How to Make Authentic Mochi Patties

Authentic Mochi Patties

Mochi Patties, a Han Chinese snack, is a kind of food made by steaming and pounding glutinous rice, popular in some southern regions of China. Different places, there are also different mochi customs, such as Hunan mochi custom. Here is what I brought you the authentic patty cake practice, I hope you like it!

One, introduction and dish characteristics

patty cake (pinyin: cí bā English English name: cooked glutinous rice pounded into paste; glutinous rice cake) made of glutinous rice steamed and pounded. Food. Patty cake is made of cooked glutinous rice put into a stone trough with a stone hammer or reed bamboo (due to local differences, some also use bamboo instead) pounded into mud, generally this type of food can be called patty cake. It is a popular snack in some parts of southern China.

Patty cake, is a snack of the southern and northern tribes, popular in the northern and southern regions of China: Guizhou, Chongqing, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian, Hubei, Guangxi, Shaanxi and other provinces and cities have, but also Jiujiang, Jiangxi, Fujian Wuyi Mountain area is the most prevalent, which is also in Wuzhou, Guangxi, the . The practice is most special. It is also found in southern Anhui, mainly during the Chongyang Festival, as a festive food for guests to savor. Patty cake [1] is to glutinous rice, potato as the main material, soaked in water and then set aside in a steamer to steam, and then quickly pounded in a stone ladle until soft and pliable, while still hot will be made into a large or small rice mud can be a small ball, set aside sesame seeds fried and ground powder mixed with sugar (or soybeans fried and ground powder mixed with sugar) in the disk rolling, you can take food. The taste is sweet. Now the street vendors more pedaled tricycles to sell, rice mud with good thermal insulation performance of the special iron bucket put, shake the handle, rice mud from the round hole drilling. Whenever there is a happy event, the local people have to do brown sugar mixed with mochi to entertain guests, in order to show good luck.

Two, practice

Glutinous rice specific practices : Glutinous rice soaked for more than a day, filtered dry water, placed in a wooden retort steamed. Then poured into the stone mortar pounded to gelatinous, in a clean vessel sprinkled with some glutinous rice flour, the pounded glutinous rice with filling on which to knead, kneaded into a small ball or cake, you can also use special molds printed into a variety of patterns, and placed in a ventilated dry place to shade dry. After drying, they can be immersed in water to preserve them for a long time. If you will be pounded to the gelatinous patties pressed into a large round cake while hot, it is necessary to use a sharp knife to cut the large round cake into small pieces (2cm * 6cm * 10cm or so) shortly after cooling. Because not completely cooled cut when sticky knife, cooled too long too hard, cut when it is very laborious. Such as in the cold winter, the night pressure round cake, the next morning you can cut. There are many ways to eat, can be fried, can be boiled, can be roasted, can be boiled with sweet wine with sugar.

Potato specific method : Potato scraping, clean, with a steamer on high heat after cooking, placed in a cool ventilated place so that the rest of the mild water vapor emanation, and then quickly poured into the special stone groove, manually pounded with a wooden hammer until fine and uniform, there are a lot of bubbles, and finally spatula samples to the pot, according to the dietary tastes of different regions can be Put sugar, sesame (South), Shaanxi, Shaanxi, some places will be blended and sprinkled with some soup (North), taste smooth, delicate, relatively easy to digest and absorb glutinous rice, but also liposuction to lose weight, it can be said to be a delicacy on earth.

Three, nutritional value and food taboos

Glutinous rice contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B and starch and other ingredients, is suitable for warm and strong food, with the role of tonic, warming the spleen and stomach. It is mild and nourishing, with the functions of tonifying deficiency, replenishing blood, strengthening spleen and warming stomach, and stopping sweating. It is suitable for regurgitation, reduced appetite, diarrhea caused by coldness of the spleen and stomach, and sweating caused by qi deficiency, shortness of breath, weakness, neurasthenia, muscle weakness, physical and mental fatigue, pregnancy and abdominal distension. Mochi is high in calories and can give the body additional energy. The high sugar content in patties, coupled with its own high calorie content of carbohydrates and fat, can improve the body's immunity.

Wine made from glutinous rice with angelica, wolfberry, etc., can also nourish, fitness and healing, and regular consumption, with the effect of strengthening and refreshing, beauty and longevity, soothing and revitalizing the muscles and blood.

Dietary contraindications: Because glutinous rice is not easy to digest, if you suffer from gastritis, duodenitis, gastroenteritis, etc., should eat less. At the same time, because it is a sweet food containing more sugar, so diabetics should not eat.

Four, patty cake

Patty cake, Han Chinese holiday customs. Popular in southern China. Guizhou, Chongqing, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian, Hubei, Guangxi, Shaanxi and other provinces and cities have, and to Jiangxi Ji'an, Fujian Wuyishan area is most prevalent. It is also found in the south of Anhui Province, mainly during the Chung Yeung Festival, as a festival food for guests to savor. Mochi is based on glutinous rice, potatoes as the main ingredients, soaked in water and then set aside in a steamer to steam, and then quickly pounded in a stone ladle until soft and pliable, while hot, will be made into a large or small rice clay can be a small ball, set aside sesame seeds fried and ground powder mixed with sugar (or soybeans fried and ground powder mixed with sugar) in the plate rolling, you can eat. The taste is sweet. Now the street vendors more pedaled tricycles to sell, rice mud with good thermal insulation performance of the special iron bucket put, shake the handle, rice mud from the round hole drilling. Whenever there is a happy event, the local people have to do brown sugar mochi to entertain guests, in order to show good luck.

Tujia people

Tujia people are generally popular with a New Year's Eve "hit the poop" custom. The Tujia people have always had "twenty-eight, hit the poop" saying. Whenever the Chinese New Year comes, the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, families have to play sticky rice patties, the so-called play sticky rice patties, according to the local local chronicles: "Department of glutinous rice on the stone groove mortar and pestle such as mud, pressed into the shape of a ball, shaped like a full moon. The big one is about 5 feet in diameter, the unusual one is about 4 inches, ranging from 3 to 8 minutes thick." Playing sticky rice patties is a labor-intensive physical work, usually after the men to play, two people stand against each other, first kneading and then playing, even if the snow and ice days also have to sweat. Do poop is also very careful, hand sticky bee wax or tea oil, first out of the steelyard weight, after the hand or board pressure, to do a round and smooth, beautiful. [1]

Hakka

The Hakka people generally have the habit of eating mochi, whether it is usual or annual festival. Generally, the glutinous rice flour and water into a paste, and then hand-rolled into a long strip, and then cut with a knife or hand-picked into a large grain of paste, and then add sugar (brown sugar) and peanut grains mixed dip, mochi that is into. But in Jiexi, Wuhua, Luhe, Lufeng Hakka mountainous area has another patty cake production method, called "playing patty cake". Its production process is: first steamed glutinous rice in a stone mortar, and then a large wooden stick repeatedly rammed into the mortar with force, has to be the glutinous rice pounded into a paste until. This process is often operated by several strong people in turn. Thereafter, the method is the same as that of the previous type of mochi. This type of mochi is so labor intensive that it is called "mochi-ba". However, it is much tastier than the previous type of mochi, so people like to "play mochi".