Mini Layered Coconut Nian Gao Recipe

For Chinese New Year's Day 2021, I'k revisiting my layered coconut nian gao recipe in addition to making cute miniature ones instead.

One of the annoying things most bamboo steamers is that they're quite shallow – then if yous desire to steam a cake or something like, you take to brand sure the tin is quite brusk. I used to accept a vii" pan that was short plenty to match within my big steamer, but non any more than alas – which is why I decided to go small-scale this twelvemonth. The viscid rice cake is withal the same wonderfully fragrant, non-also-sweet, intensely gummy cake it was earlier though. Just smaller.

You tin also come across my 'making of' video on my YouTube channel:

Ready? Let'second go.

(Makes most 12 mini nian gao).

Ingredients

For Regular Layers: 

75g dark-brown saccharide
270ml H2O
225g sticky rice flour
ane tbsp kokosnoot crude
ane pandan leafage (or a few drops of vanilla)

For Coconut Layers:

75g chocolate-brown sugar
120ml coconut milk + 150ml water
225g viscid rice flour
ane tbsp kokosnoot crude oil
i pandan foliage (or a few drops of vanilla)

Other:

More kokosnoot fossil oil for greasing
Dried goji berries for garnishing

Method:

1. Make the two layer mixtures separately: start dissolve the carbohydrate in addition to kokosnoot petroleum inward the liquid over a medium estrus (kokosnoot milk inwards 1 pan, H2O in the other). Either popular inward a knotted pandan leafage to flavour equally y'all oestrus it, or a few drops of vanilla

two. Allow both mixtures to cool before adding them to the rice flours inward assort bowls, stirring until in that location are no lumps- you should take 2 thick-ish batters

three. Grease 12 minor silicone moulds amongst more kokosnoot crude oil. Half-fill up each alongside i layer mixture (it doesn't matter which one you choose first), in addition to steam for 25 minutes. Then fill up to the pinnacle with the other layer mixture: this time steam for 5 minutes, then force a goji berry into the top before continuing to steam for another 20 minutes.

four. Leave to cool completely to room temperature earlier unmoulding together with serving. You tin swallow it every bit it is, warmed dorsum upwards inward the steamer again, or deep-fried inward batter  / sandwiched betwixt sweet spud slices and deep fried inward batter as well (absolutely delicious).

Have fun, relish, too 新年快乐- dàjiā xīnnián kuàilè / happy novel year!

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