Rice Cakes With Sweet Potatoes Soy Ginger Glaze Food

SOY GLAZE

Steps:

• Stir brown sugar, soy sauce, white sugar, water, white wine vinegar, rice vinegar, and ground ginger together in a saucepan; bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook until reduced in volume by half, about 30 minutes.
• Let glaze cool to thicken, at least 1 hour.

GINGER GLAZED SWEET POTATO TOTS

Steps:

• For the ginger glaze: Combine the simple syrup, ginger, lemons, star anise and cinnamon sticks in a large pot and bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. Simmer until the syrup is reduced to a glaze and the flavors have infused properly. Strain the glaze through a fine-mesh sieve to remove solids.
• For the sweet potato tots: Pulse the sweet potatoes in a food processor until ground into very small chunks; be sure not to puree the potatoes too finely.
• In a large bowl, combine the potatoes, flour and some salt and pepper and mix well. Form the mixture into small logs and refrigerate until chilled.
• In a large heavy-bottomed saucepan, pour in enough oil to fill the pan about a third of the way. Heat over medium heat until a deep-fry thermometer inserted in the oil registers 350 degrees F. Cut the sweet potato logs into 1-inch pieces and fry in batches until golden brown.
• Coat with the ginger glaze and garnish with the parsley.

GRILLED SUSHI RICE WITH SOY-GINGER GLAZE

Steps:

• Form sushi cakes either using a rice mold or your hands. Make a small hole in the cake and fill with gari. Re-seal hole and let rest for 5 minutes. On a hot grill, mark the cake. Turn over and glaze marked side. Turn again and glaze. Garnish with sesame seeds and serve hot.
• Combine all ingredients in a bowl.

SOY GINGER GLAZE

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together
• use to glaze desired food.

PALITAW (SWEET RICE CAKES)

Steps:

• Mix the rice flour, 1/2 cup sugar, and the water together in a bowl into a soft dough; set aside.
• Stir 1/2 cup sugar and sesame seeds together in a small bowl. Toss the coconut with the salt together in a separate bowl.
• Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
• Take a portion of the soft dough and roll it into a ball between the palms of your hands. Pull lengthwise and shape into a tongue. Drop into the boiling water. The cake is ready when it floats. Scoop it out with a strainer and roll it in the sugar and sesame seed mixture. Place it on a serving platter. Repeat with the rest of the dough. Top the cakes with coconut and serve warm.

SWEET POTATO CAKE WITH ORANGE GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour a 10-in tube pan with removable bottom. Tap out excess flour.
• Place pecan halves on bottom of pan in even layer.
• Using colander, drain sweet potatoes well.
• In a bowl, mash potatoes until smooth.
• In medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, ginger and salt.
• In large bowl, with electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter and sugars 2 minutes, until fluffy. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in buttermilk, vanilla and mashed potatoes.
• With mixer on low speed, gradually add flour mixture, beat on medium speed until well blended. Spoon batter into prepared pan; spread evenly. Bake 60 to 65 minutes or until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool on rack 15 minutes. Run knife around edges; remove pan sides. Cool completely.
• Run long, sharp knife carefully under bottom of cake between pan and pecans. Turn cake out onto cake plate, pecan side up.
• Glaze: In small saucepan, over high heat, combine sugar and orange juice. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and boil until thick and syrupy, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in zest.
• Brush over pecans, letting some glaze run down sides of cake.

JAPANESE SOY GLAZED SWEET POTATO

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°.
• Combine first 6 ingredients; stir well with a whisk. Arrange potatoes in a single layer in a 13 x 9-inch baking dish.
• Pour soy sauce mixture over potatoes. Cover and bake at 400° for 50 minutes or until tender.
• Baste with the soy sauce mixture. Uncover, and bake an additional 10 minutes or until liquid is absorbed.
• Sprinkle with sesame seeds and shredded nori, toss and serve.

GINGERED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• In a small skillet, melt butter with oil over medium heat. Stir in the brown sugar, honey, cinnamon, salt, ginger and pepper. Add the sweet potato wedges; toss to coat. Cover and cook over low heat for 20-30 minutes or until potatoes are tender, stirring occasionally.

NIAN GAO (BAKED SWEET POTATO STICKY RICE CAKES)

Steps:

• Combine the glutinous rice flour and ¾ cup/180 grams water in a bowl to form a dough. Cover tightly and refrigerate for at least 6 hours and up to 24 hours.
• Heat oven to 400 degrees. Wash and scrub the sweet potatoes and pat them dry thoroughly with a clean kitchen towel. With a fork, poke holes all over the sweet potatoes. Bake on a foil-lined pan until a fork can pierce it with no resistance, 40 to 50 minutes.
• When cool enough to handle, peel off the skin. Pass the sweet potato through a ricer or mash with a fork. Measure out 1¼ cups/320 grams of the mashed sweet potato. (Reserve any remaining for another use.)
• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Combine coconut milk, sugar and salt in a large saucepan. Set the saucepan over medium-low heat, and whisk until the sugar dissolves and the mixture is hot but not boiling, about 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and add the butter, stirring until it melts. Mix in the sweet potato mash, followed by the tapioca starch, then add the refrigerated wet glutinous rice flour gradually in chunks, whisking as you go. Add the egg and whisk until smooth.
• Heat 1 or more kuih bahulu pans in the oven until very hot, 7 to 8 minutes. If you don't have a kuih bahulu pan, a decorative cakelet pan or mini muffin tin made out of cast iron or aluminum works (see Tip). The batter yields 24 to 42 nian gao, depending on the size of the hollows; work in batches if needed (see Tip). Remove the pan from the oven and, using a silicone or pastry brush, lightly and quickly brush its hollows with oil. Stir batter, then quickly pour it into the hollows, filling them 80 to 90 percent full.
• Bake on the center rack until golden brown on top and a toothpick inserted into the center of one emerges moist and sticky, but with no pasty raw batter on it, 20 to 40 minutes. The exact baking time will vary depending on the size and heft of your pan.
• Use a wooden skewer or butter knife to pry out and remove the nian gao from the pan. If the pan was properly heated and oiled, the nian gao will not stick. If needed, repeat with the remaining batter. If the pan cools off too much while you are removing a batch of nian gao, heat it for a couple of minutes in the oven before baking the next batch.
• These nian gao are best served slightly warm while the edges are still crisp and the centres are soft and chewy. They are best the same day they are made. You can keep leftovers in a covered container in the refrigerator and steam, pan-fry or microwave them to reheat the next day, but they will not completely recover their freshly cooked texture.

SWEET POTATO CAKES WITH TOMATO & SOY SAUCE

Steps:

• To make the Soy & Tomato Sauce, heat the oil in a wok and stir-fry the garlic and ginger for about 1 minute.
• Add the tomatoes and stir-fry for another 2 minutes.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the soy sauce, lime juice, and cilantro. Set aside and keep warm.
• Peel the sweet potatoes and grate finely (you can do this quickly with a food processor). Place the garlic, chile, and cilantro in a mortar and crush with a pestle to a smooth paste. Stir in the soy cauce with the garlic, chili, and cilantro and mix in the sweet potatoes.
• Divide the mixture into 12 equal portions. Dip into flour and pat into a flat, round patty shape.
• Heat a shallow pool of oil in a wide skillet. Cook the sweet potato patties over a high heat until they are golden, turning them once.
• Drain the cooked patties on paper towels and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Serve while still hot, with a spoonful of the Soy & Tomato Sauce.

RICE CAKES WITH SWEET POTATOES & SOY GINGER GLAZE

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine rice, egg, green onions, walnuts, parsley, and half of the spices; refrigerate for about 2 hours.
• In a bowl, combine the flour and the rest of the spices.
• When rice mixture is chilled, form into 1-inch cakes and toss in the flour mixture.
• Saute in oil until brown; about 3 minutes per side; press down softly with spatula while frying to slightly flatten.
• Sweet Potato and Soy Ginger glaze; Drizzle sweet potato with oil and roast in 425 degree oven until tender: or bake in Microwave until tender.
• Mix remaining ingredients in a sauce pan; bring to a boil and cook 2 to 3 minutes; add cornstarch mixed with a little water; cook until thickened.
• Mix sweet potatoes with sauce and place on rice cakes with chopped chives.