Char Chai Tau Kueh ~ stir fried radish cake

I always love chai tau kueh, and recently tasting it in fried dish version in Vietnam and Malaysia, I must say it is so delicious. You could cook this for afternoon snack if serve in small portion or it can be for lunch or dinner. 

Char Kueh

Here I have use a ready made Banh Cuon flour, which is normally use for making rice roll to make this radish cake, and it really have a very springy texture.

here is the recipe:

ingredient for radish cake
1 pack of Banh cuon powder( 400g)
1 radish (500g)
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon of dried prawn
400 ml water
400 ml boiling water
1 baking/glass dish size 12x 21 cm
makes approximately 10 slices

ingredient for stir frying 2 slices of radish cake(snack for 2)
1 tablespoon garlic oil
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon sweet soy sauce(kecap manis)
1 teaspoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon chopped shallot
2 pieces of salted sweet radish
2 eggs
pepper to taste

To make radish cake,

• mixed all of the 400g flour with 400ml water, stir it thorougly until there is no lumps in this mixture.
• place half of this mixture into separate bowl,. pour 400 ml of boiling water into it and stir quickly, you should ended up with thick mixture. Pour the rest of flour mixture in and mix.
• place coarsely chopped radish in blender, and spinned until you have fine crumb of radish, squessed out most of the water.
• lightly toast dried prawn, and grind it until fine.
• put radish, dried prawn, sugar, and salt in this flour mixture, and mix thoroughly.
• put in to rectangle dish, cover with cling wrap plastic, and steam for 40 minutes.
• allow to cool before attempted to cut and stir fry.

To Stir fry 2 slices of radish cake.

• heat non stick frying pan with sesame oil and garlic oil
• place strips of radish cake into it ( 2 slices, cut in to strips)
• 2 pieces of sweet salted radish, cut into small slices
• when they are crispy, turned and cook other sides
• put sweet soy sauce and soy sauce into it.
• crack 2 eggs and stir..
• put some chopped shallot for garnishing, and pepper to taste.

so there you have it,. this radish cake freezes well, so if you like afternoon snacks for 2, you could just freeze 2 pieces in plastic bags, stir fried this snack when friends visit or just becouse you feel like it.