KUEH KELEDEk

This sweet savoury is a nonya kueh.Inside the ingredients is similar to nonya dumplings.the recipes is from a magazine.I uses half of the pastry ingredients, same for the filling.

KUEH KELEDEK

SWEET POTATO PASTRY
Ingredients;
150g glutinous rice flour
3 tbsp rice flour
800g sweet potato,steamed and mashed with 1 tbsp sugar
1/4 tsp salt
2 egg
1/2 cup to 3/4 cup,slowly add water,enough to mix and form a firm dough

for filling;
500g pork belly
3 cup water
5tbsp cooking oil
3 tbsp garlic,peeled and pounded till fine
10 shallots,peeledand pounded till fine
8 dried mushroom,soaked till soft,squeezed dry and diced
1/2 tsp salt to taste
100g sugar
1 tbsp pepper powder
4 tbsp toasted coriander seeds,pounded till fine and sieved
2 tbsp dark soy sauce
100g preserved melon,diced
4 to 5 cups oil,for deep frying

Mehod;
1.Sieve both types of flour. Add mashed sweet potato,salt,egg and slowly add spoon by spoon to mix into a smooth and firm dough.set aside.

2.Boil water,add the pork belly and let boil for 30 minutes,remove the pork belly and the stock kept aside.when the pork belly is cool,dice into small cube.

3.heat oil in a wok,fry garlic and shallots.Add pork and mushrooms,stir fry.

4.Add salt,sugar,pepper,coriander seeds and dark soy sauce.add 3/4 cup of pork stock,preserved melon ,simmer till ixture is pasty and sauce nearly dry.cool.

5.form pork mixture into the size of a small ball.Form the sweet potato dough into balls.Make a depression in them and place pork mixture inside.Close up the dough.deep fry till golden brown.the should not be too hot,or the dumplings will burst open.drin on the kitchen paper.