As a prefecture-level city in Hunan Province, Chenzhou has a rich food culture. Here, you can taste all kinds of delicious food, especially Hunan cuisine. As the hometown of Hunan cuisine, Chenzhou's food culture has attracted many food lovers to explore.

In Chenzhou, my favorite food is sugar and oil Baba. This is a traditional Hunan snack, made of glutinous rice flour, sugar and oil. The taste of sugar and oil Baba is very unique, the outer layer is crisp, the inner layer is soft and waxy, sweet but not greasy, which makes people eat one after another. Below, I will introduce the steps of making sugar and oil Baba.

Step 1: Prepare materials

The materials needed to make sugar and oil Baba are glutinous rice flour, sugar, oil and water. Glutinous rice flour should be of good quality, the amount of sugar can be determined according to personal taste, the oil should be peanut oil or soybean oil, and the temperature of water should be well controlled, not too hot or too cold.

step 2: making dough

mix glutinous rice flour and sugar evenly, add appropriate amount of water and stir to make dough. Note that the temperature of water should be moderate, neither too hot nor too cold. When stirring the dough, stir it vigorously until the dough becomes smooth and elastic.

step 3: making sugar and oil sauce

put sugar and oil into a pot and cook slowly on low heat until the sugar is completely melted and the color turns brown. Note that the sugar and oil sauce must be cooked until the color turns brown, so as to ensure the color and taste of sugar and oil Baba.

step 4: making sugar and oil Baba

knead the dough into small balls, put them in a baking pan and flatten them by hand. Put the baking tray in a steamer and steam for about 11 minutes. After steaming, pour the sugar and oil sauce on the sugar and oil Baba and spread it evenly with a brush. Sugar and oil Baba is ready.