Potato Gnocchi with Sundried Tomato and Pesto Cream Sauce
Servings: | 4 |
Time to Cook: | 20 |
Time to Prepare: | 45 |
Crispy Egg Roll cookies (aka biscuit rolls, or 香酥蛋卷 [xiāng sū dàn juǎn] in Chinese) are a delightful, light, crispy treat, often given as a gift and popular around the holidays. They’re usually made using specialized pans, but this recipe allows you to make a delightful version of your own without specialized equipment.
Note that the cooking time of 4-5 minutes is PER COOKIE – total cooking time will vary depending on how many you can make at once, but plan for about 1-1.5 hours minimum for a full-sized batch.
Ingredients
Equipment Needed (see note 1)
Instructions
Batter
Cooking
Rolling the Cookies (see note 5)
Drying the Cookies (optional but recommended)
Finished cookies will keep in the container for 5-7 days at room temperature.
Recipe Notes:
1 – Equipment: This recipe doesn’t require any specialty equipment, but it is easiest to adjust and tweak the temperature of an electric griddle. If you use a pan or skillet on the stove just make sure you watch the temperature carefully and that you use something that conducts heat evenly. A broad spatula/flipper will make flattening the cookies easiest, but try to avoid metal ones as they’ll conduct heat into your fingertips. Lastly, but most importantly, you need something to roll the cookies. A small clean wooden dowel or handle from a spoon (etc.) will make it easiest. A round handle is ideal, but something flat and thin will work too. The cookies can be rolled with chopsticks too, but it’s not as easy to do.
2 – Sugar: These cookies, like most Chinese desserts, are not terribly sweet. If you want them a little sweeter you can an additional 1-2 teaspoons of sugar.
3 – Temperature: It’s difficult to exactly describe the temperature that you’re aiming to get the griddle/pan at, but a bit of trial and error helps. A drop of water placed on the cooking surface should evaporate quickly, but not sizzle violently.
4 – Cooking Time: Each cookie will need to cook for about 4-5 minutes, but this will vary depending on how thin you can get the dough and how hot your cooking surface is. The cookies become paler as they cook, so use that as your guide.
5 – Rolling the Cookies: This is the trickiest part of the recipe, though it is made much easier if you have a good dowel and some clean cotton or silicone gloves to protect your hands from the heat. Don’t try to transfer the cookie to a cool surface before rolling it; the heat of the griddle/pan is the only thing keeping it flexible enough to avoid cracking.
Original Recipe from Diversivore
Servings: | 4 |
Time to Cook: | 20 |
Time to Prepare: | 45 |