Recipe
160 ml glutinous rice flour [sieved]
1 tablespoon plain four
160ml water
160 castor sugar
Add 1 tablespoon oil to mixture - prevent cracking
Egg Yellow Colour
Orange Colour
Carp Mould [greased in generously]
Method :
1] Pour all the sugar into the water
2] Switch on medium low fire to dissolve sugar - cooled down syrup
3] Sieved GR flour and plain flour
4] Slowly pour in the sugar syrup into the flour and alternate with the oil and stir till well mixed.
5] Sieve the flour mixture into another bowl
Colouring
Take a small portion white flour mixture [amount need to estimate] - drop the required amount of orange colour and mixed well
- Balanced of white flour mixture - add the egg yellow colour
[Colouring preference on more orange or more yellow depends on individual creativity]
Steaming
Stick 2 black beans into the eye sockets for eys
Place the mould in the boiling steamer
Pour some orange colour flour mixture on the fish [depends on personal creativity]
Steam it till the top is set.
Pour in the next colour [yellow] till the body - I did not fill up the fins.
Steam it till the surface is set.
Lastly top with the orange colour to the brim of the mould.
Cover the mould losely with the mould cover or a piece of aluminium foil [losely covered to ensure steam escape and water not going into the nain gao.
Steam on medium fire for another 2-3 hours till set.
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