Easy To Follow Recipes
This Nyonya Bak Chang recipe shows you how to make traditional Peranakan Rice Dumplings using a Pressure Cooker – saving hours of cooking time while keeping all the authentic flavours intact. Filled with savoury meat, mushrooms, sweet candied winter melon and wrapped with fragrant glutinous rice (including natural blue pea rice), these dumplings are perfect … Read more
Want to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival but intimidated by complex recipes? Try making Kee Chang (Alkaline Rice Dumplings)! With just a few ingredients, this is by far the easiest and most beginner-friendly sticky rice dumpling you can make. Learn how to make soft, chewy Plain Kee Chang (Alkaline Rice Dumplings) with just a few … Read more
Having difficulty in wrapping bak chang with the bamboo leaves that you bought and feel like giving up? Please don’t throw away the remaining leaves. This video tutorial will show you how you can still use the bamboo leaves and wrap the dumplings in a much easier way and steam them instead of boiling in … Read more
Don’t have bamboo leaves to make bak chang? No worries, you can still make it by steaming without the leaves. This is a steamed version of Nyonya Chang for those who are unable to get bamboo leaves where they live. It’s also for those who dread wrapping with bamboo leaves the traditional way. An easier … Read more
Today I’m sharing my version of Hokkien Bak Chang (Zong Zi), one of the most popular types of bak chang enjoyed during the dumpling season. Different dialect groups have their own versions, including Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese, Hainanese and Nyonya styles. This Hokkien bak chang is filled with pork belly, chestnuts, dried shrimps, mushrooms and salted eggs, giving … Read more
Love Peranakan rice dumplings but intimidated by the prep? This is my personal take on the classic Nyonya Bak Chang, designed for the modern home cook. Instead of tedious hand-dicing, I use minced pork belly to save time while keeping the filling incredibly juicy. You’ll still get that signature sweet-savory punch from candied winter melon … Read more