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Poppy Bread with Pasta Madre Starter
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Pasta Madre (meaning ‘dough mother’ in Italian and has nothing to do with pasta), aka Lievito Madre (mother yeast), is a stiff sourdough starter, more like a dough which is widely used across Italy and favoured for both its active nature, mild flavour profile (no sour flavour) and ability to leaven egg and dairy-enriched doughs, like panettone, an Italian holiday cake that is eaten during the Christmas season. Check out here or here, if you want to learn more about this Italian mother yeast-Lievito Madra.
Last, but not the least, if you already have a liquid sourdough starter with 100% hydration at home, you can easily convert it to the solid pasta madre. Take out your liquid sourdough starter of 100 % hydration and leave it to come to room temperature (22C-24C / 72-75F) and give it 2-3 hours. Now you can start feeding the starter with a feeding ratio - 2:2:1 (2 parts liquid starter, 2 parts flour, 1 part water). For example, 20 g starter + 20 g strong flour + 10 g water. Feed 2 times every 5 hours, or until it doubles in size. You can also leave it in the fridge overnight, just feed the starter before going to bed and feed again in the morning. Repeat the process for 2 days or 3 days if making enriched breads.
White Asparagus with Sriracha Hollandaise
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Unlike the green variety, white asparagus must be peeled before cooking and the woody base should also be removed as it is too stringy and hard to chew. Peel and boil the white asparagus for this simple and yummy recipe, then serve those “White Gold” with an easy blender Hollandaise spiked with sriracha sauce. If you are in a hurry, simply serve them with melted butter.
Hollandaise sauce, one of the 5 French mother sauces (Béchamel, Velouté, Espagnole, Hollandaise, and Tomato), is an emulsion of egg yolk, melted butter, and lemon juice. Despite having “Holland” in its name, Hollandaise sauce was first born in France and was originally known as Sauce Isigny, named after Isigny-sur-Mer, a small town in Normandy famous for its butter and cream. When Normandy’s dairy production was shut down during World War I, the sauce was renamed “Hollandaise” to reflect the usage of imported Dutch butter.
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- Bring a stockpot of water to a boil, add the salt, the sugar and the butter. Meanwhile peel the white asparagus and cut off the woody bottom ends.
- Place the peeled white asparagus in the boiling water and cook for 12-15 minutes until al dente. Melt the butter over a low flame until it begins to bubble. Remove from heat.
- In a wide mouth mason jar, add egg yolks, lemon juice, cayenne pepper and sea salt. Blend the ingredients with your immersion blender while slowly adding the melted butter, a couple of tablespoons at a time, to the jar. Blend as you gradually add in butter, moving the immersion blender up and down. The sauce should thicken in just a minute or two.
- Season the Hollandaise with sriracha or your favourite chilli sauce. Whisk until combined. Taste and add more sriracha if desired for more heat.
- Drain the white asparagus and arrange on plates with spicy Hollandaise sauce on a bed of thinly sliced heirloom tomatoes if using, and garnish with chopped parsley and chilli rings.
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Harissa Honey Chicken Lollipops
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This particular chicken lollipop recipe is a Indo-Chinese favourite appetizer where frenched chicken wings are marinated, baked (or fried) until crisp and tossed with a sticky sweet and hot sauce (harrissa honey sauce). Simply put, chicken lollipops are the fried chicken wings but with a more distinct look and spicy flavour.
The name “chicken lollipop” is referring to how the chicken wings look after trimming. To achieve the lollipop appearance, the meat on the chicken wing is cut loose from the bone end and pushed down, a culinary technique known as “frenching.”
The recipe is actually very simple. The hardest part of the recipe is to form the chicken lollipops from chicken wings. If you plan to make a huge batch for a crowd, fry the chicken lollipops and make the sauce in advance. Then you can re-crisp the wings at a high temperature for a couple of minutes, re-heat the sauce, and toss to coat just before serving.
Here is a video on how to cut lollipops from the wings that I found on youtube.
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- Divide the chicken wing into 3 parts (drumette, winglet and wingtip) by slicing through the joints. Save the wingtip for other uses.
- French the drumette. Holding the drumette (which looks like a chicken drumstick) by the meaty end, use a small, sharp knife to cut around the thin end of the drummette so the meat and skin are released from the bone. Push the meat down towards the fat end to create a lollipop.
- French the winglet / flat. For the winglet, which contains two bones, cut the joint where the bones meet. Trim a small section of the meat from the circumference of that area to expose the bones. Remove one of the bones and push the meat to the end of the remaining bone to form a lollipop.
- Transfer the prepared wings to a medium bowl. Add in ground cumin, coriander, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, salt and pepper. Rub the spice mixture into the wing pieces until there is no powder left in the bottom of your bowl. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, up to overnight.
- Preheat your oven to 200C/400F and brush a baking tray with some olive oil. Arrange the chicken wings on the tray and bake in the middle of the oven for 35 minutes or until the chicken is nicely browned and slightly charred, and completely cooked through.
- Bring sauce ingredients slowly to a simmer in a saucepan on the stovetop while your wings are baking. When the sauce starts to bubble, turn off the heat and set aside for 5 minutes. The sauce will thickens up after cooling a bit. Toss the wings in the sauce until thoroughly coated. Serve on a bed of fresh herbs and garnished with pomegranate seeds and chopped spring onions if desired.
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Jumbo Strawberry Buttermilk Muffins
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Bursting with fresh, plump and sweet local strawberries, these fruity oversized muffins are soft, tender and make a perfect summer dessert or a delightful breakfast treat with coffee. They bake tall and moist just like the ones you get at your favourite local bakery. Buttermilk adds pleasant tanginess to baked goods, and like yoghrt and sour cream, it also helps tenderize gluten, giving baked goods a softer texture and more body. For an easy substitute of buttermilk, measure one tablespoon of lemon juice into one cup of milk and let sit for 5 minutes.
If you don't have a jumbo muffin tin, then use a regular 12-cup muffin pan and adjust the baking time to 15-18 minutes. You can substitute the strawberries for any seasonal fruit, or even chocolate chips!
Wild Garlic Pullman Sandwich Loaf
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Blooming Ramsons
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For this sandwich bread, a pullman pan, which is basically a loaf pan with a cover, is best for creating the beautiful pain de mie sandwich bread. But if you don’t have a pullman pan, feel free to use a regular loaf pan. Either way the bread will be amazingly delicious.
The beautiful garlic-scented plant is currently in season here and I am going to incorporate that into the rectangular pain de mie bread by adding gently wilted green leaves together with crisp fried onions to the dough. A fun foraging treat that's great for breakfast toasts, sandwiches, French toast or garlic croutons. Of course you can buy wild garlic / ramps in the supermarket or farmer market, but it’s undeniably more satisfying to cook or bake with something that you’ve actually found in the woods.
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