Auspicious Fish Nian Gao

Some of you might think i'm crazy to make this so early for the coming chinese new year which falls on 03Feb2011, way too early to make these fishes but the reason why i wanted to make this and post it up now is to mainly share with all of you the way of making this and if you like it, then probably you can make this for your relatives or friends when you visit them during the new year. I would think the person who receives this would be so delighted seeing these prosperity koi fishes as it deemed to bring abundance, prosperity and wealth. Not only it looks beautiful, it taste just as delicious as well, the texture is more of a chewy kuih and sweet.This is the 2nd time i'm making this, the first time was last year and i've actually tagged this recipe long, long time ago from Florence's blog when was i secretly stalking her blog, ha! It's really not difficult to make this 'fish nian gao' but of course, you would  have to get the mould, i've also seen moulds which comes with the word ‘福', means good luck ..that's also a good one to make for chinese new year. But just take note if you were to make this to give to someone, i would suggest you give it in a pair but not four. Using florence's recipe with my mould ( 23cm in diameter) , i got 8 fishes.

those eyes are cooked red beans

Ingredients:
200gm glutinuous rice flour
100gm ungluten wheat flour ( tang mien  flour)
25gm rice flour
160gm-180gm sugar
400ml coconut milk
150ml water
1tbsp corn oil

Method:
1.Sieve all flour together and stir in coconut milk.
2.Boil water with sugar  and leave to cool.
3.Stir sugar syrup and oil into flour mixture.
4.Remove half bowl ( normal rice bowl) of flour batter and add in orange colour
5.On the greased fish mould, fill the parts that you want the orange colour to appear and steam for 3 minutes.
6. Then top up with the plain batter and steam for 40mins on high heat.
7. Repeat till you finish all the batter.

the fish mould

looks like salmon sushi at a glance..