Cheung fun (腸粉) or rice noodle roll is one of my favorite dim sum dishes. It's very simple and easy to make them at home. Enjoy this soft and smooth without filling rice noodle rolls recipe!
I ate cheung fun all the time for breakfast when I was a kid. I love it because of the sweet sauce. Also, it is great to go with soy sauce noodles and congee.
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 served as a snack, small meal, breakfast or as a dim sum item.
Cheung fun is a thin and flat rice noodles that roll up. It's mainly made from rice flour. Some cheung fun will add filling like shrimp, beef, vegetables, or other ingredients.
Normally, sauce is added before serving. This rice noodle rolls recipe is the simple and plain one without filling.
How to made cheung fun?
In commercial restaurant setting, flour mixture pour 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 noodle is very thin and it has gummy texture.
Once the flour mixture is set, the entire freshly steamed noodle form 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 version, we use a cake pan to make it and roll them afterwards.
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 serve 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 steamer to make cheung fun at home. The simplest way to make it is to use a cake pan. A square cake pan is ideal, if you don’t have it, then use a regular circle one works fine too.
- Make sure 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 3 layers stainless steel steamer that can steam 3 rolls at the same time and can save time.
FAQs:
What are the ingredients in cheung fun?
The plain rice noodle rolls mainly use rice flour and water. In this cheung fun recipe, I use rice flour, corn starch, sweet potato powder, wheat starch and water.
Can you reheat rice noodle rolls?
Yes, you can reheat rice noodle rolls in microwave or steam it. Usually, I use a wet paper towel cover it and put in 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 chueng fun:
1. Put rice flour, sweet potato powder, wheat starch, corn starch and water in a mixing bowl. Then, mix it well.
2. Grease a baking pan, (I use a circle cake pan, if you have square cake pan will be much better.) put the rice mixture into the cake pan and well cover the pan. Make sure you stir the mixture very well every time before putting into a cake pan
3. Steam it for 2 minutes and roll it up.
4. Cut the rice rolls into small pieces, add sauce, sesame oil and sesame
Enjoy this homemade smooth and soft cheung fun recipe. Also, check out these wonton noodle soup and pan fried dumplings recipes.
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Rice noodle roll (Cheung fun 腸粉)
Ingredients
Flour mixture:
- 1 cup Rice flour
- 1 teaspoon Corn starch
- 1 teaspoon Sweet potato powder
- 1 teaspoon Wheat starch
- 2 cups+3 teaspoons Water
Sauce:
- 2 teaspoons Soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons Hoisin sauce
- 2 teaspoons Sesame oil
- (If you love more sauce double it or add to your taste)
Topping (optional)
- sprinkle Sesame seeds
Instructions
- Put rice flour, sweet potato powder, wheat starch, corn starch and water in a mixing bowl. Then, mix it well.
- Grease a baking pan, (I use a circle cake pan, if you have square cake pan will be much better.) put the rice mixture into the cake pan and well cover the pan. Make sure you stir the mixture very well every time before putting into a cake pan
- Steam it for 2 minutes and roll it up.
- Cut the rice rolls into small pieces, add sauce, sesame oil and sesame
Notes
Cooking tips for rice noodle rolls:
- Since we don’t have commercial style steamer to make cheung fun at home. The simplest way to make it is to use a cake pan. A square cake pan is ideal, if you don’t have it, then use a regular circle one works fine too.
- Make sure 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 3 layers stainless steel steamer that can steam 3 rolls at the same time and can save time.
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Vivian Wang Tan
look so yummy! good job!