【Zhejiang】Baby Cabbage Rice Cake Soup

Overview

New year cake is a traditional food of the Han people. It is a cake steamed with sticky rice or rice flour. The rice cake in our hometown is made of japonica rice and is chewy to eat! Rice cake is a seasonal food during the Lunar New Year. Nian Gao is a traditional East Asian New Year food. Nian Gao is homophonic with Nian Gao, which means getting higher every year. It symbolizes that income, position, or children's knowledge and height are getting higher year by year. In the early days, rice cakes were used to worship gods and ancestors on New Year's Eve, and then gradually became a Spring Festival food. The main ingredient of rice cake is glutinous rice, so patients with stomach problems should not eat more.

Tags

• hot dishes
• home cooking
• baby cabbage
• clear water
• edible oil
• ginger
• haimi
• pork
• rice wine
• garlic
• rice cake
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare raw materials, clean them and set aside;

   

2. 2 Cut the pork into shreds, shred the ginger, slice the garlic, and cut the baby cabbage;

   

3. 3 Start heating the pot, pour 1 tablespoon of cooking oil, then add ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant;

   

4. 4 Then add pork and dried shrimps and stir-fry until fragrant, then pour in 3 grams of rice wine to remove the fishy smell;

   

5. 5 Pour about 600 grams of purified water;

   

6. 6 Cover the pot and cook on the 1200W induction cooker for 10 minutes;

   

7. 7 After waiting for 10 minutes, the soup is almost ready. Put the baby cabbage and rice cakes into the pot together and continue to cook for 10 minutes;

   

8. 8 After waiting for 10 minutes, you can open the lid of the pot, add an appropriate amount of salt according to your taste, and it is ready to serve!

   

9. 9 Finished product pictures