Saturday, April 11, 2009

Thailand Bean Paste Fruits




This is a very interesting dessert. I knew the existence of this dessert when I 1st went to Bangkok. And tat was like nearly 9 years ago.. yeah.. thats a long long time... only this year, I went to Bangkok, and I found it in MBK. So I bought it back and its soo nice.. just wondering how those people can make it and taste so amazing for a tiny food like this. Just few months back, I was flipping the pages of the recipe book. And there have this recipe, and i have no idea wat split green bean are, wat is green bean paste.. but just this few weeks, I have been thinking abt this green bean paste thing so I google it and google it back and forth, till I cant stand it anymore, I asked my mum wat is tat.. she dun do this type of baking but she have the knowlegde abt it... so i search in the supermarket for this split green bean . lucky I found it, and so happy as I can start the recipe running in my mind.. haahahaha,...


Ingredient:


250g grean bean paste (split green bean)


100g sugar


1/2 cup condensed milk (suppose to be coconut but i changed it)




few drops red colouring


few drops orange colouring


few drops yellow colouring




Agar-agar ingredient


13g agar agar powder


440g water


1tbsp sugar




Method :


1. soak split green bean in water for 1 to 2 hours. remove and drain. Put in the steamer and stea for 30 to 40 mins or until soft. remove and mash into paste. (For me, i used the blender to blend it)


2. dissolve milk and sugar, add in green bean paste, continue stirring and cook till fairly dry.. (its a bit of hand work here.. quite tiring to stir the dry paste)


3. take some paste, mould it into various fruit shape. Sitck with tooth pick, set aside to cool.


4. mix red, yellow and orange colourings accordingly with some water, brush it with different colouring. dip the paste into agar-agar mixture. Let it set.


5. repeat the step and dip the agar agar mixture for second layer and third layer, leave it to cool


6. for the agar-agar, boil the ingredients till the agar-agar powder dissolves.




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