Yam Ring Basket With Celebrity Chef Amy Beh
Yam Ring Basket By Celebrity Chef Amy Beh with La gourmet Pressure Cooker
Mashed yam paste is formed into a ring and afterwards singed and loaded up with pan sear chicken and vegetables or any filling of your decision and served on a bed of fresh rice stick noodles. This is a well known Chinese New Year food you can without much of a stretch make at home.
The recipe may seem difficult to do but with our recipe guide here featuring celebrity Chef Amy Beh, you’ll catch on in no time!
Prosperity Yam Ring is a dish to start off any festival. It’s generally served in the Spring Festival 金芋满堂喜迎春, Jīn yù mǎntáng xǐ yíng chūn. Like some other food served during Chinese New Year, it has an auspicious significance. The yam ring basket or fatt putt is filled to the edge imply a spilling over of fortune (phoon woon put woon 盘满钵满 in Cantonese)
The yam ring basket gets its name from the Buddhist alms bowl (fatt putt). It is no big surprise the yam ring basket bears similarity to this said bowl.
This is a conventional dish that is normally served at weddings or Chinese New Year. The primary ingredient is yam which normally forms into a ring and is afterwards deep-fried.
The yam ring basket is then put on top of a bed of fried noodles, commonly used is rice vermicelli. With respect to the filling, it’s ordinarily a combination of sautéed meat, sea produce, and a variety of brilliant and delightfully cut vegetables.
Fresh outwardly and delicate substantial yam inside loaded up with appetizing meat as well as vegetable pan-fried food is actually a crowd-pleaser. Plus, the fancy deep fried rice vermicelli forms a beautiful nest where the yam ring will sit.
Here’s how to make this:
Ingredients for golden yam ring basket
- 300 grams yam (cut into thin slices)
- 60 grams wheat starch
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tbsp 5 spice powder
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 30 grams shortening
- 90 ml hot boiling water
- 1 piece deboned chicken whole leg (cubed)
- 20 grams red capsicum
- 20 grams green capsicum
- 100 grams local lotus roots (sliced)
- 20 grams big onion (cubed)
- 3 dried chilis (cut into sections)
- 1 tsp light sauce
- 1/4 tsp dark soy sauce
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- 2 – 3 tbsp water
- 1/2 tsp chicken stock powder
- dash of pepper
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 30 gram rice vermicelli
- adequate cornflour slurry
- dash of shaoxing wine
Instructions for golden yam ring basket
1. First, add water into the stainless steel pot of La gourmet pressure cooker. Then, put the yam in for steaming.
2. Lock the lid of the pressure cooker then. Press the “Steaming” button. The pressure cooker will start the cooking process on its own.
While waiting for the yam to be steamed, we will do the filling for the golden yam ring basket.
3. Add in light soy sauce, oyster sauce, dark soy sauce, pepper, chicken stock and sugar into a bowl and mix. Dark soy sauce has a light taste yet it is vastly used in cooking mainly for the color.
4. Heat the oil and add in the dried chilli. Lightly stir fry it to get the fragrance and spiciness out.
5. Then, add the chicken, lotus root, red capsicum, green capsicum, red onions and sauce. Stir fry together until they are well-combined.
6. Add in the corn starch slurry gradually while stirring continuously.
Next prepare the wheat starch paste. Take the steamed yam out from the pressure cooker.
7. Add boiling water into the bowl of wheat starch to make the paste.
8. Mash the steamed yam. Then add the wheat starch paste and mix it together.
Add 5 spiced powder, baking powder, salt and sugar into the paste and mix them well. Add in shortening and continue mixing it.
9. Transfer the paste onto the parchment paper to shape the yam ring so it will be easier to work with.
10. Put a cling wrap on top and roll it with a rolling pin. The cling wrap will prevent the paste from sticking to the rolling pin.
11. Form a rectangular block that is slightly thick. This will then be rolled to form the yam ring basket shape. After shaping it, cover it with parchment paper and leave it in the freezer for about an hour. Freezing it will help the yam ring to keep its shape.
12. After that, take it out and form the yam ring basket shape. Stick the paste from end to end to form a cylindrical ring.
13. Heat the oil in the Nitrigan cast iron wok for deep-frying. To test if the oil is hot enough, stick a wooden chopstick into the oil, and on the off chance that you see huge air pockets conformed to the chopstick, it’s hot and ready. The bigger the air pockets, the higher the oil temperature is.
You can also drop a piece of rice vermicelli onto the oil. If it’s hot enough, the rice vermicelli will get fried and float to the top.
14. Dip the frying strainer into the hot oil before placing the yam ring basket on it so it won’t stick.
15. Then, move the yam ring basket onto the frying strainer carefully, then dip it into the hot oil.
In the event that your oil doesn’t cover the entire yam ring basket, utilize a spatula to spoon the hot oil over the highest point of the ring. Fry until it turns golden brown.
16. After that, we will fry the rice vermicelli. Wait for it. It will blossom and float to the top. The rice vermicelli is, even more, a “style” purpose as it were. Albeit certain people might eat them, they are very tasteless. It’s probably better to have additional sauce or ingredients to go along with it. So it is truly discretionary to include this in the dish.
The rice vermicelli will quite often become brown as well. To prevent this, the oil would be exceptionally hot and when they are solidified, quickly take them out of both oil once they float.
17. Scoop the fried rice vermicelli onto a plate. Then, place the fried yam ring on top of it.
18. Fill in the inside of the ring with the filling prepared earlier. Add garnishing with coriander leaves. Enjoy this Instagram-worthy dish!
Serve while it’s hot!
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Longevity Noodles Recipe By Celebrity Chef Amy Beh
Longevity Noodles Recipe By Celebrity Chef Amy Beh with Nitrigan Cast Iron Wok
Longevity is one of the most loved ideas in Chinese culture, alongside bliss, fortune, and success. Life span was accepted to be a definitive gift. In old times, rulers and rulers even had pills of eternality arranged for them.
During Chinese New Year, long noodles are eaten on all sides of China. “Life span noodles,” likewise introduced at birthday festivities, another child, a wedding, or a lunar new year feast, are never cut or broken by the cook, and assuming that they can be eaten without gnawing through the strands, it’s viewed as significantly more fortunate. Life span noodles are a significant part of this multitude of blissful occasions.
These noodles are generally served at Chinese New Year’s dining experiences. An antiquated Chinese conviction says that long noodles are the way into a long life so don’t cut the noodles as you eat them.
Since the longer the noodles, the more auspicious it will be, we will be using mee sua for this recipe. For obvious reasons, don’t go for the spaghetti!
Here’s how to make this longevity noodles:
Ingredients:
- 3 bundles of flour vermicelli (mee sua)
- 2 cups cooking oil (for deep-frying)
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 1 tsp chopped garlic
- 1 tsp ginger
- 3 eggs (lightly beaten)
Ingredients A:
- 4 medium small prawns (shelled)
- 2 dried shiitake mushrooms (soaked & shredded)
- 30 grams carrot (shredded)
- 40 grams big onion (thinly sliced)
- 60 grams cabbage (thinly cut)
- 40 grams beansprouts
Seasoning:
- 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1/4 tsp dark soy sauce
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 3/4 tsp chicken stock powder
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1/2 cup water
- A splash of Shaoxing wine (optional)
- pinch of salt
Garnishing
- Spring onion & coriander leaves (chopped)
- Red chilli curls
- Adequately toasted sesame seeds
Directions for this Longevity Noodles recipe:
1. Prepare hot boiling water in a bowl. Fill it just enough to soak all the noodles.
2. Fry the vermicelli noodles for a while until it turns golden brown.
3. Transfer the fried vermicelli into the hot water. Let it soak. This will remove the oil from the vermicelli noodle. Let it sit a while until it softens.
4. Once the vermicelli noodle softens, let it drip dry.
5. Now, let’s prepare the sauce. Mix dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, Shaoxing wine and light soy sauce. Then, add a little bit of hot water and stir. Add in a bit of salt, chicken stock powder, sugar and a dash of pepper and stir.
6. Next, break 3 eggs into a bowl. Lightly beat up the egg.
7. Put some sesame oil into the wok. Add some garlic, chopped ginger, mushrooms, prawns, carrots and onions. Then, stir fry.
8. Push those ingredients to the side, then add in the eggs. Scramble the egg.
9. Add in the mee sua into the wok and toss it.
10. Add in the remaining sauce.
11. Put the cabbage in and stir fry again.
12. Pour a little bit of water before adding the beansprouts.
13. The Longevity Noodles is done and ready to serve!
Why are they called longevity noodles?
In China, the Han people follow the custom of eating longevity noodles on their birthday.
In Chinese, the person “面” in a real sense implies noodle as well as face.
The Chinese Emperor Wu accepted that individuals with long appearances for the most part lived longer. The more extended the face, the longer the life someone will have. Since Emperor Wu, long noodles have been utilized as an analogy for life span and as a gift for birthday festivities.
The custom has been followed from that point onward. A life span noodle is a solitary noodle that fills the entire bowl, and it is better not to break it while eating.
Traditions of longevity noodles
There are a few traditions related to eating longevity noodles. One of them asks that visitors pick their noodles from their own bowl and spot them into the bowl of the individual commending his birthday as they wish them a fortune, joy, and life span.
Another custom is to hold the noodles up with your chopsticks and consider how long they are with your guests.
Likewise, never fill noodles to the edge of a bowl, as it would imply that you are demonstrating a full life expectancy.
However, the one thing that is an outright no-no is to cut a strand of noodle as you would be in danger of stopping your life expectancy!
There are a large number of longevity noodles recipes. Most frequently, they are ready with pork, chicken, or simply Chinese chive and shiitake mushrooms.
What type of noodles to use for longevity noodles recipe?
The long noodles address a long life, cutting the noodles emblematically reduce your life. So, it’s about using long noodles. Not just any long noodles, it has to be tough and not that easily break yet maintains that edible texture.
In this recipe, we’re using mee sua. Another more popular choice is the use of yi mein.
Yi Mein, is a Cantonese egg noodle comprised of wheat flour. While making the mixture, soft drink water is utilized rather than plain old water so the noodle surface is somewhat chewy, fairly supple, and absolutely cracking magnificent.
They’re permeable noodles, so they retain a portion of the sauce you use to make things considerably more enchanted. Try to get great quality noodles; it has *all* the texture.
They’ll keep up with their versatility in the wake of being boiled and sautéed, and that permits them to extend and remain scrum-diddly-umptious! That’s what makes yi mien a popular choice for this recipe.
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Best Thai Style Steam Fish Recipe by Celebrity Chef Amy Beh
Thai Style Steam Fish Using Elite Wok & Healthy Glass Food Chopper
This is the most well known steamed fish dish in Thailand, presented with zesty Thai stew pepper, garlic and lime juice sauce. In Asia fish is constantly steamed entirely, however on the off chance that you like to utilize filets essentially lessen the cooking time. Red stew peppers are chiefly for added colors. The best part is that steamed fish is one of the fastest and best fundamental dishes to get ready.
