https://thequirinokitchen.com/tag/homemade-tikoy-nian-gao-for-chinese-new-year/ Asian cooking, culture and stories of recipes Fri, 20 Jan 2023 22:36:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://thequirinokitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-favicon-32x32.png https://thequirinokitchen.com/tag/homemade-tikoy-nian-gao-for-chinese-new-year/ 32 32 https://thequirinokitchen.com/pineapple-tarts-and-lunar-new-year-recipes/ https://thequirinokitchen.com/pineapple-tarts-and-lunar-new-year-recipes/#respond Wed, 26 Jan 2022 03:55:48 +0000 https://www.asianinamericamag.com/?p=18110 Pineapple Tarts are traditional, bite-sized pastry treats often served for the Lunar New Year. The original ones from Singapore have a pastry tart shaped like a floral cookie, with the homemade pineapple filling at the center. If you don't have the classic pastry mold, shape them like tiny hand pies . I also shared other Lunar New Year recipes which are family favorites.]]> https://thequirinokitchen.com/pineapple-tarts-and-lunar-new-year-recipes/feed/ 0 18110 https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-make-homemade-tikoy-nian-gao-for-chinese-new-year/ https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-make-homemade-tikoy-nian-gao-for-chinese-new-year/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2019 23:24:27 +0000 https://www.asianinamericamag.com/?p=7591 Tikoy to Filipinos or Nian Gao in Mandarin or else Nin Kou in Cantonese is a steamed Chinese rice cake with brown sugar and sweet rice flour. You can cook this in the Instant Pot or on the stove-top and I share both ways here. In the Philippines, an entire steamed cake is given as a gift for the Lunar New Year to symbolize prosperity and good luck. When we received it, we pan-fried slices to soften it up. Once pan fried, each warm slice was crisp on the outside while sticky soft inside. The yellow coating of the eggs are close in color to 'gold', a symbol of prosperity. The chewy, gummy consistency of the tikoy rice cake are supposed to make sure the luck 'sticks'. We enjoy these delicious, savory strips of tikoy rice cakes served as a snack or side during Chinese New Year. Tikoy is a hearty, heavy and filling snack that's also good all year long.]]> https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-make-homemade-tikoy-nian-gao-for-chinese-new-year/feed/ 5 7591