View Mooncake Recipe Lotus Seed Images. Dried lotus seeds get the peeled dried lotus seeds from any asian store. Lotus seeds are used extensively in chinese and japanese cooking, especially in the form of paste.
I did change the recipe to suit local measuring conditions and availability of ingredients. Traditional baked mooncakes are not difficult to make especially with commercially available lotus seed and red bean paste. These homemade lotus mooncakes are definitely a labor of love, but we think they're worth it.
Mooncakes are getting trendy though, with modern chefs lotus seed paste can be purchased already made.
Another thing i like about this recipe is that everything is made from scratch, including the lotus seed paste and golden syrup, which is an. In this special white collar vidcast, enoch yiu visits maxim's caterers' mooncake factory. This recipe is part of our collection of chinese holiday and festival foods. I did change the recipe to suit local measuring conditions and availability of ingredients.