A food made from steamed and pounded glutinous rice. Mochi is made by putting cooked glutinous rice into a stone trough and pounding it into mud with a stone hammer or a reed bamboo, and generally this type of food can be called mochi. How to make mochi with glutinous rice flour is delicious, let's see below.

Ingredients: 200 grams of glutinous rice flour, 30 grams of sugar, water, 100 grams of sticky rice flour, 100 grams of ground peanuts, sugar, cooking oil.

Practice: 1, first of all, the sticky rice flour into the pan with a slow fire fried 40 minutes until cooked. In the process of stirring the powder must be constantly stirring the powder in the pot, otherwise the sticky rice flour will soon burn yellow and scorched. When it is cooked, pour it into a clean dish and leave it to cool.

2, the glutinous rice flour and young sugar Xu Xu added the right amount of water into the rice paste through the leaching to be used.

3, the pot of water boiling hot, ready to steam plate and then coated with a layer of cooking oil on the surface of the plate.

4, pour the rice paste into the steamer tray and put it into the pot of water over high heat to steam for 20 minutes until cooked.

5, the steamed glutinous rice flour dough out of the cool (when cooled remember not to let the dough blowing wind, otherwise it will become hard / dry).

6. Mix the ingredients of Ingredient 2 and set aside (the amount of sugar will depend on your preference).

7, take out the cooled glutinous rice flour and pour it into the sticky rice flour and divide it into small pieces

8, take out a piece of dough and press a hole in the center with your thumb, then add an appropriate amount of peanut sugar and press it lightly with your fingers to seal it.

9. Sprinkle a layer of sticky rice powder on the surface of the finished product to avoid sticking.

Finally, a delicious dessert is ready.

What can be done with glutinous rice flour

There are many uses for glutinous rice flour, especially for desserts. The following wikipedia introduces you to two simple ways to make desserts with glutinous rice flour.

A pumpkin cake

Main ingredients: half a pumpkin, glutinous rice flour about 300 grams, a can of red bean paste

Seasoning: about 50 grams of butter, sesame seeds in moderation

Directions:

1 will be removed from the capsule of the pumpkin, cut into large pieces, and steamed over water.

2 Mash the pumpkin into puree while it is still hot, and add butter and sugar (the amount can depend on personal taste).

3 After the butter and sugar have melted, add the glutinous rice flour to the pumpkin puree in batches.

4 Mix the glutinous rice flour and pumpkin puree well to form a dough, until it does not stick to your hands.

5 Divide the pumpkin glutinous rice dough into several small dosages, and press the dosages with your hands to form small cakes (since the surface is soft, you don't need a rolling pin).

6 Wrap the red bean paste in the pastry and press it into small cakes. (I'm going to try a mixture of crushed nuts, coconut and sugar for the filling next time, I've made nutty coconut rolls before and that's what I used and they were delicious.)

7 Stick sesame seeds on both sides of the pumpkin cake.

8 Fry on low heat until golden brown on both sides. It's easier to wait until one side is golden brown and then flip it over.

9 You can enjoy the taste below.

Two: Hollow Sesame Balls.

The main ingredients: glutinous rice flour, seasoning sugar, sesame seeds, boiling water and so on. You need to use a frying pan as well as a pan.

Method: Soak the sugar in boiling water. When the sugar water is warm, slowly add the glutinous rice flour, mixing as you add, and finally kneaded into a softer dough, cover with plastic wrap and let stand for half an hour. Divide the dough into small portions, knead, and roll in a plate with sesame seeds to coat with a layer of white sesame seeds, it is best to pick up and gently press with your hands so that the sesame seeds will not easily fall off during the production process. Heat the oil in a pan over low heat and add the sesame seeds. Fry slowly until you can see the hollow center. ...

Effects and functions of glutinous rice flour

Glutinous rice flour is glutinous rice after a night of soaking with a water mill to reach the pulp water, and then hung in a cloth bag for a night, wait until the water drips dry, after the wet glutinous rice flour dough broken and dried after the production of the '. Now in the market is also easy to buy ready-made glutinous rice flour, glutinous rice flour has many effects and functions, take a look.

Glutinous rice flour taste is sweet, nature is relatively mild, can tonify the gas, spleen, stomach, stop sweating, for the spleen and stomach cold, poor appetite, bloating and diarrhea patients have a certain role in alleviating. In Chinese medicine, it enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridians. In addition, glutinous rice can be astringent, for frequent urination, night sweats have a better therapeutic effect.

Glutinous rice flour also has its contraindications. That is, damp-heat phlegm fire bias should be avoided, fever, cough phlegm yellow, jaundice, abdominal distension should not eat. Glutinous rice is sticky, if used to make pastries, it will be more difficult to digest, so infants and young children, the elderly, the weak digestive power after the disease avoid eating glutinous rice cakes, diabetics should also eat less.

Nutritional Value of Glutinous Rice

Glutinous rice is a kind of food rich in nutrients, containing proteins, fats, sugars, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin and starch. Glutinous rice flour is also called glutinous rice noodles. The wine made from glutinous rice is nourishing and fitness and healing. Glutinous rice, Cortex Eucommiae, Astragalus, Chinese wolfberry, angelica and other materials made of glutinous rice wine, can strengthen the qi and refresh the spirit, beauty and longevity, soothe the tendons and blood.

Glutinous rice is mild and nourishing, can replenish the deficiency, replenish blood, strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, stop sweating, suitable for patients with regurgitation due to cold spleen and stomach, reduced appetite, diarrhea and qi deficiency caused by sweating, shortness of breath and weakness, pregnancy and abdominal distension. But glutinous rice flour is more difficult to digest in the stomach and intestines.

Although glutinous rice flour is rich in nutritional value, but cooked glutinous rice flour is actually relatively low in calories. Because the calories per 100 grams of glutinous rice flour is 340K, but cooked glutinous rice flour because of the inhalation of water, so the calories per 100 grams of glutinous rice is 116 calories.

How to buy glutinous rice powder

Glutinous rice powder is also divided into two kinds, one is water-ground glutinous rice powder and the other is cooked glutinous rice powder. Water milled glutinous rice flour, then more soft, tough slippery, glutinous a little, generally used to do dumplings, Lantern, especially Ningbo dumplings. Cooked glutinous rice flour is a kind of processed powder, mainly from glutinous rice flour fried and ground into a fine powder, cooked glutinous rice flour will be more loose, more absorbent, encountered in the water will be sticky.

If you want to judge whether the glutinous rice flour is good or not, you have to learn to use your senses to feel it. Good glutinous rice flour color is relatively white, no moldy phenomenon, there is no odor. The taste of eating is more tender, tough, not gritty.

If you like to eat sticky desserts, you may want to buy some glutinous rice flour to go home to make a variety of desserts, such as glutinous rice cake, glutinous rice flour, glutinous rice dough and so on, anyway, the price is affordable and easy to make.

Glutinous rice flour is now easier to buy on the market, there are many producers, so the price is not very expensive, about 8 dollars 500 grams or so.