ramyaramesh3007This sticky rice roll stuffed with vegan egg, chili oil, vegan pork floss and youtiao is a vegan version of the traditional Taiwanese breakfast staple.
Fan Tuan was brought to Taiwan by Chinese refugees around 1940s – and overtime, it became a deep rooted into the Taiwanese breakfast culture – the classic roll would be made of purple sticky rice, stuffed with pork floss, youtiao (deep fried bread) and pickled mustard greens.Â
I’ve also seen a lot of versions with egg so in this vegan version, we will be adding vegan egg, chili oil crisp, scallions, vegan pork floss and youtiao.
The only place I can get a vegan Fan Tuan in Singapore is at QQ rice – I personally love the variety of filling there and dare I say it’s the only but best rice roll I’ve ever tasted.
Ingredients You Need
- rice – white and black glutinous rice (sticky rice)
- vegan egg
- silken tofu
- plant milk
- nutritional yeast
- chickpea flour
- corn starch
- onion and garlic powder – for flavour
- turmeric – gives a yellow hue
- black salt – for that eggy flavour
- chili oil crisp
- chopped scallions
- vegan pork floss – you can find vegetarian floss in asian supermarkets!
- youtiao – this is a type of deep fried, salty bread. You can find frozen versions in asian supermarkets.
Allium free substitutions: Omit onion, garlic powder and substitute with hing.
Gluten free substitutions: Omit youtiao and vegan pork floss (unless it’s gluten free)
Homemade Fan Tuan (Taiwanese Rice Roll)
Ingredients
Purple Rice
- 1/4 cup white glutinous rice
- 3/4 cup black glutinous rice
- 11/4 cups water
Vegan Egg
- 300 g silken tofu
- 2/3 cup unsweetened soy or oat milk
- 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 4 tbsp chickpea flour
- 2 tbsp corn starch
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp black salt
Toppings
- chili oil crisp
- spring onions
- vegan pork floss
- 2 slices you tiao
Instructions
- Rinse the rice until water runs clear. Add both types of rice, water to the rice cooker and cook on brown rice mode.
- Combine all the ingredients required for the vegan egg into a food processor. Blend on high under you get a smooth paste.
- Add oil to a pan, and add vegan egg mixture and spread evenly. Cover with a lid and cook until you see bubbles on the surface. This would take around 3-5 minutes.
- Flip the egg. You can also do this 2 batches for thinner slices.
- Slice the vegan egg into thin strips.
- Crisp up the vegan youtiao with an airfryer.
- Once the rice is cooked, let it cool slightly so it's easier to scoop and spread on the cling wrap.
- Place a sheet of cling film on your work surface. Spread the warm sticky rice into a rectangle (around 1cm depth).
- Add a slice of vegan egg, scallions, drizzle chili oil and arrange crispy youtiao and floss in a line down the middle.
- Use the cling film to lift and roll the rice around the filling, pressing firmly into a compact cylinder.
- Unwrap and eat whole fan tuan or you can cut in half. Enjoy!