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祝大家龍年快樂, 事事如意, 行好運發大財!!!
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年糕 'nian gao' or rice cake is eaten yesteryear many during this festive season. Nian gao is auspicious because it rhymes alongside the lucky phrase 年高 (also read equally 'nian gao') or 年年高升 'nian nian gao sheng', roughly translated to English linguistic communication equally 'achieving advancements/promotions twelvemonth afterward year'.
There are mainly 2 types of Chinese New Year's rice cakes. The sweetened rice cake, inwards a circular or rectangular block, which is usually made alongside mucilaginous rice flour is eaten mainly inwards Southern Communist People's Republic of China similar the Cantonese. This sweetened rice cake is real chewy similar chewing a piece of prophylactic but yummy withal IMO, for recipe meet this post. The northerners' rice cake does non expect similar a cake but slices/sticks of white tasteless stodgy pieces, sold dried or semi dried inwards vacuum pack, made alongside normal rice. Plain rice cake/sticks are usually stir fried alongside vegetables and/or meat/seafood similar this.
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In Korea, their rice cakes are real similar to the Chinese evidently ones. I intend many of yous volition recognise 'ddukbokki' cooked inwards a chilli sauce? Korean's New Year's Day is the same equally Chinese, they also own got auspicious rice cake recipe similar this rice cake soup.
Japanese own got plain mochi blocks which are sold semi dried, they are usually chargrilled/bbq till puffed upwards thence coated or dressed alongside a sauce earlier serving, this grilled cake is called yakimochi (yaki is grill together with mochi is rice cake)
Today's recipe is how to stir tiddler evidently rice cakes. I usually purchase the semi dried vacuum pack, see this post, mainly because I didn't own got skilful sense alongside dried sticks before. When I was inwards London few weeks agone I bought several packets of the dried sticks decide to own got a become again. Cook it pair of times right away together with I LOVE it. Will piece of work on this equally closet staple from now. The vacuum pack does non piece of work on for real long inwards the closet it volition become mouldy, yuk! Dried sticks are to a greater extent than handy volition piece of work on upwards to a twelvemonth together with I tin ship away occupation equally much equally I similar different the vacuum pack which volition become bad speedily in i trial opened.
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I right away know how I got it incorrect earlier alongside the dried stuff, i.e. they must last soaked for a real long fourth dimension similar overnight to 24 hours earlier cooking. If non they volition non fix through easily together with yesteryear the fourth dimension they are stewed together with softened on the within the exterior surface volition last also gloppy together with slimy. The adjacent stride is to boil them for few minutes earlier adding to the stir tiddler mixture.
If yous never own got this evidently rice cake before, it does non own got whatsoever sense of savor it volition absorb whatsoever flavour yous add together to it. The texture is similar to broad rice noodles or hor fun, soft together with slippery on the exterior surface but when yous seize alongside teeth into it, it is much much to a greater extent than chewier than broad rice noodles.
**Dried rice cake volition expand to nearly 1.5 its master size when soaked together with 2x it's master size when cooked.
Here is the tried together with tested recipe my way. Recipe volition feed two.
Ingredients:
nearly 300g of dried rice sticks (see film above), inwards Chinese they are called 白粿干 ‘bai guo gan'
nearly 10 -12 peeled raw manlike mortal monarch prawns, defrosted if frozen
nearly five - vi Chinese fish balls (optional if yous own got some), defrosted if frozen
1 modest piece of pork, cutting into sparse slivers (or beef if yous don't consume pork)
2 - iv leaves of Chinese cabbage/Chinese leaf/napa cabbage (2 leaves if the caput of vegetable is large), sliced (about a large hanful afterward cutting)
1 - 2 stalks of pak choi, sliced together with dissever the light-green from the white stems
iv - five shitake or Chinese mushrooms, soaked together with sliced
2 - three stalks of leap onion, sliced
1 - 2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 modest piece of ginger, chopped or shredded
some soy sauce
few tbsp oyster sauce
some cornflour
a petty sesame oil
a petty dry reason pepper
a petty cooking wine
some cooking oil
Prep together with cooking method:
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祝大家龍年快樂, 事事如意, 行好運發大財!!!
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年糕 'nian gao' or rice cake is eaten yesteryear many during this festive season. Nian gao is auspicious because it rhymes alongside the lucky phrase 年高 (also read equally 'nian gao') or 年年高升 'nian nian gao sheng', roughly translated to English linguistic communication equally 'achieving advancements/promotions twelvemonth afterward year'.
There are mainly 2 types of Chinese New Year's rice cakes. The sweetened rice cake, inwards a circular or rectangular block, which is usually made alongside mucilaginous rice flour is eaten mainly inwards Southern Communist People's Republic of China similar the Cantonese. This sweetened rice cake is real chewy similar chewing a piece of prophylactic but yummy withal IMO, for recipe meet this post. The northerners' rice cake does non expect similar a cake but slices/sticks of white tasteless stodgy pieces, sold dried or semi dried inwards vacuum pack, made alongside normal rice. Plain rice cake/sticks are usually stir fried alongside vegetables and/or meat/seafood similar this.
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In Korea, their rice cakes are real similar to the Chinese evidently ones. I intend many of yous volition recognise 'ddukbokki' cooked inwards a chilli sauce? Korean's New Year's Day is the same equally Chinese, they also own got auspicious rice cake recipe similar this rice cake soup.
Japanese own got plain mochi blocks which are sold semi dried, they are usually chargrilled/bbq till puffed upwards thence coated or dressed alongside a sauce earlier serving, this grilled cake is called yakimochi (yaki is grill together with mochi is rice cake)
Today's recipe is how to stir tiddler evidently rice cakes. I usually purchase the semi dried vacuum pack, see this post, mainly because I didn't own got skilful sense alongside dried sticks before. When I was inwards London few weeks agone I bought several packets of the dried sticks decide to own got a become again. Cook it pair of times right away together with I LOVE it. Will piece of work on this equally closet staple from now. The vacuum pack does non piece of work on for real long inwards the closet it volition become mouldy, yuk! Dried sticks are to a greater extent than handy volition piece of work on upwards to a twelvemonth together with I tin ship away occupation equally much equally I similar different the vacuum pack which volition become bad speedily in i trial opened.
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I right away know how I got it incorrect earlier alongside the dried stuff, i.e. they must last soaked for a real long fourth dimension similar overnight to 24 hours earlier cooking. If non they volition non fix through easily together with yesteryear the fourth dimension they are stewed together with softened on the within the exterior surface volition last also gloppy together with slimy. The adjacent stride is to boil them for few minutes earlier adding to the stir tiddler mixture.
If yous never own got this evidently rice cake before, it does non own got whatsoever sense of savor it volition absorb whatsoever flavour yous add together to it. The texture is similar to broad rice noodles or hor fun, soft together with slippery on the exterior surface but when yous seize alongside teeth into it, it is much much to a greater extent than chewier than broad rice noodles.
**Dried rice cake volition expand to nearly 1.5 its master size when soaked together with 2x it's master size when cooked.
Here is the tried together with tested recipe my way. Recipe volition feed two.
Ingredients:
nearly 300g of dried rice sticks (see film above), inwards Chinese they are called 白粿干 ‘bai guo gan'
nearly 10 -12 peeled raw manlike mortal monarch prawns, defrosted if frozen
nearly five - vi Chinese fish balls (optional if yous own got some), defrosted if frozen
1 modest piece of pork, cutting into sparse slivers (or beef if yous don't consume pork)
2 - iv leaves of Chinese cabbage/Chinese leaf/napa cabbage (2 leaves if the caput of vegetable is large), sliced (about a large hanful afterward cutting)
1 - 2 stalks of pak choi, sliced together with dissever the light-green from the white stems
iv - five shitake or Chinese mushrooms, soaked together with sliced
2 - three stalks of leap onion, sliced
1 - 2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 modest piece of ginger, chopped or shredded
some soy sauce
few tbsp oyster sauce
some cornflour
a petty sesame oil
a petty dry reason pepper
a petty cooking wine
some cooking oil
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| On the large plate are seasoned pork, fish balls, prawns, pak choi, Chinese cabbage together with shitake mushroom. Behind on the correct is soaked rice cake together with left are leap onion, ginger together with garlic |
Prep together with cooking method:
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- Soak the dried rice sticks overnight for at to the lowest degree 10 hours or upwards to 24 hours alongside mutual depression temperature tap water.
- Prepare the meat, seafood together with vegetables. You don't own got to follow my listing of ingredients, yous tin ship away occupation anything yous like, similar fried tofu pieces, brocolli, edible bean sprouts, fresh push clitoris mushrooms, saccharide snap peas, sweetness pepper, beef, belly pork etc....You tin ship away occupation dark edible bean sauce if yous similar instead of oyster sauce.
- Marinate the pork alongside a petty soy sauce, pinch of pepper, few drops of sesame crude together with a petty cornflour. Mixed together with piece of work out aside for a petty while.
- For the King prawns together with fish balls if using frozen together with yous forgot to defrost inwards advance, soak inwards H2O till defrosted. Give it a crush to take away excess water. You tin ship away marker the dorsum of the prawn thence it volition curl upwards similar a ball when cooked.
- For the mushrooms if yous don't own got fourth dimension to soak, set them inwards a loving cup alongside H2O together with microwave for few minutes, stirring few times inwards between. When totally softened, rinse together with cut.
- Heat a pot of H2O till boiling. Add the soaked rice sticks together with few drops of oil. Gently stir to forestall the rice sticks sticking together. When the H2O come upwards to a boil in i trial again cheque if the rice sticks are softened together with pliable, it is fourth dimension to take away them. Rinse nether mutual depression temperature H2O thence soak inwards some mutual depression temperature H2O acre stir frying the other ingredients. Soaking inwards H2O inwards the final stride is to forestall them from sticking together.
- Heat the wok alongside a petty cooking oil. When almost smoking, add together pork and give it a few stir, thence add together inwards the prawns together with fish balls. Stir/fry till meat together with prawns are cooked together with slightly caramelised. Stir inwards a petty cooking wine. Remove together with laid aside.
- Using the same wok without rinsing add together a comport on to a greater extent than oil, add together inwards one-half the leap onion, ginger together with garlic, stir tiddler till fragrant.
- Add inwards the mushroom, stir thence add together inwards the Chinese leaf. Stir till heated through.
- Add inwards 1 loving cup of H2O (you tin ship away occupation the mushroom soaking water). Let the liquid come upwards to a boil. Add the white occupation of pak choi, stir together with when heated through add together the rice cake.
- Stir gently together with fix till everything is softened together with heated through.
- Season alongside 2 - three tbsp oyster sauce, dash of lite soy, few drops of sesame crude together with pinch of pepper.
- The sauce volition last reduced together with thickened yesteryear the rice cake equally it cooks.
- Finally add together inwards the light-green occupation of pak choi, the precooked meat together with seafood together with the remaining leap onion. Stir till merely heated through.
- Ready to serve.