It’s a totally different way of enjoying this popular Chinese New Year’s cake. Tikoy Turon is a type of snack prepared with a Chinese sweet rice cake called tikoy wrapped with spring roll pastry then deep fried.
Tikoy or Nian gao is a food prepared from glutinous rice flour, it can be eaten all year round but traditionally it is most popular during the Chinese New Year as it is considered to bring luck when you eat them because nian gao is a homonym for “grow every year” which means “a more prosperous year”. Usually, Nian Gao is eaten as it is but, in the Philippines, they usually prepared by slicing several day-old hardened rice cakes, dipping it in egg then pan frying them until crispy on the edges and chewy and soft on the insides.
Today we are preparing them differently, were cooking it turon style, where we wrap it in a spring roll pastry then deep frying it until golden brown. You can add other fillings if you want like langka or cheese, you can even use any tikoy flavour you want.
Oh! T’nee Koi (Hokkien/Fujian dialect) is Tikoy in Filipino, same same! They deep fry sandwiched between a slice of sweet potato and a slice of yam. Simply out of this world, so very nice!
Another new delicacy to me! It’s made with so few ingredients and looks very easy. Plus, I already have spring roll wrappers waiting to be used up… I’ve got to try it!
Easy quick and delicious ,esp. if you love rice cake!
These look delicious Raymond. Love how simple the recipe is too!
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I’ve never tried Tikoy Turon, but it sounds delish! And I love that Philippine version – basically rice cake french toast!
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Oh! T’nee Koi (Hokkien/Fujian dialect) is Tikoy in Filipino, same same! They deep fry sandwiched between a slice of sweet potato and a slice of yam. Simply out of this world, so very nice!
Another new delicacy to me! It’s made with so few ingredients and looks very easy. Plus, I already have spring roll wrappers waiting to be used up… I’ve got to try it!
Sounds really good — I just saw lumpia wrappers at the Asian grocer. Should be easy to make!