Saturday, April 10, 2010

RADDISH CAKE

I'm only too pleased to share my recipes with anyone's interested in cooking. Here's a simple recipe for basic raddish cake.
Ingredients : 1 raddish, shredded, 2-3 pips garlic and shallots ( chopped finely), 3 cups rice flour and 9 water ( 1 cup rice flour to 3 cups water), salt and pepper to taste. 1 teaspoon of kan sui or alkaline water (reduce water by 1/2 cup of no kan sui)
Method :
1. Fry garlic and shallots and add the raddish. fry till raddish turns soft.
2. Combine rice flour with water, mix well and stir into the raddish, add the salt and pepper.
3. Stir till the mixture thickens and then transfer to a greased cake tin.
4. Steam for about 30 - 40 minutes till done.
5. Leave to cool before cutting them to fry ad 'chai tau kueh'

# Optional - shredded mushroom and minced pork and dried can be added to the mixture ( Fry first before adding to the raddish). This version, the raddish cake can be eaten on its own.

Chai Tau kueh :
1. Cut the raddish cake to slices, lightly fry the pieces , leave aside.
2. Fry farlic and chai poh ( wash the chai poh first to remove excessive saltlishness.
3.Put back the pieces of fried raddish and then with the spatula, or frying spade, break the slices to bite size pieces.
4. Add black sauce ( sweetish type), a dash of vinegar and a pinch of salt.
5. Break 1 or 2 eggs and scramble them with the raddish cake.
Finally, add the chives and bean sprout. Serve hot.


Enjoy !! let me know how it turns out.

2 comments:

Serenely said...

Thanks for the recipe! Will definitely try it out...

I realised that kan sui seems to be used a lot in quite a few Chinese/Nyonya kuih recipes.

Haven't checked out in the local Asian shops here, but will do so. Does it keep long since only a little bit is used each time?

Penny152 said...

yea. Keep in the fridge