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Goji Berries & Chrysanthemum Jelly

Ingredients

• 5 small Chrysanthemum flowers
• 2-3 tablespoons dried Goji berries (soaked in water)
• 2-3 tablespoons sugar
• 20g gelatine
• 250ml hot water
• 250ml cold water

Instructions

1. Soak dried Goji berries in hot water till soften. Drain and set aside.
2. Brew Chrysanthemum flowers in a cup of hot water for 5 minutes. Drain and save the tea.
3. Boil Chrysanthemum tea in a pot, add gelatine and stir in sugar. 
4. Turn off heat. Add 250ml of cold water.
5. Add Goji berries and Chrysanthemum flowers.
6. Pour into jelly cups and put in fridge to set.

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Baked Pears

Ingredients

• 2 large pears
• 50g dried mixed fruit of your choice
• 50g granola
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 cup apple juice

Instructions

1. Cut pears in halves. (peel if you desired) 
2. Scoop out the core and seeds with a spoon to create a hole in the centre.
3. Preheat oven at 170C.
4. Place halved pears with cut sides up on baking tray. 
5. Mix sugar and cinnamon together in another bowl and sprinkle all over the pears.
6. Mix granola and dried fruits together and mound them into the holes.
7. Pour apple juice in the hole till 3/4 full.
8. Bake in oven for 30 minutes or pears soften.
9. Serve with yoghurt or ice cream.

 

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Avocado Key Lime Pie

Ingredients for filling

• 2 avocados
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 1/2 cup coconut oil
• 2 tablespoons honey

 Ingredients for crust

• 1/2 cup ground almond
• 1/2 cup dates
• pinch of salt 

 

Instructions

1. Mix all ingredients for filling together with blender. Set aside.
2. Place ground almond and dates in processor and process till fine texture.
3. Press crust mixture into a round greased baking tin.
4. Pour all filling on top of crust.
5. Place in fridge for at least 2 hours before serving.

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Berry Bake

Ingredients for filling

• 100g strawberries
• 100g blackberries
• 100g blueberries
• 100g cherries
• 100g raspberries
• 40g sugar
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
• 1/4 teaspoon coarse salt
   

Notes: You can substitute any berries of your choice.

Ingredients for topping

• 170g all-purpose flour
• 110g rolled oats (or substitute with chopped nuts of your choice)
• 70g sugar
• 80g unsalted butter (softened)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Instructions

1. Preheat oven at 180C.
2. Prepare filling by mixing all berries together with sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice and salt in a large bowl.
3. Pour berry mix to a baking dish.
4. Prepare topping by mixing flour, oats, baking powder and salt together. Mix butter and sugar with a spatula or mixer in another bowl till pale and fluffy. Stir dry ingredients into butter mix. 
5. Use hands to squeeze topping pieces together into clumps.
6. Sprinkle topping over filling .
7. Bake for an hour or till golden brown.
8. Cool and serve with yoghurt or ice cream.

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Fruits Popsicle

Ingredients

• watermelon (diced)
• kiwi (diced)
• mango (diced)
• cranberry juice (or other juice)

Instructions

1. Prepare and dice fruits of your choice.

2. Add fruits and juice.

3. Freeze till frozen and serve.

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Baked Peaches with Nuts

Ingredients

• 2 fresh peaches or apricots
• 50g walnuts (crushed)
• 50g almonds (grounded)
• 1 teaspoon honey
• 2 teaspoons water
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice

 

Instructions

1. Roast almonds in oven at 120C till golden brown.
2. Ground roasted almonds.
3. Cut peaches in halves and cored. Bath peaches in lemon juice to prevent discoloration.
4. Preheat oven at 180C.
5. Fill crushed walnut into the cavity of peaches.
6. Bake in oven for 10-15 minutes.
7. Dilute honey with water.
8. Brush diluted honey over baked peaches and bake for another minute or two.
9. Sprinkle grounded almond over baked peaches and serve.

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Raspberry Pavlova

Ingredients

• 3 egg whites
• 120g sugar
• 100g raspberries
• 250g fresh cream

Instructions

1. Preheat oven at 150C.
2. Beat egg whites with electric mixer, gradually add sugar as texture stiffen up.
3. Beat til thick and shiny.
4. Pour whipped egg white on a baking tray with greased baking sheet on.
5. Bake for an hour. Set aside and cool down.
6. In another bowl, beat fresh cream til thick and shiny.
7. Spread whipped cream on top of cooled down meringue.
8. Arrange fresh raspberries on top. Serve.

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Nuts and Cinnamon Sweet Soup

 

Ingredients

• 30g cashew nut
• 30g almond
• 50g black sesame
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 300 ml fresh milk

Instructions

1. Heat pan with no oil on low heat. Pan fry nuts and black sesame til the aroma fills up the room.
2. Ground cashew nuts and almond. Set aside.
3. Heat milk in a pot, no more than 60-70C.
4. Add ground cashew and almond to pot while stirring.
5. Add sesame, ground cinnamon and sugar to pot while stirring.
6. Cover pot with lid and let it simmer for a minute.
7. Turn off heat and serve.

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Roasted Fruits

Roasting caramelizes natural sugar in fruits and brings out their sweetness naturally. It is a great dessert to serve after lunch or dinner.

Ingredients

• Fresh fruits of your choice (peaches, apples, grapes, cherries, etc.)
• 1 teaspoon olive oil
• 2 limes 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence (optional)
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional)
• Brown sugar or honey to taste

Instructions

1. Preheat grill at 200C.
2. Wash and cut fruits according to your liking.
3. Place cut fruits in a bowl, mix with olive oil, vanilla essence and ground cinnamon.
4. Grill for 5 minutes and turn slices over.
5. Place grilled fruits in a bowl, then squeeze in lime juice and zest.
6. Drizzle fruits with honey and lightly toss.
7. Serve warm.

 

 

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Coconut Cream Brulee

Ingredients

• 240ml coconut milk
• 240ml fresh milk
• 4 eggs (lightly beaten)
• 120g granulated sugar
• 50g caster sugar
• few drops vanilla essence
• 100ml water

Instructions

1. Add water to pan and bring to boil. 
2. On low heat, add granulated sugar to pan.
3. Boil til mixture caramelizes to golden brown.
4. Turn off heat. Add 2 tablespoons water and stir til all caramel dissolved.
5. Divide caramel into 4 cream brulee dishes. Set aside.
6. Pour fresh milk and coconut milk in a pan and bring to boil on low heat.
7. Turn off heat once bubbling.
8. Whisk in beaten eggs, caster sugar and vanilla essence.
9. Divide content into 4 cream brulee dishes over caramel.
10. Preheat oven at 160C.
11. Fill baking tray with water, about half.
12. Place a rack on top and set brulee dishes on rack.
13. Bake for 40 minutes.
14. Serve cool.

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Ginger and Sweet Potato Pudding

You might not have realized before, but sweet potatoes contain wondrous nutritional values. They can raise our blood levels of vitamin A as well as other nutrients such as,  vitamin C, B6, B1, B2, B3, manganese, copper, pantothenic acid, biotin, potassium, etc.

Together with nausea calming substance in ginger, this is a great recipe for women whether expecting or not.

Ingredients

• 300g sweet potatoes
• 1 cup full fat milk
• 1 egg yolk (lightly beaten)

 Ginger syrup

• 2 tablespoons grated ginger
• 3 tablespoons fresh cream
• 2 tablespoons melted butter
• 1 egg (lightly beaten)
• pinch of ground cinnamon (optional)

  Instructions

1. Steam sweet potatoes with skin on till inside is soft. (steaming preserved most nutrients)
2. Skin and mash sweet potatoes when cooked.
3. Place mash sweet potatoes in a pot on low heat.
4. Add fresh milk to pot and mix well while keeping on low heat.
5. Turn off heat. Add all ingredients for ginger syrup to pot. Mix well.
6. Preheat oven at 180C. Grease cupcake molds or other small baking containers with butter.
7. Scoop mixture into each cup till full, then brush egg yolk on surface.
8. Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes.

Notes: The colour of your pudding depends on the kind of sweet potatoes you choose. Sweet potatoes come in yellow, orange, purple, etc.

  

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Coconut Milk Pudding

Ingredients

• 400ml coconut milk
• 6 tablespoons condensed milk
• 200g plain flour (sift)
• 1 tablespoon corn flour (sift)
• 3 eggs (lightly beaten)
• 10g melted butter
• 1 tablespoon sugar (optional)
• pinch of salt

Instructions

1. Mix plain flour, corn flour and sugar in a large bowl.
2. Beat eggs in another large bowl. 
3. Add coconut milk, condensed milk, butter and salt. Mix well.
4. Pour mixture into flour bowl gently.
5. Whip mixture til smooth.
6. Pour mixture in a pan, simmer on low heat for 20 minutes or until thicken. Stir constantly while simmering to avoid burning at the bottom.
7. Pour heated mixture in a 3 inches or higher greased baking tray or cake mould.
8. Steam for 30 minutes. Cool and cut into small pieces to serve.

 

 

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Crisped Rice Fruit Yoghurt

Sufficient calcium intake is most essential throughout your pregnancy. The following recipe contains ingredients rich in calcium and it's very appetizing.

 

Ingredients

• 1 apple
• 1 pear   
• 2 halves peach   (fresh or canned)
• 4 tablespoon crisped rice cereal
• 1 cup plain yoghurt

Instructions

1. Pit apple and pear. 
2. Cut apple and pear into small dices.
3. Drain canned peach or peel and pit fresh peach.
4. Mix fruits with yoghurt.
5. Sprinkle crisped rice cereal on top and serve.

 

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Blueberry and Yoghurt Dip

The production of free radicals increase in our body during pregnancy. Antioxidant found in blueberries can help eliminate theses free radicals.

 Ingredients

• 1 cup plain yoghurt
• 50g blueberries   (mashed)
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 1 small pickled cucumber

 

 

Instructions

1. Mash blueberries with a fork.
2. Chop pickled cucumber into small dices.
3. Mix honey and yoghurt together with blueberry mash and pickled cucumber.
4. Serve as a dip with bread sticks or on toast.

           

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Almonds and Egg White Pudding

Ingredients

• 200g ground almond
• 6 cups water
• 4 egg white
• 50g Sugar 
• pinch of salt

Tip 1: You can use fresh almonds if you preferred. Boil them for 3 minutes and skin almonds by hand. Use a grinder to ground almonds into powder. 

Instructions

1. Mix ground powder in water and bring to boil in a pot on low heat. 
2. Add sugar and salt, simmer gently on low heat for 10-15 minutes.
3. Separate egg white from egg yolk.
4. Turn off heat.
5. Gently and slowly, pour egg white to pot while stirring with a spatula. 
6. Ready to serve. 

Tip 2: If you prefer a smoother texture. Use filter to filter out all almond residue after cooking with water before adding sugar, salt and egg white. Return filtered liquid and add the rest of the ingredients, then boil for 10 minutes.

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Having lived in Hong Kong, a famous Gourmet Paradise, for a decade, I've tasted quite a few delicacies. The local sweet pudding cafe is one of my favourite places to be on any Friday evenings. Combining fresh ginger and milk for a pudding is so genius that I had to learn to make it at home to satisfy my appetite. And what's better? Is that ginger is a herb that promotes good health to our reproductive organs. It really is a win win situation!!

Sweet Ginger Milk Pudding

 

  Ingredients

• full cream fresh milk             250ml
• ginger                                    60g
• sugar                                      30g

Instructions

1. Peel and grate all ginger.




2. Place grated ginger in a sift and squeeze all the juice out. Extract as much juice as you can.

3. Keep ginger juice in a warm bowl.

4. Heat milk in pot on low heat, stir in sugar when milk is hot. Keep waving the pot while heating to prevent it from boiling. Never let milk reach boiling point.

5. Turn off the heat on the first sign of boiling bubbles. Side side.

6. Prepare two jugs, pour hot milk from one jug to another and keep repeating. Repeat for at least 10 times or until milk cools down to about 80C.

7. Pour 80C milk into the warm bowl with ginger juice. Leave for about 3 minutes. The milk will set naturally.


8. This pudding must be served while it is hot. Texture will turn runny again once completely cooled.

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What's better than a vitamin A rich pudding with all the goodies from eggs and dairy product? You have every excuse in the world to munch on this mouth watering dessert.

Pumpkin Pudding with Maple Syrup

 

Ingredients

• whole mini pumpkin            1
• single cream                         50ml
• large egg                               1
• egg yolk                                1
• maple syrup                          2 tablespoons
• corn flour                              2 teaspoons
• vanilla extract                       2 teaspoon

1. Cut open pumpkin, about 1 inch from the top. Wrap opened pumpkin in cling film to
   
   keep fresh. 
2. Remove all seeds, place cover back and steam whole pumpkin for 10 minute.
3. Remove from steamer, set aside to cool.
4. Scrape a small amount of flesh from inside the pumpkin after cooling, mash it and set aside.
5. Remember to scrape only a thin layer and not too rough.
6. Blend mashed pumpkin, egg, egg yolk, cream, vanilla extract, maple syrup and corn flour until smooth.
7. Pour mixture into pumpkin, place pumpkin lid back. Steam for 15 minutes or until mixture set.

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Professor Wendie Robbins, PhD, R.N., F.A.A.N.,who conducted a research at the University of California suggested that consuming 75 grams of walnuts per day improved sperm vitality, motility, and morphology. (all essential for healthy sperm production) Walnuts are the only nut with an excellent source of alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) – the plant-based omega-3 fatty acid, consuming on daily bases has positive effect in sperm production.

Sweet Walnut Pudding

 

Ingredients

• skinned walnut                   200g
• ground white rice               200g
• water                                 2 cups
• sugar                                (seasoning)
• evaporated milk                (seasoning)

1. Boil walnuts for 20 minutes, drain and dry.
2. Deep fry boiled and dried walnuts in hot oil until golden.
3. Drain and set side.

4. Place half of the walnuts in blender together with 2 cups of  water, sugar, 100g ground rice and half a cup of evaporated milk. Blend until smooth texture.

5. Repeat step 4 with the other half of the ingredients.




6. Pour all mixture into a pot, bring to boil. Keep stirring while boiling to avoid burning or setting.