Green Tea Cookies (Eggless)

Wanted to make this cookies for sometime and never trusted any green tea powder on the market as many looks too "greeny" fake to me, come on, how can a wilted leaves remain that bright green?? Only artificial color can do that! Until I come upon this organic 100% green tea powder in Korea, then my chance of making this cookies become my goal after the trip!
This cookies are eggless and using portion of tapioca flour make it very light, and the subtle fragrant of green tea really make it a delightful treat!

No vanilla extract whatsoever is added, so that the tea fragrant can come through!

Ingredients:
180g flour (sifted)
60g corn flour or tapioca flour, or potato starch (sifted)
1 tbsp green tea powder
1 tsp baking soda
pinch of salt
60g icing sugar (reduced sugar)
120g butter
50g roasted chopped almond
some black sesame seed for topping

Easier way to sift the flour is to give it a quick turbo! set aside the dry ingredient
Mix Butter and sugar for 2min/speed4
at speed 2-3, slowly add in all the all dry ingredient and almond
It will looks grumbly, pour out and shape into a ball, gently press with a fork or make whatever shape or top with sesame seeds.
Bake for 13-15min at 160C

Mix Seed Crisp

150g mix nuts/seed (i used sesame, pumpkin seed, sunflower seeds)
1 small egg white
30g palm sugar, or honey
15g olive oil
pinch of salt

- beat egg white and sugar until dissolve
- add oil, mix well
- add salt and seeds. Mix well.
- press mixture into a thin layer of about 2in circle, the thiner it it, the crispier it will be.
- bake for 25min at 160c or until crispy brown but not burned.

Naan Bread with Thermomix

Making bread can never be easier with thermomix!

Ingredient:

Yeast 1tsp

Sugar 1tsp

Water 1/2c, 60g warm

Oil 1tbsp, 10g

Bread flour(hi protein) 2c, 250g

Baking powder 1/4tsp

Salt 1/2tsp

Yogurt 1/2c

-Add water, yeast, sugar in Thermomix bowl, 30c/30s/speed4, wait 10min till bubbling

- add oil, flour, baking powder, salt, yogurt. Mix 10s/speed4, then knead 7min

- let rise in a oiled bowl for 1-2hours

- divide into 4. Lightly knead a little and roll into shape.

- optionsl: brush with garlic n chopped garlic, sprinkle salt, herb(rosemary), cheese.

- 230c toaster for 5-7min

Avocado Icecream

Avocado are mostly imported and its very expenssive in Malaysia and occasionally you can find the indonesian imports that is slightly cheaper. Today I am lucky to have found these locally grown avocado near my neighborhood. A local resident in Penang planted the avocado tree in his own garden and harvested more than he can consume so he sold them to the street fruit stall, I am blessed to have spotted them! They are longer than the south africa avocado but the color is brilliant!

Ingredients:

(make 4-5)

3 avocado

50g coconut milk

50g water

30g palm sugar
pinch salt
option: add 1 tbsp lime juice, or blend in some mint leave

Blend all until very smooth, freeze them in the mold.

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Salmon Quiche Pie with Potato Base

THE CRUST:

2 medium local potato (thinly sliced to cover the bottom of the pie pan twice)

1 small egg

2 tbsp of milk or water

1 tablespoon fresh rosemary minced

Pinch of salt

Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees.

Layer the bottom of you lightly grease deep dish pie plate with two layers of the sweet potato slices.

Beat egg with other ingredient.

Pour onto the potatoes, make sure all potato get glazed so that it will not dried out when basked.

Bake for 10 minutes

The Quiche Filling:

3 medium eggs

1/2 cup whole milk or yogurt, or water

1/2 tsp Dijon mustard powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp of black pepper

1 tablespoon of capers, drained chopped

1-3 garlic cloves, pressed

3 tbsp yogurt or Greek yogurt

1 pc baked salmon, or half if other vege are used

Some chopped green onions

Some parmesan cheese to brown the top

Whisk the eggs, milk, mustard and spices up into a froth.

Add other chunky ingredients.

Pour the egg mix over top and a little dried dill for beauty.

Bake this creation at 40-45 minutes at 350 degrees until center stops wiggling when you touch it and a toothpick comes out clean from the center.

Serve after it has set for about 20- 30 minutes.

BuckWheat Banana Pancake

A healthy breakfast do not have to involve white flour and white sugar, here you go another yummy buckwhat recipe!

(Make6 pc)

3/4 cup buckwheat flour

1 m egg

1 tsp baking soda (reduce to 1/2)

1/3 cup yogurt

1/3 water (not need all)

Pinch salt

1tbsp palm nectar sugar

Mix all dry ingredient

In separate bowl, beat egg, add in yogurt, half water

Add into flour mixture, add remaining water to the right thickness

Pan fry to brown

Gingerbread House

There is a reason why gingerbread house is not a popular craft in Malaysia. First of all the gingerbread cannot withstand the humidity  and get soggy quickly. Secondly, ants are our common enemy where sugar is present. Nevertheless, it was a success and a wonderful experience for my first project. Thanks to the above recipe from Easetereuropean website, also included the template for print out, the gingerbread recipe was hardy enough to last for more than a week until Christmas party! The kids are delighted! Not to mention my daughter already eaten half the candy 'decor' before the house was completed! 

I modified the recipe as follow:
(source recipe:http://easteuropeanfood.about.com/od/crossculturaldesserts/r/gingerbread.htm)

Pattern Print out

Ingredients:

• 2 cups light corn syrup (I used liquid glucose)
• 1 1/2 cups firmly packed light brown sugar (reduced to 1 cup)
• 1 1/4 cups oil (cooking oil, cheaper!)
• 1kg  all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Preparation:

- Divide the ingredient into 4 parts

- Add 1 part into thermomix and blend for 10second at Speed6, then knead 2min. Do the same for other 3 parts.

- Roll them into 0.5cm thick and cut into shapes. Make sure that the thickness is even, I used 2 coasters to support the 2 ends of my rolling pin.

- Bake at 170C for about 20min or till harden.

Royal Icing Glue:

3 large egg white
500-600g icing sugar
Lemon juice 1/2tsp

- put all into TM bowl and mix for 2min at speed 6.

See above link for detail steps to assembly the house. have fun!

All Fruits Popsicles

Not only the color feast the eyes, they are perfect treat for a hot day, infact everyday is a good day for a chill like this in tropical island here.

These all are REAL FRUITS without coloring or added refined white sugar. All you need is a BPA free popsicle mould and make a trip to the fruit store!

By the color here you can tell I have strawberry, blueberry, red globe grapes, kiwi, mangosteen and mango. I used blended strawberry, mango and mangosteen (separately) as a base and other as cut fruits or whole blueberry to make the designs! Absolutely no sugar needed for mango or mangosteen as they are ripe and sweet, but I do add a few drops of stevia liquid to strawberry.  My favorite? Mangosteen with blueberries and touch of mint leaves, YES! mint leaves is the secret ingredient here, refreshing! Give it a try!