Yam and Radish Rice Cake
At a Glance
- Prep
- 1 hour
- Cook
- 1 hour 30 minutes
- Total
- 2 hours 30 minutes
- Servings
- 1 3/4 kg, 8 serving(s)
Categories
- Dessert
- Chinese
- Steaming
Allergens
- Wheat
- Shellfish
- Egg
- Peanuts
Servings & Nutrition
Original recipe serves 8. Current scale: 1x.
In my hometown, the famous yam or radish rice cake always serves with seafood and chilli sauce. Top with lots of pounded roasted peanut, this streets food is one of my best childhood memory.
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Equipment
Non-stick pan, steamer, 5 cm deep tray, baking paper, sieve
Ingredients
- 350 g yams
- 450 g radishes
- 300 g blended rice flour
- 60 g wheat starch
- 900 ml chicken stock
- 50 g chili sauce
- 50 g hoisin sauce
- 60 g shallots
- 35 g scallions
- 30 g red chili peppers
- 80 g pounded roasted peanuts
- 30 g dried shrimp
- 15 g dried oysters
- 4 salted egg yolks
- 2 salted egg whites
- 25 g sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon mixed spice, powder
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 100 ml oil
Instructions
Dice yam into 1.5cm cube.
Grate radish into 3mm thick strips.
Coarsely chop washed dried shrimps and dried oyster. Press salted egg with a fork.
Fry sliced shallots in 100ml oil until brown. Sieve out when done.
In a non-stick pan, heat 1 tbsp oil. Sauté dried shrimps and dried oysters. Set aside when done.
Sauté yam with a tbsp of oil in low heat for about 10 minutes or until it's heated through.
Add radish and salted egg white and stir well.
Cover with lit and cook for 15 minutes or until soften. Stir every 3 minutes.
Add sautéed shrimps and oysters, spice powder and pepper powder.
Mix flour, starch and sugar in chicken stalk. Pour liquid into pan and give the mixture a good stir.
As it begin to thicken, stir in salted egg yolk.
Turn off fire as it all sticks together. Transfer to a 5 cm deep tray lined with greased baking paper.
Steam with lit on for 40 minutes with high heat. Refill hot water half way if necessary.
Sprinkle with fried shallots, chopped scallions, sliced red chilli pepper and pounded roasted peanuts. Serves with shallot oil, chilli sauce and hoisin sauce.
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