SPD3159FOOD - Put chai ko 砵仔糕

Put chai ko is a snack which originates from Hong Kong, and also know as red bean pudding, which is palm size and is sweet in taste. It is soft, but can hold its molded shape outside of a bowl or small bowl. It is made from different forms of steamed sugar (white or brown) and select ingredients (Red bean).

If you want to try it, I suggest that you can explore between D'aguilar Street and Wellington Street in Central. There has a cart store operation by elder couple.

Actually,  you can make it by yourself, it is very easy. There has some information to teach you how to make it.

Brown sugar and red bean pudding


Ingredients:
100g rice flour
30g wheat starch
20g water chestnut starch
25g glutinous(sticky) rice flour
60g raw brown sugar
50g dark brown sugar
2 cups water
red beans

Directions:
* Soak red beans in boiling water, covered, for an hour. Then simmer for 20 minutes, put into thermos vacuum cooker overnight.
* In a large bowl, combine rice flour, wheat starch, water chestnut starch and sticky rice flour.
* Boil raw brown sugar and dark brown sugar with water till completely dissolved. Stir into flour mixture little at a time (divide a few times to stir in).
* Place small bowls onto steaming rack and let heat up with water. Bring water to a boil, pour mixture into small bowls, quickly add red beans. Cover and steam for about 20 minutes.
* Let cool for a bit. Use bamboo skewers to remove the pudding from bowl.

Note:
- Make sure steaming over high heat with a nice amount of water to get better consistency pudding.

by Gabriel Tsui
Source from : http://bonnietong.blogspot.com/2010/04/blog-post_26.html