How to make Pingyao An'an cake

Cooking is not only an essential skill in life, but also a joy to do. In fact, the benefits of cooking are far more than these. Below, the editor will introduce to you the method of making Pingyao An'an Cake, so that you can also enjoy the fun of cooking.

1.1 If you don’t have yellow rice flour, you can go to the supermarket or vegetable market to buy yellow rice, and use the grinding cup of a food processor to beat it into yellow rice powder.

2.2 Prepare 500 grams of yellow rice noodles

3. Put 1212 yellow rice flour in a dough bowl and pour in appropriate amount of warm water in batches

4.2121 Use chopsticks to mix the yellow rice flour and warm water evenly to form a wet dough without dry powder.

5. Mix the dough into soybean-sized particles

6. Use your hands to pinch the granular dough to form a wet dough that does not crack. The yellow rice flour is ready.

7.1 Put enough cold water in the pot, set up the steaming rack, put in the red dates, and steam them on high heat for 20 minutes until the red dates are cooked and soft.

8.2 Prepare 150 grams of red dates and wash them with clean water

9. Take out the steamed red dates, remove the pits and set aside

10. Take the steamer that comes with the rice cooker and brush a layer of cooking oil evenly on the surface of the steamer.

11. Sprinkle a layer of yellow rice flour evenly in the steamer

12. Put enough cold water in the pot, set up the steaming rack, boil the water over high heat, put the steamer on the steaming rack, do not cover the pot, and steam over high heat.

13. When the rice flour is steaming and the surface of the rice flour begins to turn from white to yellow, sprinkle a layer of pitted ripe red dates evenly on the surface of the rice flour.

14. Sprinkle a layer of yellow rice flour evenly on the surface of the red dates and continue steaming over high heat.

15. When the steam starts to rise and the surface of the yellow rice flour begins to turn yellow from white, sprinkle a layer of pitted ripe red dates evenly on the surface of the yellow rice flour, and then sprinkle a layer of yellow rice flour evenly on the surface of the red dates. Repeat this process, with a layer of yellow rice flour and a layer of red dates, and continue steaming over high heat.

16. When the steam starts to form, cover the pot and continue steaming over high heat for about 1 hour.

17. Take out the steamed yellow rice and red date cake and turn it upside down on the chopping board

18. Dip your palm in a proper amount of cold water and press the surface of the yellow rice and red date cake repeatedly several times.

19. After the yellow rice and red date cake is steamed, it is directly turned upside down on the chopping board and pressed repeatedly on the chopping board. When it is eaten, the yellow rice and red date cake is sliced ​​with a knife, and the slicing is also done on the chopping board, so it is called "An An Cake".

If you want to make the delicious Pingyao An'an Cake, please read the above steps carefully, and then learn to make it several times carefully and patiently. In this way, it won’t be long before you see the “results” of your labor.