
Spring Delicacy - Straw Head Cake
One of spring's favorite dishes is grass head. In addition to boiling soup, stir-frying, and cooking grass head rice, it can also be made into bun filling, which goes best with buckwheat noodles. Grass-head cakes are made of glutinous rice and are savory snacks. Two ways to make them, one is to make a filling of grass-head and diced bamboo shoots, etc., and then press the cakes after wrapping them into rounds, and the other is to make the cakes directly from grass-head and glutinous rice flour and noodles, both are delicious, try it!
Ingredients
- Glutinous Rice Flour 200g
- Wheat Starch 50g
- Boiled Water 60g
- Grass Head 200g
- Salt Adequate
Instructions
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Pick the grass head and wash it.
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Glutinous rice flour about 200g, add a pinch of salt and an egg.
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Blanch the grass head in boiling water for 30 seconds, cut it and add it into the glutinous rice flour.
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Take 50g of wheat starch (clarified flour), add 60g of boiling water and blanch it, then add it to the glutinous rice flour.
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Mix all the ingredients and knead into a ball, if there is too much water, add some glutinous rice flour, if there is not enough water, then add more water, and knead it into the shape shown in the picture, then you can make baklava.
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Take a small dose of about 40g kneaded into a ball and then flattened can be, the size according to preference, it is recommended not too big and too thick, the inside is not easy to cook!
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In the pot to spread the pancake forgot to shoot, hot pan pour some oil, put the good pancake one by one into the medium-low heat and slowly fry until golden brown on both sides, if the cake is thick and afraid of not cooked, put a little bit of water to smother a little cover, water to collect and dry, pancakes on both sides of the yellow skin, you can get out of the pot. The texture is sticky, salty, with the fragrance of grass and fiber, delicious and not greasy!
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There is another way to do it is like wrapping dumplings, the glutinous rice flour is made into a ball with boiling water, the filling is made of chopped grass head blanched and squeezed dry, blanched bamboo shoots, chopped eggs, add salt and sesame oil and mix well, wrap the dumplings and flatten them into grass head baked cakes.