My hometown is the land of fish and rice, and every time the rice smells good, people start to make a kind of food called bean cake. Huangpi people called bean silk, Xiaogan people called bean cake, in fact, they are a kind of food. This food is made from late rice, glutinous rice, mung beans or peas, ground into a paste, then spread into cakes, cut into shreds and then cooled and dried. It is said that shredded beans were invented by the people of Huangpi. But our hometown has a long history of bean cakes, according to my mother, her grandmother was very good at spreading bean cakes.

I remember one year, I went home for New Year's Eve, all around the relatives, went there to eat there, the stomach is always full, eat things have no flavor. In my mother's words, this is called the year full. Therefore, I do not want to go to the relatives, just hide in my aunt's house to play, aunt asked me what I want to eat? I just shook my head and didn't want to eat anything. Aunt with chicken soup cooked a bowl of bean cake served to me to eat, eat a small mouthful, the taste buds on the tongue as if awakened, that flavor makes people have an endless aftertaste.

Since then, I have loved this hometown flavor food, every time I go home to bring some of this hometown specialties back to my mother, her old man also especially like to eat hometown bean cake.

My hometown Xishui is rich in high-quality rice. When the New Year is approaching, the housewives in the countryside will make bean cakes, and the snow-white bean cakes are cooled on the doorsteps and round dustpans; the city people naturally go to the market to buy the bean cakes because they are one of the necessary New Year's commodities.

On New Year's Day, when there are guests in the house, a bowl of tea is always cooked first. This bowl of tea is padded with sticky rice cake or a piece of rice, the center is bean cake, and the surface of the bowl is covered with pork or chicken. The bowl of tea is placed according to the status of the guest whether to put pork or chicken thighs.

In our hometown, the bean cake is made of delicate ingredients, and the recipe and process of making it is relatively simple and takes a long time. The color of the bean cake is white, choose a sunny day to cool the sun, after cooling the color of the bean cake becomes translucent state.

I now live in Xiaogan, this place bean cake is called bean cake or called bean silk. The color of the beans is greenish, and the recipe for making them is slightly different. The main ingredient here is rice with green beans; in my hometown, it's mainly late rice and glutinous rice with peas. There is also a difference in taste, with the addition of glutinous rice bean cake is more soft and sticky, with mung beans, bean threads have the effect of defeating fire. As the saying goes: one side of the water and soil, raise one side of the people.

The bean cake in our Hubei Province has a different name, there are many processes and recipes, but all changes do not change, the main raw materials, or the local abundance of grains and beans. With the change of time and different regions, the bean cake has evolved into a variety of different cooking methods, mainly steaming, stir-frying, deep-frying, boiling.

The shape of the bean cake has also changed, from the original spread into a cake, cool rolled into a tube cut into silk. Bean cake can be eaten fresh, can also be cooled and dried, easy to store. Now the streets, there are also made into a cake or wrapped into the shape of vegetable cakes.

A friend of mine, some time ago, approached me to find ways to make stuffed bean cakes and bean cake hops.

Today, I am going to share with you one of the ways to cook your own bean cake, which is called fried bean cake.

First, make the filling with snowy red or white cauliflower. Today I am going to introduce, the process of making stuffing from snowy red cabbage which is available in the market this season. Purchase a handful of fresh greens from the market. The first step is to wash it; the second is to plunge it in boiling water: the third is to pass it through clean water, wring it vigorously and set it aside. The fourth step is to stir-fry the finely chopped shirataki with the minced meat, just like stir-frying vegetables, with the proper amount of salt and condiments, and stir-fry it. This way the filling of the bean cake is ready.

Second, buy fresh bean cakes from the market (you can also use the pan to spread bean cakes), no shredded bean cakes, a round bean cake oh!

The first practice is to make a square bean cake. First take the fried filling, put it in the bean cake, flatten it with a spoon and fold it into a rectangle.

The second way is the same way to make vegetable hops, the difference is that this is a bean cake crust, you can buy small sheets of bean cake (spring roll skin is generally large), wrapped into the shape of vegetable hops.

To make the perfect bean cake hops, the trick to this is to mix two small spoons of highly refined flour with water to make a batter. Then spread the batter evenly on the edges of the dosa, fold it in half and flatten it with your fingers and a dosa Hopper is ready.

Third, use cooked vegetable oil or salad oil, put the oil into a pan, heat the oil. Then, put the bean cake into the pan and fry until browned. A plate of freshly baked fried bean cakes appeared in front of you, colorful and fragrant.

Friends who like to eat bean cakes, you can go into the kitchen, personally try once, the joy of making food for the family! However, I am more nostalgic, or more like to eat hometown flavor of the bean cake, that is a lingering flavor, only eating hometown bean cake to feel a different taste, that may be the comfort of nostalgia!