Teach you steamed cake at home by hand, the jujube is fragrant, soft and sticky, and it is not enough to make a large pot. Koshi cake is a special snack in Xi'an, Shaanxi, it is estimated that many outsiders do not understand what this is, in recent years, many film and television dramas have appeared in many Shaanxi famous snacks, such as in the film and television drama "That year the flowers bloom and the moon is round", Zhou Ying, a wealthy female merchant in Jingyang, is obsessed with koshiki and especially likes to eat koshiki. In fact, the history of koshiki cake has been very long, simply put, koshi cake is made of glutinous rice, red dates, kidney beans, dates made of a snack, fragrant glutinous sweet taste, in the breakfast is particularly popular, very full, many Xi'an people like to come in the morning to a koshiki cake to relieve hunger. Today to share with you how to steam the cake at home, with this method of steaming the cake will never be sandwiched, the good cake rice dates blended, white and red, old and young salty, very nutritious and delicious, let's take a look at the production method with me.
Ingredients to prepare:
Red kidney beans, red dates, glutinous rice, water
Here's how:
1. Put a pound of washed red kidney beans in the basin and add water to soak in advance overnight.
2. This red date is also soaked in advance for one night, after washing the red dates, directly put on the steaming drawer to steam, steaming on high heat for half an hour.
3. After soaking this kidney bean overnight, absorb some of the water in the basin, expand and become larger, then pour the kidney beans into the pressure cooker, add water just to flood the kidney beans, boil the water and turn to medium heat and cook for 15 minutes.
4. Now the dates are steamed, the jujube aroma is particularly strong, the dates are cooled and the jujube kernels are taken out one by one.
5. At this time, the kidney beans are cooked, cooked very softly, and put the kidney beans aside for later.
6. Pour 2 bowls of glutinous rice into the basin, then pour the washed glutinous rice into the pot, and then pour 4 bowls of water into it, the ratio of glutinous rice and water is 1:2, boil on high heat, continue to turn to low heat after boiling, stir and stir diligently in the middle of the way, prevent sticking to the pan, and boil until this viscous time.
7. Prepare a large pot, first lay a layer of red dates on the bottom of the pot, then lay a layer of boiled glutinous rice on top, use a spatula to smooth and spread well, lay another layer of red kidney beans on top of the glutinous rice, the fourth layer is paved with a layer of glutinous rice, the fifth layer is paved with red dates, the sixth layer continues to lay glutinous rice, the seventh layer is laid with kidney beans, the eighth layer is laid with glutinous rice, and then the red dates are laid on the top layer, so that a total of nine layers are laid, all laid out and then use chopsticks to make some holes in it.
8. Burn a large pot of water in the pot, put the pot directly on top of the grate, turn on the heat for 2 hours, turn off the heat after the time comes, the koshiki cake at this time will be steamed, in order to make the koshiki cake more tender, continue to cover the pot lid and simmer for a few hours.
9. Let's do this cake is ready, the top layer of red dates has been particularly soft and rotten, use a shovel to wipe the dates, so that the steamed cake dates are particularly fragrant, white through the red, soft and sticky sweet, although this is some time-consuming, but the taste is quite delicious, like friends can try at home.