Lotus leaf cake

Overview

You can pick lotuses in the south of the Yangtze River, where there are lotus leaves in the fields, fish play with lotus leaves to the east, fish play with lotus leaves to the west... Yuefu poems are songs of people in ancient times, so they are always so catchy^_^. The shape of lotus leaf cake resembles lotus leaves, hence its name. Lotus leaf cake is very versatile and can be used to hold various vegetables and meat slices, so netizens jokingly call it: one lotus leaf can hold everything. Let’s make beautiful lotus leaf cakes together and put everything in them!

Tags

• staple food
• pasta
• home cooking
• hebei cuisine
• corn oil
• edible soda ash
• flour
• warm water
• yeast powder

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Dissolve the yeast powder with warm water, slowly pour it into the flour, stir clockwise to form a fluffy form and knead it into a smooth dough. Cover and ferment until 2 to 3 times in size.

   

2. 2 Mix half a gram of soda ash into the 20g of flour outside the recipe and sprinkle evenly on the dough. Take out the fermented dough and knead it smooth, divide it into 40g portions, and let it rest for ten minutes.

   

3. 3 Take a small piece of dough, roll it into a dough with a diameter of 12cm, and brush it with a thin layer of oil with a brush.

   

4. 4 Fold the dough in half into a semicircle, use a clean small comb (the teeth should be denser), press downward to make 5 patterns, and divide the semicircle into six equal parts.

   

5. 5 Pinch out a lotus leaf stalk at the center of the semicircle. At the midpoints of the 6 equally divided arcs, use the handle of a small spoon to press inward to create a wavy ruffle.

   

6. 6 Put cold water on top, steam over high heat for 10 minutes after the water boils. Take it out to cool and store it in a plastic bag.

   

7. 7 Lotus can be picked in the south of the Yangtze River

   

8. 8 Lotus Leaf He Tiantian

   

9. 9 Fish playing among lotus leaves