Pâté Chaud

•  Ingredients:

- 250g all purpose flour

- 1 egg yolk

- 130g water

- 1/2 tsp each: salt and sugar

- 4 tbs butter

- 50g butter

- 60g shortening

• Implementation:

*Mix together flour, salt and sugar. Rub or cut 4 tbs butter into flour mixture. Add egg yolk and water; quickly mix evenly into a “dough”. Rest for 15 mins. Meanwhile mix together butter and shortening, shape into a square. Roll dough out and use to wrap butter/shortening square. Fold into thirds roll, turn, and fold into thirds again. Chill in the freezer for 15 mins and repeat 5 more times.

• Filling:

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-1/2lb ground pork or beef

-1/2 medium onion

-2 tbs butter at room temperature

-3 tsp pate

-1 tsp ground pepper

-1/2 tsp salt

-1/4 tsp sugar

-1 medium carrot (optional)

-50g peas (optional)

*Chop onions, and carrots. Mix everything together and divide into 9-10 portions.

• Making the Pastries:

Roll pastry dough and cut into 18-20 circles using a biscuit or cookie cutter (anything round). Brush 9-10 pastry circles with egg wash, add filling. Use “leftover” dough to form a circle around the filling. Brush on more egg wash and top with another pastry circle. Firmly press the dough layers together. Finally, brush with more egg wash and bake at 375’F for 15-20 mins. Serve hot.

Sweet Potato Fatt Koh

·         Ingredients:

- 500g rice flour

- 5 tsp double acting baking powder

- 3 tsp yeast + 5 tbs warm water

- 400g coconut milk

- 300g sugar

- 400g sweet potato 

- 3 egg

·         Procedure

- Steam and mash potato, dissolve yeast in water. 

- Put everything in a mixing bowl and beat with a cake mixer until smooth. 

- Prove for 1 hour or until double in volume.

- Give the batter a quick stir and steam over high heat for 10-15mins

Banh Chuoi Nuong (Banana Cake)

Ingredients

• 1¼ pounds ripe banana, sliced on the diagonal
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup coconut milk
• ½ teaspoon vanilla
• 7 slices white bread
• 2 Tablespoons melted butter

Procedure

1.      Preheat oven to 350°F.

2.      In a mixing bowl, sprinkle ½ cup of the sugar over the sliced bananas. Set aside.

3.      In a saucepan, cook ½ cup of the sugar in the coconut milk until dissolved; then stir in the vanilla.

4.      Soak the bread in this sweetened coconut milk.

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5.  Grease a 12-square-inch nonstick baking pan and arrange ⅓ of the bananas on the bottom.

6.     Cover with half of the soaked bread, ⅓ more bananas, another layer of bread, and then finish with bananas. Drizzle the melted butter on top.

7.      Cover with foil and bake for one hour. Allow to stand for 12 hours before cutting.

8.      Serve with vanilla ice cream.

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Strawberry and apple bread

•  Ingredients:

- 450g Green apple - 150g Fresh Strawberry - 2 teaspoon sugar - 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon - 30ml fresh orange juice - 3 teaspoon breadcrumbs - egg whites 

•   Process:  

Step 1: Paring apples, do not take the shell and the inner core

Step 2: Take 1/2 of strawberries, cut in half

Step 3:  Apple, strawberry, sugar, cinnamon, and orange juice in large bowl, mild shock
Step 4: Use a fork and mix bread crumbs with egg white (egg), sprinkle the surface of strawberry apple. Place in baking dish

Step 5: Open the oven at 180 degrees C, the mixture on for about 45 minutes, when the bubble is removed

 

Serve hot with yogurt soft