Ox-tongue pastry
An Ox-tongue pastry that is available in congee restaurants in Hong Kong | |
Alternative names | Horse-ear pastry |
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Type | Doughnut |
Place of origin | Guangdong or Fujian, China |
Main ingredients | fried dough |
Cookbook: Ox-tongue pastry Media: Ox-tongue pastry |
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Chinese | 牛脷酥 | ||||||||||
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Ox-tongue pastry (Chinese: 牛脷酥; Jyutping: ngau4 lei 6 sou1) or horse-ear pastry (Chinese: 马耳; pinyin: mǎěr) and may be referred to as a Chinese Doughnut is a Chinese cuisines that is popular in south China in the Canton or Fujian province. It is a fried dough food that is elliptical in shape and resembles an ox tongue or a horse ear. The pastry texture is chewy, with a soft interior and a crunchy crust. Ox-tongue pastry is lightly sweetened, and eaten as part of breakfast with soy milk. The pastry is made in a similar way as Youtiao, however, sugar is added to the flour.[1]
See also
- List of doughnut varieties
- List of fried dough varieties
- Shuangbaotai
- Youtiao
- Mandazi, a similar East African pastry
- Food portal
References
- 曾大平, (2002), 民間小吃製作圖解 (Traditional snacks in China), 萬里機構 ISBN 962-14-2376-7
External links
- Media related to Ox-tongue pastry at Wikimedia Commons
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