Mooncake recipe which you can make it yourself at home

 

(taken from http://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipe/1222/Mooncakes/search/true- Accessed: 28/9/2012)Mooncakes are rich, heavy, and dense compared with most Western cakes and pastries. They are usually eaten in small wedges accompanied by Chinese tea. These small round cakes symbolize family unity and perfection. They are time consuming to make and nowadays can be bought from Asian pastry shops. Mai’s recipe uses mung beans but red bean paste or lotus seed paste can also be used. The moulds can be bought from Asian suppliers.

Ingredients

Mooncake moulds

Mung Bean Paste
200g mung beans (for 6 0r 7 cakes)
50g sugar
100ml vegetable oil
1 tbsp Glutenous rice flour
1 tbsp water

Sugar Syrup
1 k sugar
500g water

Wrapping Pastry
2 cups sugar syrup
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp essence of grapefruit flower
2 cups rice flour
2 dessertspoons vegetable oil

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Preparation

Mung Bean Paste
Soak beans in hot water for 3 hours, drain. Steam with a little water until soft then put through blender. Place the blended mung beans into a saucepan and over a low heat stir in the sugar. In a separate bowl add the vegetable oil to the glutenous rice flour and stir to a paste. Then stir into the mung bean mixture. Add water and keep stirring until the mixture thickens. Test with your fingers to check that when a little of the mixture is rubbed together it forms one mass.

If the mixture is crumbly, add water a little at a time until the dough is the right consistency to form a small ball. Let the mixture cool slightly then roll into 50g balls. These balls will form the filling of the mooncakes.

Sugar Syrup
To make the syrup, place both water and sugar in a saucepan and bring to the boil stirring all the time. Continue until all the sugar granules have dissolved and the mixture is syrupy.

Wrapping Pastry
Place 2 cups of syrup in a bowl. Add the lemon juice, grapefruit flower essence and vegetable oil. Sift in 2 cups of glutenous rice flour while stirring to a smooth paste. Let rest for 30 minutes.

Pour dough onto floured board and knead in more glutenous rice flour until it holds a shape when rolled into a log form. (Splash a little oil onto your hands so the dough doesn’t stick while kneading.)

Cut into 150g lumps, flatten into discs and wrap each disc around a mung bean paste ball. Coat with some extra rice flour.

Coat the inside of the mould with rice flour and place the ball into the mould. Press down firmly. Remove from mould and place on a plate ready to serve. Repeat the process until the mixture has been used. Leave the mooncakes to rest for up to an hour, before eating.
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