Recipe: Delicious Water chestnut nutty cake

Recipe: Delicious Water chestnut nutty cake Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Water chestnut nutty 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.

Water chestnut cake is a well-known Cantonese dim sum dish, almost served at every yum cha restaurant in Hong Kong.

When Chinese New Year comes, Hong Kong people like to make their own different kind of cakes (糕), like radish cake (aka turnip cake), taro cake, sticky rice cake to celebrate the season.

Water chestnut cake (traditional Chinese: 馬蹄糕; simplified Chinese: 马蹄糕; Cantonese Yale: máhtài gōu) is a sweet Cantonese dim sum dish made of shredded Chinese water chestnut.

You can have Water chestnut nutty cake using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Water chestnut nutty cake

1. Prepare of Water chestnut flour /singhara atta.

2. It’s of sugar powder.

3. It’s of dryfruits almond, chewnut, walnut.

4. You need of curd.

5. Prepare of desi ghee.

6. It’s of milk.

7. Prepare of cinnamon powder.

8. It’s of black pepper grounded.

9. It’s of salt.

When served during dim sum, the cake is usually cut into square-shaped slices and pan-fried before serving.

The cake is soft, but holds its shape after the.

This Chinese Water Chestnut Cake is unique in its taste.

It's not totally a jelly though it has the translucent characteristics of jelly when hot.

Water chestnut nutty cake step by step

1. Grease the loaf tray and dust the flour Evenly,cut dryfruits.

2. Preheat oven at 170c for 15min.

3. Seave the flour 2 times,add cinnamon powder, black pepper and salt in a bowl.

4. In another bowl add sugar, ghee mix it pour curd and mix again, now add dry ingredients in it mix gently by cut and fold method.

5. Now add half of the dry fruits in this batter mix, and pour this batter in the tray,knock on the counter for few to set the better, half of the dry fruits coat with flour and sprinkle on the top of the batter.

6. Bake it for 20 -25 min..

7. A skewer inserted into the cake if it comes out clean it baked.

8. Cool completely before slicing, Enjoy with tea..

And it's not really a cake at all either.

Its texture is harder than jelly and it's not too sweet and there is the wonderful crunchy fresh sweetness of the water chestnut bits.

Experiment with your microwave's timing to cook this in a casserole dish for a speedier version that works just as well.

Water chestnuts and a teriyaki dressing give this main dish its Asian flare. —Carolee Ewell, Santaquin, Utah.

I love to try out different recipes for the squash I grow in my garden.