Red bean rice cake

Overview

Sweet and glutinous, if you like rice cakes, don’t miss this red bean rice cake.

Tags

• pastries
• home cooking
• glutinous rice flour
• red beans
• red dates
• sugar

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Soak the red beans the night before until soft and then boil them in a pressure cooker. It is best if the beans are soft but the skin is not broken.

   

2. 2 Stir the glutinous rice flour into a dough with boiling water, add the cooked red beans and white sugar, stir evenly, and knead it with your hands until it can be shaped, but not too soft, otherwise the noodles will be even softer after steaming, making it impossible to eat.

   

3. 3 Place the kneaded dough into a steamer, sprinkle a layer of red beans on top, add red dates, and steam over high heat for 30 minutes.

   

4. 4 Allow to cool and then slice and eat. This was considered a "luxury" when I was young. My mother would occasionally buy a piece for my brother and me when we went to the market, and it was very sweet to eat.