Batik Agar Agar (Jelly)

Lazy mum's sweet memories jelly dessert. It is known as "batik agar-agar" as it is adopted from
the art and craft technique of dyeing fabric with mixtures of well blended colors. A creative way of designing the fabric and it is classic. Batik made into clothing for men and women are largely used as an official function attire in Malaysia.

Easy and simple to make. Making this jelly or agar agar in bahasa malaysia brings back sweet memories of my home science class at school during our lower secondary years....wow, those were the days....

Simple steps :

First boil 20gms of agar-agar strips with 1.5 cups of water till the agar-agar is completely dissolved.
Add 1 box (200ml) of the coconut milk and mix well. Pour the mixture into a tray and allow it to set. When the agar-agar has set, just cut it into small shape of your choice. Set aside


Next, melt 50gms of gula melaka (palm sugar) in a saucepan over a low heat till it completely becomes liquid.

Then, boil 1 packet of 37.5gm agar-agar strips with 4 cups water. To give it a beautiful aroma, add 3 pieces of screwpine leaves (pandan leaves) when boiling the agar-agar.. Ensure the agar-agar is completely dissolved, then add in the melted gula melaka and stir well to mix. Pour the agar-agar into a tray and allow it to slightly set for 10 mins.


After 10 minutes of setting time, drop the cut pieces of coconut milk agar agar, just like the
photo below. Once that is done, allow it to completely set, chill it before cutting.

Coconut Candy

Let's go for something real SWEET..Yes COCONUT CANDY! It is a long time since I last made this delicious candy...well, nice to indulge in something sweet once a while. This coconut candy is kind of creamy in taste and sweet. It is made up of grated coconut, full cream evaporated milk, sugar and butter. Kids would love this very much, it's up for grabs..hahaha!


All you need :

• 2 grated coconut
• 250 gm evaporated milk
• 400 gm sugar
• 50 gm butter
• pinch of salt
• edible colouring (optional)
  

Simple Process :

• Add the sugar, milk, salt together with the grated coconut in a non stick pan and stir over low heat
• Keep stiring till sugar dissolved completely and till you see the content started to crystallized at the side of the pan. Add butter and keep stirring.
• Total time required is about 40 minutes of constant stirring to avoid burnt at the bottom of pan.
  
• Pour the candy into a greased plate and pat it evenly on the surface
• Leave it to cool and refrigerate for few hours before cutting into pieces for storing into containers
  

Enjoy a Sweet Candy!

Red Bean Sweet Dessert - Tong Sui

Simple Ingredients : 300 gms of red beans, 30gms of sago (optional) & 4 screwpine leaves & 80gm sugar (your preference) with 2.5 litre of water (Serve 8)

Red bean sweet soup or red bean "tong-sui" is a beautiful and simple to make dessert. I love adding sago into the soup as it gives a shiny pearl look. It can be taken hot or chilled. My kids love taking it cold, so I would normally store in small cup containers in the refrigerators for them. Alternatively, I do use red beans to prepare a savoury soup by boiling with chicken meat and salt to taste.

Red beans has lots of nutritional values and one of the known qualities is it helps regulate energy in the body and good nourishment for the red blood cells.

Simple Process :

1. Boil the red beans and screwpine leaves in 2.5 litre over medium heat. It would take about 2 hours + for the beans to soften. Or, just use the slow cooker and let it cook at "high".
2. Add the sago and sugar after 1 hour boiling time, if much water has evaporated, just add some hot water into it
3. Once the beans has open up and soften, then it is ready to serve
   
   
   Courtesy from chineserecipes.com : "Red beans - there are two types of red beans: the big and small ones. Red beans tastes sweet and ‘neutral’ in nature. Red beans is made into sweet paste used in pastry and mooncakes as filling. High in vitamin B, it’s good for beriberi patients. Red bean sweet soup with preserved tangerine peel is used by the Chinese to drive away ‘dampness’. Elderly previously suffering from swelling feet as the result of water retention can eat congee with red beans regularly to prevent symptoms from recurring.Read more about beans
   
   
   
   
   

Enjoy a good Dessert

Tapioca in Palm Sugar Syrup

Well.. it is nice to indulge in this sweet dessert once a while. I remember when I was a kid, right behind my grandfather's big backyard, we have plentiful supply of tapioca plants and my mum will cook this sweet dessert for us, wow, so yummy. I love the thick yummy coated gula melaka (palm sugar) on the soft tapioca. This is my 1st attempt, though not that perfect, but it taste okay lah! I felt the palm sugar is not thick enough, perhaps if its slightly thicker it would be marvellous...... anyway, good try! ^ _ *

Look at this tapioca which I got from the hypermarket...try to pick the thin ones, so that it cook easily....

Simply, wash and peel off the skin of the tapioca and boil it with some water till it soften..the picture shows it is almost ready, it took about 35 minutes..

Once it has soften, get ready the melted 2 pieces gula melaka (palm sugar) with 400 ml water and add into the pot of soften tapioca. Let the palm sugar syrup slowly coat the tapioca over low heat. Keep turning the tapioca around the syrup till it is completely thickens.

Use low heat to avoid burnt, once the syrup is well coated on the tapioca, it is

READY TO SERVE!

Enjoy it!

V-Soy Pudding with Fruits

This is a beautiful dessert. I finally discovered a good replacement for "tau fu fah" aka soy pudding which is a nice soft, smooth dessert made from soy milk. My kids love tau fu fah very very much and as per mum's advice, too much tau fu fah is not good for the kidney as it contains calsium sulphate which is an agent that helps the soy milk to coagulate. Tau fu fah is taken by adding in syrup made of either white sugar or brown sugar.


I have attempted twice the recipe after reading from Elin's blog (thanks to her) on her recipe Jelly Soy Pudding and finally I got the preferred softness of this pudding and it taste just like tau fu fah minus the syrup. I have slightly modified the recipe based on my preference and daddy and kids says it is super delicious....hehehe. Btw, this brand V-Soy Original is excellent, it is creamy, sugar content is not high and nice aroma.

These are 3 ingredients I need to prepare the mixture

All you need :

serve 10 small bowl (refer photo) or small cups

1500ml V-Soy Milk (1.5 box)

2 Tsp Jelly aka Agar-agar powder

Canned Lychee / pineapple - as toppings (or your perference)

Simple Process :

Boil the V-Soy Milk in a pot over low heat

Add the Agar-agar powder and stir well to dissolve

Bring to boil, sieve it into the bowl/cups and allow it to cool and set

** It takes about 2-3 hrs to set - add the toppings and chill it

Serve Cold......Truly Yummy!

A Nice Dessert

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