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Everyone probably has eaten steamed sticky rice cake, especially those born in the 80s and 90s. It's practically a staple food for them since childhood. When it comes to steamed sticky rice cake, there are many kinds, such as sticky rice steamed cake, sugar cane steamed cake, and dates steamed cake, and they are all very satisfying when made. Especially the sugar cane steamed cake, it's not only delicious but also the color of the finished product is very tempting. When it's just out of the oven, the fragrance is indescribable, but it's definitely fragrant throughout the room. Just smelling the fragrance makes you drool involuntarily, making you want to take a bite.
At this point, people must be curious, since sugar cane steamed cake is so delicious, how should it be made? In fact, the overall method of sugar cane steamed cake is the foundation for all steamed rice cakes. That is, once you learn this steamed rice cake, other steamed rice cake recipes will be easy. Regarding this delicious steamed rice cake, the overall method is most important is fermentation. As long as the flour is fermented properly, it's basically difficult to fail.
Let's not say more, today I will share the specific steps and details of sugar cane steamed cake with the simplest and easiest language, so that everyone can understand and understand. Let's go see it together, little friends.
Prepare ingredients
Main ingredients: flour 300 grams
Accessories: yeast 4 grams, sugar cane 50 grams, dates a small handful, dried candied fruit a little
Steps for sugar cane steamed cake
Step 1, first prepare the yeast. Add warm water to dissolve it (the water temperature should be controlled at around 40 degrees Celsius, which can better activate the yeast), and add sugar cane to warm water, then pour the yeast water into the flour, and then pour the sugar water into the flour and stir until uniform.
Step 2, then pour in small amounts of warm water (the amount of water should be controlled well), while pouring, stir until a thin paste is formed, because we are making steamed rice cake, we want it to be bigger, so we can stir it thinner, then cover it with a lid and let it ferment for an hour and a half (the specific time depends on the temperature at that time, it needs to rise twice the size before opening the lid)
Step 3, after washing the dates clean, cut them in half and then cut them into small pieces, remove the kernels, brush a layer of vegetable oil in the inner pot of the rice cooker, and brush it around to facilitate demolding, pour the fermented dough into the inner pot, top with dates and dried grapes
Step 4, shake it with your hand to release the bubbles, then put it into the rice cooker inner pot and press the rice cooker open to start cooking, when the timer stops (about 40 minutes), then cover it for 2 minutes before opening the lid, a very delicious sugar cane steamed cake is ready, it looks super appetizing, making your stomach rumble
Summary of sugar cane steamed cake
Through the above steps, I believe that many people have a deeper understanding of the method of sugar cane steamed cake. In fact, the overall method of sugar cane steamed cake can be divided into two steps, the first step is fermentation, this step must control the amount of yeast, many people think that adding more yeast is okay, in fact, that's wrong, too much yeast will produce a bitter taste; the second step is steaming, this step is very important for the later simmering, so that it will not collapse.
