Rice cake is made of glutinous rice. It's sweet and soft. It's a very popular food. Rice cake has a long history in China, and it was made and eaten in Han Dynasty. How to make rice cakes? Friends who want to make at home can have a look with Xiaobian.
Introduction to rice cake
In China, rice cake is called rice cake or sticky cake. Rice cake is a kind of traditional snack food, which is steamed with rice or rice flour with high viscosity. It is easy to process and make, and it is resistant to storage, and has various eating methods, so it is very popular with the public.
In Han Dynasty, rice cakes were called "rice cakes", "baits" and "Ci". Yang Xiong in Han Dynasty had the title of "cake" in dialect, which was popular in Wei, Jin, southern and Northern Dynasties. The ancient people also had a development process from rice cake to flour cake.
The practice of rice cake
Ingredients:
Sweet rice cake: glutinous rice 40, sugar or maltose 20, water 40.
Radish rice cake: late indica rice 29, water 30, white radish 40, salt 0.7, chili 0.25, monosodium glutamate 0.05.
Fermented rice cake: late indica rice 25, water 30, wheat flour 25, brown sugar or caramel 19.3, leavening agent 0.7.
Production process:
Impurity cleaning
Select white glutinous rice to remove sand and other impurities, and wash it with water repeatedly.
soak
Put the washed rice in the soaking tank and soak it in clean water for 12-24 hours, and wait for the rice grain to swell, with the moisture content of 35% - 40%.
Flour milling
The soaked rice can be poured into the hopper of the crusher, and the wet rice can be ground into the wet rice powder when the machine is started.
Kneading powder
The purpose of kneading rice flour is to make the viscosity of rice flour uniform, and at the same time to remove the lumps by sieving, so as to ensure that the texture of the formed rice cake is uniform.
Mixed ingredients
Before die forming, add the auxiliary materials into the rice flour and mix well. The formula can also be adjusted according to the local taste. Brown sugar can be used as sweetener when the product is required to be colored.
Steaming
Fermented rice cake is fermented for 30 minutes before steaming. Put the pressed rice cake on the steamer and steam for 25 minutes to start the pot.
Nutritional value of rice cake
Glutinous rice, also known as jiangmi. Because of its delicious, sticky and smooth taste, it is often used to make flavor snacks, such as rice cakes, yuanxiao, zongzi, etc. Waxy rice is waxy white, opaque or translucent. It has small water absorption and expansibility, large viscosity, greasy taste, and is difficult to digest and absorb. Glutinous rice is a kind of Ganping, which can warm the spleen and stomach and nourish the middle Qi. It can alleviate the deficiency of spleen and stomach, poor appetite, abdominal distention and diarrhea to a certain extent, so there is an old saying that "glutinous rice porridge is a wonderful product for warming stomach qi". Glutinous rice has astringent effect and has good therapeutic effect on frequent urination and night sweat. Glutinous rice is suitable for patients with hyperhidrosis, blood deficiency, spleen deficiency, body deficiency, night sweat, tuberculosis, neurasthenia and other diseases. In addition, glutinous rice is suitable for making porridge, which is not only nutritious and nourishing, but also easy to digest and absorb, and can nourish the stomach.