Nian Gao
Nian Gao is a Chinese sweet specialty made primarily from glutinous rice flour. It is particularly eaten at the start of a new lunar year and symbolizes luck.
90
min
4
Ingredients
Level of spiciness
difficulty
Rezept für Nian Gao
Ingredients
For 1 cake
- 350g water
- 350g brown sugar
- 225 g coconut milk
- 450 g glutinous rice flour
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 tsp neutral oil
- Optionally some orange peel and fresh ginger
- 1 date
step by step
STEP 1
Bring water to the boil in a pot and, if desired, add orange peel and ginger in pieces and simmer for a few minutes
STEP 2
Then stir brown sugar into the boiling water and bring to the boil to form a sugar syrup
STEP 3
Set the pot aside to cool and stir the coconut milk into the sugar syrup
STEP 4
While the syrup is cooling, add glutinous rice flour, salt and neutral oil to a large mixing bowl
STEP 5
Then pour in the sugar syrup through a fine sieve
STEP 6
Mix everything well until there are no more lumps and the dough has a thick consistency
STEP 7
Either brush a cake pan with neutral oil or line it with pandan or banana leaves and pour the dough into it
STEP 8
Then cook the cake in a bamboo steamer for about an hour
STEP 9
Use a chopstick in the middle of the Nian Gao to test whether the cake is already cooked and then decorate this hole with a date
STEP 10
Nian Gao can be eaten fresh in this form or stored for a few days and then cut into rectangles and fried in oil
Bon appetit!
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