Hong Kong flour) which is not easy to find even from Chinese supermarkets in London. I used standard non bleached plain flour, the buns are not

Mooli and pork wrapped in flaky pastry 蘿蔔絲酥餅

These are nice little dim sum pastry balls great with a cup of Chinese tea. I am using traditional Chinese flaky pastry for this recipe but if you can't be bothered you can use bought puff pastry. Chinese flaky pastry is made up of two type of pastries layered together. Here is how to make this yummy dim sum.For the filing:500g peeled mooli or daikon, shredded/grated into shreds by cheese grater

Pan fried red bean paste cakes 豆沙煎軟餅

I have another portion of this lo mai chee dough and some red bean paste sitting in the fridge need using. I made some fried soft cakes (dou sa jin yuen bing 豆沙煎軟餅) . If you like jin dui 煎堆 you probably like these little soft and chewy cakes. It has the same taste as jin dui only softer and less oily.Very very simple to make when I have the dough and bean paste all ready. Use the same quantity of

Lo Mai Chee with red bean paste 豆沙糯米糍

Chinese New Year is approaching, I am warming my engine up making some favourite CNY cakes, biscuits, dumplings and not forgetting a meal on CNY eve. My first CNY related recipe this year is Lo Mai chee.Lo Mai Chee 糯米糍 is Cantonese style mochi, some people called lo mai chee as snow balls. Anyone who does not know what a lo mai chee or mochi is, it's a soft and chewy dough ball normally filled

Gao Lic Dou Sa 高力豆沙

Whenever we go to a Beijingnese restaurant, we always had Peking duck and Gao Lic Dou Sa 高力豆沙.These golden puff balls are rarely found in Cantonese restaurants. They are probably my favourite of all Chinese desserts. It's deep fried meringue with sweetened red bean paste or dou sa 豆沙. You can use homemade bean paste using this recipe or bought bean paste. There is no sugar added to the meringue,

Ma Lai Goh 馬來糕

Been away for a while hope you did not miss me too much. I have a request from a reader asking for Ma Lai Goh 馬來糕, a steamed sponge cake available in most HK style dim sum restaurants. My recipe is really simple no whisking the eggs till moussy. Just mix everything together and steam.There are few unusual ingredients used one is custard powder to give the cake a rich yellow colour and flavour and

Spring Rolls

This is a follow up to the wrappers made on this post. I have made these wrappers many times now and they still work. Last week I ran out strong white flour so I used plain flour, it wasn't as good the wrappers were easier to break. I can now confirm the stronger (higher protein contain) the flour the better. The other thing I also found out was they are not very good to wrap after in the fridge

Cantonese Lo Bak Goh 蘿蔔糕

I have posted the recipe for Malaysian/Singaporean style stir fried lo bak goh or commonly known as chai tow kway, here is a similar recipe for Cantonese style with added meat and other ingredients to make it more savoury and flavoursome.Lo bak goh 蘿蔔糕 is also called turnip cake, daikon cake or radish cake. It is a steamed stodgy cake made with rice flour and mooli/daikon. Usually seen or served

Lo Mai Gai 糯米雞 (lotus leaf wrapped chicken rice)

I love anything with glutinous rice. One of my favourite dim sum is lo mai gai 糯米雞 which is a steamed glutinous rice parcel with assorted filling.It's very easy to make, essential item is lotus leaf which is available in many Chinese supermarkets which looks like brownish green paper and fan shape. Lotus leaf is not expensive, one pack lasts a long time. Lotus leaf gives a unique flavour to the

Savoury stuffed pancakes

I bought similar stuffed pancakes for breakfast in Hong Kong and China hawker stall. They are simple to make great for breakfast or brunch. I think this is popular in Northern China rather than a Cantonese recipe. You can use any filling you like meat and veg, potato and vegetables (vegetarian) or even cheese and onion english style, great to use up any leftovers. You can make them ahead and warm

Shanghai Bean Paste Pancake

Chinese: 豆沙鍋餅 (do sa war bin)This stuffed bean paste pancake is typical of Shanghainese snack or dim sum. Very easy to make and nice to go with a cup of tea.Recipe - Serve about 4For the pancake:1 egg110g flour (about 1 cup)1 cup of water1 tbsp of oil1 tsp of oil for greasing the panabout 250g of red bean paste 豆沙 (homemade as recipe or in a tin from supermarket) 2 tbsp of flour paste (mix

Donkey Roly Poly

Chinese: 驢打滾 (Re da Kun) When you read the title you probably think what the hell am I talking about? Ever seen a donkey doing a roly poly on dusty yellow sand? That is how the name of this sweet cake came from. I think the name is really cute and sweet. Basically this is a sweet rice roll with aduki bean paste filling and rolled in toasted soya flour. A

Fried chicken buns

I find fried buns much easier to make and cook then the steam type. Here I am again making another batch fried buns, this time with chicken. Can also make this as flat buns, same as the beef buns posted earlier. For the bread dough:200g white bread flour100g plain flour2 tbsp sugar¾ tsp of salt¾ tsp of quick acting yeast2 tbsp of cooking oil160 – 175 ml of water

Beef fried buns

I am in dim sum mood lately. Today lunch was some fried beef buns. Easy to make, soft and crunchy at the same time while they are still hot, very tasty. Cooking method is very similar to war tip dumplings. I have made enough for work lunch in the next couple of days.

Chinese: 牛肉水煎包Slide show, click here

Ingredients:

For the bread dough
150g strong white flour
150g plain flour
about 160 -

Breaded Prawn

Prawn toasts are so tasty but really bad for the waistline. I don’t make them as often as I like. Don’t use fancy bread, cheap white bread is fine. You can either use medium or thick slices.The prawn paste I use has very little egg white and some spring onion for flavour. 200g of raw prawn, minced 50 g of pork fat meat, chopped very fine (optional if you don’t like it. Pork fat keeps the

Har Gau (prawn dumplings)

Har Gau is probably the most common dim sum beside siu mai all over the world. The translucent pastry and yummy prawn filling are so inviting and absolutely lovely to eat. Not too difficult to make all you need is the right flours, both available from any chinese supermarkets. See first picture on the following link.Chinese: 蝦餃Method of wrapping click here to view slide showPastry: 80g