Rice Cakes With Sweet Potatoes Soy Ginger Glaze Recipes

SOY GLAZE

Steps:

• Stir brown sugar, soy sauce, white sugar, water, white wine vinegar, rice vinegar, and ground ginger together in a saucepan; bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook until reduced in volume by half, about 30 minutes.
• Let glaze cool to thicken, at least 1 hour.

NIAN GAO (BAKED SWEET POTATO STICKY RICE CAKES)

Steps:

• Combine the glutinous rice flour and ¾ cup/180 grams water in a bowl to form a dough. Cover tightly and refrigerate for at least 6 hours and up to 24 hours.
• Heat oven to 400 degrees. Wash and scrub the sweet potatoes and pat them dry thoroughly with a clean kitchen towel. With a fork, poke holes all over the sweet potatoes. Bake on a foil-lined pan until a fork can pierce it with no resistance, 40 to 50 minutes.
• When cool enough to handle, peel off the skin. Pass the sweet potato through a ricer or mash with a fork. Measure out 1¼ cups/320 grams of the mashed sweet potato. (Reserve any remaining for another use.)
• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Combine coconut milk, sugar and salt in a large saucepan. Set the saucepan over medium-low heat, and whisk until the sugar dissolves and the mixture is hot but not boiling, about 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and add the butter, stirring until it melts. Mix in the sweet potato mash, followed by the tapioca starch, then add the refrigerated wet glutinous rice flour gradually in chunks, whisking as you go. Add the egg and whisk until smooth.
• Heat 1 or more kuih bahulu pans in the oven until very hot, 7 to 8 minutes. If you don't have a kuih bahulu pan, a decorative cakelet pan or mini muffin tin made out of cast iron or aluminum works (see Tip). The batter yields 24 to 42 nian gao, depending on the size of the hollows; work in batches if needed (see Tip). Remove the pan from the oven and, using a silicone or pastry brush, lightly and quickly brush its hollows with oil. Stir batter, then quickly pour it into the hollows, filling them 80 to 90 percent full.
• Bake on the center rack until golden brown on top and a toothpick inserted into the center of one emerges moist and sticky, but with no pasty raw batter on it, 20 to 40 minutes. The exact baking time will vary depending on the size and heft of your pan.
• Use a wooden skewer or butter knife to pry out and remove the nian gao from the pan. If the pan was properly heated and oiled, the nian gao will not stick. If needed, repeat with the remaining batter. If the pan cools off too much while you are removing a batch of nian gao, heat it for a couple of minutes in the oven before baking the next batch.
• These nian gao are best served slightly warm while the edges are still crisp and the centres are soft and chewy. They are best the same day they are made. You can keep leftovers in a covered container in the refrigerator and steam, pan-fry or microwave them to reheat the next day, but they will not completely recover their freshly cooked texture.

RICE CAKES WITH SWEET POTATOES & SOY GINGER GLAZE

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine rice, egg, green onions, walnuts, parsley, and half of the spices; refrigerate for about 2 hours.
• In a bowl, combine the flour and the rest of the spices.
• When rice mixture is chilled, form into 1-inch cakes and toss in the flour mixture.
• Saute in oil until brown; about 3 minutes per side; press down softly with spatula while frying to slightly flatten.
• Sweet Potato and Soy Ginger glaze; Drizzle sweet potato with oil and roast in 425 degree oven until tender: or bake in Microwave until tender.
• Mix remaining ingredients in a sauce pan; bring to a boil and cook 2 to 3 minutes; add cornstarch mixed with a little water; cook until thickened.
• Mix sweet potatoes with sauce and place on rice cakes with chopped chives.

JAPANESE SOY GLAZED SWEET POTATO

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°.
• Combine first 6 ingredients; stir well with a whisk. Arrange potatoes in a single layer in a 13 x 9-inch baking dish.
• Pour soy sauce mixture over potatoes. Cover and bake at 400° for 50 minutes or until tender.
• Baste with the soy sauce mixture. Uncover, and bake an additional 10 minutes or until liquid is absorbed.
• Sprinkle with sesame seeds and shredded nori, toss and serve.