Yellow cake stew
Overview
As the saying goes: Thirty miles of oatmeal noodles, forty miles of cakes, ten miles of buckwheat noodles will break your waist if you are hungry. It means that yellow cake is very resistant to hunger. Yellow cake is a food popular in parts of Shanxi, Hebei, Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia. It is made from millet, that is, yellow rice, ground into flour, steamed, and finally pulled apart while hot. "Opening the cake" is a transliteration. It actually means applying oil with both hands, kneading and beating the yellow cake repeatedly to make it more chewy and soft. There is a saying that if you don’t eat oily cakes, your hands will not get sticky. The original meaning is that you can’t eat cakes without oily hands, but now it is extended to mean that you don’t care about other people’s business. Haha, food culture? Because the cakes are freshly baked, they are extremely hot, and women’s hands do not need to be heated. In the past, unwrapping the cakes was mostly the job of men. In addition to the yellow cakes introduced today, there is also a way to eat yellow cakes in the southeastern Shanxi region: An cake is a steamed cake made by spreading the red dates and cake noodles alternately layer by layer. The yellow cake stew introduced today is usually sold in small restaurants and has many customers. There are also hotels, especially during wedding celebrations and birthday banquets, where yellow cakes are used to wrap vegetable fillings, bean fillings, sugar fillings, etc., and are deep-fried. They are called fried cakes, which means joy and advancement. Most families also steam or fry it themselves, especially older people, who often make it for themselves. The yellow cake is soft and chewy, and local people are accustomed to eating it with stewed vegetables. Sometimes a scrambled egg is enough as a dish, which is difficult for outsiders to swallow. When I made this yellow cake, in order to demonstrate to netizens the authentic local yellow cake stew, I only stewed pork the first day. When I ate the remaining yellow cake the next day, I added kelp to the stewed pork. Of course, some netizens like this one, but you can add some potatoes, frozen tofu, etc. when stewing the meat.
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Ingredients
Steps
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Yellow rice noodles or cake noodles
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Slowly pour a small amount of cold water and stir with your hands while pouring the water to make it into small doughs.
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Gently knead the mixed dough with both hands to make the cake surface more finely divided.
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Then spread the cake noodles evenly on the basket covered with cage cloth, spread one layer, steam for five or six minutes, then spread another layer, steam for another five or six minutes, and finish all the cake noodles in sequence. Finally, steam for eight or nine minutes (steamed cakes in other areas are sprinkled with cake noodles and steamed in a basket at once, and the method is a little different)
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After the cake is steamed, lift the corners of the cage cloth, pour the cake into the basin with your backhand, and remove the cage cloth.
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While it's still hot, proceed to "dismantle the cake": apply oil with both hands, knead and pat the yellow cake repeatedly. Remember to apply oil on the yellow cake at the end to prevent the yellow cake from drying out.
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This is the effect of the stew taken when the eggs were just put in (the detailed preparation method is in another recipe: Stew)
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Ladle a bowl of stewed meat and pull a piece of yellow cake. This typical and authentic specialty food: yellow cake stewed meat was born.
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Of course, you can also wrap the yellow cake with a little filling, vegetable filling, bean filling, or sugar filling, whatever you like. Wrap it well and fry it in deep oil to become a fried cake.
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Features: Golden on both sides, fragrant, waxy and crispy.
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When eating yellow cake at home, there will inevitably be leftovers. The yellow cake will become a bit hard after cooling. At this time, you can slice the yellow cake.
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Fry in oil until golden brown on both sides. (Yellow cake will become soft when exposed to heat)
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This is the second day of stewed seaweed.
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Scoop a bowl of stewed meat and eat it with pan-fried yellow cake. There is nothing that is not delicious.
