Fire grass cake recipe

Fire grass baba often appears on people’s dining tables, especially during the Qingming Festival, so people often call it Qingming baba. As the name suggests, fire grass cake is a soft cake made by cutting fire grass into small pieces, grinding rice and glutinous rice into powder, and adding corresponding fillings. It is chewy, glutinous and very sweet. In fact, to make delicious fire grass baba, you still need to put in some thought, and it takes a lot of effort from selecting ingredients to making it.

Prepare the ingredients

Qingming grass, wild bitter garlic, bacon, glutinous rice flour, rice flour, and salt.

Some people added Yibin sprouts. I originally wanted to make a few with sprouts, but I forgot about it when I was making it.

How to do it

1. Wash the Qingming grass and cook it in boiling water (the authentic method is to burn rice straw into ash and boil water, filter it and boil the Qingming grass with water, so that the cooked Qingming grass is easier to mash)

2. Take out the cooked qingming grass, squeeze out the water and chop it into pieces (it is best to mash it into minced meat); wash and chop the wild bitter garlic; cut the bacon into small pieces.

3. Mix glutinous rice flour and rice flour in a ratio of 8:2, add appropriate amount of salt, qingming grass, a small amount of wild bitter garlic, and water to knead into dough.

4. Mix wild radish and bacon to make the filling.

5. Take appropriate amount of dough and wrap the filling.

6. Roll it into an oval shape and place it into the boat leaves along the length.

7. Wrap the two ends of the leaves inwards like folding a quilt to wrap up the baba.

8. It can also be wrapped to look half naked.

9. Put it in a boiling water steamer and steam it over high heat for about ten minutes.