Cooking Recipes to Try

By Chloe Cheng

For this graduation issue, you can try to change one of your hobbies into cooking!

Here are some cooking recipes you can try at home and some life hacks for food.

Watermelon Mung Bean Jelly

You can use it to make Watermelon Sago, it’s vegan and can be enjoyed as a sweet and savoury dish.

Steps:

1. Open the head of a big watermelon (where the vine is).

2. Use a hand mixer to blend it into juice.

3. Strain the juice after blending it.

4. Get a cup of Mung Bean Starch.

5. Dissolve it with 1 cup of watermelon juice.

6. Bring the watermelon juice to a simmer.

7. Add in the starch mixture recently made in steps 4 and 5.

8. Cook until it can form a triangle on your spatula.

9. Let it cool to room temperature.

10. ENJOY!

Dry Yogurt

How to make dry yogurt. Yes, it does sound weird but it’s very good.

Steps:

1. Strain your yogurt with a cheesecloth.

2. Tie it in a knot first.

3. Tie it up with a rubber band.

4. Put a stick through the hole of the knot you made with the cheesecloth.

5. Hang it on a tall cup.

6. Let them drip overnight.

7. On the next day, the yogurt is creamer than cream.

8. ENJOY!!

Watermelon Dango

Ingredients:

• Watermelon

• Glutinous rice flour

• Sugar

• Skewer

• Iced water

Steps:

1. Scoop out the flesh of the watermelon.

2. Blend the flesh.

3. Mix the watermelon juice with glutinous rice flour and sugar.

4. After mixing roll them into balls.

5. Boil until they are floating.

6. After they are floating put them through iced water to make them extra chewy.

7. Put it on a skewer.

   
   

There you go, a Japanese type of food!

Sugar-Free Tangululu

1. Freeze the fruits overnight.

2. Soak the frozen fruits in iced water for 1 minute.

Strawberry Milk Tanghulu

1. Ice balls or normal ice.

2. Have your frozen fruits that were frozen overnight.

3. Soak the frozen fruits in strawberry milk for 1 minute.

Sakura Wine (with 2% alcohol so similar to soy sauce in drinkability)

1. Steam glutinous rice.

2. Place washed Sakura flowers on steamed glutinous rice.

3. Steam for 5 more minutes with the sakura on the rice to kill the remaining germs.

4. Transfer it out and add cold water.

5. Mix mix mix!

6. Once rice is cooled to room temperature, grind a rice wine yeast ball into powder.

7. Sprinkle the rice wine yeast ball over the rice.

8. Gently mix well and make a hole with 2-3 chopsticks.

9. Cover with 2 layers of plastic wrap and one blanket.

10. Leave it to ferment for 3-5 days.

11. Enjoy!

Hwachae

A good drink, especially if you want to drink something other than water.

Put all these in the bowl that you have in this order (but if you don’t want some of these things in your drink feel free to add them):

1. Mint ice.

2. Strawberries.

3. Blueberries.

4. Raspberries.

5. Mangoes.

6. Watermelon.

7. Bananas.

8. Jelly, if you like.

9. Popping Boba (the popping boba flavour is your choice).

10. Pour in Sprite and Pink Drink (from Starbucks) at the same time.

11. Milk.

12. Condensed Milk.

13. Vanilla ice cream (the company Bulla is most preferred, as it is more creamy).

    
    

3 Levels of Eating Lemons:

Level 1

1. Layer lemons slices and sugar in a rice cooker.

2. Use 'Rice' mode to cook for 40 min.

3. After ready, keep it warm for 2.5 hrs.

You will get a pot of caramelized  lemons in viscous sauce which is perfect for making lemonade.

Level 2

1. Cut and put them on a skewer.

2. Pour a cup of sugar and half a cup of water.

3. Coat the lemons skewers in the sugar syrup.

4. Quickly dip in iced water.

Level 3

1. Boil the lemons peeled in sugar water until tender.

2. Fry the lemons with your leftover Thanghulu sugar syrup.

3. Until they are evenly coated with crystallized sugar.

3 Levels of Eating Pomelo:

Level 1

1. Mix the pomelo flesh with yogurt (flavoured yogurt of your choice).

2. Scoop it onto a baking sheet.

3. Freeze it until it is solid.

4. Drizzle with white or milk chocolate.

Level 2

1. Cut the white part of the peel into small cubes.

2. Boil it in water.

3. Wash it a couple of times.

4. Then add water sugar and the white stuff of the peel of the pomelo to a nonstick frying pan.

5. Fry them until they are crystallized outside.

Level 3 

1. Cut the pomelo peel into stripes.

2. Add it to a glass jar with water and baking soda.

3. Ferment it under room temperature for 3 days.

4. Optional: you can pour it in a spray bottle.

   
   

Use it for cleaning the stove-top or the dishes.

For more recipes visit Mr He and Mrs Shi: https://m.youtube.com/@msshiandmrhe