Yiwu traditional Buddha temple lotus food cake: so delicious.
As early as the early 1960s, almost more than half of rural households in Buddha temple QiTing village are engaged in processing lotus root flour with fresh lotus roots, after lotus root starch was washed, the lees are left for making cakes. Now in the Buddha temple village, almost every household could make lotus root cakes.
The process of making lotus root cakes is not complex. take a fresh large lotus root (about 500 grams), peeled and washed, cut off the knots at both ends, then put the lotus root in a "cylinder mill" to grind into " tofu lees"-like state, and then take out the just ground lotus root lees and the mixture of lotus root and water) from the tank, stored in a large bowl for later use. Then cut the 200 grams of pork (fresh chicken boning will be better) into paste, together with the appropriate amount of garlic, fresh ginger powder, pepper, chicken essence (or MSG), along with a small amount of rice wine poured into the bowl, mix these ingredients together in the bowl; Then put in dry Ningbo dumpling powder you bought form the supermarket in the large bowl, continue stirring until the mixture could be made into a cake by hand.
Using a large spoon as a tool to bail out the well ground lotus root, spoon by spoon into the boiling oil, deep-fry it with slow fire; press the lotus root cake into a flat round when frying; turn the cake upside down, and take it out for food when the whole cake looks golden. It's golden looking from outside with slightly red lotus root inside when you take a bite, crisp flavor outside and inside the waxy fragrance, it could be described as good in color, flavor and taste.
Now the little cylinder mill for grinding lotus root is barely seen in the market, but it does not matter, as the ginger powder cylinder mill could also be used for grinding lotus root.
There is something that worth noticing when making lotus root cake, some "lotus water" is also produced during the process. The precipitation of lotus water is called lotus root starch, it contains as much nutrition as the "Hangzhou West Lake lotus root starch "sold in many places when dried, so please don't throw it away, In addition, the "Ningbo dumpling powder "we used to reconcile the dry humidity may also be replaced by general glutinous rice powder or other alternative food starch, same effect can also be achieved.
