【Chaozhou】Red peach cake

Overview

Taste of Hometown During every festival, families will make several red peach cakes to worship gods and ancestors. Chaozhou people believe that red is a symbol of good luck and good intentions, and the fermented cakes need to be fermented during the making process, so they use the color to symbolize good luck.

Tags

• snacks
• cantonese snacks
• coriander
• glutinous rice
• mushrooms
• rice flour
• safflower powder
• shrimp
• snow powder
• garlic
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, add an appropriate amount of safflower powder, and bring to a boil

   

2. 2 After the water boils, pour the rice flour into the pot, cover it and simmer for a while

   

3. 3 Use a rolling pin to knead the stewed rice flour into the

   

4. 4 Pour the rice flour dough into the rice dumpling basin and knead until the dough is smooth

   

5. 5 Steam the glutinous rice in a rice cooker, chop the mushrooms into cubes, chop the garlic and stir-fry with the dried shrimps to make glutinous rice

   

6. 6 Grab a small ball of dough

   

7. 7 Shape into a bowl

   

8. 8 Add appropriate amount of glutinous rice

   

9. 9 Tie up the kueh embryo

   

10. 10 The shape and size are similar to the red peach cake seal

    

11. 11 Place into the red peach cake mold and flatten

    

12. 12 Flip it upside down and take out the red peach cake

    

13. 13 Place a steamer cloth on the bottom of the steamer, place the red peach cakes, leave a gap between the cakes, and steam for 15 minutes

    

14. 14 The steamed red peach cake can be eaten directly, or fried until golden and topped with Chaoshan goose marinade. This is the taste of hometown