Guangdong

Nian gao

Name: Nian gao
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Cantonese
Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups glutinous rice flour (sweet rice flour); 1 cup or slab sugar brown sugar; 1 cup water; 1 tbsp cooking oil (vegetable oil); a few red dates to decorate dates; 1 tsp sesame seeds

A sticky brown sugar rice cake for the new year. Steamed today, pan fried tomorrow, gone by Sunday.

120 minTime

2 gProtein each

mildSpice

A higher year2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's waySteamed brown sugar sticky rice cake.

The original

263kcalsame

2 gproteinsame

1 gfibresame

120minutessame

Nian gao, a Cantonese new year cake.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Glutinous rice flour (sweet rice flour)2½ cups

Brown sugar1 cup, or slab sugar

Water1 cup

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)1 tbsp

Datesa few red dates, to decorate

Sesame seeds1 tsp

Method

5 steps

1Dissolve the sugar in hot water and cool to warm.
2Stir the syrup into the flour with the oil to a smooth, thick batter. Strain.
3Pour into an oiled cake tin, decorate with dates and sesame and steam on medium for 90 minutes, topping up the water.
4Cool completely, overnight if you can.
5To serve, slice and pan fry in a little oil until crisp outside and gooey inside, or steam the slices until soft.

Serve it like this

Serve pan fried slices warm on a plate, crisp side up, with hot tea, or steamed slices for a softer bite.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Guangdong

Nian gao

A sticky brown sugar rice cake for the new year. Steamed today, pan fried tomorrow, gone by Sunday.

120 minTime

2 gProtein each

mildSpice

A higher year2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's waySteamed brown sugar sticky rice cake.

The original

263kcalsame

2 gproteinsame

1 gfibresame

120minutessame

Nian gao, a Cantonese new year cake.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Glutinous rice flour (sweet rice flour)2½ cups

Brown sugar1 cup, or slab sugar

Water1 cup

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)1 tbsp

Datesa few red dates, to decorate

Sesame seeds1 tsp

Method

5 steps

1Dissolve the sugar in hot water and cool to warm.
2Stir the syrup into the flour with the oil to a smooth, thick batter. Strain.
3Pour into an oiled cake tin, decorate with dates and sesame and steam on medium for 90 minutes, topping up the water.
4Cool completely, overnight if you can.
5To serve, slice and pan fry in a little oil until crisp outside and gooey inside, or steam the slices until soft.

Serve it like this

Serve pan fried slices warm on a plate, crisp side up, with hot tea, or steamed slices for a softer bite.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Nian gao

Make it your way

Ingredients

Method

Nian gao

Make it your way

Ingredients

Method

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