Homemade Churros

Thanks to this easy recipe, I could finally make my own churros at home.

Ingredients:

200grams Plain Flour (aka All Purpose Flour)
320ml Water
1 tablespoon Olive Oil 
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Salt

I used Nutella spread as the dipping sauce since I'm too lazy to make a chocolate sauce.

 
~ Step 1 ~ 

Sift flour, and baking powder into a bowl. Add salt, and mix well together.

~ Step 2 ~

Turn on high heat, pour water into frying pan, and bring to boil. Add olive oil in, and stir well.

~ Step 3 ~

Once water is boiled, turn off the gas. Add in sifted flour, and slowly flip it until it is stick together like a big dough.

~ Step 4 ~

You may press the dough using a cake icing maker. If you do not have one, don't worry. You can still roll your own dough or make shapes out of it.

~ Step 5 ~

Deep fry these dough until golden brown. It would be hassle free if you have an air fryer. Serve with whatever topping you like. For us, it is definitely Nutella.

Homemade Soya Beancurd

This beancurd tasted soft and smooth just like those you get from Lau Ban. Now you could make your own at home. 

Ingredients:

1000ml Water
1 Pandan Leaf
4 sachets Unsweeted Soya Powder (get the Unisoy's Brand)
80grams Brown Sugar 
3 teaspoons Instant Jelly Powder or Ice Jelly Powder

~ Step 1 ~ 

Pour 500ml of water into a pot, and heat up at low heat. Put in pandan leaf.

 
~ Step 2 ~

Mix together soya powder, brown sugar, and instant jelly powder in a bowl. You may reduce the amount of brown sugar if you prefer less sweet. The original recipe requires 80grams, but I will probably be using 60 or 40grams the next time.

~ Step 3 ~

Slowly add in 200ml of water bit by bit while stirring the mixture. When you finished adding all the water, make sure that mixture is not watery but in creamy state.

**This is the most important step, if you do not do it properly, the entire beancurd recipe will fail. I failed three times trying to figure out what went wrong.

~ Step 4 ~ 

Pour soya mixture into pot, and stir well. Mix some water (from the 1000ml which you had prepared) to wash remaining of ingredients from bowl. Continue to stir to ensure there is no clumpy mixture sticking onto the bottom of the pot, then pour in the balance of water.

~ Step 4 ~

Scoop out all the foam. When you see steam mist, the beancurd is almost done. Remove pandan leaf. Turn off your gas.

 
~ Step 5 ~

To test whether jelly is ready, scoop a small amount out on a ladle, and wait for a minute. If it turns curd, the cooking is done.

~ Step 6 ~

Pour into plastic container (fills about four small ones), and remove the bubbles. Cool to room temperature, and put in the fridge for about three hours. I suggest that you make it in the late evening, so you could leave them overnight, and eat it the next morning.

Enjoy your beancurd!

Nutella Popsicle

This recipe is so easy your child can make it in seconds.

Ingredients:

2 cups Cool Whip
1 cup Milk
6 tablespoons Nutella

~ Step 1 ~ 

Put all ingredients into a blender, and mix well.

~ Step 2 ~

Pour the creme into popsicle mould, and freeze for three hours. You may check after two hours, but I waited for three just in case.

~ Step 3 ~

Enjoy your Nutella popsicle. We totally love it!