猪脚醋

Method
1. 2 Pig Throttle, clean it up and chop to pieces.
















2. Because this sauce can keep for long time, when you feel like having it, just bring the egg to boil with the vineger mixture. Put a bit of salt to avoid cracking shells.
















3. 2 Pig Throttle needed 2 sweet vineger + 1 black vineger. Add a bit of chinese alcohol for cooking. Slice up old ginger. Use bit more for spicier taste.
















4. Stir fry ginger with sesame oil. Add in chopped pig pieces later.


















5. Stir fry til golden then put in clay pot along with the boiled eggs. Add in 2 bottles of sweet vineger and 1 black vineger. Cook for 1.5 hours. Don't add water.
















6. Complete product

Deep Fried Taro CYN Cake 炸年糕

Ingredients
For every 100g CNY Cake:
50g flour
1 egg
a pinch baking powder
50ml water
1 tsp oil
sweet potato/Taro (optional)
oil for deep frying


Method
Cut the nian gao into ½ cm slices.

1. Using a mandoline or a vegetable slicer, cut the sweet potato into wafer thin slices. Soak in ice water for about 10 minutes. Remove from water and pat dry with paper towel.

2. Mix flour, egg, baking powder, water and oil into a smooth batter.

3. Heat oil to about 150°C

4. Place 1 piece of nian gao between 2 slices of sweet potato. Dip the nian gao sandwich into the batter and fry over medium heat for 1 - 2 minutes until golden. Drain on paper towels.

Recipe adapted from http://cheateat.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/nian_gao.html