
Into the 2nd day of the Royal Selangor – Get Your Jelly On – 30-day Challenge! I practically spent almost the whole Saturday testing out a few ways to use the Royal Selangor Pewter Jelly Mould. To my surprise, I thoroughly enjoyed it! From time to time, new ideas just came to my mind. I made sure that I noted down when they were still fresh. Though I am not good in drawing, I tempted to sketch how I would like some to look like. I just hope that I don’t dream about jelly mould since I have been using it quite a lot now and that I will be able to achieve what I wanted to.
Though, there was a failure yesterday but it doesn’t make me feel like giving up. Instead, it made me more keen to find out what went wrong and to try again. Hopefully a more practice will help me to achieve what I want to.
Anyway, I hope you like the previous recipe – Spotted Dick, which I gathered the title has gained quite a fair bit of attention. I laughed when I saw one of the comments – specifically on how careful one has to think before saying liking or loving spotted dick! 😀 Anyway, it’s a good laugh!
Today, I decided to use the the jelly mould to construct a pyramid of yellow sticky rice, layered with curry chicken & potato and finished off the base with a few slices of hard boiled egg. You may be thinking these 3 ingredients are familiar. Yes, this dish is put together based on the idea of baby’s full moon celebration. It is a Chinese culture that is practised when a newborn is born and has reached one month old. The parents will give packages/presents to friends and families as a way to celebrate the occasion.
Usually given away in a package, it consists of yellow turmeric rice (nasi kunyit), red-tinted hard boiled eggs and curry chicken. Some also come with Malaysian sweet/cake called red glutinous rice cake (kuih ang koo). Red colours is associated with luck and happiness. The rounded shape of the eggs symbolises harmony, unity and new life. I saw quite a number of websites based in Malaysia that sell different packages. Have a look here to see how they look like.
If you like spicy food, I think you will like this. The curry chicken & potato is a dried version (without gravy/sauce), which goes pretty well. 😉
What a creative idea! Looks so inviting! 😉
Thank you, LK!
Yummy. I often look forward to full month celebrations as it means I get to indulge in this.
I really miss it! Especially the kuih ang koo!
Mmmhhh, I love that recipe! Really scrumptious looking.
Cheers,
Rosa
Thank you, Rosa! 🙂
We love spicy food and this definitely looks a treat!!
It was quite spicy, actually. I love it!
very creative!! think you might be the 1st one to do a non dessert item?
A few other bloggers did non dessert too. 🙂
A few non dessert hot and cold dishes today. I like how yours is an entire dish in the cone.
We do make this kind of rice and shape it mostly for very special celebration. Yours look cute though:)
Very innovative idea 🙂 and i love the way you present your savory dish too.
I am having jellyriffic dreams. Unfortunately there’s no way to export the dream creations into Google Docs! :-/
I am so embarrassed to admit that I always fight my dad for the glutinous rice and chicken curry! Thank you so much for the inspiration. I might make one myself. You are very generous with the chicken bits. They look scrumptious!
Thank you Jun.
Looks yummy. Gonna try this recipe. Thanks for sharing.
wow curry rice.. thats so creativee… keep it up!
Thank you! I will try my best!
How very yummy, I might have to try this without the mould.
Give it a go and let me know! You may want to cut down the chilli if you can’t take spicy food.
Ah so cute! Love how it’s like a little tent of curry and rice deliciousness. *nom*
Can’t wait to see what else you come up with!
Thanks Su-Yin! It has been a long since I had yellow sticky rice, just reminds me of my childhood. I remember I got really excited when I saw the rice with curry chicken.
Indeed, this looks so scrumptious. I’m drooling over this spicy pyramid!
Thanks!! 😉
Love how creative you’ve been getting with this challenge, Leemei! Especially this one and the mont blanc =D
Xiaolu,
I have been cracking my head to think of what to do with the mould. I just try my best to do whatever I could think of.
I am glad that you love what I have made so far! 😉
that looks yummy and also reminds me of ‘bak chang’…hehe! this recipe is something I have in my mind for today´s dinner.
Yeah, I miss bak chang now!
Wow. well done.. this looks yum and I so wanna try.. it reminds me of a technique my mom always does. They called it nasi tumpeng.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumpeng.
Cool!