Thursday 15 April 2010

Chao dao kueh (Updated with recipe!)




Quite frankly I've never been a huge fan of carrot cake. But i've started liking it ever since i move to China, cos i just crave for anything and everything not available in here! So my inlaw's inlaw had a very nice pumpkin cake recipe that is easily adaptible to carrot cake. Yummilicious!
Here u go fern!
Pumpkin/Radish/Yam Cake Recipe
Ingredients:
1kg pumpkin (remove skin and cut into small pieces)
1.2 litre water
Handful dried shrimps
1-2 Chinese sausage (or more if u like)
10 dried mushrooms (diced, and not the magic kind)
600g Finest Rice Flour
1 TBSP cornstarch
8 shallots
1 TSP salt
2 TBSP Sesame Oil
8 TBSP Cooking Oil
Pinch of pepper
Steps:
  1. Mix rice flour, cornstarch, pepper, salt, sesame oil and soak in water for 1 hr.
  2. Pan fry shallots in oil until golden brown. Add dried shrimps and fry for 3 mins, followed by sausage and mushrooms, fry until fragrant. Lastly, put in pumpkin and fry till soft.
  3. Turn off fire. Add in flour mixture and mix well (Texture when u use pumpkin, yam and radish is different, the latter is more watery).
  4. Transfer mixture to a tray/dish suitable for steaming.
  5. Steam for 1.5hrs or until thoroughly cooked.

Easy right!?

3 comments:

Fern Green said...

wow looks good! care to share the recipe?

Fern Green said...

tks stel! yeah seems easy enuff to try soon! altho we can easily get a packet fried for us at $2 hehehe!

Ada.Ada.Aja said...

u're right about craving for things that you used to have, and that are simply not found in the place you are currently at! i am going to try this soon :)))