It’s the first day of Lunar New Year, and we are finally headed into the dragon year. So here’s wishing all of Hungry PeePor’s readers a very happy Chinese New Year!
There seems to be a lighter and much happier spirit this year celebrating the dragon year. Possibly because we are currently way past the pandemic, so more people are coming out to bathe in the festive atmosphere. Also the dragon zodiac is symbolically one of the most auspicious zodiacs of the twelve animals, so that helps to lift the spirit a tad more.
I have plans during the Chinese New Year break to do a lot of cooking and baking, but I haven’t got started on any of them yet. Am aiming to get started on the baking of Osthmanthus butter cookies today, and hopefully our house favourite almond cookies sometime tomorrow or the day after. I’m also hoping to squeeze in some more time to make some ondeh ondeh, to use up the gula melaka in my fridge.
For now, I’m sharing this recipe of Chinese red bean paste pancake for everyone to try out. It’s a Chinese snack, made with plain flour and filled with red bean paste so it’s sweet. Browning the pancake on the pan gives it a light crisp so it makes for a lovely snack on the go. And since it’s home-made, you can decide to spread however much red bean paste you want to adjust its sweetness to your liking.
Ingredients:
- Plain flour: 1.5 cups
- Hot water: 100ml
- Cold water: 40ml
- Oil: 1/2 tsp + 2 tbsp oil
- Red bean paste: 1.5 tbsp per dough (about 200g in total)
Method:
- Stir plain flour with hot water.
- Stir in cold water.
- Add 1/2 tsp oil. Knead till smooth.
- Wrap with cling film. Leave to rest 20min.
- Coat board with oil. Divide dough into 5 balls.
- Flatten dough into a circle. Spread red bean paste evenly onto pancake.
- Roll up into a log. Circle each log around itself. Then flatten again into a pancake.
- Repeat for remaining balls.
- Heat 2 tbsp oil in pan. Fry each pancake for 3-5min on low heat on one side.
- Flip pancake over and fry 2-3min till golden brown.
- Serve hot while crusty.
Serving:
5 medium-sized pancakes
