How to make Tonglu Rice Cake

How to make Tonglu Rice Fruit

Tonglu Rice Fruit is a traditional food in Tonglu region of Zhejiang Province, made of glutinous rice flour and bean paste filling. It is simple to make, but the process of making it requires some skill and patience. Want to make a delicious Tonglu rice fruit, need to pay attention to the following points:

First of all, the use of high-quality glutinous rice flour is the key to making Tonglu rice fruit. Glutinous rice flour to choose delicate, white and shiny glutinous rice flour, this glutinous rice flour to do out of the rice fruit taste delicate, chewy, delicious and not sticky teeth. When making rice crackers, you also need to control the amount of water, too much water will lead to sticky rice crackers and poor taste; too little water will lead to hard skin and poor taste.

Secondly, be sure to rub the glutinous rice flour carefully. After adding the glutinous rice flour to the hot water and mixing it into a ball, take it out immediately and knead it until there is no powdery gravy. When kneaded until there is no flour gravy, the texture of the glutinous rice flour will become Q-bouncy and chewy, and the rice flavor will be more intense. Then, divide the glutinous rice dough into small portions, roll it into a ball, flatten it into a round shape, put in the bean paste filling, roll it into a round ball again, and steam it.

Finally, master the steaming time. When steaming Tonglu rice fruit, you can choose a steamer or pot to steam. Steaming time is also one of the important factors to make delicious Tonglu rice fruit. Generally, you can steam it for about 15 minutes on high heat until the rice fruit becomes completely transparent and the filling is cooked through. The Tonglu rice fruit made in this way has a soft texture and tasty filling, which melts in your mouth and becomes more and more flavorful the more you eat it.

In short, the production of Tonglu rice fruit delicious and not difficult, as long as the selection of high-quality glutinous rice flour, carefully rubbed, master the time of steaming, you can certainly make a great taste of Tonglu rice fruit.