In this edition of Linda's Food Culture Cooking Album, let's talk about how to make authentic lotus leaf pancakes. Each of our food cooking articles is equipped with video commentary, which is convenient for everyone to understand and exchange, and the teaching steps are detailed and easy to learn! At the very bottom of the article, click the link to watch the video. Attached video is a video of making two kinds of burritos from freshly steamed lotus leaf cakes: lotus leaf cake rolls bacon cucumbers. Lotus Leaf Cake Dessert - Banana Blueberry Ice Cream Roll. Classic snack - mince pies? The video teaches you how to do it, with a detailed demonstration of each step, learning the quickest and easiest way to make a thin, soft and ribbed authentic lotus leaf cake. It's not always hard to learn!
Lotus leaf pancakes, referred to as lotus leaf cakes, are said to have evolved from the "white cakes" of the Qin and Han dynasties and have a history of more than 2,000 years. In the Song Dynasty's "Tokyo Dream Record", there is a record of "lotus leaf cake". Lotus leaf cake is popular because its cake is as thin as paper, chewy elastic, excellent taste, and the rolls can be roasted duck, roast chicken, shredded meat, vegetarian dishes, etc. according to your taste, and it is indeed a delicacy. In North America, it is difficult for Chinese to buy fresh lotus leaf cakes. But we still have to eat this bite, then making lotus leaf cake has become a compulsory course for us! To be soft and thin, chewing elastic is the tendon, but also to do simple and easy and efficient, there are many tips here, please watch carefully.
Let's take a look at how to make lotus leaf cakes.
Prepare ingredients: 400g of flour, a little olive oil, salt, 60g of cold water, 180g of boiling water;
Preparation steps: The first part and the dough, kneading the dough, making the agent, rolling the skin is similar to the method of making a leek box.
1. Dough, kneading, waking dough:
Take about 400 grams of flour, mix the noodles with a pinch of salt, blanch the noodles with boiling water, add boiling water a little bit and stir with chopsticks. Boiling water and noodles, increase the softness of the noodles, can be made thin skin, pancakes after steaming appear translucent.
Kneading: After the dough is finished, knead the dough into a ball. Basic molding is enough.
Close the lid, wake for 10-15 minutes and knead a few more times to form a smooth dough.
2. Make the agent:
Take out the awakened noodles, knead them a few more times, knead them into slender strips, and use a knife to cut them into a potion about 1-2 cm wide.
3. Roll out the thick dough:
First, roll out the dough with a rolling pin into a thick dough skin the size of a small bowl. Do all the thick dough.
4. Thick dough skin in three groups of grease stacking: Take a thick dough skin, brush a layer of oil on one side with a brush, and put the oil on the side. Take another thick dough and do the same, grease and place on top of the first one. Take a third thick dough without greasing, and place it directly on top of the second one. Follow this method to add all the thick dough in groups of three to grease.
Tip: The purpose of oiling is to keep the dough from sticking. The purpose of the three sets of oil superposition of the dough skin is to roll out the skin easily and efficiently, which is much easier to roll than a single thick dough skin, fast and thin. Someone puts a group of ten, and if you're not skilled, don't try.
5. Roll out the crust
The thick dough skin is laid flat by hand in groups of three oils, and then gradually rolled out from the inside to the outside with a rolling pin. This is how all the combination thick crusts are rolled out into a pancake crust.
6. Steamed cake: Take a steamer or a higher pan, put on the basket drawer steaming curtain and large disc, and heat the pan with water.
While waiting for the water to heat up, take a set of rolled crusts, roll out again before getting out of the pan, then put it in the pan, cover it and steam for 1-2 minutes. Because the cake is thin, it will be steamed in 1-2 minutes.
After waiting for the first set of steamed blanks, take the second set of rolled out crrusts, roll out again, then put into the pot, superimpose on top of the steamed first set, the lid, steam for 1-2 minutes.
By analogy, steam all the combined crumbs in a pan.
Tip: By doing this, you can roll out the cake very thinly, and time is not wasted at all, simple and fast!
7. Remove from the pan
Bring out the steamed cakes, cover the lid and let them cool for 2 minutes, until the temperature is not hot, you can tear each group of cakes apart one by one. This way you can enjoy the burrito dish!
Lotus leaf cake, the cake is as thin as paper, the chew is elastic, and when eaten, it is rolled with green onions and sweet noodle sauce, which has another flavor. At the banquet, duck slices or roast chicken are also often rolled with lotus leaf cakes, supplemented by sweet noodle sauce and green onions. In Beijing, it is especially famous for roast duck with lotus leaf cake. We can't do the roast duck technique, so I won't show the roast duck here.
In addition, judging from the rolls of lotus leaf cakes, they are also colorful, and can be rolled with vegetarian food and meat. You can even roll sweets such as banana ice cream. Vegetarian dishes include soybean sprouts, mung bean sprouts, pea sprouts, shredded potatoes, fried sauerkraut, kimchi, vermicelli, leeks, and egg skin shreds; meat dishes include cooked belly shreds, chicken shreds, pigs, beef, lamb shreds, lung strips, etc. Add to this a plate of tender whipped shallots and a plate of sweet noodle sauce for even more.
Let's make two types of burritoes from freshly steamed lotus leaf cakes:
Lotus Leaf Cake Roll Bacon Cucumber and Lotus Leaf Cake Dessert - Banana Blueberry Ice Cream Roll.
Lotus leaf cake roll bacon cucumber
Heat a saucepan, take two long strips of bacon, cut them off from the middle, lay flat on a saucepan, fry until browned on both sides, turn off the heat.
Spread the plate with a thick paper towel, use chopsticks to pinch out the fried bacon slices, and place the dry oil in the middle of the plate.
Cut the cucumber into thick strips.
We used the lotus leaf cake, put two pieces of bacon, added a few cucumber strips, rolled into a roll and made it. This burrito combines Chinese and Western, the cake is thinly chewed with elasticity, the cucumber is crisp and fragrant, and the fried bacon slices are crisp, which is simply the best combination of food!
Ruffle Dessert - Banana Blueberry Ice Cream Burrito: This one is relatively simple, but a kids' favorite!
Fresh bananas peeled and sliced. Take fresh blueberries and wash them or freeze them quick-frozen. Take two scoops of ice cream, add a few banana slices, add a few blueberries, roll a roll with lotus leaf cakes, and close them at the bottom. Such a ruffle dessert - banana blueberry ice cream burrito is ready! I believe it will surprise the children!
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