Nowadays, Chinese immigrants comprising the largest group of immigrant settlers in the Philippines. As an ethnic group, they get 22% of our population including Chinese-Mestizos. Business and even their special occasions are being recognized by the country. One of which is the Chinese new Year.
Every Chinese New Year, Nian Gao or most popularly known as "tikoy" is always on the list. It is a food prepared from glutinous rice and very sticky. For Chinese people, tikoy should be on the table every New Year because it will cause the family to be close for the whole year.
The usual way of cooking it is frying it in a pan after coating with beaten egg. We always have plenty boxes of tikoy in our house and doing this usual preparation makes our tongue wanna try something new. Fortunately, my mother's officemate taught us a twist in cooking tikoy.
Here's how.
Basically you just need four, yes only four ingredients.
- Tikoy
- Lumpia wrapper
- cheese
- oil(for frying)
Cut the tikoy and cheese into strips. Get a strip of tikoy and cheese and wrap it together with lumpia wrapper. In a hot pan, fry it until golden brown. And holla! your tikoy with twist is now ready!
Easy right? and I assure you it's yuuuummmmy! Try it for yourself. :)
