These days, I always go to a noodle restaurant in Shaanxi near our home for dinner, where there is a glutinous rice cake shipped directly from Shaanxi. The children clamored for it, probably because it was sweet. It is estimated that there are additives in the noodle restaurant, otherwise it won't be stored for that long, right? I have some doubts. I traced back a lot of information with my own memory of this snack. I can play in the kitchen when my father is on vacation. Today, I will share with you the family version of baked rice cakes. It's really delicious, suitable for all ages.
The baked rice cake is fresh and moist in color, soft and sweet, and tastes very good.
The ingredients needed to make this traditional snack are 150g red kidney beans and 300g dried dates. Wash the red kidney beans after buying them and soak them 24 hours in advance. This kind of bean is very hard, so you must soak it in advance.
Soak 800 grams of glutinous rice 5-6 hours in advance until there is no white heart in the middle of the rice. There are many choices about glutinous rice (glutinous rice), which can be long or round. Long grains taste better, but we can't buy them in the market here, so we can only choose round southern glutinous rice.
Boil the soaked red kidney beans in a pot of cold water for 15 minutes, then take them out and drain them for later use. Boiled kidney beans will be soft and rotten when steamed.
After cleaning the dried dates, put them on a steamer and steam for 15 minutes in order to better remove the stones. If you feel more troublesome, you can directly choose the seedless candied dates sold in the market instead.
Choose a container, first put the soaked glutinous rice into the bottom layer, which is about 40% of the glutinous rice.
Spread a layer of dates or candied dates, and the ratio is about half.
After laying dates, lay a layer of glutinous rice, which accounts for about 20% of the glutinous rice content in the whole ingredients. Then put red kidney beans, the proportion is 100% of the number of red kidney beans.
The fifth layer is the last remaining 40% glutinous rice.
Just put the last remaining dates or candied dates on it. The color is really nice.
The amount of water added is similar to that of jujube after spreading.
Pour the water into the steamer and transfer the glutinous rice cake into the steamer. After the fire starts, turn to slow fire and steam for about 3-4 hours. During this period, you must pay attention to adding water from time to time, and you can't dry the pot. This is a long process. If you have a pressure cooker at home, you can replace it. The steaming time cannot be determined, so judge for yourself. The most traditional cooker is retort, which is a very old steamer in ancient China. It is made of pottery, copper, wood and iron. After folk inheritance, Tiezan has been preserved to this day, and the sticky cake steamed with it has a special flavor.
The steamed glutinous rice cake is very beautiful in color and rich in jujube flavor. Because the time is long enough, the dates will be leveled with a shovel, which is very sweet.
If you like something sweet, you can sprinkle a little sugar on the other half. The hot air will directly melt the sugar into liquid and blend it with the glutinous rice cake.
Dig a spoonful with a shovel, layer by layer, bright and beautiful in color, super appetizing.
When you put food in a small bowl, you can enjoy its delicacy. It is delicious for a long time, good in all shapes and colors, moderate in hardness, very suitable for the elderly and children, and very mellow in taste. Come to such a bowl in winter morning, and you will find that the happiness and sweetness of life are so high.