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Yam Paste dessert

Teochew Cuisine – Dessert Yam Paste with Ginkgo Nuts & Pumpkins (白果金瓜配潮州芋泥)

Posted on November 3, 2008December 28, 2022 by PatriCa BB 雪冰
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Yam Paste dessert

“Famous Teochew Sweet Yam Paste, the hearty flavour created at home, for your love ones”

I love sweet yam paste. We pronounce it as “Or Nee” in Teochew dialect. Basically, most food products made of yam paste are my favourite. I love the taste of yam. Yam puff, yam pancake, yam bun, yam biscuit, yam cake, yam in soup, and etc. Yam, yam, and yammy…

Sweet yam paste is a famous traditional Teochew dessert. This dessert dish will be served at most Teochew restaurants in Singapore. 1 regular portion of sweet yam paste dessert costs about $5 – 6. Price is expensive! So, how about give it a try at home? Try my sweet yam paste recipe here.

Sweet Yam Paste might look complicated to make, but it is not so difficult in fact. Taste might be as good as restaurant standard, much more the hearty feeling to your loves one, with a homemade yam paste!

Ingredient
1 regular yam aka taro, cut into small pieces with skin removed
¼ cup of olive oil (or pork lard for more fragrance)
½ cup of sugar (sweetness adjust to your liking)
½ cup of water (more watery or thicker texture to be determined by the amount of water added, adjust to your liking of its texture)
½ clove of shallot, minced
3 tablespoon of coconut milk
1 tablespoon of corn flour

Garnish
1 wedge of pumpkin, cut into small pieces with skin removed
1 handful of ginkgo nuts, cooked (Get vacuum-packed readily available from supermarkets. Boil with water for 10 minutes)

Method
1) Bring a small pot of water to a boil. Add the taro pieces and pumpkin pieces, boil for 10 minutes, or until the pieces are thoroughly cooked and tender. Remove from pot, let the taro and pumpkin pieces cool separately. When pumpkin is cool, cut it into small cubes, and reserve for garnishing purpose.

2) Return to the cool taro, use a masher or big fork to mash the taro completely smooth. Heat a wok over medium fire, and add in olive oil. Add shallot and fry till fragrant.

3) Then, add in mashed taro, and stir continuously with wooden spatula, until the taro and oil are well-combined. Reduce heat to low fire, gradually add in water and keep stirring it till taro paste becomes smooth and paste-like consistency.

4) Add sugar and coconut milk, stir for 5 minutes. Sprinkle some corn flour, and stir for another 5 minutes. Heat off, and serve in a nice serving dish. Garnish with ginkgo nuts and pumpkin cubes. Serve warm.

Yam Paste

This yam paste can be used as the filling of bun or puff, if you wish to make yam bun/ yam puff.

Calorie of a decent portion of yam paste counts 350 – 400kcal.

Tips: Taste your yam paste while cooking, increase the amount of sugar if sweeter taste is preferred.
* The texture of Teochew yam paste should be thick. If you prefer more watery consistency, add more water when cooking, continue to stir till well-combined.
* You may also choose to add more coconut milk as garnishing when served. Alternatively, add olive oil on top of the yam paste to feel the smooth texture in the palate.

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16 thoughts on “Teochew Cuisine – Dessert Yam Paste with Ginkgo Nuts & Pumpkins (白果金瓜配潮州芋泥)”

  1. Ju Ann says:
    November 4, 2008 at 10:56 pm

    hi pat!

    i can’t believe this is done so easily! i love this v much!

    anyway, can you tell me which brand of coconut milk is good for this this?

    and the yam erm… regular = roughly how big?

    ok last Q!! what is shallot? Is it garlic?

    thanks for sharing!! :)

    Reply
  2. PatriCa BB says:
    November 5, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    Hi hi Ju Ann,

    You are most welcome to load me qns ya!

    1) I like to use the ready packet type instead of those placed in the chilling shelves. It might be fresher and nicer, but harder to store, while the ready packet one can be stored at room temperature before opened. So, I use Ayam Brand packet coconut milk.

    Sometimes, I will use low-fat one. Then, I will choose M&S brand (check out the photo of such in my Low-fat Curry Laksa post as below:
    https://www.mywoklife.com/2008/06/low-fat-singapore-laksa.html ).

    Go ahead trying the fresh one though. :)

    2) Size of yam: Length abt 7″ and diameter abt 3″. When I stated regular, I meant an average size among those yams you could find in the basket/ box/ shelf at supermarket or wet market.

    3) Shallot is small red onion. (小葱头). Those very small onion normally used for cooking chili/ curry or fried ones which you top it on your soup noodles as gasnishing.. Hawker food seller e.g. Ban Mian will always put one..

    The purpose to have a little of this shallot, is to add fragrance to my yam, but take note, slice it very thinli, and DO NOT over-put it as the shallot taste will be over-whelming and too strong for your sweet yam paste. It might turn around the effect. Just a little, or you may omit it, if you think shallot taste is not necessary for you.. :)

    Reply
  3. Baby Boy Names says:
    November 6, 2008 at 5:01 pm

    this looks great. i think it’s tasty also.

    Reply
  4. Ju Ann says:
    November 6, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    woah thanks! :) I’ll be back to let you know if I succeed! :)!!

    Reply
  5. sharleneanne says:
    January 28, 2009 at 11:03 am

    Hi, would like to know what is the purpose of using shallots and will there be a difference if the shallots are removed from the oil?

    Reply
  6. PatriCa BB says:
    January 30, 2009 at 5:11 pm

    Hi Sherlene,

    To put the shallot just to get some fragrance of it. Just need to extract a little frangrance by frying it in the oil, then remove it as I do not need too strong flavour from it. This fragrance makes the dessert not just in sweet taste, but mixes with some fragrant scent and taste, I personally like it alot.

    Reply
  7. Jmi says:
    February 4, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    Hi there, possible to convert from cups into grams?
    Thanks :)

    Reply
  8. PatriCa BB says:
    February 5, 2009 at 10:33 pm

    HI Jmi,

    Hmm….. I can try…

    50 gram to 1/4 cup of olive oil;
    90 gram to 1/2 of sugar;
    100ml to 1/2 gram of water;

    Reply
  9. yipinn says:
    August 21, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    need some hlp .. sry to ask u .. what is “½ clove of shallot” in chinese ?
    tksss

    Reply
  10. My Wok Life says:
    August 24, 2009 at 9:55 am

    Hi Yippin,

    Shallot is small red onion – (小葱头). Sometimes, 1 small shallot will have 2 or more cloves in it when you peel the outer layer of skin. So, just take 1 of the cloves and use only half of it and thinly slice the half clove for use.

    In Chinese, it should be called – (半瓣小葱头).

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  11. Anonymous says:
    October 14, 2009 at 10:25 pm

    haha..this is simple but if u wanna try the restaurant standard is not this kind of recipe..cuz it takes quite long to do it to make it more fragrance and smooth..

    Reply
  12. PatriCa BB says:
    October 15, 2009 at 9:34 am

    Yes, I can totally understand.. Of course, like I said beforehand, most of my recipes are express, simple and for home consumption with your loves one if wanna a home cooking version. No time and lack equipement for complicated recipes at this moment :)

    Reply
  13. adeus says:
    September 27, 2010 at 11:58 am

    Hi

    just want to ask, is it possible to replace half of the coconut milk with low fat skim mrt? coz my hubby’s tummy cannot take concentrated fats. thanks

    Reply
  14. PatriCa BB says:
    September 28, 2010 at 12:16 pm

    Hi adeus,

    I won’t recommend such combination, in fact. Perhaps, you may consider trying with evaporated milk, or adding lesser of coconut milk (buy those meants for desserts which should be more diluted), or omit it totally. :)

    Reply
  15. Estée says:
    August 22, 2013 at 5:32 am

    Hi patricia

    I’m currently making some but I’m concerned about how to reheat it later at night or for tmr morning.
    Do u know how do I store the ornee after I make it? Do I freeze it? And how do I reheat it? Thank u!

    Reply
    1. PatriCa BB says:
      August 22, 2013 at 4:32 pm

      Hello,

      There are 2 simple ways to reheat your yam paste even if it is refrigerated.

      1) Steam to make hot.

      2) Microwave to reheat.

      Hope these help.

      PatriCa

      Reply

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