18/6/2015 Thursday

Hi dear all~

Sharing the meals of the day for my 22.5mo lo today. I decided not to bake for 2 days to ensure my lo's mouth ulcer is recovered completely. Actually her mouth ulcer has been recovered yesterday but I still prepare non-heaty foods for her today.

Breakfast: Dragon Fruit Kikaku + hard boiled egg + cherry tomatoes + grapes

Lunch and Dinner: Udon noodle with lotus root chicken soup

Teatime: Mung Bean porridge + baby yogurt 

Dragon Fruit Kikaku

Ingredients

50g Glutinous Flour 
100g All purpose flour 
30g Sugar ( i put 25g only, sweetness Okay)
1/2 tsp Instant dry yeast
15g Grape seed oil / any plain vege oil
150ml water + dragon fruit (sieve away seeds)

1/2 tsp chiaseed

*** please add 1/2 of liquid first then remaining just pour in slowly until a very soft dough is form, can stop adding liquid. If too sticky to hands, can add some oil..

Steps:
1.）mix all ingredients till well combined. then divide dough into 6 portions.

2.）rub your hands with some oil, then roll each small dough into round, put on cleaned banana leave, then press slightly.

3.）Place the kikaku on the rack and put inside the steamer then close lid to proof for 15-20 mins.

4.）Steam at boiling water for 10 mins, off fire and remove from steamer immediately.

5.) brush some grape seed oil on the surface of kikaku to prevent skin dry.

VIDEO ~ making of kikaku

Udon Noodle with Lotus Root Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

80g Dried Udon 

(cook 18mins as per instruction on packaging, drain dry then soak in cold icy water for 30 seconds, drain dry again, add in 2 tsp grapeseed oil and mix well. Keep noodle in the fridge (if not serve immediately)

Lotus Root Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

1 bowl of sliced lotus root

1/2 carrot (cut in pieces)

some red dates

1 honey date

2 chicken tights

Steps:

1) Blanch chicken for 3 mins

2) cook all ingredients in 2 litre water for at least 1.5 hours 

Mung Bean Porridge

Ingredients:

2 tbsp cooked white rice

40g cooked mung bean

1 cup water

1 tbsp milk

1 - 1.5 tsp brown sugar / muscovado sugar

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How to cook Mung Bean (green bean) in faster way )

Steps:

1) Add water and cooked rice in a small pot, cook under small fire for 20mins

2) add in the cooked mung bean, cook for another 10 mins

3) add in milk and sugar, cook till the consistency (not too much water left), Off fire and DONE.