(I burnt it a tad :( )
After a lovely dinner at my neighbouring shop, Little Bao, I was excited to recreate their delicious dessert at home. Mantous were a childhood favourite snack of mine, and I was impressed with Little Bao's use of three simple ingredients to create something so refreshingly new. Here's all you need:
INGREDIENTS
- Green tea ice cream
- Mantou (you can get them in all shapes and sizes in supermarkets)
- Condensed milk (they come in convenient toothpaste-like tubes!)
DIRECTIONS
- Steam the mantou- either in a steamer over a wok of boiling water, or covered with a wet paper towel for a minute in the microwave.
- Cut it in half and deep-fry it by dropping it in a pan of hot oil. I didn't want to waste too much oil, so I just poured a thin layer in a saucepan and flipped the mantou around with tongs (keep an eye on it or you'll burn it like I did!)
- Allow the mantou to cool a little before squeezing some condensed milk on the inside surfaces
- 'Cut' a slice of ice cream from the pint and sandwich it between the mantou halves (for better-looking presentation, run hot water outside the pint, pop out the ice cream, slice them, then put it back into the freezer to solidify again before sandwiching)
That's it! An easy recreation of this oh-so-popular and all-over-Instagram dessert!
nomfulllll
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