2014 - January 25, Cooking Workshop
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Event Details
During this event we teach people how to make Taiwanese foods! We held it in the McCormick Dining Hall and prepped in the McCormick Country Kitchen. Event details were pretty similar to last year's.
One new thing we did this year was divide up prep instructions between pre-event and during-event, and have printouts of prep instructions scattered around so people can refer to them when they don't know what to do.
Ingredients/shopping list:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lIYqQfWMZ36vsyoL6XfhV-4Tp7Yzc08DYld1cYJdyg8/edit
Prep instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UmLQRzhoKshmsQhF-eUniu1mMOnGb18zPr2FFV_UM54/edit
Menu
Red Bean Tangyuan with Ginger Syrup
Ingredients
- Sticky rice flour
- Canned red bean paste
- 4 oz Ginger, peel, slice, and pound slightly
- 5 cups water
- 1 cup sugar
Pre-Event Prep
- Add ginger, water, and sugar to saucepan. Bring to boil over high heat, then simmer on medium heat for 15 min, until syrup has reduced a little.
- (Shortly before events starts so dough doesn't dry up) mix glutinous rice flour and water (2 parts flour to 1 part water) until a soft dough forms. If it's too sticky, add more flour.
- Knead dough for 2-3 min until dough is smooth
- Divide dough into portions, put in bowl and cover with wet towel so it doesn't dry up.
During Event Instructions
- Take bean paste and roll into small ball about ½ inch in diameter
- Take some sticky rice dough and make ball slightly bigger than bean paste ball
- Flatten rice dough, wrap around red bean paste
- Roll in palm until smooth and round
- Place finished tangyuan on plate with plastic wrap to prevent sticking
- Boil finished tangyuan in water, cook for about 5 min. they should float when done.
- Serve in bowl with a little bit of ginger syrup
Event materials
- Bowls to hold everything
- Hot plate + pot to boil tangyuan
Comments
People made lots of tangyuan sculptures :D It was kind of hard to coordinate distributing the cooked tangyuan, since people would make them, put them in the pot, and walk away.
Scallion Pancakes
Makes about 72 scallion pancakes
Ingredients
(measurements from last year)
- 21 cups flour
- 7 cup hot water
- 7/3 cup cold water
- Salt
- Scallions: 3 bunches
- Oil
Pre-Event Prep
- Chop 3 bunches of scallions into tiny pieces
- Make the dough (approximately 1 cup flour: 1 cup water) and separate into big balls we can bring out staggeredly
During Event Instructions
- Separate the dough into balls of dough (approximately the size of a tennis ball, maybe a bit smaller?)
- Roll out the dough into a circle
- Add salt, oil and green onions (in that order)
- Roll up the pancake into a cinnamon roll shape thing
- Roll out the pancake
- If stacking the pancakes, separate them with wax paper or something similar
Event materials
- griddle
- rolling pins
- knife or scissors for portioning
- tongs
Comments
Dumplings
Ingredients
- 320 wrappers
- 2 bunches scallions
- one piece of ginger
- 3 pounds ground pork (meat)
- 1 packet vermicelli (vegetarian)
- 1 box tofu (vegetarian)
- 1 dozen eggs (vegetarian)
- 3 pounds garlic chives
- 2 heads napa cabbage
- soy sauce
- cooking wine
- sugar
Pre-Event Prep
- chop 3 bunches of scallions into tiny pieces, put aside ½ cup for onigiri filling
- chop 1 head of garlic into tiny pieces
- chop small amount of ginger into really tiny pieces)
- chop 2 heads napa cabbage into tiny pieces
- chop 3 pounds of chives into tiny pieces
- cut all tofu into tiny pieces (can sort of smush them)
- soak shiitake mushrooms (DO AT START OF PREP) for 30-45 minutes until soft, and chop * into small 1/2cm pieces (remove stems)
- pre-cook vermicelli (follow instructions on package but shorten the time) and chop into 1 inch pieces
MEAT FILLING:
- mix around a tablespoon of ginger into all ground pork
- mix ground pork + oil, stir well
- add ⅔ of total scallions and garlic, soy sauce, salt, sugar, cooking wine, tiny bit of sesame oil
- add ⅔ napa cabbage, squeezing out the water as you go
VEGETARIAN FILLING:
- mix remaining garlic/scallions, shiitake mushrooms, remaining napa (squeezing out water), chives, tofu
- add soy sauce, salt, sugar, cooking wine
- mix in vermicelli
During Event Instructions
- set up griddles
- have people wrap dumplings
- cook them on griddles
Event Materials
- griddle/electric skillet
- ice for keeping the fillings cold (esp meat!)
Comments
We ended up with a lot of extra filling and wrappers, and had an exec dumpling wrapping marathon at the end of the event. Also, remember to chill the fillings throughout the course of the event (place the pot in a bigger pot that's filled with ice and some water).
Chopping all the ingredients for dumplings took up the most time during prep. Maybe using a food processor for some things would be good...
Fan Tuan
Ingredients
- Furikake Flakes 3 bottles
- Seaweed sheets 2 packets
- Rou song 2 large jars
- 2 pots of rice
- Sriracha
- 2 bottles mayo
- 1 big pack of canned tuna (many cans)
Pre-Event Prep
- mix spicy mayo tuna filling:
- mix mayo with sriracha (about ⅔ mayo, ⅓ sriracha, adjust as you see fit), sesame oil, salt for spicy mayo
- mix spicy mayo into tuna
- mix in handful of scallions
- cook 2 pots of rice
- cut seaweed sheets into 2-inch wide strips
During Event Instructions
- make ball of rice (optional: mix in furikake)
- flatten it and press a deep hole in the middle for filling
- add filling to hole, cover opening with rice
- wrap with seaweed strip
Event Materials
- Plastic wrap
- Ice to chill tuna filling
Comments
Went well. Made one pot of rice during pre-event prep, brought out second pot later. Keep tuna filling chilled. We also made some additional spicy mayo (without tuna).
Boba
We just used the same recipe/instructions at last year.
Ingredients
- Boba 4 bags
- Black tea 90 bags
- Condensed milk 2 cans
- Honey
Pre-Event Prep
- make two pots of tea (45 bags each)
- make boba
- fill squeezy bottles with condensed milk
Prep Materials
- Pot for tea
- Pot for boba
Event Materials
- Serving spoon
- Boba straws
- Cups
- Squeezy bottles for condensed milk
Comments
Pre-make the tea, and then have people come up and add boba/condensed milk as they like.
