Dragon Fruit Jelly Mooncakes （火龙果燕菜月饼）

Tired of traditional mooncakes? Why not try this agar-agar jelly dragon fruit mooncake that has egg yolk in it? It is cold and pleasant. The cool part is that baking is not necessary.

Fruit season is currently in full swing, and prices are reasonably low as well. It now costs Rm9 per kg instead of Rm15 per kg. It's an excellent deal. I started to think about alternative ways to consume its remarkable beauty and taste besides as a fruit. The Mid-Autumn Festival will take place in less than a month, so this jelly dragon fruit mooncake is ideal.

The technique of making agar-agar mooncakes is simple, but the egg yolk that appears when I demold and slice the jelly mooncake always surprises me. I highly recommend mooncakes with egg yolks since they are more attractive.

These jelly mooncakes are made up of three components which are the egg yolk, the filling, and the skin layer. Let us get all the ingredients to hand to make this refreshing dragon fruit jelly mooncakes.

INGREDIENTS

(A) Egg yolk

1 tsp agar-agar powder

½ tsp jelly powder

50g sugar

400ml water

100g carrot

METHOD

Place all ingredients (A) into a pot. Keep on stirring, let it come to a boil or until all the ingredients are melted and the carrot turned soft. Blended it with a hand blender and poured it into egg yolk ice-cubed mold. Cool then chill in refrigerator until set.

(B) Dragon fruit jelly filling

2tsp agar-agar powder

1/8 tsp salt

60g sugar

100ml water

150ml dragon fruit

30ml coconut milk

70ml milk

METHOD

Blended the dragon fruit with a hand blender (reserved 1 tablespoon for the skin layer) and placed the rest of the ingredients into a pot except the coconut milk and the milk. Stir well and bring it to a boil, reduce to low heat. Add in the coconut milk and the milk, mix well. Pour into small mold. Gently place a jelly egg yolk into each mold, leave to cool and until set.

(C) Jelly mooncake exterior skin

1 tbsp agar-agar powder

1tbsp instant jelly powder

100g sugar

600ml water

2 pandan leaves, knotted.

2 tbsp milk

1 tbsp dragon fruit juice

METHOD

Place all the ingredients into a pot except the milk and the dragon fruit juice. Stir well and bring it to a boil, reduce to low heat, add in the milk and the dragon fruit juice, and mix well. Remove pot from heat. Pour a solution into mooncake mold, place in filling and fill solution to the brim. Cool and then chill.

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