Animal steam buns

To improve my picky kids appetite, i tried to make things into shapes hopefully he would eat it..
These bun is make using any regular steam bun recipe. Please check my other post. After the dough was risen, you just need to shape it into different shapes and steam.

I called them Animal Theme Buns.......

Snail

Piggy

Porcupine

Fish

Bunny

Vietnamese Spring roll and dumpling

I am not a big fan of vietnamese spring roll as it does not taste as good as the deep fry spring roll. But since i have all the ingredients, i decided to make the vietnamese spring roll this weekend for dinner.

Since my husband wanted to eat the dumpling so much, thus i made two dishes. Vietnamese spring roll and dumpling.. i prefer steam dumpling...but my husband like it better when boil with a pot of water, so he can drink the soup (a lot of flour inside the soup due to the flour that stick on the dumpling wrap).

My vietnamese spring roll does not contain basil leave, instead i used lettuce. The ingredients were shrimp, chinese sausage, rice vermicelli and lettuce. I also made a sauce to eat with it. The sauce tasted real good. It is similar to the satay sauce taste. I really miss it though! I felt touching when i first try the sauce, mmm... it helped me find back the long missing taste of the satay sauce. I am thinking i can make a satay and use the sauce for it.

韭菜盒子

材料：

韭菜(chives), 肉末(ground pork)，粉丝(tang hun)， 面粉(all purpose flour)，温水(warm water)

It is very easy to make, just mix the flour and water until it form a soft dough. Let stands for 30 minutues and divide into few portions.

Roll out the divided portions and wrap with mixture of chives, ground pork and tang hun (after marinate).

Pan fry, and enjoy!

Sesame ball

My husband loves to eat sesame ball, but he found that it is kind of expansive to buy and eat everytime. So, he was persuading me to make this. I tried, it turns out ok, not as good as the sell one. I am not so sure how people can make the sesame ball so large and pluffy. Mine one is small, and pluffy ... but it is not exactly the same that you buy at the bakery store or dim sum restaurant.

It is easy to make though, not hard.

Ingredients:

Glutinous rice flour
White sesame seed
Red bean paste
Wheat starch
1 tablespoonSugar

* Glutinous rice flour : wheat starch = 8:1
Methods:

Mix the glutinous rice flour, wheat starch and sugar. Stir in water until it form a dough (Note: do not form a wet dough, it is hard to shape later on).
Divide the dough into several portions. Do the same with the red bean paste and form a small ball.
Flatten the small portion of dough, put in the red bean paste. Seal it nicely.
In a bowl, put in the sesame seed. Roll the finished dough onto the sesame seed. Set aside and do the same for the rest of the dough.
Heat the oil in a big pan. Deep fry until golden brown and serve.