Singapore Carrot cake
It consists of stir fried cubes of radish cake. It is a glutinous rice flour cake made from white radish, rice flour, tapioca flour, salt and minced garlic. Surprisingly it doesn’t have any carrots 😄though white radish is sometimes called white carrot. Hence the name.
These cubes are stir fried with spring onions, chili paste, soya sauce, fried eggs and red Chili. The non vegetarian version consists of oysters, prawns and is often made in lard.
Today I’ve made the vegetarian version and with soy sauce so that makes it the black version. Can be made without soy sauce which will be called white carrot cake.
Ingredients :
1 packet - Plain carrot cake
1/2 bunch spring onions
1 red chili
3 cloves garlic mince
5 eggs scrambled
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tbsp chili paste
Salt if required
Method :
Cut the carrot cake into small cubes. In a pan heat 1-2 tbsp of oil. Once it’s hot add the chopped white portion of spring onions and minced garlic. Sauté for a few minutes. Then add the cubes of carrot cake and toss till it’s mixed well. Add the soy sauce, chili paste and salt. Finally add the scrambled eggs, chopped red chili and green part of the spring onions. Sauté really well and serve hot.
In case you do not get the carrot cake in your area, here is the recipe to make it at home.
Ingredients :
1.5 cups fine rice flour
1/4 cup tapioca flour
1 heaped cup grated white radish
Salt as per taste
3 mince garlic.
Method :
Mix together the flours in room temperature vegetable or chicken stock. Bring some water to a boil and cook the white radish till translucent. Drain it.
In a pan heat 1 tsp oil and add the minced garlic and stir fry till golden. Quickly add the rice and tapioca flour batter and stir well. Add the drained radish and season with salt.
Next pour the thickened batter into a round cake tin and steam it for an hour on medium to low heat till it is set. Cool overnight and then cut it into cubes. These cubes can be used as per the above recipe.
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