Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Simple Recipe - Chinese Crullers (Yau Char Kwai) with Cucumber Salad

Chinese crullers are made from flour and deep fried until crispy. It is normally eaten with porridge or Bak Kut Teh (Chinese Meat Herbal Soup). I have some leftovers crullers that I bought for breakfast and I used it as one of the ingredients for my salad. Ingredients 1) 1 pc Chinese Crullers (Yau Char Kwai) 2) 1 cucumber, cut into 4cmX1cm size 3) Thousand Island Salad Dressing or Mayonnaise. (Note: These salad dressing contain eggs, so if you a do not take eggs, please don’t use this dressing) If the Chinese Cruller is not crispy, just heat it up in oven at 150 Deg C for 15 minutes. Cut it into small pieces and let it cool down. Mix it with cucumber and add the salad dressing. For Chinese Crullers Recipe check out these links: http://chinesefood.about.com/od/desserts/r/crullers.htm http://foodcrazee.blogspot.com/2005/10/chinese-crullers.html

12 comments:

Josephine said...

I am not a "you tiao" lover. Maybe because i don like the "old oil" taste.
But if eat it with cucumber, I think it shud be ok gua...

Anonymous said...

good idea for the saving the left over. I used to hv headache with left over food.

Rasa Malaysia said...

Hi Pete, just popping in to say hello and thank you for leaving me so many nice comments recently. This yau char kwai salad looks great. I recently had a similar dish in Penang, but the YCK is stuffed with fish paste and then deep fried and served with a fruit salad. It was yummylicious. :)

Anonymous said...

Pete! No way I'll eat yu tiao with cucumber! LOL... I'm a fan of yu tiao with my chicken porridge and soya sauce!

Kikey Loo said...

i like Yau Char Kwai...
thanks for this recipe.

p/s: gonna add u in my blog.

Beverly's Secret said...

Super creative!!! Yum Yum...

p/s: The roti canai tasted ok only.. but better than nothing..

mistipurple said...

wow, i love this!

and.. what's today's lucky number? hahahaha. :P

Calvin Soo KJ said...

..if all the time eat like this, fat fat lor....not a fan of yau char kuai. especially the one that you have posted, only eat once in a blue moon. counting calories now, have to shape up and so that my belly dont overflow...hahaha

Pete said...

Josephine : Some vendors recycle the oil too long, so the smell will be to strong.

Mommy : Thks for dropping by

Rasa Malaysia : Thks for dropping by. The YCK that are stuffed with fish paste is more of yong tau foo version, yummy! Maybe I try to use fish paste stuffed YCK salad next round.

Cleff : Cucumber very good for complexion leh. I told my daughter the same thing, now she starts to eat cucumber lorr. Ha Ha

Kikey : thks for the add

Beverly : Try it, is nice.

Misti : 7838, The road builders' contractor wrote this on my neighbour driveway to tar it. LOL

Calvin : Looks like I am the only one that need more calories. Too skinny lorr!

Anonymous said...

Nice! Very appetizing! :)

Anonymous said...

LOL...actually i eat cucumber wan... but only with rojak. Hahah...feels weird leh, if eat with you tiao. =.=

Pete said...

cc: Try this recipe, its nice.

Cleff : Ha, the rojak also got 'you tiao' lorr!