Shaanxi Snacks — Zeng Cake

Shaanxi Snacks — Zeng Cake

by Yueyue Yushi

4.9 (1)
Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

30m

Serving

2

Knowledge comes from the Internet: Zeng cake is a specialty snack in Xi'an. The deep-mouthed iron pot of steamed cakes was named "Zeng" in ancient times, hence the name. The texture of Zeng cake is soft and delicate. This kind of dessert snack is steamed with glutinous rice, cloud beans and red dates. After steaming, it is full of fragrance. The lower layer of rice cakes infiltrate the jujube color, showing a fresh crimson color. The upper layer of cloud beans is the brown of coffee, and the upper layer is the dark red jujube mud, which looks attractive. Zeng cake is sticky, soft, sweet and full, and it is a common food for locals. Zeng cake, a traditional breakfast food in Guanzhong area, is a sweet cake made from glutinous rice and red dates. Its characteristics are: rich jujube fragrance, soft, sticky, sticky and sweet. "

Ingredients

Shaanxi Snacks — Zeng Cake

1. Wash the glutinous rice and soak for about 4 hours. It can be crushed by hand.

Shaanxi Snacks — Zeng Cake recipe

2. Wash the red dates, soak up.

Shaanxi Snacks — Zeng Cake recipe

3. Take a deeper container and put a layer of honey beans (if you don't like honey beans, you can use soaked red kidney beans or red dates).

Shaanxi Snacks — Zeng Cake recipe

4. Spread a layer of glutinous rice on the honey beans.

Shaanxi Snacks — Zeng Cake recipe

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until the container is 9 minutes full. Break the red dates and place them neatly on the glutinous rice.

Shaanxi Snacks — Zeng Cake recipe

6. Add an appropriate amount of cold water.

Shaanxi Snacks — Zeng Cake recipe

7. The amount of water is less than half of the red dates.

Shaanxi Snacks — Zeng Cake recipe

8. Put it in an electric pressure cooker and press the "beans, tendons" button to steam.

Shaanxi Snacks — Zeng Cake recipe

9. Take out the steamed retort cake, use a shovel to rub the red dates into a puree.

Shaanxi Snacks — Zeng Cake recipe

10. The jujube is fragrant, soft, sticky and sweet.

Shaanxi Snacks — Zeng Cake recipe

Tips:

If you don't like honey beans, you can use soaked red kidney beans or red dates.

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