"Lotus root powder round son" practice is more complex. First of all to make filling, filling requirements are particularly delicate, take pine nuts, melon seeds, walnuts fried and crushed; kumquat cake chopped; sesame shortcake crushed fine; will be the above fillings, together with cinnamon, sugar, lard, rub together, kneaded into a dough, and then rolled into a small ball to be used; root-root flour crushed into a fine surface with a staff, take a small bamboo, will be put in the small ball, sprinkled with root-root flour, rolled, under the boiling pot of hot water, and then immediately fished out under the mile, sprinkled with Put it into a pot of boiling water, immediately lift it up and put it back into the pot, sprinkle it with lotus root powder and roll it well, and then put it into the pot again, and so on for three to four times in a row. When eating, put in a pot of water to cook until floating, add sugar, cinnamon can be. "Lotus root flour round" can also be called "cinnamon lotus root flour round" or "five kernel lotus root flour round", change the cooking method can also be made "crunchy lotus root flour round" or "plucked lotus root flour round
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The fact that it is necessary to soak in boiling water before rolling and sticking is closely related to the chemical composition of the lotus root powder. Lotus root powder is processed from fresh lotus root, which is scientifically determined to contain 87.2 % starch. Starch is a polysaccharide formed by the polymerization of glucose produced by photosynthesis in plants. It is a mixture of straight-chain starch and branched-chain starch, of which straight-chain starch accounts for about 15% and branched-chain starch accounts for about 85%. Straight-chain starch is insoluble in cold water, but soluble in hot water; while branched-chain starch is insoluble in water, and water heated to boiling will form a very viscous gel. Lotus root powder rounds are made by using this property of starch gelatinization. The filling of the rounds is sticky and can be coated with a layer of lotus root powder, and can be shaped by repeating it many times.
Its production is both simple and relatively elaborate, it is made in four processes: preparing materials, rubbing the filling, blanching, and making soup, of which blanching is the most elaborate. First of all, the pulp, oil, sugar, sesame powder plus cinnamon, almonds, walnuts, pine nuts, kumquat cake, etc. made of filling, rolled into a ball, put into the tea plate or bamboo plaque with lotus root powder, evenly sifted, so that a thin layer of powder to adhere to a funnel into the boiling water after scalding, and so on for five or six times and become. The dumplings are uniformly round and smooth, the filling is sweet and refreshing, and the soup has a strong osmanthus flavor.
Nutritional Value Editor
The lotus root flour dumplings are a kind of flavorful dessert, divided into meat and vegetarian, sweet and refreshing, nourishing and appetizing, tender and soft, with high nutritional and medicinal values, and can relieve alcohol and refreshment. Vegetarian stuffed heart-root flour rounds suitable for people suffering from high blood pressure, coronary heart disease and do not eat lard, nourishing and strengthening the body, broad chest and benefit the efficacy of the gas.
1. Clearing heat and cooling blood: lotus root is cold in nature when used raw and has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, which can be used to treat feverish diseases; lotus root is sweet in taste and has more liquid, which is especially beneficial to those who have feverish diseases such as thirst, epistaxis, hemoptysis, and hyperemia;
2. Laxative and antidiarrheal, strengthening the spleen and appetizing: Lotus root contains mucus proteins and dietary fibers, which can be combined with bile salts in the body, cholesterol and triglyceride in the food to make it be discharged from feces, thus reducing lipids and reducing the risk of diarrhea. It can combine with cholesterol and triglycerides in the body and make them discharged from the feces, thus reducing the absorption of lipids. Lotus root exudes a unique fragrance, but also contains tannin, has a certain spleen diarrhea effect, can enhance appetite, promote digestion, appetizers, beneficial to the poor appetite, loss of appetite to restore health;