Archive for May, 2009

Hakka Pound Tea – Lui Cha

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

Lui Cha or Hakka Pound Tea is a traditional savory drink consist of pounded vegie, tea leaves, various nuts, grains and seeds. There is not much cooking involved, but the difficult part is to get all ingredients together and you need to have special equipments to grind it the traditional way to make into soup. If you want to take the challenge to make this Hakka traditional health soup for your family in a home kitchen, get the recipe here.

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Hakka Braised Hairy Gourd

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Easy to follow recipe on this Hakka Braised hairy Gourd dish, this is a light dish with little meat and very good to go along with a bowl of hot rice. See recipe here.

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Hakka Pop Rice Candy

Friday, May 8th, 2009

This Hakka pop rice candy seem easy to make but the control of timming in preparation of the caramel is the deciding factor to the success of this candy. Moreover the mixing and press rolling in the finishing part also need to be skillfully executed to ensure a solid and even piece of candy in place. See recipe

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Hakka Egg Plant Recipe

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Eggplant is capable of absorbing large amounts of cooking fats and sauces, thus making itself very rich dishes. The fruit flesh is smooth and very much like the tomato, the numerous seeds are soft and edible together with the rest of the fruit. Even the thin skin is edible, so that you don’t have to peel the eggplant before cooking. Try this Hakka Steamed Eggplant Recipe.

Thanks for visiting and enjoy.

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Vegetarian Crab Meat Roll

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

In the midst of AH1N1 Flu season, how about try out this vegetarian dish? See details of this newly uploaded recipe here.

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Green Pea Jelly

Monday, May 4th, 2009

This is actually a very simple dessert that made from green pea flour. Ground green peas which is high in protein and fibre can be used for baked goods or add to soups and sauces. This jelly dersert is simple to make.

Ingredients: 1 cup green pea flour, 10 cups water, 0.7 cup white sugar.

Method: Add green pea flour and sugar into sauce pan with 10 cups of water. stir to mix well before boiling. Bring the mixture to boil with medium heat  then turn to very low temperature and keep stirring the mixture gently. Simmer for 20 minute with constant stirring until the mixture become thick and color turn transparent. Turn off the heat and pour the mixture into container (keep the height of the jelly of about 2 inches) and let it cool and harden. Keep in fridge to chill and cut into pieces when serving.

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Hakka Recipe – Fish Roll With Rice Wine

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

Hakka people like to use rice wine for cooking. Not only rice wine, but the kind of rice wine with red residuum. This rice wine with red residuum make fantastic dish when stir-fry with beef,  ginger and spring onions. I will give you the beef recipe some other time but today let’s settle with this Hakka Fish Roll.

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Hakka Black Bean Cake

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

This Blog will be posting a series of Hakka Food Recipe for a while. If you are interested to learn the Hakka way of cooking, stay tune to this blog. This Hakka tradition dish is seldom serve nowadays. This is a sweet desert specially serve by the Tai Pu Hakka during Chinese New Year.

Get your Hakka Black Bean Cake recipe right here.

Hakka Salted Chicken

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

This recipe was given to me by a Hakka friend. Actually this dish is quite simple to prepare, just like it’s name, make it a little bit more salty and the dand gui flavor is just to enhance but not to overwhelm the original flavor of chicken. Try it out with our recipe here.

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Hakka Meat Dumpling

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Duan Wu Jie fall on the fifth day of fifth month in the Lunar calender, is a special day for the Chinese to pay respect to a patriotic poet by the name of Qu Yuan who died about 2200 years ago. Being very traditional clan, the Hakka people will make this special dumplings as offering to remember this great poet. This dumpling is special not only for it’s historical reason but for it’s great taste too. Get the true taste of this Hakka dumplings from my recipe right here.

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Enjoy yourself and thank you for visiting.