Cheung Fun Recipe (腸粉) Rice Noodle Roll

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Cheung fun (腸粉) or rice noodle roll is a classic dim sum dish. This cheung fun recipe is very simple and easy to make at home. Also, enjoy this soft and smooth without filling rice noodle rolls recipe! This cheung fun recipe is great to go with soy sauce noodles and congee which is a common Cantonese breakfast.

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rice noodle rolls cheung fun with sauce on a white plate

What is cheung fun (腸粉) ?

Cheung fun (腸粉) is also called rice noodle roll or steamed rice roll. It is a Cantonese dish from southern China and Hong Kong. Often, it is served as a snack, small meal, breakfast or as a dim sum item.

Besides, cheung fun is a thin and flat rice noodle that rolls up. It's mainly made from rice flour. Some cheung fun will add filling like shrimp, beef, vegetables, or other ingredients.

Normally, add sauce before serving. This rice noodle rolls recipe is the simple and plain one without filling.

How to make dim sum rice noodle rolls?

In a commercial restaurant setting, flour mixture is poured into a special flat pan with holes, similar to a flat colander, that are lined with a steam permeable cloth. Then, flour mixture steam in the pan from the bottom and produce rectangle rice noodle sheets. The noodles are very thin and it has a gummy texture.

Once the flour mixture is set, the entire freshly steamed noodle forms onto the cloth. Therefore, it needs to be scraped off with a scraper. After that, usually put it on a metal table surface and roll it.

However, in this homemade cheung fun recipe, we use a cake pan or tray to make it and roll them afterwards. Some like to use cheung fun steamers.

What are the ingredients in cheung fun?

The plain rice noodle rolls mainly use rice flour and water. In this rice noodle roll recipe, I use rice flour, corn starch, tapioca starch, wheat starch and water.

What kind of sauce do you add for cheung fun?

Rice noodle rolls do not have flavor. In fact, the flavor mainly comes from the sauce. Normally, rice noodle rolls served with sweetened soy sauce and hoisin sauce. Some people like to add peanut butter sauce, chili sauce and sprinkle with sesame seeds as well.

Cooking tips for rice noodle rolls:

Since we don’t have commercial style steamers to make cheung fun at home. The simplest way to make it is to use a cake pan. A rectangle or square cake pan is ideal. if you don’t have it, then using a regular circle one works fine too.
Make sure you don’t put too much flour mixture into the pan. This is because you want to make the rice noodles very thin. When it rolls up, it’s not too thick and big.
Every time before pouring the mixture into the cake pan for steaming, make sure to mix the flour mixture very well.
I use a 3 layers stainless steel steamer that can steam 3 rolls at the same time and save time.

FAQs:

What can I use to replace peanut sauce?

Sesame sauce is a good alternative. If you have a peanut allergy, you don't need to add them.

Can you reheat rice noodle rolls?

Yes, you can reheat rice noodle rolls in a microwave or steam it. Usually, I cover with a wet paper towel and put in the microwave to warm up for a few minutes. Or, I steam it if they are straight out from the refrigerator.

Instructions for how to make homemade cheung fun:

Preparation:

1. Put 1 cup of rice flour, 1 teaspoon of tapioca starch, 1 teaspoon of wheat starch and 1 teaspoon of cornstarch into a bowl.

rice flour mixture in sliver bowl with a whisk

2. After that, pour 2 cups & 3 teaspoons of water into the bowl. Mix and stir it well.

3. Next, brush some vegetable oil on a tray. Then, pour some rice flour mixture from step 2 into the tray. (Every time before pouring the mixture into the cake pan for steaming, make sure to mix the flour mixture very well.)

rice flour mixture on a tray and in a steamer

Cooking:

4. Then, steam it for 2 minutes after water is boiling. Repeat steps 2-4 a few times. It yields around 8 rice noodle rolls if you use the same size of the tray.

Peanut sauce:

5. In the meanwhile, put ½ tablespoon of peanut butter in a container and add 1 tablespoon of water. (Some people like to add oil, but my purpose is to loosen up and make it a little bit liquid. If you have peanut allergies. You can skip peanut butter sauce or use sesame sauce.)

6. Mix it very well until peanut butter is a little bit liquid.

7. When the rice flour is done, let it cool down a little bit.

8. Then, use a spatula to scrape the side. And, roll the rice noodle sheet up.

plain cheung fun or rice noodle rolls on a white circle plate

9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 a few times. If you use the same size of the tray, you can make around 8 rolls. The following, use the spatula to cut rice noodle rolls into pieces.

cheung fun or rice noodle rolls cut into pieces in a plate

10. Lastly, add ½ tablespoon of sesame oil, ½ tablespoon of soy sauce, 1.5 tablespoons of hoisin sauce, some peanut sauce and sprinkle sesame seeds. (You can adjust the amount of sauce to your taste.)

rice noodle rolls with sauce on a plate with sesame seeds

Enjoy this homemade smooth and soft dim sum rice noodle roll or cheung fun recipe! Also, check out these almond jello, Asian shaved ice, wonton noodle soup and boiled dumpling recipes.

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