Steamed rice cake

Overview

Eating rice cakes during the New Year is one of the Chinese customs. Rice cakes are one of the must-have festive foods during the New Year. Nian Gao is homophonic to Nian Gao, which means getting higher every year, symbolizing that income, position or children 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. Eating rice cakes means congratulating people for a good harvest. Eating rice cakes also means longevity. Sweet and delicious rice cakes with different flavors. I love making them and eating them is also a pleasure and enjoyment.

Tags

• pastries
• snacks
• children
• afternoon tea
• banquet dishes
• chengfen
• corn oil
• glutinous rice flour
• matcha powder
• pumpkin puree
• purple sweet potato puree
• red bean paste
• powdered sugar
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Squeeze the juice of pitaya peel and green vegetables respectively. Peel purple sweet potato and pumpkin and steam them. Blanch them in boiling water until cooked. Add glutinous rice flour and powdered sugar. Mix them. Add raw materials of various colors and appropriate amount of water to form a dough. It should not be too hard and slightly soft. Let it rest for half an hour

   

2. 2 Knead the risen dough for a while, take a piece of dough and wrap it with filling

   

3. 3 Shaping into a circle or square

   

4. 4 Take the purple dough and flatten it, use a plum blossom mold to press out small plum blossoms

   

5. 5 Use yellow to make the center of the finished plum blossom

   

6. 6 Put the prepared plum blossoms on top to make the finished product

   

7. 7 Green dough to make leaves

   

8. 8 Prepared rice cake

   

9. 9 Place rice dumpling leaves underneath, boil water and steam for 8 minutes

   

10. 10 Steamed