How to make Osmanthus Coconut Milk Thousand Layer Cake

Osmanthus coconut milk thousand-layer cake is a traditional snack in Beijing. The thousand-layer cake is made very delicately and tastes particularly soft and sweet. It can be eaten cold or hot. Its main ingredients are coconut milk and water chestnut powder. The layers are very rich and clear, and the colors are also beautiful. It can be said to be excellent in color, aroma and taste. It is liked by many people and is a relatively famous dessert recipe.

How to make Osmanthus Coconut Milk Thousand Layer Cake

Ingredients: 1 can of Gold Medal Gouda coconut milk, 1 box of water chestnut powder

1. Boil two and a half bricks of brown sugar and one and a half bowls of water.

2. Sift the water chestnut powder into two halves and put them into two containers AB.

3. Add water 2 and water 3 into containers AB containing sifted water chestnut powder respectively.

4. Wash the osmanthus flowers with clean water. Add to the cooked brown sugar water.

5. Add brown sugar and osmanthus water to the water chestnut powder paste A. Stir into a slurry.

6. Add coconut milk to the water chestnut powder paste in B. Stir into a slurry.

7. Put water in the pot and bring it to a boil. Place the plate on the steaming rack. First pour a thin layer of brown sugar water and water chestnut batter, cover with lid and steam for 2 minutes. If the filling is too thick, steam for 3 minutes or more. Pour coconut milk and water chestnut flour mixture on the second layer. And so on. (Note: add water) 8. After it cools down, you can cut it and taste it.

The efficacy and function of water chestnut powder

1. Treat respiratory diseases. In seasons when respiratory infectious diseases are more common, eating fresh water chestnuts is helpful in preventing and treating meningitis, measles, whooping cough and acute pharyngitis.

2. It has laxative, diuretic and stranguria-draining effects. Water chestnuts contain crude protein and starch, which can promote large intestine peristalsis. They are often used clinically to treat food stagnation, fullness, and dry stool caused by heat evil. Water chestnut decoction can promote diuresis and is an excellent food therapy for patients with urinary tract infections.

3. Treat diabetes. Water chestnuts are tender and can quench thirst, and have a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on diabetic patients.

4. Clear the lungs and eliminate phlegm. Water chestnuts are sweet and cold in nature, can clear away lung heat, and are rich in mucus, which has the effect of promoting fluid production, moistening the lungs and resolving phlegm. Therefore, they can clear away phlegm heat and treat lung heat cough, coughing up yellow, sticky and thick phlegm.