Soon Kueh

My concept to be a SAHM is to cooked for the family and spend time with kids. The problem is nowadays kid grow up too fast. My son Samuel woke up late, and he always hang out with my neighbour's girl after he came back from school. I hardly see him around! He won't even appeared when is dinner time and most of the time my maid has to send his dinner to him. *sign, I thought this will only happen when he is in secondary school, never know that at the age of 3 he already walked out of me :( Wonder when Matthew will follow his brother footstep.

Parenthood is kind of mixture of feeling, when the kids stick around too much, you find them nuisance, and lack of space to breath. When they are not around, you kind of missed them.What can I do during my spare time is to blog and cook stuff i never try before. Good in the way too because I love cooking helps me to unwind.

Today i found some left over turnip. Bought this huge turnip for $0.40 at NTUC. Cook half only and my hubby complain that it taste funny. So I dun want to fry it again, else it will ended up in my tummy only. Saw NTUC selling flour to make soon kueh so Iwant to try out. I have lots of carrot in my fridge, another sale item from NTUC (see, I am getting more auntie) 5 fat carrots for $0.50! is a great time to clear all this stuff :)

Is A Great Success! (see pic)

Here is the recipe.

half turnip (shredded)
a small handful of dried shrimp (soak, keep water to fry turnip and carrot)
2 tou gua (season with salt and later cut into cube)
1 carrot (shredded)
coriander chopped
garlic chopped
small onion chopped
light soya sauce for seasoning.
mushroom powder (optional)

PS: all amount is based on my left over, so is all agaration!

Fillings:

1. deep fried the tou gua, drain and keep aside.
2. fry garlic and small onion till fragrance (keep sound oil and shallot)
3. add dried shrimp
4. Add in the turnip and carrot
5. Add in the cube tou gua and parsley
6.Add in seasoning

set aside to cool

Soon Kueh skin:

260gm soon kueh powder
0.5L boiling water
1 tbsp oil

In a big pot pour in the powder then slowly stirred in the boiling water, stirred vigourously till all mix evenly. Add in the tbsp oil and knead the dough. Careful coz is really hot!

Pour some of the soon kueh powder on the working table and pat some on your hand to prevent the dough to stick. Take some of the dough and roll it to a ball and flatten it. Put in the filling and seal it, just like the curry puff. Voila! Drizzle the soon kueh with shallot oil and steam it over medium fire for 15 mins. Remember to add oil or else the kueh will stick to the plate. Decorate it with fried shallot and spring onion when is done.

My hubby like it pan fried, so you can pan fried in a non stick pan and serve hot. Do not add more oil to pan fried as there is already shallot oil.