Rock Sugar Lotus Paste Filling

Name: Rock Sugar Lotus Paste Filling
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 250g Lotus seed; 125g crystal sugar; 30g Corn oil; Some water

by Yi Xiao Yanran

4.7 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

2h

Serving

2

The fillings used to be fried in a pan in the past, but in the hot summer, you will sweat when you sit still. It is so tormenting to stand by the stove. Fortunately, there is a bread machine, and it is very convenient to use the jam function. Using lotus seeds to make lotus paste filling can be used to make glutinous rice balls or moon cakes, which are nutritious and delicious.
The lotus seeds are fragrant and rich in nutrition. The carbohydrate content in dried lotus seeds is as high as 62%, and the protein content is as high as 16.6%. It is a suitable food for all ages. Lotus seeds are also a valuable Chinese medicine blindly. Lotus seeds nourish the mind and soothe the nerves, invigorate the spleen and strengthen the essence.

Ingredients

250g Lotus Seed
125g Crystal Sugar
30g Corn Oil
Some Water

Rock Sugar Lotus Paste Filling

1. Soak the coreless lotus seeds in clean water for 1 hour,

2. Divide all into two, remove the remaining lotus core and the black skin on both ends,

3. Add the lotus seeds to the inner pot of the electric pressure cooker, add water to cover the lotus seeds, add rock sugar,

4. Start the electric pressure cooker and press for 20 minutes, until the lotus seeds become soft and rotten.

5. Beat the lotus seeds into a paste with a food processor,

6. Pour into the bread bucket of the bread machine, add corn oil,

7. Install the bread bucket into the bread machine,

8. Select the jam function in the menu, start the bread machine,

9. When the procedure is over, the lotus seed filling has been fried to dryness, put it in a fresh-keeping box after it has cooled down, and sealed and frozen for storage.

Tips:
The lotus seeds in the lotus seeds are particularly bitter, so they must be removed cleanly, otherwise the finished lotus paste filling will have a bitter taste, which will affect the taste.