Recipes – Page 5 – Towards China

Make a kitchen project of it

Challenging

Stretch, pleat and wrap. Allow the resting time, and enjoy learning a new skill.

Challenging14 hr 25 min

Steamed New Year rice cake

This steamed New Year cake combines sticky-rice flour with dates, nuts and brown sugar.

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Challenging2 hr 45 min

Sticky-rice pearl meatballs

Sticky-rice grains turn translucent around these steamed pork meatballs. Water chestnuts give the filling a little crunch beneath its pearly coating.

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Challenging1 hr 45 min

Sticky-rice pumpkin cakes

These little pumpkin-shaped cakes hide sweet red-bean filling inside an orange squash dough.

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Challenging4 hr 45 min

Sweet lotus root with sticky rice

Sticky rice fills the long holes inside a whole lotus-root section before a sweet simmer.

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Challenging2 hr 20 min

Sweet red-bean buns

Smooth red-bean paste becomes a sweet filling for soft steamed buns.

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Challenging2 hr 35 min

Vegetable and tofu dumplings

Smoked tofu gives these vegetable dumplings a savoury filling.

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Challenging7 hr 20 min

Xiaolongbao soup dumplings

Delicate wrappers with pork and a spoonful of soup inside. Make this a two-day kitchen project and enjoy the pleating.

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Challenging14 hr 15 min

Youtiao breakfast dough sticks

Youtiao are paired strips of dough that puff as they fry.

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Every swap explains what changes. Some specialist ingredients are worth finding: plain flour cannot do the job of glutinous rice, and chilli sauce cannot recreate fermented bean paste.