Every Chinese New Year I was asking a friend of mine who is a half-Chinese and half-Filipino to give me a tikoy the Chinese rice cake (or sometimes called glutinous rice flour) because it brings fortune both to the person who gave it and the person receiving it. Tikoy in Chinese is Nian gao and it was considered as the main dish during this season.
Since Chinese New Year is very important holiday and it was sometimes called “spring festival” in china then it is important to prepare tikoy in a special way. You can find tikoy everywhere especially in Quiapo, Dangwa and even in Divisoria and Tutuban Mall. Every street has a tikoy vendor starting Christmas season (December until January or sometimes February).
The simplest way to prepare tikoy is using basic ingredients such as sugar and water. But still you can add up additional flavorings to make it a delight for the family in Chinese New Year. It can be fried or steamed, with food color and eggs. You can have a variety of way of cooking and preparing special sweet tikoy.
Ingredients:
- Tikoy or glutinous rice flour
- Sugar (depending on the sweetness you want)
- 1 cup water or more
- 2 Eggs
- Flour (can be small amount only)
- 2 tbsp Oil
Procedure
- Mix all the ingredients sugar, water, eggs and flour. (You can still add other flavorings to make it more delicious and colorings). Set aside.
- Pre heat round pan with oil.
- Dip the tikoy in the mixture and fry it within 2 minutes or until golden brown.
- Put in a platter and serve immediately.
- Garnish with buko, nata or sago
So this is the basic way of preparation of the dish and all you have to do is to adopt this, add more ingredients that you think can make it more and more appealing to everyone especially to the whole family. You are able to receive the fortune brought by the tikoy and try to make it worthy by making it more tastier and delicious.
anog itsura ng tikoy or glutinous