Recipe of Quick Water Chestnut Cake

Water Chestnut Cake. Water chestnut known as 马蹄 in Chinese, is a popular fruit, which has a unique sweetness and comforting crisp texture. Traditionally, housewives mainly make Chinese water chestnut cake to celebrate Chinese New Year along with other Chinese style cakes like radish cake. However the chilled version is a great dessert for summer days too.

In medium pot heat the rest of water and sugar slabs over medium heat, stirring until the sugar is completely melted. Chinese water chestnut cake (Chinese name is: 马蹄糕) is a traditional dessert snack in the area of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fuzhou and southern Fujian provinces. It is said that it originated in the Tang Dynasty and was made by steaming water chestnut powder with sugar water.

Hey everyone, it's Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we're going to prepare a special dish, water chestnut cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Water chestnut known as 马蹄 in Chinese, is a popular fruit, which has a unique sweetness and comforting crisp texture. Traditionally, housewives mainly make Chinese water chestnut cake to celebrate Chinese New Year along with other Chinese style cakes like radish cake. However the chilled version is a great dessert for summer days too.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have water chestnut cake using 4 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Water Chestnut Cake:

1. {Prepare 1 kg of water chestnut.
2. {Make ready of Around two or three Rock sugar.
3. {Make ready 1 Bar of sugar.
4. {Prepare of Water chestnut flour.

Water chestnut is also known as horseshoe in Cantonese. Pour boiling water into a wok over high heat, add sugar and stir to dissolve. Add chopped water chestnuts and mix well. Water Chestnut Cake is one of the popular cakes made during Chinese New Year in Hong Kong and it's also available in the Guangzhou Chinese dim sum restaurants all year round (too bad this delicious water chestnut cake is not available in most of our local Chinese restaurants nowadays).

Steps to make Water Chestnut Cake:

1. Wash peel the water chestnut.Half are pound or minced and half are cut into small cubes.Mix water chestnut with water and.mix.Make sure.no.lumps..
2. In a pot add around one cup of water and let the water boil and melt the sugars.When melted slowly pour the diluted flour and keep mixing.Pour also the pound water chestnut..
3. Continue mixing.dont let it stick on the pot.When you reach the thicknessbyou desired.Pour in the containers and add the diced chestnut as a toppings..
4. When.finish filling up the containers.Steam it for 20 mins.Let it cool and keep in the fridge.When you are ready ti eat.Just cut into square pan fry or steam will do..

They are usually served either steamed or pan fried. Add in chopped water chestnuts and mix well. Add in water chestnut flour mixture all together, stirring quickly to mix thoroughly. Keep stirring quickly on low heat, be careful not to let the mixture burn. When the mixture forms a batter, remove from heat.

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