GREEN TEA SNOW SKIN MOON CAKE
The original recipe for this mooncake was based on Amanda's recipe for Snow Skin Moon Cake and Ja's Green Tea Moon Cake. I didn't have any fried glutinous rice flour available so I used Lily's recipe for a home made one with just a minor change.
To make home made fried glutinous rice flour or KOH FUN:
1. Bake flour in the oven for 10 minutes at 350 degrees.
2. Place baked flour in a bowl and steam for 1/2 hour.
3. Remove and put in a microwable glass bowl . Microwave on high 1 minute at a time until slightly brown. My one pound bag of glutinous rice flour took 3 minutes, stirring every 1 minute to make sure flour does not burn.
To make Snow Skin:
3/4 cup Koh fun or fried glutinous rice flour
1 tbs green tea powder
1/2 cup powdered sugar (OR 3/4 cup Splenda + 2 tbs cornstarch)
1/3 cup vegetable shortening or butter
120 ml cold water
Procedure:
1. Sift Koh Fun, powdered sugar and green tea powder into a mixing bowl.
2. Add shortening into the flour mixture and rub until it resembles coarse bread crumbs
3. Gradually add in cold water a little at a time until a soft dough forms.
4. Let sit for 20 minutes before using.
To make Filling:
2 cups black beans soaked overnight in enough water to cover
1/2 cup Splenda
1/3 cup oil or melted butter
water
Procedure:
1. Wash and drain soaked beans.
2. Boil in enough water until tender.
3. Mash (using food processor or blender or hand blender) until it is the consistency of mashed potatoes or paste.
4. Heat oil in wok or pan (non-stick is better). Add bean paste and sugar. Fry until dry, adding more oil if required. Cool before using.
5. Roll into balls big enough to cover your moon cake mould.
Assembling your moon cake:
1. Wrap each portion of filling with a portion of snow skin.
2. Press into mooncake mould.
3. Knock out and chill before serving.
2 comments:
Wow, this looks really good! I can hardly wait for you to do the traditional mooncake recipe. I can even donate the salted eggs.
I was looking longingly at the mooncakes they were selling in the supermarket as early as two weeks ago. They come in boxes of four and range from $ 15 to $ 25 per box.
Aside from being so expensive, they are, as you said, really high in sugar - a no-no for our low sugar lifestyle. So if you can churn out sugar free mooncakes, it would be akin to finding the Holy Grail.
Good luck with your research and remember the Scientific Principle to document all the results of your experiment first before ingesting them (hehehehehehe).
See you soon!
I agree. I should never try these experiments when I'm hungry! hehehe. I had 4 salted eggs the first day I tried the traditional mooncake. I used two yolks on my first failure. Got disappointed and decided to just eat the remaining salted eggs with tomatoes....yummy.
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