This is a traditional palace dessert in China. I have tried out this recipes and found out a few important key points. This dessert is best serve within 1 hours after deep frying because it will get soggy as times pass. Hope you like it.
Recipes:
This recipes makes 10 pieces of Lotus Flaky puff.
Coconut filling
Desiccated coconut 50g
unsalted butter 20g (soften at room temperature.)
salted egg yolk 20g (cooked and sieved.)
Egg yolk 1.1/2 tablespoon
icing sugar 20g
**Salted egg yolk steam in steamer for 5 minutes and then off heat and keep inside steamer for another 5 minutes.
while it is still warm, crush it and sieve it.
water dough
low protein flour 100g
Sugar 10g
Shortening 10g
Water 40g
Rose water 1 teaspoon
pink colouring as needed
Oil dough
low protein flour 65g
shortening 35g
Video available below 👇