Deep Fried “Cakwe” (Chinese Crullers). Cakwe/Chinese crullers are so common and popular in so many Asian countries. Because of this, it has so many different names: Chinese donuts/doughnuts, Chinese fried dough, Chinese fried bread sticks, and so on. We call them cakwe in Indonesia, which is basically Chinese Hokkien for fried cake!
Drop the dough into hot oil, using chopsticks or tong turn dough on both sides and continue frying until it turn golden brown and expands.
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You can cook Deep Fried “Cakwe” (Chinese Crullers) using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Deep Fried “Cakwe” (Chinese Crullers)
- Prepare 11/2 cup of purpose flour.
- It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of oil.
- Prepare 1 tsp of yeast.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of sugar.
- It's 250 ml of lukewarm water.
- Prepare of Oil for frying.
Specially Monday is the busiest day to me. Doing laundry, cleaning house, cooking, and assignments also due on the same day. It has a variety of names such as you tiao in Chinese, cakwe / yau char kwai or patongko or bánh quẩy in different Southeast Asian countries, and literally Chinese crullers or deep-fried. Tukang Cakwe (You Tiao/ Chinese fried bread stick) Here in Indonesia, You Tiao (油条) - Chinese fried bread stick/crullers, is more known as Cakwe.
Deep Fried “Cakwe” (Chinese Crullers) step by step
- In a small bowl Mx sugar, yeast, and lukewarm water. Let it sit in about 10-15 minutes..
- In a mixing bowl or stand mixer add all dry ingredients and oil. Knead has and a low speed while adding the yeast mixtures little by little until the dough comes together and pulled away from the side of the bowl. Then transfer into greased bowl and cover with a plastic wraps. Let it rise for about an hour or until doubled in size..
- Lightly flour the work surface and turn out the dough on to it. Using rolling pin, rolling the dough into flat rectangle about 1/3-inch thick and 2 inches wide. Cut into 10 strips. Pick one strip and place it on top another strip (5 strips) and cut them again in half. So I have 10 pieces of mini cakwe.
- Using chopsticks and lay on top of these double strips, then press down. Repeat with remaining strips..
- Heat oil for deep frying. When the oil heated turned down the heat at low heat. Hold the two ends of the double dough and stretched it to make it little longer..
- Drop the dough into hot oil, using chopsticks or tong turn dough on both sides and continue frying until it turn golden brown and expands. Take off from the heat and place it on the paper towels. And repeat the same way for the rest of the dough. Then the cakwe is ready to serve. Enjoy!.
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We eat it normally with congee for breakfast or deep it into sweet sour chili sauce as snack. Youtiao, also known as Chinese cruller, Chinese fried churro, Chinese oil stick,Chinese doughnut Chinese breadstick, and fried breadstick, is a long golden-brown deep-fried strip of dough commonly. Youtiao (油条) is also known as Chinese fried churros, Chinese cruller, Chinese oil stick, and Chinese doughnut. This snack is a light, airy and pleasantly chewy long strip of delicious fried dough. Even for first-timers, the golden-brown Colour of the breadsticks is appealing.
