Yi Ba

Today, i have adapted Aunty Yochana's recipe to make the Hainanese Yi Ba, the fillings is coconut cooked with gula melaka, ginger, peanut and seasme seed.

The skin is made of glutinous flour. I like Aunty Yochana's recipe as it was clear, detailed and most importantly is that most of her recipe that i have tried so far are successful. Even sometimes, i consult her via emial, she will answer my mail, this make me very happy.

Ingredients for fillings:

200gm grated coconut

50gm gula melaka - palm sugar

30gm brown sugar

1/4 tsp salt

50gm roasted peanuts - chopped coarsely

25gm roasted seasame seeds

Pastry dough:

250 hot boiling water

250gm glutinous rice flour

1 tbsp sugar

a pinch of salt

4 tbsp Oil

Banana Leaves

Method:

- Fillings: fry all the ingredients together till dry

- Dough: mix glutinous rice flour, sugar, salt and oil together

- Pour hot boiling water into glutinous rice flour mixture and stir with a chopstick till it binds into a dough. Cover for 10 mins with a wet cloth

- Pinch some dough and wrap up with the fillings

- Wrap up with banana leaf and mark a red dot on top of kueh

- Steam for 15 mins