according to the dictionary, it is a kind of rice food. What is it like without rice?

Chaoshan is a serious grain shortage area with a large population and a small population since ancient times. In order to fill their stomachs, Chaoshan people try their best. The ingenious Chaoshan women are even more varied. "No rice cake" is the cooking without rice that women have changed.

the skin without rice husks is made of sweet potato powder. Since the sweet potato was secretly introduced from the Philippines by the Chen family in Fujian during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, it entered Guangdong with the Minnan people and quickly spread throughout the Chaoshan land, becoming another staple food for hipsters. If you can't finish eating sweet potatoes, you will grind them. Potato head can raise pigs, and potato powder can be used as non-staple food and seasoning. The famous Chaozhou Oyster Baked, the sweet soup of "Qingxin Pill" in summer, and the cake with potato powder all use potato powder as raw material. The bark of a tree without rice husk is made of potato flour.

when Chaoshan people make a quilt, the first process is "boiling steel", which means flexibility. Because you always have to wrap stuffing, thin skin and more stuffing are delicious, but thin skin is easy to break and the stuffing flows out. In order to make the skin thin, unbroken and beautiful, it is necessary to "boil steel". First, grind the potato powder into fine powder, leaving no hard particles, take a little of it, then cook it in a pot, stir it constantly with chopsticks like a paste, make it into a pot of thin paste soup, then pour it into a bucket, add the potato powder and knead it until it is evenly blended, with moderate toughness and elasticity, and roll it out one by one like a dumpling skin. In recent years, people do not need to cook steel, but use cooked sweet potato pieces with juice, put them in a barrel, and knead them with potato powder to make the same skin.

The stuffing without rice crust is mostly made of vegetables and miscellaneous grains. Salty potatoes, taro or bamboo shoots are cut into small pieces, and Gaza tea or curry, salt and monosodium glutamate are fried in small quantities. Or cooking soybeans, adding refined salt and pepper, and grinding. Sweet stuffing can be made of taro paste or bean paste. Like making steamed buns, it can be eaten after steaming. Wrapped in mung beans, taro paste and bean paste, commonly known as crab dumplings, are often used as snacks for banquets and can be served after heating. Put it in oil and slowly roll it with fine fire. It is exquisitely carved, commonly known as crystal bag, and it is a famous snack. That kind of cabbage stuffing is a homely snack, which is fried in a pot with oil to make it transparent and reddish. It is very delicious and is a famous Chaoshan food.