Goat milk is regarded as the best in dairy products for its advantages of rich nutrition and easy absorption, and is known as the "king of milk". It is recognized as the closest dairy product to human milk in the world.
The ancestors of the Yunnan people knew the truth, so they began to eat goat dairy products early.
One of the most widely circulated is the milk cake.
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Milk cake is a food made by the Bai people of Dali and the Lunan Sani people in Yunnan. Called yond bap in the vernacular, it is made from goat's milk and has a white lump shape that resembles a tofu block.
Milk cake is a high-protein, high-fat nourishing and nutritious food, which is similar to Western cheese.
After analysis, the milk cake contains 40% water, high-quality protein is more than 20%, fat is about 30%, and the protein in the milk cake is a full-price protein, containing eight essential amino acids needed by the human body, and the digestibility is about 98%.
The fat in the milk cake is of good quality, easy to digest and absorb by the human body, and contains a large amount of fat-soluble vitamin A and calcium.
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There is a legend about the origin of milk cake making, and it is said that a long time ago, when winter came, people would drive their flocks to places where water and grass were abundant to graze.
Where the water and grass are abundant, they are far away from the villages and towns, and when the fresh milk is transported back to the villages and towns from the pasture, the fresh milk has become sour.
So herders dump a lot of snow-white goat's milk every day. A clever young man was inspired by the neighbor's process of making tofu, and after repeated practice, came up with a method of making milk cakes with sour pulp and goat's milk.
The milk cake made by this method is as white as tofu, the milk aroma is overflowing, and the food is tender and smooth. Milk cakes are easier to store, transport, process and eat than goat milk. Therefore, the method of making milk cakes has not gone away and has been widely disseminated.
Its practices are diverse and deeply loved by the people of Yunnan.
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There are many ways to eat milk cakes, which can be fried, boiled, steamed, baked, or eaten raw. Among them, the pancake must be the simplest and classic method.
Pancakes are original and do not add other side dishes.
Heat the pan with oil, put the sliced milk cakes in the pan, add a little fine salt and fry until golden brown on both sides.
Add a little water to make the milk cake soft, and the water evaporates before it comes out of the pan.
Golden in color and soft in texture, it is definitely a traditional Yunnan dish suitable for all ages.
Compared to the water frying, the set of fried milk cakes has a little more ingredients, which also makes it more fragrant.
Cut the milk cake into long strips, coat it with egg mixture, fry it in oil until it is golden brown, and then fish it out and eat it until it has a word in your mouth: crisp.
The mouth is full of milk after swallowing in the stomach, but there is no fishy smell at all.
The method is simple, not easy to catch fire, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, which has laid the foundation for the set of fried milk cakes as a must-have for Home Cooking in Yunnan.
The set of fried milk cakes is crisp and salty, but for the Yunnan people with heavy taste, there is still less taste, so the steamed milk cake of the fire clip came into being, referred to as the fire sandwich cake.
Fire sandwich cake is a delicious food created by the Yi people of Jinping County, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province. It has a unique flavor and is popular for its white and tender, nutritious, delicious taste and long-term eating.
Cut the milk cake and ham into rectangular thin slices, each slice of ham is tightly sandwiched by two slices of milk cake and steamed in a drawer for 20 minutes.
Take a bite, the salty Yunnan ham is paired with milky milk cake, soft and sticky, with endless aftertaste, which makes people addicted.
There is a word in Yunnan dialect called "hometown treasure", which is used as a metaphor for the love of hometown that is difficult to give up, and even if you go out, you will find a way to run back.
Not only because of the good climate in Yunnan, but also because the land is full of Yunnan people's favorite food.
This love of Yunnan contains the desire of the mouth, but it shows the cuteness of Yunnan.