Nyee recipe
Prep Time
1hr
Cook Time
5min
Total Time
1hr 5min

Special dessert eaten during Winter Festival/Solstice.

Ingredients

2 Servings
(1 serving = 1 mug or bowl)

Dough

  • 75g
    Glutinous Rice Flour (pure)
  • 60mL
    Pandan Juice(two pandan leaves blended with 60 milliter water)
  • 2tbsp
    hot Water
  • Water for boiling

Filling

  • 55g
    Grounded peanut (skinless peanut toasted in oven/air fryer 180° 10 min till golden brown)
  • 1/2tsp
    Sugar
  • 10g
    Honey (as binder)

Syrup

  • 750mL
    Water
  • 1
    Pandan knotted, this will increase its fragrance
  • 75g
    Sugar
  • 1tbsp
    fine shredded Ginger

How to make Nyee

  1. Boil all ingredients for Syrup till sugar dissolve & set aside.

    Mixed all ingredients for Filling. Mix, divide into 16 potions & roll into small balls and set aside.

    Mix Pandan Juice in Glutinous Rice Flour, gradually add hot water to the mix, lightly knead & divide into 16 potions.

    Flatten dough, put peanut ball filling in & wrap. Put in the middle of palm, using both palms roll into a ball. Set aside.

    Heat up water for boiling, add balls into the water, cooked when balls are floating. Sieve syrup. Add balls into syrup & serve.