Here's the recipe from the book, Moonlit Mid-Autumn Festival by Choong Su Yin Now, I'm ready to use this to bake pastries and mooncakes. The oil will be infused into the paste developing slightly darker colour. The paste is ready! It is firm enough to hold its shape!Īllow the paste to rest at room temperature overnight. but for the convenience, I would say the use of skinless lotus seeds has make my life so much easier. Although I have seen recipes that mentioned that using dried lotus with skin helps to give the paste a nicer flavour and also enhances its colour. To cut back the hassle, I would strong recommend using lotus seeds that with no skin and with most of their bitter cores removed. and I hope that you are not scare of making your own lotus paste because it is actually quite easy!!! Are the fats in the paste high in trans or saturated fats? Are the sweetener used high in fructose? How much fat and sweetener are actually added into the paste? I hope that I don't scare you with these health questions. Having said that, I can't deny that the commercially made lotus paste mooncake are always so smooth and sexy with its dark opaque colour and can't deny too that there must lots of fats and sweetener that are added into the paste to make it so smooth and delicious. I just don't like to feed my family massive amount of unknown fats and sugar! I don't mind buying or eating one commercially made mooncake for each mid-autumn festival but I do mind baking many mooncakes with commercially made lotus paste and feeding them all to my family within one mid-autumn festival! Nay! Nay! I like to make my firm statement with my arms crossed. My reasons are the same as why I prefer to make my own red bean paste and black sesame seeds paste from scratch. Or are you still busy buying or baking mooncakes for your family or friends?Īpart from the mini custard mooncakes, thousand layer flaky swirl yam mooncake and mooncake piggies that I had baked before, have you notice that I hardly bake any mooncake? The truth is I prefer not to bake mooncakes with any store-bought lotus paste. Time files and 中秋节 (Chinese mid-autumn festival) is arriving soon.
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