Steamed Yam Cake

Another one for the ladies' meet.

Ingredients:

300g yam, cubed

250g rice flour

1 tablespoon tapioca flour

1 litre water

3 pieces dried mushrooms, soaked and sliced

100g chicken meat, chopped

40g dried prawns, soaked and chopped coarsely

60g shallots, sliced

2 tablespoons oil

salt, sugar to taste

For garnishing:

sliced red chilli

fried shallots

spring onions

coriander leaves

1. Mix 500ml water with rice flour and tapioca flour and set aside.

2. Heat oil and saute shallots till fragrant and add in chicken, dried prawns, mushrooms and stir fry for a while.

3. Add yam cubes and water. Cover to cook yam till slightly soft. Add seasoning to taste.

4. Stir flour mixture and add to yam and stir immediately to mix well as it thickens.

5. Pour into a greased 18-cm tin and steam for about 45 minutes.

6. Cool before removing from tin. Garnish and serve with chilli sauce.

Stir-frying before the flour mixture

All garnished and waiting....

Dressed up by my daughter!

Pan-Fried Carrot Cake

I have been procrastinating again! This was done weeks ago. That's how lazy I've become! ;p

It was a winner with my friends.

There were 24 of them.

They enjoyed it.

And I am happeeee!

Ingredients: (for an 8-inch / 20-cm cake tin)

1 1/2 kg shredded radish, drain juice and set aside

225g rice flour

40g corn flour

2 cups water (include radish juice, water for soaking mushroom and scallop)

2 pieces Chinese sausages, chopped

6 to 8 pieces dried mushrooms, washed, soaked, drained and chopped

3 pieces dried scallops, rinsed, soaked, drained and chopped

40g dried shrimps, washed, soaked, drained and chopped

3 shallots, sliced

1/2 chicken stock cube

pepper to taste

sugar to taste

1. Heat some oil in a pan and saute shallots till fragrant.

2. Add in sausage, scallop, dried shrimps and mushrooms and fry till well mixed.

3. Season with chicken stock cube , sugar and pepper.

4. Add in radish and mix well with ingredients. Taste to add more seasoning if required.

5. Mix water and 2 types of flour, strain to get rid of lumps.

6. Once radish is partially cooked, slowly pour in the flour mixture and mix quickly

to prevent lumping. Mix well and turn off heat. Radish mixture should be thick.

7. Pour into lightly greased cake tin and pat the surface to level it.

8. Steam for 40 to 50 minutes. Let it cool completely before cutting.

9. Sliced to desired thickness and pan fry.

All 'steamed up'!

Sliced and Pan-fried!

Hmmm.... Missing the chilli sauce!