Moon cake plays a very important role in the Chinese diet concept. As an essential food for the Mid Autumn Festival, are you tired of the conventional moon cakes? So today, I'm going to introduce you to an eggplant moon cake. Although the process is more complicated, you should have patience to learn it!
1. Prepare 100 grams of quinoa
2. Put water into the pot until it makes a noise. Pour the prepared quinoa into the pot
3. Cook over high heat for 15 minutes
4. Cook until the surface of quinoa is transparent. Remove the quinoa with a spoon
5. Put the harvested quinoa in a small bowl and let it cool for standby (hint 1: quinoa can be replaced by other grains, such as millet)
2、 The mixing process of moon cake dough:
6. Wash the long purple skinned eggplant and scrape off the eggplant skin with a scalpel (hint 2: the best choice for eggplant is long purple skin eggplant, which has large water content and rich cellulose, and is suitable for steaming; the peeled eggplant skin should not be discarded and can be used for cooking)
7. Take a large basin, put the silk eraser on the basin, press the silk eraser with the left hand, hold the peeled eggplant in the right hand, and rub it back and forth between the pores of the silk eraser
8. Wipe the eggplant into filaments for standby (tip 3: wipe the eggplant shreds quickly, and it is better to do all the preparatory work before wiping the silk, because the eggplant is easily oxidized and blackened in the air)
9. Pour the cooled quinoa into the shredded eggplant, stir the quinoa and shredded eggplant with chopsticks, and sprinkle 150 grams of corn flour into the eggplant quinoa
10. Squeeze out the water contained in Eggplant and quinoa by hand (hint 4: there is no need to add extra water to make dough, because eggplant itself contains water, and quinoa after cooking also contains a small amount of water, these two kinds of water can completely dilute corn flour to form dough)
11. Dilute the corn flour with the extruded water until the corn flour and eggplant quinoa are completely blended to form a dough
12. Hold a handful of dough by hand and knead it in the palm of your hand. The dough will not be loose or cracked (tip 5: to judge whether the dough is well, grasp an appropriate amount of dough by hand, and the dough should not be loose and cracked by hand)
3、 Demoulding process of moon cake:
13. Grasp the dough with the same weight as the mooncake mold by hand. My moon cake mold is 75g, and the dough grasped is also 75g. Knead the dough into a smooth cylindrical dough by hand
14. Dip a small amount of vegetable oil with a brush, and evenly coat a layer of edible oil on the bottom and inner wall of the moon cake mold (Tip 6: the purpose of brushing edible oil in the moon cake mold is to facilitate the demoulding of moon cake)
15. Put the kneaded cylindrical dough into the mooncake mould and press it with your hand to make the dough surface smooth
16. Insert the mold upside down on the chopping board, push the mold handle down gently with your hand, and a eggplant quinoa moon cake will be made
17. Repeat the above steps and make all the dough into moon cakes
4、 Baking process of moon cake:
18. All eggplant and quinoa moon cakes
20. Lay a layer of tin foil on the bottom of the baking tray, and brush a layer of edible oil on the tin paper evenly (hint 7: the purpose of brushing edible oil on the tin paper is to prevent adhesion between the tin paper and the baking process of moon cakes)
21. Put the prepared moon cakes on tin foil
22. Preheat the oven at 180 ℃ for 10 minutes in advance, put the pan in the middle layer of the oven and bake it at 180 ℃ (tip 8: the temperature and time of the oven should be changed according to the actual situation of the oven, because the factory settings of each oven are different, some oven internal temperature is higher than the set temperature, some oven temperature is lower)
23. Put the egg yolk in a small bowl and stir it into egg yolk liquid
24. After the moon cake is baked for 20 minutes, take out the baking plate and brush a layer of egg yolk on the surface of each moon cake evenly
25. Put the baking tray back into the middle layer of the oven, and continue to bake for 10 minutes with 180 degree fire. Take out the baked moon cake and cut it from the middle. As one of the essential foods in mid autumn, is the eggplant moon cake without sugar and oil more in line with the concept of green and healthy? This kind of moon cake is sure to make you brilliant at the party!