https://thequirinokitchen.com/tag/nian-gao-recipe/ Asian cooking, culture and stories of recipes Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:33:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://thequirinokitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-favicon-32x32.png https://thequirinokitchen.com/tag/nian-gao-recipe/ 32 32 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