Chinese New Year Traditional Sweet Rice (Glutinous Rice) Cake

Let's modify our sweet rice cake to a more nutritious and nicer version!

By NZChefSi@ChefSarawak

Caramelized sweet rice cake is the Chinese traditional dessert, actually, it has not much nutritional value other than starch and sugar. Thus, I decided to come out a modified version for this Chinese New Year. Hope you enjoy it!

You can use the traditional recipe.

Caramelized the sugar, add hot water.

Add Vanilla essence, chopped red jujube, dried logan, fig, sultanate, pine nuts, walnuts, macadamia nuts, pistachio nuts, almond powder, cinnamon powder, basil seeds.

Now you mix in glutinous flour to form into a thick batter, checking seasoning, if too sweet just add more water and more flour. Transfer to a wax paper lined springform tray, grease its side. Sprinkle the top with toasted black sesame seed.

Steam in a steamer for about 30 to 40 minutes depending on the size. Check the doneness with a skewer. After cook,  place into an oven to heat the steamed cake until dried. After cooling down, chill the rice cake in a fridge.

Before serving, cut the cake into bite-size pieces. make a batter with egg, sugar, melted salted butter, water, sweet rice flour, and flour. Dust the pieces with sweet rice flour, dip into the batter, pan fry the sweet rice cake until golden brown. Or simply cut it and eat cold.