What is glutinous rice flour?
Soak glutinous rice flour with glutinous rice overnight, grind it into slurry with water mill, and hang it in a cloth bag overnight. When the water drops are dry, the wet glutinous rice flour dough is broken and dried, which is the finished glutinous rice flour. Of course, you can also buy it in the supermarket. It can make jiaozi and family snacks, and is famous for its unique flavor.
The difference between glutinous rice flour and flour
First, the appearance
The appearance of flour looks darker and rougher; The milled glutinous rice flour is white.
Second, feel
The flour is rough and astringent to the touch; Glutinous rice flour feels smooth and soft.
Third, water solubility.
Flour dough is elastic and insoluble in water, leaving gluten. Tangyuan is loose and fragile, completely dispersed after washing, and sinks like starch.
Fourth, stickiness.
Flour can be easily mixed into dough with cold water, and it is gluten; However, when the glutinous rice flour is boiled with boiling water and then kneaded with raw glutinous rice flour, the dough is easy to crack and the viscosity is obviously insufficient; This is because the starch structures of two kinds of wheat and rice are different.
Nutritional value of glutinous rice flour
1. Glutinous rice flour contains high calcium content. Eating glutinous rice often has a good effect of nourishing bones and strengthening teeth, which is suitable for growing children and is beneficial to children's bone development.
2, glutinous rice flour is rich in B vitamins, and the biggest role of B vitamins is to warm the spleen and stomach and replenish qi.
3. Glutinous rice flour can relieve spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, loss of appetite, abdominal distension and diarrhea, help diarrhea patients relieve the pain of diarrhea, promote digestion, regulate appetite, and help the spleen and stomach return to normal.
How to make glutinous rice flour delicious?
Ingredients: 300g red bean paste, corn flour 150g, coconut flour 150g, 500g glutinous rice flour, 5 tablespoons salad oil, proper amount of sugar, boiled water 1 bowl.
Exercise:
1. Pour out glutinous rice flour, corn flour, coconut flour and red bean paste respectively for later use.
2. Blanch the corn flour with boiling water and turn it into paste with chopsticks.
3. Add corn flour paste into glutinous rice, stir and knead into elastic dough.
4. Divide the dough into appropriate sizes, wrap it with appropriate amount of bean paste one by one, then knead it into a jiaozi shape and press it into a round cake shape.
5. Put the glutinous rice round cake in a steamer covered with salad oil, steam for about 10 minute, and then take out the coconut powder.