Yam paste snow skin moon cake

Ingredients
Yam - 1.5 kg
Salt - 1 tsp
Sugar - 150gm
Coconut milk - 120 gm ( fresh packing type)

Method
Steam yam for 20 mins
Half way add in salt, sugar & coconut milk.
Put aside , after 20 mins , mash & mix well. Leave to cool.

For the skin paste - ingredient
Shortening - 100gm
Water (ice cold water) - 210 gm. Can put in drop of food coloring if you want to have other favor of skin (eg yam, pandan, orange etc).
Kou fen - 220 gm (can buy from poon huat)
Icing sugar - 220 gm

Method
Mix altogether and knead to form a dough.
Knead for awhile to give qq texture.

For mini mould is about 20 gm skin n 20 gm paste

Wrap yam paste with the snow skin and sieve some koi fen on the mould . Press down the mound to eject the moon cake from the mould. Can consume at room temperature or put in fridge to chill.

Kala's Version Homemade Curry Chicken

1 whole Chicken (washed & cut into pieces)
Curry paste:
Ingredient A For frying
	6 dried red chilli
	1 tsp black peppercorn
	1 tsp fennel
	1 tsp cumin
	2 bulb onion (Peeled n cut into pieces)
	Ginger 1 finger length  approx 7 cm(peeled n slice into pieces)
	1.5 - 2 bulb Garlic (Peeled)
	1 small cinnammon stick
	1/2 - 1/4 cup water
	4 Tbsp Oil for frying
Ingredients B
	2 tbsp meat curry powder
	1.5 tbsp chilli powder
	1 big onion (sliced)
	1 small packet premix  spice(1 bay leaves + 1 star alis + 1.5 stick cinnamon stick + 1 cardamon + 5 cloves)
	1 tomatoe (sliced)
	2 potatoes (cubed) * optional to precook or raw
	1 stalk curry leaves
	1 pc pandan leaf
	1 lemongrass stalk (smashed)
	1/2 cup water
	3 tbsp oil
	1/2 tbsp salt
Method  for Curry paste
1	) Heat up wok
	2) Add in Oil to stir fry dried Chilli, once colour changed removed from wok
3	)Add all the remainder Ingredient A to fry
4)	Once Onion turned brownish removed from wok
5	) Blend fried Ingredient A with 1/2 - 1/4 cup water
Curry making Method
1)	Place oil in pot
2	) Stir fry premix spice, till the Cinnamon stick give out fragrant
3	3) Add curry leaf, onion, lemongrass stalk & pandan leaf and fry till onion turn brownish
4	4) Add in Chicken, water, blended curry paste, curry powders, chilli powders, potatoes & tomatoes
	(add hot water to own preference for gravy texture)
5	) finally add salt to taste and cook for 20 - 25 mins using medium fire
6	) Once cooked ready to serve with rice or bread
	Happy Cooking !