Retort Cake

Name: Retort Cake
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 3
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 250g Round glutinous rice; 200g Adzuki beans; 150g Red dates; Some honey

by Shredded Potato Burrito

4.7 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Hard

Time

2h

Serving

3

Zeng cake is a special flavor snack in Xi'an and Guanzhong area.
Many of my friends don’t know how to pronounce the word "Zeng Gao" the first time I heard it. I also checked it before confirming it.
"Zeng cake" and "Zeng" read zeng four times. Retort is actually a very large and deep container with small holes at the bottom. Shaanxi people call it "jing cake."
Although we don't have that kind of special container at home, the retort cake tastes great. Today I will introduce a method of making retort cake at home.
To make Zeng cake, the most suitable use is round glutinous rice, red dates, and red kidney beans. Today, I used the existing red beans at home.
Let's take a look at the practice of the home version of the cake.

Ingredients

Retort Cake

1. For glutinous rice, the viscosity of round grains is good, wash it, and soak in water for more than 8 hours

2. The adzuki beans are also washed and soaked for more than 8 hours

3. Put the soaked adzuki beans into the pressure cooker and add water. The water and the soaked adzuki beans can be leveled. Steam for 10 minutes and cook.

4. Soak the glutinous rice, add water one centimeter higher than the glutinous rice to a pot, and cook. When it is about to boil, start to cook while stirring until the glutinous rice becomes slightly transparent and viscous.

5. Red dates boil in water for 3 minutes

6. Take out the red dates and divide each red date into two

7. Take a suitable basin or large bowl.
All the inside is coated with a layer of odorless edible oil, and a few jujube petals are placed on the bottom with random patterns

8. Put a layer of boiled glutinous rice

9. Spread a layer of boiled red beans

10. Put a layer of glutinous rice

11. Put a layer of jujube

12. Finally, spread the glutinous rice and lightly compact it

13. Put on the steamer, steam on medium heat for more than 1 hour

14. After it's steamed, it is poured into a larger plate

15. You can put honey on it when you eat it, it's very delicious

Tips:
To make this delicious, the choice of rice is very important: choose round-grained rice, which has a much better viscosity than long-grained rice and a better taste.
Dates and beans can be freely chosen, both candied dates and red kidney beans.
The method of boiling rice was specially taught by Xi'an gourmet friends. Boiling rice is the process of determining the taste. If it is steamed for the elderly and it is soft and waxy, then add a little more water and add it while boiling. Otherwise, add less water, and boil the rice until it changes color and sticks. .