Summer has arrived, often lack of appetite, it is better to do some small snacks can enhance appetite, to introduce a simple and easy to use "pumpkin red date glutinous rice cake", the color is yellow and bright, dotted with red dates, with chopsticks to pick up a piece, eat soft, sweet and not greasy, as breakfast or small snacks are very good choices, children can also participate in the production of Oh with their mothers.
By Xiaojing students 【Douguo Food Official Certification Master】
<h2>Royalties</h2>
Pumpkin 300g
1 scoop of sugar
8 red dates
Flour 100g
Glutinous rice flour 150g
<h2>Practice steps</h2>
1: Peel the dates in half and soak them in water.
2: Peel the pumpkin and cut into small pieces.
3: Put the pumpkin in a steamer and steam for 15 minutes until soft and rotten.
4. Use a spoon and other tools to mash the pumpkin pieces.
5: Add a spoonful of sugar to the pumpkin puree and mix well.
6, the 100g flour and 150g glutinous rice flour mixed, add pumpkin puree in batches, pumpkin puree do not add at one time, according to the actual situation to adjust the amount of pumpkin puree;
7: Stir by hand into a flocculent and then knead into a ball.
8: Knead into a dough with a uniform color and smoothness.
9: Then knead the dough into long strips (the dough is relatively large, you can divide it into two first), and then cut it into small pieces about one finger wide.
10: Take a small agent and knead it into a circle, slightly rub it long, and gently flatten it into an oval shape. If the dough is sticky to the hand, you can apply some oil to the hand and then reshape it.
11: Press a groove with your finger in the middle of the dough, fill in the dates and press tightly.
12: Apply a layer of oil to the plate to prevent stickiness, and place the prepared pumpkin red date cake on the plate.
13: Put the plate into the steamer, boil the water and steam for 20 minutes.
14, out of the pot, eat it while it is hot!
15, soft glutinous sweet, super delicious!
16, a bite, glutinous twitter, sweet nourishment ~ ~
<h2>Tips</h2>
Because the water content and water absorption of pumpkin are different, so the amount of pumpkin puree is not fixed, please add a small amount of time to the powder according to the actual situation, too dry to continue to add pumpkin puree, too sticky hands to add flour or glutinous rice flour, kneaded to a suitable state of non-particular sticky hands is appropriate.
<h2>Nutritional benefits of pumpkin</h2>
Chinese medicine believes that pumpkin is warm and sweet, and enters the spleen and stomach meridians. It has the functions of tonifying and benefiting qi, anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving, detoxifying and killing insects. It can be used for qi deficiency, intercostal neuralgia, malaria, dysentery, anti-opiate poisoning, roundworm repellent, bronchial asthma, diabetes and other symptoms.
1. Prevent and treat cancer
Preventing esophageal cancer and stomach cancer also has a certain effect on preventing colon cancer, and at the same time can help restore liver and kidney function, and enhance the regeneration ability of liver and kidney cells.
2. Protect the gastric mucosa
Promotes bile secretion, protects from rough food irritation, strengthens gastrointestinal peristalsis, and aids food digestion.
3. Lower blood sugar and lower blood pressure
Regulating the balance of insulin, maintaining normal blood pressure and blood sugar, it is also an ideal weight loss food for obese people.
4. Prevention of the prostate
The lipids in pumpkin seeds have a good therapeutic and preventive effect on urinary system diseases and prostatic hyperplasia.
5. Often eat pumpkin, can make the stool unobstructed, the skin is plump, especially for women, has a beauty effect, the Qing Dynasty famous minister Zhang Zhidong once suggested that Empress Dowager Cixi eat more pumpkins.
6. Pumpkin can also prevent stroke, because pumpkin contains a lot of linolenic acid, soft lipid acid, stearic acid and other glyceric acids, all of which are good oils.
<h2>Dietary contraindications to pumpkin</h2>
Pumpkin is warm, vegetarian stomach heat is hot and blazing, eat less; pumpkin is stagnant, full of stagnation, eat with caution.
One of the hair substances, should not be consumed during the period of taking Chinese medicine.
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