SH Mooncakes

Yummmy!

Red Bean Paste

My first attempt! I made some SH mooncakes over the weekend. I'm very pleased with the outcome. Unfortunately, I can't share the dough recipe here as it was given by a friend. (Thank you, Sharon Yet!) But generally, the ingredients are red bean paste for the filling; flour, custard powder, butter, milk, icing sugar and corn starch for the dough. Therefore, it's pretty easy to find similar recipes out there. Try it if you have some time to spare. The tedious part would be cooking the red bean paste. Sit on a chair and have a book in hand while stirring. This kept me awake. ;) 

Red Bean Paste 
Ingredients 
400g of red beans
150g sugar
120ml vegetable oil

Method

1. Soak red beans overnight. 
2. At medium heat,cook red bean in a pot of water till cooked. This takes about 30 mins.
3. Let red beans cool down and blend them in a food processor till very fine. Add some water from the pot of cooked beans.(for easier blending) 
4. Transfer all the beans to a non-stick frying pan, add sugar and stir them continuously. 
5. Add oil gradually and continue stirring all the time. This takes about 1 hour. Do make sure the paste is not burnt. 
6. The paste is ready when it's thick and doesn't drop from the spatula. The time taken to cook the paste depends on the amount of water added during the blending process. If you have added a lot of water, then you would need to cook much longer.
7. Let the paste cool down completely before proceeding to making the mooncakes. 

Dough
Some sites to refer to: Nasi Lemak Lover or Vivian Pang Kitchen