How is the rice cake made? What should I pay attention to?

The rice cake is also called Ciba in our hometown, and it is made of glutinous rice.

First, you need to wash a proper amount of glutinous rice and soak it in clear water 12 hours. You can also copy it with boiling water, drain it and steam the glutinous rice.

Prepare a big wooden barrel, pour the glutinous rice into the pot with water in the wooden barrel, cover it and steam for about 40 minutes. Glutinous rice can be steamed until it becomes soft. If there is no barrel, you can steam it directly in the pot. Nowadays, many families use electric pressure cookers and rice cookers. You can directly wash the glutinous rice and steam it in the rice cooker, just like cooking at ordinary times.

Pour the steamed glutinous rice into a stone mortar and break it into dough. Be sure to pay attention to the rapid collapse of glutinous rice while it is hot, and keep turning it by hand. The lower the temperature, the more laborious it is to collapse, and the collapse of rice cakes is a very hard work.

When it collapses, it will be like dough. Pour into a container, flatten, cool and cut into pieces, so that the rice cake is ready.

Mashed rice cakes can be cut into small pieces while they are hot and dipped in white sugar, or they can be dipped in sesame noodles, which is particularly fragrant. When cooking rice wine, it is also a delicious snack to cut the cooled rice cake into finger-sized pieces and put them into rice wine.

We can also eat fried rice cakes, cut them into pieces the thickness of chopsticks, put a proper amount of rapeseed oil in the pot, boil them, fry them until they are golden on both sides, then take them out of the pot and sprinkle with white sugar. Those who don't like sweets can sprinkle sesame noodles, which are especially fragrant and special.

It should be noted that steamed glutinous rice should collapse while it is hot. In the process of collapse, keep turning with your hands, and your hands will get wet when you turn. You can prepare a basin of water and turn it over when your hands are wet.