Old Hanoi Sweet Potato And Ginger Pudding Chè Khoai Lan Recipes

ALL-TIME FAVORITE SWEET POTATO PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 1 1/2 quart baking dish.
• Combine sweet potatoes and eggs in a medium bowl. Beat in the brown sugar, milk, butter, lemon juice, ginger, cloves, cinnamon, salt. Pour into prepared dish.
• Bake in preheated oven until hot and golden brown on top, about 30 minutes.

GRATED SWEET POTATO PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease a 2 quart baking dish.
• Peel and grate the sweet potatoes and mix with melted butter in a large bowl. In a medium bowl, beat eggs with sugar until well mixed. Pour over the sweet potato mixture, and stir in evaporated milk, whole milk, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, and vanilla extract. Mix well to combine all ingredients, and spoon into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 60 to 70 minutes, until the sweet potatoes are tender and the top is lightly browned. Remove dish from the oven and place marshmallows on top of the sweet potatoes. Return to the oven and bake 5 to 10 minutes more, until the marshmallows are lightly browned. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.

SWEET POTATO PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a 2 1/2 quart baking dish.
• Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add potatoes and cook until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain and mash.
• In a large bowl, combine the mashed sweet potatoes, butter, brown sugar, white sugar, eggs, orange juice and vanilla; stir until smooth. Pour into buttered dish.
• Bake in preheated oven 40 minutes.

OLD HANOI SWEET POTATO AND GINGER PUDDING - CHè KHOAI LAN

Steps:

• Bring the water to the boil, and put in the sweet potato.
• When the water returns to the boil, add the ginger, and continue cooking until the potato is tender and cooked through.
• Add sugar and a little arrow starch, and allow it to dissolve completely. Then remove from the heat. Serve hot.
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STEM GINGER PUDDING WITH STICKY ORANGE SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350f/Gas Mark 4.
• Place all the sponge pudding ingredients EXCEPT the stem ginger in a bowl and whisk till smooth and pale.
• Fold in the chopped stem ginger and pour mixture into a 2 1/2 pint ovenproof pudding bowl, then place the bowl in a roasting tray and fill with boiling water until 2/3 up the side of the pudding bowl. Bake for 45 minutes or until firm.
• To make the sauce, place all the ingredients EXCEPT the orange zest in a pan and boil for 5-10 minutes or until the mixture has reduced and is slightly thickened. Remove from heat and stir in orange zest.
• Remove pudding from oven, cut into slices and serve hot with the orange syrup poured over.

PLUM AND GINGER PUDDING

Steps:

• Pre heat oven to 160 degrees celsius.
• Melt 300g butter and mix in brown sugar and cook over a low heat for a few minutes.
• Spread sugar mix over base of a lined cake tin.
• Halve and de-stone plums/ canned plums, drain well and place cut side down on the sugar mix.
• In a cake mixer Cream 200g butter and sugar. Add vanilla and eggs (one at a time stirring between each. Add the milk, then dry ingredients.
• Pour ontop of the plums and sugar mix.
• Bake at 160 degrees celsius for 45 minutes.
• When cool turn out of the cake tin.
• Note: Served best warm, its fine to reheat in the microwave.
• Note: Plums can be substitued with apricots, peaches or any other fleshy fruit.

BAKED GINGER PUDDING

Steps:

• Boil together the syrup ingredients for five minutes and pour into a greased dish. Keep warm while you prepare the mixture.
• Mixture:.
• Cream butter and sugar and add egg. Dissolve bicarb in milk and pour over dates and jam. Add to butter mixture and stir well. Sift the dry ingredients together and add to butter mixture. Stir well. Put the mixture in the warm syrup using a spoon and bake for 30 minutes at 180°C Serve with custard.

BAKED SWEET POTATOES WITH GINGER AND HONEY

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• In a large bowl, toss together the sweet potatoes, honey, ginger, walnut oil, cardamom, and pepper. Transfer to a large cast iron frying pan.
• Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven. Stir the potatoes to expose the pieces from the bottom of the pan. Bake for another 20 minutes, or until the sweet potatoes are tender and caramelized on the outside.

VIETNAMESE POTATO CROQUETTES (CHA KHOAI TAY)

Steps:

• Shred the potatoes in a food processor and place in a colander. Sprinkle with the salt and mix well. Let stand in the sink to drain for 15 minutes.
• Mix the dry seasonings together.
• Squeeze the potatoes dry and place in a mixing bowl. Add the cornstarch and mix thoroughly. Add all the remaining ingredients except the panko crumbs and oil and mix well.
• Drop the potato mixture by tablespoonfuls into the panko crumbs and flatten slightly. Coat all the way around.
• Divide the oil in half and heat in a pan over moderately high heat. Lower the patties into the hot oil and flatten the patties with a spatula if necessary: the patties should not be too thick, and should be about 2 inches across.
• Fry until crisp and golden on the bottom, then turn and fry the other side. Drain on a wire rack or on paper towels, then transfer to plates. Add more oil as needed for frying the remaining patties.
• Optional: serve with Nuoc Cham dipping sauce.
• (A note on fish sauce: this is a very salty Southeast Asian specialty food. I don't care for the odor, but it blends well into sauces and other foods. You can substitute soy sauce for an approximation if you want to leave it out and make this a true vegetarian dish).