Tang Yuan, Chinese Glutinous Rice Balls with peanut and black sesame filling 汤圆
Tang yuan or Chinese Sweet Glutinous Rice Balls 汤圆 is an auspicious food served during the major Chinese festivals. In this recipe, learn how to make the peanut and black sesame filling, the multi-coloured tang yuan, and the osmanthus goji tea broth.
View RecipePulut Tai Tai 蓝花咖椰糯米糕
Pulut Tai Tai is very simple and easy to make–basically just cook the glutinous rice with coconut and pandan leaves, give it a beautiful shade of blue using the natural butterfly pea flowers, then serve with pandan kaya or Hainanese kaya, an aromatic coconut jam.
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Fujian Rice Dumpling 福建肉粽子
There are many types of fillings you can add. Really comes down to personal preference. Some common ones, other than the ones in this recipe are: soy beans, peanuts, mung beans, dried oysters, abalone and dried shrimp. You can wrap it many different ways. The way I do it is called the 4-pointed Zhongzi 四角粽子 (sì jiǎo zòng zi). But all you really need to make sure of is that your filling doesn’t fall out. Wrapping is the most difficult part of this recipe. But you can always just wrap it in a rectangular shape as a worst case scenario. It will still taste awesome! If you’re new at this, I suggest that you get extra leaves and enough string. This way, you can pick the leaves that are wide, long and have no holes.
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Fortune Turkey 富貴火雞
The original form of this dish is for chicken and not turkey. The Fortune Chicken I had made came out perfectly! And so, my friend, who loves turkey, suggested that I try making it with turkey. So, after much thought, I decided to take on this challenge and make a Chinese turkey dish. After two failed attempts, the third time really was a charm! The turkey meat was tender, moist and juicy! You can stuff the turkey with pretty much anything you’d like. Just make sure that anything you stuff is already cooked since the turkey is in the oven for only 2.5 hours, the stuffing will not be cooked through, it will only be heated. If you can substitute the pork belly, with crispy bbq pork from a Cantonese bbq store. I can tell you that this is not an easy recipe, but the turkey was amaaaazingly good and impressive!!!
View RecipeKuih Seri Muka (Kueh Salat) 香兰糯米糕
Kuih Seri Muka or Kueh Salat is a delicious two-layered custard and rice cake from Southeast Asia made of glutinous rice, coconut milk, pandan leaves and eggs. The steps are simple, but tedious, it's really a cake made out of labour of love.
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