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What is the sticky rice flour ah?

Sticky rice flour is the rice to be crushed to get the fine powder, sticky rice flour can be used to make a lot of pastries, belongs to the viscosity is relatively low a kind of rice flour. We should also pay attention to the selection of sticky rice flour to choose natural add less sticky rice flour, pure sticky rice flour generally show a light gray rather than a very white color.

Speaking of sticky rice flour everyone must have a certain understanding, we usually have sticky rice flour at home, sticky rice flour can make a lot of delicious pastries, such as turnip cake, glutinous rice cake some pastries have sticky rice flour. Although the sticky rice flour is very common, but the quality of the products on the market is also mixed. Normal sticky rice flour should be a little bit of Van Grey, but a lot of merchants in order to sticky rice flour appearance, many people will add some whitening agent, although the appearance of good but on our body is indeed a great harm.

Sticky rice flour is generally made of rice milled, generally more common in China's Guangzhou, Hunan and other regions, and later also spread to various regions. The property of sticky rice flour is warm, so it is suitable for most of the people, often eat will also have the effect of spleen, especially the gastrointestinal function is not good often prone to diarrhea people, eat some sticky rice flour can be appropriate for relief. And then the body is relatively weak, need to warm people can eat, pregnant women and poor digestion of young children can also be made into a porridge for consumption, but the sticky rice flour sugar content is more, diabetic patients try to eat as little as possible.

There are a lot of people who think that sticky rice flour is glutinous rice flour, which is actually not true. Sticky rice flour is not as sticky as glutinous rice flour, suitable for making snacks and pastries, with the irreplaceable effect of glutinous rice flour. We can also make sticky rice flour at home by soaking good quality rice, then drying it well, and finally crushing it with a pulverizer. Because the crusher sometimes crushed not uniform, we can crush a few times, the crushed sticky rice flour for sieve, some large particles of sticky rice flour sieve out, to get a fine glutinous rice flour.