Wa Ko Kueh (Steamed Rice Cakes)

Contributed by realityBytes (tanwawas)

Wa Ko Kueh (Steamed Rice Cakes)

Ingredients A

250g cold cooked rice

1 wine biscuit, pounded and take 1 tsp

2 tsp sugar

Ingredients B

300 sugar, mixed with 32 oz water, boiled and cool

600g rice flour

* wine biscuits can be purchased from Chinese Medicine Shops and can be kept in the fridge. just tell the shopowner that you want to buy "jiu bing". it's a kind of fermenting agent, like yeast.

Ingredients C

2 tsp ENO

2 tsp double action baking powder

Colouring

Method

Mix all ingredients in A, cover with cloth and leave aside to ferment for 48 hours. Pour fermented A into a blender, add 1/2 amount of sugar syrup and blend until smooth. Mix in rice flour and the remaining sugar syrup. Strain and leave to ferment for another 9 hours. Put C into mixing bowl and add fermented rice flour mixture. Stir well. Add colour. Pour into small cups lined with paper cups and steam over high heat for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from cups. Serve with coconut and brown sugar.

deep fry stick / chorrus

Contributed by xiau ling

deep fry stick / chorrus
ingredients :
500grm / 1 packet glutinous flour
8 egg
1 sachet chicken stock
1 tsp castor sugar
1 tbsp tapioca starch

methods :
1. Beat in the egg and stir till its well mixed and smooth.
2) add chicken stock mix well
3) add tapioca starch mix again
4) add castor sugar mix well
5) add glutinous flour until mix together
6) i use hand to make long strips.
7)Heat up wok with oil for frying.
8) Deep fry till golden brown
9) Set aside on kitchen paper towel to drain excess oil.

Yummy Pancakes

Contributed by SHOOK

Yummy Pancakes

Ingredients:
Self Raising flour, 2 cups
Milk, 2 cups
Eggs, 2
pinch of salt
Vanilla sugar 1 tsp (or 1tsp of sugar + 1tsp of vanilla essence)
oil 1 tsp
zest of 1 orange (optional)

Method:
1. Just mix everything up into a thick batter.
2. Heat up a fry pan in medium heat, pour just a dash of oil in the pan, then wipe evenly with kitchen papper.
3. Pour 1 laddle of batter in the middle of the pan slowly, forming a circle.
when the edge is dry and the center bubbly, flip over and fry for a little while longer (1 mins??)
serve!
If you child is ok with oranges, you can grate some orange zest into the batter and substitute part of the milk with orange juice for instant orange pancakes.

You can also mash bananas in the batter, add blueberries etc... experiment!

I never try tis recipe. I used to buy ready mixed flour to make pancake for my son