Burnaby Community Kitchens

  This is a classic Chinese dessert made without gelatin.  Agar agar is flavourless and extracted from seaweed; it printer-friendly recipe can be found in most Asian supermarkets. serves 12 Ingredients: ¼ oz agar agar 5 cups water 1 cup sugar 1 ½ cup evaporated milk /soy or almond milk 1 tablespoon almond extract 1 16 ounce can fruit (e.g. peaches, lichee, mixed fruit) Two types of agar agar:      You can buy agar agar that looks like translucent strands.  You may also find it in a powdered form. Follow instructions to cut and rinse if you buy this type. (No need to rinse and cut. Method: Cut agar agar into pieces, then rinse it.  Place the agar agar in a sauce pan. Add 5 cups water; soak it for 30 minutes. Heat the agar agar over medium heat until it dissolves.  Add the sugar and bring it to a boil. Add the milk and almond extract; stir and turn off the heat. Pour the liquid into individual serving bowls. Allow to cool the ...

  Mango Coconut Jelly Cubes วุ้นมะม่วง (woon mamuang) printer-friendly recipe Author:   Pailin Chongchitnant   Yield:   One 8-inch square pan MANGO LAYER 250 g  mango flesh (for purée), roughly cubed (from about  1 ½  -  2  mangos, scant 2 cups) Flesh of  1  peach or mango, 1-cm cubes ½ cup  peach syrup or orange juice 1 ¼ cups  water 2 tsp  or 7 grams agar agar powder  or roughly 1/2  stick or  agar agar Buy agar agar at vietmanese store, may need to ask cashier as they store it behind counter OR at asian stores it can be in stick form Agar Conversion:  15g of agar ( strips or powder ) to 1 liter of water / liquid for a manageable form of firm agar. ⅓ cup  sugar Lime juice, to taste COCONUT LAYER ⅔ cup  water 1 tsp  agar agar powder 4 Tbsp  sugar 1/8 tsp  salt ⅔ cup  coconut milk FOR THE MANGO LAYER: In a blender, blend the mango cubes (for purée) and o...

serves 8 Pastry ingredients: 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour 1 Tbsp granulated sugar ¼ tsp salt ½ cup cold butter, cubed 4 tsp ice cold water 1 Tbsp lemon juice Optional: 1 tablespoon beaten egg or cream 1 tsp coarse sugar Filling ingredients: ½ cup granulated sugar 3 Tbsp all-purpose flour or tapioca flour ½ tsp ground cinnamon 6-8 peaches Directions: To make the pastry, whirl flour with granulated sugar and salt in a food processor.  Add butter.   Pulse until crumbs form.  With the motor running, add ice water and lemon juice.  Continue whirling just until dough comes together into a rough clump.  Do not overwork the dough to avoid toughness.  (Alternately, combine the dry pastry ingredients in a bowl, and use a pastry blender to cut the butter into the dry ingredients until it has a sand-like texture.  Add water and lemon juice, and gently mix by hand until dough forms a rough clump.  Do not knead!) Flatten the dough into a disk ...