Orh Kueh (Yam Cake) (Ii)
Jumat, 23 Oktober 2020
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Orh kueh (yam cake) is a Chinese steamed kueh. Rice flour batter is heated on the stove till it's thick, together with thus it's steamed. At its most basic, entirely yam is added to the batter. More luxurious versions would lead additional ingredients such every bit lap cheong, dried mushrooms, dried prawns, together with dried scallops.
Tips for making the best orh kueh ever:
1. The yam for making orh kueh must live fried, together with it must live salted together with seasoned alongside five-spice pulverisation whilst it's pipe hot. These 2 steps are crucial to bringing out the flavour of yam.
2. To maximise the flavour together with odour of the dried prawns together with mushrooms, flavor whilst you're stir-frying. If y'all flavor when you're making the batter, your kueh wouldn't gustation anywhere nigh every bit prissy fifty-fifty if y'all purpose the same total of seasoning.
3. If y'all prefer a softer kueh, run out the batter thinner when you're cooking it on the stove. If y'all prefer a harder kueh, run across a chip thicker. Unless y'all similar your orh kueh quite hard, the batter shouldn't live thick plenty to concur its shape.
4. If y'all business the cake tin alongside parchment paper, y'all tin elevator the kueh out of the tin whilst it's notwithstanding hot to allow it cool downward faster. If you're non inward a hurry, the parchment paper isn't necessary.
5. When buying yam, brand certain the pare is firm. Soft spots would hateful the yam is starting to rot.
6. Yam may live sold alongside the stalk withered or notwithstanding fresh. The acre of the stalk doesn't behaviour upon the eating character of the yam simply fresher ones would proceed longer.
7. Don't proceed yam inward the refrigerator or the starch would convert to saccharide inward the cold. Put it inward a wooden bowl or on a pile of newspapers, uncovered. Yam needs plenty of ventilation or it would rot rattling quickly. Avoid plastic containers because yam may rot where it sits on the plastic, which doesn't breathe.
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How to brand orh kueh (芋粿, steamed yam cake)
Step-by-step guide
This recipe makes an orh kueh flavoured alongside lots of yummy ingredients: yam, dried prawns, dried mushrooms together with shallots, all fried till wonderfully fragrant. Homemade stock is the killer that gives homemade orh kueh extra oomph.
INGREDIENTS
INSTRUCTIONS
INGREDIENTS
- 40 g dried prawns – rinse together with soak inward threescore ml H2O till soft, nigh fifteen minutes; mash dry, reserving the water; chop roughly
- 30 g Chinese dried mushrooms – rinse together with soak inward 180 ml H2O till soft, nigh xxx minutes; mash dry, reserving the water; dice
- 500-600 g yam (aka taro) – peel, cut down all white parts nether pare that don't lead much cerise veins to yield nigh 300 g, rinse, cutting corn kernel-sized
- 100 g shallots – peel, rinse, spell thinly
- 80 ml vegetable oil
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp five-spice powder
- 1½ tbsp lite soya sauce
- ½ tsp reason white pepper
- 200 g rice flour
- 240 ml H2O – run past times upwards H2O drained from dried prawns together with mushrooms to brand 240 ml
- 600 ml pork or chicken stock, boiling
- 2 tbsp natural springtime onions, roughly chopped
- 2 tbsp coriander, roughly chopped
- ½ cerise chilli, julienned; or 1 tsp toasted white sesame seeds
INSTRUCTIONS
- Prepare dried prawns, dried mushrooms, yam together with shallots every bit detailed above.
- In a wok, stir-fry shallots inward hot vegetable crude oil over medium rut till lightly golden. Turn off heat. Continue stirring till nicely golden brown. Remove shallots alongside a skimmer together with gear upwards aside. You should lead nigh ⅓ cup.
- Reheat wok together with crude oil till warm. Over medium heat, shaver yam till soft (but non brown), 2-3 minutes. Turn off heat. Remove yam to a big bowl. Immediately sprinkle alongside ½ tsp common salt together with ¼ tsp five-spice powder. Toss till evenly mixed. Set aside.
- Remove all simply 2 tbsp crude oil from the wok. Reheat till rattling hot. Over medium-high heat, stir-fry dried prawns till lightly golden. Add mushrooms together with stir-fry till fragrant together with lightly golden. Add lite soya sauce together with reason white pepper. Stir till evenly mixed. Turn off heat.
- Add stir-fried mixture to yam along alongside all of fried shallots except 2 tbsp. Stir till evenly mixed. Set aside.
- Line bottom of twenty x twenty x 5 cm cake pan alongside parchment paper, leaving some overhang.
- Top upwards H2O from soaking dried prawns together with mushrooms to brand 240 ml. Pour liquid into wok together with stir to deglaze. Add rice flour. Stir till smooth. Add boiling chicken or pork stock. Stir till evenly mixed.
- Turn on depression heat. Stir continuously, scraping sides together with bottom of wok. Reduce rut to rattling depression every bit batter gets hot. If lumps appear, plow off rut immediately, stir vigorously till smooth, together with thus plow on rut again.
- When batter starts to thicken, add together fried ingredients (except the 2 tbsp shallots gear upwards aside). Stir till batter is thick plenty to coat a spoon/spatula thinly. Go for a thinner consistency if y'all similar your orh kueh softer, together with vice versa. Turn off heat.
- Transfer batter into pan. Smooth together with score batter. Steam over rapidly boiling H2O till inserted skewer comes out construct clean or almost clean, nigh twoscore minutes depending on consistency of batter earlier steaming.
- Remove kueh to wire rack to cool down, an hr or so. Unmould past times running skewer closed to border of pan, together with thus lifting kueh onto a plate. Discard parchment paper. Garnish alongside natural springtime onions, coriander, cerise chilli or sesame seeds, together with remaining shallots.
