Simple Way to Prepare Youtiao/Chinese Fried Long Donuts/Cakwe in 18 Minutes for Family

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Youtiao/Chinese Fried Long Donuts/Cakwe is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Youtiao/Chinese Fried Long Donuts/Cakwe is something that I have loved my entire life.

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. Youtiao (油条), also known as Chinese fried dough or Chinese crullers, is a breakfast favorite in China. The Cantonese dialect has an even better name: yàuhjagwái (油炸鬼), which literally translates to "oil-fried-devil" (or ghost).

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have youtiao/chinese fried long donuts/cakwe using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Youtiao/Chinese Fried Long Donuts/Cakwe:

1. Prepare 400 gr all purpose flour
2. Get 1.5 tsp salt
3. Take 0.5 tsp sugar
4. Make ready 1 tbs baking powder
5. Prepare 0.5 tsp baking soda
6. Make ready 1 sdt garlic powder
7. Take 270 gr water
8. Prepare Canola oil as needed to coat the dough

The recipe gives you nice puffy you tiao. They are perfect to go with that bowl of Chinese congee, soymilk, or rojak. Youtiao, also known as the Chinese cruller, Chinese oil stick, Chinese doughnut, You Char Kway/Cakwe/Kueh/Kuay (in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore), and fried breadstick, is a long golden-brown deep-fried strip of dough eaten in China and (by a variety of other names) in other East. Youtiao is also known as Chinese oil stick or Chinese cruller is a traditional Chinese breakfast.

Steps to make Youtiao/Chinese Fried Long Donuts/Cakwe:

1. Mix well the dry ingredients. Pour in the water.
2. Knead the dough until it feels soft. Coat the dough with oil.
3. Put the dough in a bowl then cover the bowl with plastic wrap.
4. Leave the dough in room temperature for 4 to 6 hours or put it in the fridge overnight.
5. In the morning, take out the dough and let it sit on the counter (wrapped) for 1 – 2 hours until the dough is back to room temperature and VERY soft to the touch. This step is very important because when the dough is not in room temperature, it won't fry up properly.
6. Gently flip the dough onto a lightly floured surface and sprinkle very lightly flour the top side of the dough also.
7. Roll out the dough to get about 1/4 in thick (about 4 in wide). Cut the the dough into 1 x 4 in strips (try to cut an even number of strips). Dip a chopstick in the water then press the center of one strip lengthwise. Put another strip on top of it then press the center (lengthwise) with a chopstick.
8. Preheat the oil to fry until is very hot over medium heat.
9. Hold the two ends of each piece and gently stretch the dough to a 7 to 8-inch long rope.
10. Then put it in the hot oil. As soon as the dough floats, roll the dough in a continuous motion for about a minute by using chopsticks or tongs.
11. The youtiao is done once they turn light golden brown.
12. Repeat step 10, 11, 12 for the remaining dough.

Youtiao in fact is deep-fried Chinese breadstick. The perfect match with Youtiao is soy milk. Since Youtiao is deep-fried, so it is not so popular as the old days. But it can always bring happy memories. A comforting breakfast staple loved by many, Chinese doughnut sticks (Youtiao) are light, airy & pleasantly chewy.

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