Closed Pineapple Tarts

My friend S came all the way to my place to pass me a pack of pineapple paste, she wanted me to try as she knows I didn't have time to cook the paste. I have put off the thinking of making pineapple tarts this year but was curious about the taste of the paste and since I have a batch of pastry left, I try it by making some close tart using airfryer. I like the paste, taste like from pineapple with some sourish taste, but my pillow tarts was abit big...LOL..will fine tune the size next time if make.

Pastry:

380g plain flour
20g corn flour
250g salted butter
1 egg

Sift flours in a bowl, rub in butter (cut into small pieces), add egg and form a dough. Chill in fridge for 20min.
Take 10g pastry form into a ball, flatten, wrap with 10g of pineapple paste (roll into ball), form into desire shape. Bake in airfryer at 160degC for 15-20 min till golden color. Remove and cool on rack.

Chi Gu Chips

Chi gu aka as chinese arrow head, its only available at this time of the year near to Chinese Lunar New Year. I'm curious about this chips as many said its nice to eat but to me the price of ready made ones selling outside are expensive, so I read thru a few blogs and the process seems rather easy to do.
I tried with half kg at first to trial the process, the thickness of the vegetable, the oil temperature etc. Then bought another 1.5kg last weekend and finish a batch with help from Kenny..

   Fresh chi gu, bigger better, easier to shred.. 

After peel off the skin, leave the top part for easy holding while shredding

Shredded pieces for chi gu waiting to deep fried over medium fire

After fried. Preferred the chips to be slightly darker than pale color as it taste better.

Chinese Peanut Cookies

Lunar New Year is around the corner, as I'm very busy every weekend so those cookie like kuih bungkit which needs abit of time to do I will skip it, went thru some blog and found that Florence's Chinese Peanut Cookies was very popular and well received so attempt double recipes of it, but I omit the coarse peanut. Its indeed melt in the mouth and nice to eat...

Pork floss Brinjal

This is one of the dishes that I tried with my new toy... Philips Airfryer. Healtier way of cooking without using much oil and at the same time taste the sweetness of the brinjal.

After cut and soak the brinjal for a while, drain and coat the brinjal with some oil, I use my hands to rub the brinjal pieces, only need 2 tbsp oil for 2 big brinjal. Then place the brinjal in preheated airfryer and let it 'fry' at 180 deg C for 15min then remove on plate, sprinkle with pork floss...its that easy..

Sweet Sour sauce Prawn

Recipe from yum yum issue 72

600g medium size prawns, trimmed and cut slit at the back
1 cup oil
1tbsp shredded ginger
1 tbsp shredded red chilli

sesoning
5tbsp plum sauce
1/2 tbsp lime juice
1tsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
3tbsp water

1 green mango, peeled and shredded onto a serving platter

Method:

1. Heat up oil fir deep frying, deep frying, deep fry prawn until golden brown. Dish and drain.

2. Leave 2 tbsp oil and saute shredded ginger until aromatic. Add red chilli, seasoning and bring to boil.

3. Lastly add in prawn and stir well. Dish onto the serving platter lined with shredded mango. Serve.

White chocolate & macadamia nut muffin

Made some muffins for my sis's family when they came over for dinner over the weekend.

300g self raising flour
150g caster sugar
200g white chocolate chips
100g roughly chopped, lightly toasted macadamia nuts
pinch of salt
4 tbsp butter, melted
175ml buttermilk
1 lightly beaten egg

Preheat the oven to 190deg C. Grease a large 6 cup muffin tin. (I use muffin cups)

In a medium bowl, mix the flour,sugar, chocolate chips, nuts and salt with a spoon.

In a large bowl, beat the butter, buttermilk and egg with an electric whisk. Add the flour mixture to the buttermilk mixture, stirring until just combined. Do not overmix.

Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin or cup. Bake for 25min. Remove tin from the oven and cool for 5 min. Then remove the muffins and cool on a rack.

Store in and airtight container for up to 3 days, or freeze for up to 3 months.

Make half dozen

Cinnamon Raisin Nut Bread

Tried delay timing function with my bread machine to make this bread for breakfast. Was woken by the fragrant of the bread, makes a good start for a sunny Sunday morning ;)

Loaf size :                750g     900g
Water                      200ml    270ml
Oil                            2 tbsp     3 tbsp
Cinnamon                   3/4tsp      1tsp
Dark brown sugar      1tbsp      1 1/3tbsp
Raisin                        60g        80g
Nuts                          60g        80g
Salt                           1 1/2tsp   2tsp
Bread flour               350g        460g
Dry Yeast                 1tsp         1 1/4tsp

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