Moon cakes with Goan Panchakhadya /Chuun filling

 

Steamed Moon cakes are specially prepared in Southeast Asian countries for the mid-autumn festival. They can be baked or steamed.
They seldom remind me of our Goan patolyo made in pandan leaves on several festive occasions.

Here is the steamed version Moon Cakes with our festive panchakhadya or Chunn ( Coconut filling) stuffed into it giving it an Indo western touch.

Here is the recipe.

Ingredients


60gm glutinous rice flour
40gm rice flour made with Bluefort basmati rice
25gm cornflour
40gm powdered sugar
185 gm milk
18gm vegetable oil
1 cup freshly grated coconut
1/2 cup jaggery
1/4th tsp cardamom powder
pinch of salt
Extra rice flour for rolling the mooncakes
Wooden mooncake mold

Procedure


To make the filling
Take a flat bottom pan, add pure ghee to it. Pour in the grated coconut.
Add jaggery and let it cook for 5min.
Once incorporated we'll let the liquids dry up.
Add cardamom powder as salt. Set it aside to cool down.
Roll then into balls once cooled.
To Make the wrapper
Combine milk, sugar, and oil well and then mix with corn starch, Bluefort basmati rice flour, and glutinous rice flour.
Strain once and set aside for 10 minutes. Cover with a plate and steam for around 20minutes until it becomes slightly transparent. Transfer out and stir with chopsticks forcefully for several minutes until fine and smooth. Transfer to a plate and cover with plastic wrapper. Knead with both hands for several minutes until the surface becomes oily. This is really important to have a soft taste wrapper, so please do not skip this. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours before assembling the mooncake.
Once ready to be shaped divide the wrapper dough into 2 parts. Add pandan paste to one half and kneed well. Make dough balls and set aside.

Now take one ball of dough and flatten it on your palms using your fingertips. Once it's a flattened circle keep the filling ball into it and make it into a round dumpling.
Dust the shaping mould with rice flour a and roll this dumpling into it.

Unmould the beautiful Mooncakes.




 

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