The rice cakes need to be steamed for 30-50 minutes.

1, rice cakes can be divided into their own handmade rice cakes and supermarket-purchased rice cakes, supermarket-purchased rice cakes itself is smaller and itself is cooked, about 10-15 minutes can be cooked.

2. Handmade rice cakes are made by mixing raw glutinous rice flour with water and need to be kneaded into different shapes. It takes longer to steam such rice cakes, about 30-50 minutes.

Nian Gao Introduction

Nian Gao is a traditional food of the Han Chinese people, and is a seasonal food for the Lunar New Year. Rice cake is made of rice or glutinous rice, boiled into rice with beaten or water ground into powder and then pressed into the cake, in the Spring Festival in many parts of China have to pay attention to eat rice cake.

The Han Dynasty on the rice cake has "rice cake", "bait", "mochi" and other names. Han Dynasty Yang Xiong's "dialect" book has been "cake" title, Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties has been popular. Ancient people also have a rice cake production from the rice cake to powder cake development process.

The sixth century A.D. cookbook "food times" contains a rice cake "white cocoon sugar" production method, that is, after steaming glutinous rice pounded into the rice while hot consulting. Then cut into the size of a peach kernel to dry and deep fry, rolled in sugar can be eaten. Ming and Qing dynasties have developed into a year-round supply of rice cakes on the market snacks, and there are differences in the flavor of the North and South. Rice cakes are delicious, sweet, mellow, with a strong historical flavor.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Rice Cake