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Or Nee (Teochew Yam Dessert)

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Ingredients
  

  • 500 g Yam skinned, steamed and mashed
  • 100 g Sugar your favourite kind, I used light brown
  • 50 g Pork lard
  • 1 Tbsp Oil
  • 1 Small Onion or 4 Shallots skinned and thinly sliced

Syrup

  • 200 g Gingko nuts I used frozen ones
  • 100 g Rock Sugar
  • 1 cup Water
  • A bunch Pandan leaves optional

Instructions
 

Yam Paste

  • Steam the yam and mash it when it is still hot, then add the sugar.
  • Heat a pan with the oil and fry the lard.
  • Remove the lard and use the oil to fry the shallots or onions at low heat.
  • When the onions turn light brown, add the yam paste and stir through, incorporating the lard oil.
  • Place a cling film onto the yam paste to ensure moisture does not escape from it.

Syrup

  • Add the rock sugar to the syrup and when the sugar has dissolved, add the gingko nuts.
  • Boil at medium heat until a syrup of a desired consistency is achieved.
  • Keep the gingko nuts soaked in the syrup as long as possible, overnight if possible.

Serve

  • Serve hot, with the syrup over the yam paste.