Healthy Afternoon Tea～Pumpkin Sesame Cake～Purple Sweet Potato Sesame Cake

Overview

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pumpkin is sweet and warm in nature, and it returns to the spleen and stomach meridians. It has the functions of tonic, replenishing qi, clearing away heat and detoxifying. It is suitable for spleen weakness, malnutrition, lung abscess, and water and fire burns. Pumpkin is rich in nutrients and comprehensive. The fruit contains sugars, vitamins, proteins, various amino acids, fats and other ingredients. Among the three major thermogenic nutrients, pumpkin is mainly composed of carbohydrates and has very low fat content, making it a good low-fat food. Pumpkin is rich in inorganic salts and trace elements, which play an extremely important role in maintaining human health. Pumpkin is also rich in potassium, calcium, and magnesium, but has low sodium content, and is rich in trace elements selenium, iron, and zinc. In addition to the nutrients of ordinary sweet potatoes, purple sweet potatoes also contain polysaccharides, flavonoids, and are rich in selenium and anthocyanins. They have the functions of preventing high blood pressure, alleviating liver dysfunction, and have good anti-cancer functions.

Tags

• dessert
• flour
• glutinous rice flour
• pumpkin
• purple sweet potato
• white sugar
• milk
• vegetable oil

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Cut pumpkin and purple sweet potato into thin slices, steam or microwave for 10 minutes, add sugar while hot and stir into puree.

   

2. 2 Mix pumpkin puree and purple sweet potato puree with an appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour and flour respectively. Purple sweet potato puree is relatively dry, so you can add a small amount of milk, stir evenly and knead into a smooth dough.

   

3. 3 Divide the dough into small portions of appropriate size, press them into your favorite shape with your hands or a mold, and then dip both sides with white sesame seeds.

   

4. 4 Heat oil in a pan, add sesame pancakes and fry over low heat.