Tasty Deep Fried “Cakwe” (Chinese Crullers) Recipes

Deep Fried “Cakwe” (Chinese Crullers). Chinese crullers are deep-fried dough, so we will need to prepare a pot of oil for deep frying. Great recipe for Deep Fried "Cakwe" (Chinese Crullers). In my busy day, sometime I can't think what should I cook for lunch or dinner.

Deep Fried "Cakwe" (Chinese Crullers) Great recipe for Deep Fried "Cakwe" (Chinese Crullers). In my busy day, sometime I can't think what should I cook for lunch or dinner. Specially Monday is the busiest day to me. You can have Deep Fried “Cakwe” (Chinese Crullers) using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Deep Fried “Cakwe” (Chinese Crullers)

1. You need 11/2 cup of purpose flour.
2. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
3. Prepare 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
4. It's 1 tbsp of oil.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of yeast.
6. It's 1/2 tsp of sugar.
7. You need 250 ml of lukewarm water.
8. Prepare of Oil for frying.

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. Here in Indonesia, You Tiao (油条) - Chinese fried bread stick/crullers, is more known as Cakwe. We eat it normally with congee for breakfast or deep it into sweet sour chili sauce as snack.

Deep Fried “Cakwe” (Chinese Crullers) instructions

1. In a small bowl Mx sugar, yeast, and lukewarm water. Let it sit in about 10-15 minutes..
2. 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..
3. 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.
4. Using chopsticks and lay on top of these double strips, then press down. Repeat with remaining strips..
5. 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..
6. 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!.
7. HappyCooking!.

I remember when I was in China, everytime I ordered cakwe for my breakfast, it's always served with soy bean milk. 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 is a long golden-brown deep-fried strip of dough commonly eaten in China and (by a variety of other names) in other East and Southeast Asian cuisines. Conventionally, youtiao are lightly salted and made so they can be torn lengthwise in two. Youtiao are normally eaten at breakfast as an accompaniment for rice congee, soy milk or regular milk blended with sugar.