Hakka Xi ban

When you stay in Malaysia, you can try many type of dessert. It also includes some different race of traditional dessert.  In our Chinese Hakka race, there have a kuih called Xi Ban. It’s little bit of sweet and presented with pink color. Of course there also have some different color of Xi Ban and some also add in the filling and make it tastier.

I found a recipe from “aiyuanfen” blog, it sound like simple and easy to make. It also my first time made the traditional dessert.

Let’s prepare the ingredient as following

- 1¼ cup Plain Flour  

- 1 cup glutinous rice flour

- ½ cup sugar (if you like sweet, you can put more little bit )

- 1tsp instant yeast

- 200ml water

- 1/8 tsp Red coloring

- 1 tbsp corn oil

Instruction:

- Mix the plain flour, glutinous rice flour, sugar and yeast together.

- Add the red coloring into the water and stir well.

- Slowly add in the red color water to the flour mixture and roll it become dough.

- Add in the corn oil to the dough and keep rolling until the dough smooth.

- After the dough get ready, not need wait for raise.

- Divided the dough in the size about 30g, and roll it as round and use the finger round the dough in a 

  rounded manner.

- Put it on the baking paper or the banana leaf and wait it raises about 30 min.

- After use finger to test the dough already raise enough or not.

- Put the water for boiling, after water boiling can put the Xi Ban to steam about 12 min.

Steph's Home Cook Hakka Xi Ban