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Introduction: Yunnan has flower cakes, Henan has peony cakes and dragon whisker cakes, every household must eat in the New Year, sweet
Before buying a lot of flower cakes online, especially delicious, a smell of flowers, flower cakes are one of the local characteristic dim sum in Yunnan, the taste is sweet, there is a smell of roses. It's not particularly sweet either, either as an early snack or as a snack at a dinner party. In Zhengzhou, Henan, they all eat peony cakes for the New Year, and everyone knows that Luoyang, Henan is the hometown of peonies, so the local peony cakes are very famous. Today, I will take more time to share peony cake and dragon whisker cake with you.
<h1>Peony cake</h1>
Peony cake also has other names, also known as peony cake, which is a kind of dim sum. There are many types of peony cakes, there are Luoyang peony cakes, which are locally made in Luoyang, Henan, and in Heze, Shandong, there are also their own peony cakes, called Heze peony cakes. The main ingredients of this dim sum are soy products and rice, plus milk powder. The peony petals inside need to be soaked and baked, and the delicacies we eat in our mouths are made by the masters after many processes.
Directions: About 1 kg of glutinous rice, wash it, and soak it in water for half a day, then prepare the appropriate amount of rice to soak together, and add a spoonful of salt to stir evenly, put it into the rice cooker and start steaming, after steaming, do not take it out, simmer it in the pot. Just like our usual steamed rice, just steamed will not be taken out directly to eat, are to be simmered for ten minutes, the more fragrant the stew, the taste is very beautiful.
Put the steamed rice out, use the spoon we ate to soften the rice, and put the cooked red beans in it and knead it into a rice ball. The larger rice balls are pressed into a circle, and the bread is stuffed with bread, such as bean paste, which becomes a bean paste. You can also wrap soybean filling, soft glutinous sweet, eat one in the New Year, indicating that the next year is high.
Tip: The average person thinks that peony cakes are sweet, few people will make them salty, when making, you can add a little salt, in fact, it is for seasoning, can not eat at all. This cake, the outer skin can be mixed grains, can also be soy products, are very delicious, beans and noodles must be fried to be able to.
If you make red bean paste at home, it is recommended that you make red bean paste at home, which is also very simple:
Red beans to taste, soak in water overnight, rinse the next morning, put into the pot and cook until soft and rotten, pour the water out, press the red beans into a puree, put in the pot and fry with sugar for a period of time, you can do it. Generally, I make red bean paste at home, and the sugar is very small, which can reduce the intake of sugar and is also very good for the body.
If you really don't have time, you can cook in the pressure cooker, cook it to cool, put the sugar into it and stir it evenly, and don't need to fry it in the pan. If you have leftovers, you can also make a pot of bean paste.
<h1>Zhengzhou dragon whisker cake</h1>
Dragon whisker cake is a special pastry in Zhengzhou, Henan, which is quite famous in Henan. There is also the story of Nezha eating dragon whisker cake in the local area. So from that time on to now, it has been very popular. This snack has a crisp, sweet and salty taste. The above is like a dragon whisker, with a delicate meaning, so delicious that you can't see the silk.
Directions: Prepare the swallow root seedlings to taste, cut into small pieces, and stir with some vegetables and walnuts. The flour needed here needs to be steamed in a pot, and the glutinous rice and the above ingredients and the dough are formed, and placed in a suitable mold, on which you can also place your favorite fruits and nuts, and start steaming in the pot until it is steamed. It is generally rectangular. Of course, if there are other shapes at home, you can also make other shapes, very casual.
In the local area, important festivals will make some dragon whisker cakes to eat, although it is a bit troublesome to make, but it is delicious and very representative.
In fact, in Henan, there are many delicious dim sum, and I will share more with you in the later stage, so I will learn these 2 first.