Homemade Chinese Pork Jery

In total I spent 40 mins. getting this ready. I wonder why I only bake this once a year?

The recipe could be found here.

Chinese "Roasted" Chicken Rice / 烧鸡饭

The word "roasted" is the result of direct translation from Mandarin. The cooking method of the chicken is actually first braising and then deep fried.

Go to Singapore Local Favourites for the complete recipe.

For my own notes, I have made these tweaking :-

1) Instead of ginger juice, I have just used the ginger slices.
2) Since I have no lime, I have omitted it.
3) Again I have no maltose in my storage, I have omitted it.

Pineapple Tarts II

These melt-in-the-mouth tarts are a must during the Chinese New Year; which falls on Feb 19, this year. To make this recipe even easier, I've replaced fresh pineapple with canned ones.

Pineapple Tarts

via IndochineKitchen

Yield 700 g cookies

Ingredients:

For pineapple jam
2 kg pineapple, roughly 4 medium sized pineapples
600 g sugar
3 cloves
5 cm cinnamon stick
For cookies
200 g butter
50 g confectioners' sugar
40 g powdered milk
280 g flour, low gluten or all purpose
20 g cornflour
2 egg yolks
For egg wash
3 egg yolks
1/4 tsp condensed milk

Directions:

For pineapple jam
Puree pineapple in an electric blender till smooth.
Combine puree with sugar, cloves and cinnamon stick in a pot. Cook over low heat for 3-4 hours, stirring continually.
When it thickens and can be piped or rolled, remove from heat.
The jam will thicken during cooling. Prepare this one day in advance. You will end up with 500-600 g pineapple jam, enough for one batch.
For cookies
Preheat oven to 150 degree Celsius
Sift flour, powdered milk and corn flour twice.
In a mixer bowl, combine butter and sugar. Cream till light and fluffy, about 4-5 minutes, over high speed.
Add egg yolk, one at a time. Beating well.
Add flour mixture into the bowl and beat over low speed using paddle attachment. Do this for 4-5 minutes, until everything is mixed well.
Work with 50 g of dough one at a time. Roll dough between plastic sheet to 0.2 cm thickness.
Pipe pineapple jam on top of the dough. Roll the dough to cover up the jam completely.
Use a pair of scissors to cut them up into 4cm log and arrange on greased pan.
Brush with egg wash mixture twice using small pastry brush.
Bake in preheated oven till golden, 15-20 minutes.
Let cool and store in airtight container.

Coconut custard puff / Kaya Puff / Kaya kok / 加央角

Couple of days ago, photo of this Malaysian pastry appeared on my facebook feed. Since there are some left-over baking ingredients from xmas and new year, I couldn't resist baking again!

Kaya literally means rich in Malay ; while in the food dictionary it is known as a type of Coconut custard

Go check out the recipe and step-by-step at My simple food

I'm satisfy with this recipe. with some tweaking :-

1) Butter sold over here is unsalted ; hence, I would add 1/4 tsp of salt to bring the pastry to life.

2) Additional 10 mins. in the oven to further brown the pastry.