Dragon Fruit Sesame Agar Agar Mooncake
A no-bake agar-agar snow-skin mooncake with a dragon fruit jelly wrapper, a black sesame agar filling and a carrot-juice 'mock egg yolk' centre. Makes 8 normal size mooncakes.
🍽️ Makes 8
Ingredients
| 200 ml | Carrot juice (mock egg yolk) | |
| 1.5 tsp | 7.5 ml | Agar agar powder (mock egg yolk) |
| 3 tbsp | 45 ml | Sugar (mock egg yolk) |
| 1/2 tbsp | 7.5 ml | Soy milk powder (mock egg yolk) |
| 30 gm | Black sesame, washed & fried till fragrant | |
| 100 ml | Thick coconut milk (filling) | |
| 1 pinch | Salt (filling) | |
| 300 ml | Thin coconut milk (filling) | |
| 1.5 tsp | 7.5 ml | Agar agar powder (filling) |
| 120 gm | Light brown sugar (filling) | |
| 2 blades | Pandan leaves, shredded (filling) | |
| 150 gm | Red dragon fruit puree | |
| 100 gm | Fine sugar (pastry) | |
| 3 tsp | 15 ml | Agar agar powder (pastry) |
| 500 ml | Thin coconut milk (pastry) | |
| 2 blades | Pandan leaves, cut (pastry) |
Instructions
Mock egg yolk:
- Stir agar agar powder, sugar and soy milk powder into carrot juice.
- Bring to boil. Pour into egg yolk moulds and chill to set.
Black sesame filling:
- Blend black sesame (washed and fried till fragrant) and salt with the thick coconut milk till fine.
- Place thin coconut milk, agar agar powder, brown sugar and shredded pandan leaves in a pot.
- Bring to boil till agar agar powder and brown sugar dissolve. Discard pandan leaves.
- Stir in the black sesame mixture and mix evenly. Remove from fire.
- Pour mixture into small moulds about 1.5–2 cm high. Set slightly. Insert a mock egg yolk into the centre of the black sesame agar agar. Chill till set.
Dragon fruit pastry (makes 8 normal size mooncakes):
- Place sugar, agar agar powder, coconut milk and cut pandan leaves into a pot. Bring to boil.
- Stir till sugar dissolves. Turn off heat. Discard pandan leaves. Stir in the fruit puree.
- Pour mixture into a mooncake mould till 1/4 full. Set slightly. Insert a black sesame filling into each mould. Fill up with dragon fruit pastry mixture. Chill till set before unmoulding.