Nian2 gao1 - tseng

16 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2½ cup Brown Sugar
2½ cup Hot Water
6 cups Glutinous Rice; flour

Directions

Well since it is almost Chinese New Year's (and Vietnamese New Year's) Day, I'll give a recipe for Nian Gao, a sweet sticky rice cake with a texture slightly denser than Knox Blox. Add sugar to water, stir and let cool to room temp. Add the rice flour a little at a time. Here comes the hard part. Pour the batter into metal/glass/ceramic bowls or pans lined with plastic wrap for easy removal.

Steam them in a rice cooker or in a bamboo steamer. Time varies depending on how much batter is being steamed each time. Since I have a small rice cooker/steamer, it took about 6 hours total to steam the whole batch a little at a time.

After it's done, let cool and cut into smaller pieces. You can also add cooked small red beans to the mixture.

Yentsun Tseng >From: yentsun@... (Judy Yentsun Tseng) NOTES : Cal 341.9 Total Fat 0.4g Sat Fat 0.1g Carb 78.7g Fib 1.9g Pro 4.7g Sod 15mg CFF 1%

Recipe by: rec.food.cooking

Posted to EAT-LF Digest by Reggie Dwork <reggie@...> on Feb 16, 1999, converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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