Mid Autumn Festival Project #3

RED BEAN COCONUT LAYER Jelly Mooncake

Ingredients for mock jelly egg yolks

A:    1 tsp agar-agar powder

       40gm caster sugar

       1/8 tsp salt

       150ml water

       100gm sweet potato (peeled, cut into pieces, steamed, mashed whilst hot) but I used back the carrot egg yolk instead

Palm sugar filling

B:    1 ¼ tsp agar-agar powder

       50gm castor sugar

       125ml concentrated coconut milk

       150ml water

       1/8 tsp salt

       2 blades pandan leaves (knotted)

For red bean ingredient

C:    1 tbsp agar-agar powder

        60gm castor sugar

        100ml concentrated coconut milk

        250ml water

        2 blades pandan leaves (knotted)

D:    500gm Red beans (boiled till softened)

Method:

1. Combine all ingredients (A) into a pot. Bring it to boil. Turn off heat, strain solution. Pour into small ice-cube moulds. Cool then keep chilled till it set. Unmould jelly egg yolk when needed.
   
2. Bring ingredient (B) to a boil. Remove pandan leaves, turn off heat, strain solution. Spoon a little into moulds. Let it set a little, place in mock egg yolk. Spoon in more solution to cover mock egg yolk. Set it, unmould, trim edges, keep aside.
   
3. Bring ingredient (C) to a boil. Turn off heat.
   
4. Scoop out 2/3 of no.(3). Add ingredient (D). Mixed well.
5. 
   
   Spoon a little no. (4) into moulds. Set it a lttle. Place in no. (2), spoon in a little no.(3) and set it a little. Lastly, fill to the brim with no.(4). Leave to set, keep chilled. J