Chinese Mooncake
Makes: 9
Ingredients
Recipe preparation
100g. Golden syrup
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115g. Cake flour
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1⁄2 tsp. Water
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450g. White lotus-paste
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2 tbsp. Peanut Oil
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15g. Bread flour
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1 Egg
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9 Salted egg yolks
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In the kitchen:
- Mix golden syrup, peanut oil, cake flour and bread flour into a dough. Rest dough in the fridge for 1 hour.
- Soak the salted egg yolks in oil and set aside.
- Divide lotus paste to 9 portions of 50g. Wrap each salted egg yolk with the lotus paste and roll them into a balls.
- Divide the rested dough into 9 portions of 30g.
- Wrap the lotus paste balls with with the rolled out dough and then put them into the mooncake mold.
- Lightly whisk the egg into egg-wash for later use.
At the barbecue:
- Preheat grill to 150°C for 15 minutes with the lid down.
- Place the mooncakes on the preheated pizza stone and allow to bake for 15 minutes with the lid down.
- Open the lid, lightly brush egg-wash on each mooncake and close the lid to bake for 5 minutes till it is done.