Taiwanese street food festival 台味食煮 - Day 16 - Taiwanese Roll - Rou-song (Pork Floss) Cake Roll 肉鬆蛋糕捲

Today I am going to introduce you a Swiss Roll but in Taiwanese version. If you have visited or lived in Taiwan, or you have been following my articles, you would know the essential of Taiwanese cuisine is the perfect infusion of sweetness and savoriness. When it comes to dessert, it is not only about overdose of sugar and cream, yet a pinch of savory taste could bring it to the next level, just like the Pork floss cake, one of my best and the most valuable Taiwanese recipes in my pocket.

Rou-song (Pork floss) is made by stewing cuts of pork in a sweetened soy sauce mixture until individual muscle fibers can be easily teased apart with a fork. It is used as a topping for many foods, such as congee served in breakfast, being the fillings in sticky rice ball (Fan Tuan) - same concept as onigiri but with more varieties fillings and served warm. It is also found in various buns and pastries, and addictive snack food on its own. You can easily access rou-song in the Asia market, and you would be rewarded as a Taiwanese who do know the best of local cuisine when you at the cashier.

Rou-song (Pork Floss)

Rou-song as a filling in warm sticky rice ball (Fan- Tuan)

Rou-song served with congee and savory steamed sticky rice

It is not complicated to make this cake roll, all you have to do is follow the way you make general cake roll but use rou-song and mayonnaise as fillings. You are right, mayonnaise is not only perfect match for "friet" (Dutch way), you can discover more reasons that it exists in our daily life by trying this recipe. I bet you would definitely win a Taiwanese girl heart by offering this, rather than a Tiffany box which you could get if you have loads in the pocket. If this cake roll does not work (which is almost impossible), check another Taiwanese treat made by steamed technique: Steamed Savory cake. I am very confident that the girl you are pursuing is not the only one you are addicted to after trying this recipe!

 

Ingredients:

Batter:
1. 5 eggs, yolk and egg white divided
2. 70g sugar, divide into 30g and 40g
3. 100g milk
4. 40g olive oil
5. 120g flour

Garnish and filling:
6. Green onion, chopped
7. White sesame
8. Mayonnaise
9. Pork floss

Instruction:
Preheat oven to 170 degrees

1. Whisk yolk with sugar (40g) until it become whitish yellow.
2. Add milk and olive oil, combine well. Whisk sifted flour into a smooth batter.

 

3. Beat egg white with a mixer on a high speed until frothy.Add 30g sugar and beat until stiff peaks form, about 5 mins.

 

4. Whisk one-third of the egg-white mixture into batter, gently fold remaining egg-white mixture in with a rubber spatula thoroughly.

 

5. Prepare a baking tray, place a baking paper.Pour in batter mixture from a 30cm heigh from the working table. Spread evenly with rubber spatula. Sprinkle green onion and white sesame on the top evenly. Knock out bubbles before putting into oven.

 

6. Bake 12-15 mins at 170 degrees and sit aside for cooling.

7. Turn the cake upside down,remove the baking paper.Slide several lines with a knife without thoroughly cut through. Spread mayonnaise evenly and pork floss generously on the top.

 

8. Roll the cake up gently into a log. Use mayonnaise at the end of the edge to better seal cake roll. Cut into1cm thick slides and enjoy typical Taiwanese treat with cup of tea.