The process of making mooncakes is divided into two major parts: the making of mooncake filling and the making of mooncake crust. The production of mooncake filling directly affects the flavor of the mooncake, while the mooncake crust mainly affects the texture of the mooncake. For mooncakes to taste good, the filling must be well made. Nowadays, there are many kinds of mooncakes, and in order to satisfy the different tastes of consumers, the varieties of mooncake fillings are even more countless. You can make your own mooncakes at home, so let's start with the mooncake filling! Here's how to make mooncake filling.
The way to make iced mooncake filling
Purple potato filling:
Materials: purple potatoes, milk, oil
Practice:
1, purple potatoes, washed, peeled, cut into pieces, and then put into a pot of steam for 10 minutes, steamed, and then take out the purple potatoes.
2, purple potatoes slightly cooled into the cooking machine, pour the appropriate amount of milk and water into the purple potato puree.
3, put the purple potato puree into a non-stick pan, stir fry on low heat, add sugar, and then add 15g of oil and stir fry, until the purple potato moisture almost dry, add the clarified noodles and stir fry, purple potato filling is ready.
Mung bean filling:
Materials: peeled mung beans 250g, butter 60g, Kraft cheese powder or Kraft cheese moderate, maltose a big spoon.
Practice:
1, first of all, peeled mung beans washed and soaked in water for more than half an hour, if you have time, you can also soak for two hours, soak for a long time, steaming time is short. Soaked for half an hour, fished out and put in a container, add water higher than the mung bean surface 3CM, steamed across the water, high pressure for 50 minutes. Remove the mung bean puree. And then the mung bean puree through a sieve. Filtering this step is more laborious, it is not good when you can use some water, it is good to get.
2, filtered mung bean paste look is fine, the taste must be great, so again and again nagging, filtering work is more boring, but do not save this effort, so that the final product greatly compromised.
3, non-stick pan on medium heat, put 60 grams of butter (this amount according to their own preferences to put), like to see the butter slowly melt and give off a strong flavor.
4, the filtered mung bean paste poured into the pan and stir-fried, slowly, the vapor evaporated most of the filling became dry, then you can add a spoonful of sugar, sugar should not be added to the full, it is best to taste the edge of the addition of low-sugar taste better.
5, sugar stir fry, then add a tablespoon of maltose, and stir fry evenly
6, and then add the appropriate amount of Kraft cheese powder, it is recommended that you taste and add, to find the most suitable for their own taste.
7, add sugar and cheese powder, filling and thinning, and then continue to stir-fry, the last oil fried, filling dry into a ball can be removed from the fire shoveled out and cooled for use.
Five kernel moon cake filling practice
Prepared materials: white sesame, walnuts, cashews, tangerine cake, sugar melon, sugar, rose sugar, white wine, vegetable oil, water cake powder
Steps:
1, first of all a variety of dried fruit kernels to deal with, all the dried fruits need to be roasted before use. Put the dried fruits into the oven, 160 degrees baked about 5-8 minutes, baked flavor can be (white sesame seeds should be roasted until the color of yellow). Once the roasted dried fruits have cooled, chop the walnuts and cashews into small pieces. Different dried fruits may take different amounts of time to roast, try to roast different types of dried fruits in batches, not together in the oven.
2. Cut the orange cake and sugar winter melon into small dices and set aside.
3. Put all the dried fruits, orange cake and sweetened winter melon into a large bowl and mix well.
4, pour in granulated sugar, rose sugar, white wine, vegetable oil, water.
5: Mix well with chopsticks.
6, finally add the cake flour, and then knead into a ball, that is, the five nuts filling. When you add the cake flour, please note that the amount of cake flour may vary according to the actual situation, and you don't necessarily need to add all of it, as long as the kneaded stuffing is soft and hard to the right degree.
7, do a good job of filling the five nuts covered with plastic wrap and let stand for half an hour, if there is no seepage of oil, separation and other phenomena, that five nuts filling is done successfully.
Fresh meat moon cake filling
Fresh meat moon cake is a kind of Soviet-style moon cake, is a Han Chinese specialty snack around Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. The filling of fresh meat mooncake is mainly pork. The skin of fresh meat mooncake is crispy and powdery, with a few toughness lurking. One bite, inside is a large piece of meat, and the rich gravy slowly penetrates into it, which can be described as a masterpiece.
Fresh meat moon cake filling practice a:
Materials: 150g of pork bladder meat, 15g of sesame oil, salt 5g, sugar 5g, fresh soy sauce, a little white pepper, a little thirteen spice seasoning powder, homemade mash 20g, peeled ginger 12g, 13g of fine scallions, tangerine crackers 10g
Steps:
1, orange cakes cut small diced ginger to cut minced slices, mash 20g, peeled ginger to cut minced slices. Sliced and chopped, mash 20G and a variety of seasonings standby.
2, the chopped meat into a small stainless steel pot add white pepper + thirteen spices + mash, mix well and then add the orange cake diced + fresh soy sauce + salt + sugar mix well and marinate for 20 minutes, add sesame oil 15G mix well.
3, finely chopped scallions into the meat mixture.
4: Toss well.
5, weigh: 25G a ball into a meat ball.
6, placed in a dish, put in the refrigerator until the meat mixture slightly hardened can be wrapped in moon cakes.
Fresh meat moon cake filling practice two:
Materials: pork (fat and lean about 3:7), eggs, chopped green onion, ginger, garlic, cooking wine, sesame oil, soy sauce, salt, black pepper, sugar. (Every 100G pork put 2G salt, 400G or 500G pork put 1 egg, other seasonings according to taste a small amount to add)
1. Pork washed and drained, chopped into a minced plus all the seasonings? Add spices.
2. Stir in one direction. (Minced pork should not be chopped too fine, so that the texture of the meat will be more tender. Do not mix the meat too wet, too wet is not easy to wrap. (You can put it in the refrigerator for a while to make it easier to wrap)
Can pregnant women eat mooncakes?
The mooncake filling has a variety of flavors, including five kernel, lotus seed paste, egg yolk, and a variety of fruits and bean paste filling, each of which is rich in certain nutrients. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, mooncakes are particularly attractive. Mooncakes are salty and sweet, and come in a variety of flavors, so families always buy a few boxes of mooncakes and put them on the table for the family to savor. This time, a pregnant woman will always ask: "Can pregnant women eat mooncakes?"
Pregnant women can eat mooncakes, but experts suggest that pregnant women should eat mooncakes in moderation. Many mooncake fillings are rich in nutrients, so eating mooncakes can replenish some of the nutrients your body needs. However, the sugar content of mooncakes is relatively high, and pregnant women are prone to gestational diabetes if they eat too many of them. At the same time, mooncakes are baked goods, eating too much will be on fire. Eating too many mooncakes can easily lead to obesity, endocrine disruption and other conditions, so although pregnant women can eat mooncakes, but must be in moderation, can not eat too much.
Pregnant women should pay attention to the following when eating mooncakes:
1, mooncakes contain more oil and sugar, it is not advisable to eat too much, eat mooncakes, do not drink sugary sodas or juices and other beverages.
2, moon cakes have a certain shelf life, moon cakes are not long. Mooncakes placed for a long time can easily cause the filling to deteriorate, eating easy to food poisoning, so before eating mooncakes to pay attention to the mooncake whether the expiration date.
3, eating moon cakes is very easy to produce a greasy feeling, eat more greasy, so eat moon cakes can drink some tea. Eating particularly sweet and greasy moon cakes may wish to match the heavy baking, darker color, heavier taste of tea, such as Iron Goddess of Mercy, ginseng oolong tea. In addition, the taste of light sweet, dense taste of the moon cake, you can match with tea with a floral type of tea, or have a clear flavor of tea, it has the function of flavor.
4, eat moon cakes in moderation. Moon cakes contain high sugar and fat, eat more will cause gastrointestinal discomfort, especially the elderly, children or gastrointestinal function is weak, eat more attention, must be moderate.
5, duodenitis or gastritis patients, cholecystitis, cholelithiasis patients, people with dental caries, obese people, diabetics, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease patients, infants, the elderly and other best not to eat moon cakes.