Piggy leaf cake

Piggy leaf cake

Overview

Ye'er cake is one of Sichuan's famous snacks. It is made of glutinous rice flour and stuffed into a dough. It is wrapped in fresh green cake leaves and steamed over high heat. Ye'er cake is divided into two types: sweet and salty. The sweet one is bean paste and nuts, and the salty one is minced bean sprouts and meat.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Put a little lard in the pan and fry the pork belly filling. Add minced bean sprouts, chicken essence and peppercorns, adjust the seasoning and let cool for later use

    Piggy leaf cake step 1
  2. Mix glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour evenly, add appropriate amount of warm water and stir into snowflake noodles

    Piggy leaf cake step 2
  3. Knead the dough with your hands into a medium soft and hard dough

    Piggy leaf cake step 3
  4. Cut off a small piece of dough, add a small amount of red yeast rice powder, and knead into a light red dough

    Piggy leaf cake step 4
  5. Divide the white dough into small pieces and fill it with bean sprouts and meat filling

    Piggy leaf cake step 5
  6. Cut the cake leaves into about 3 inches long, and place the stuffed cake leaves on the cake leaves

    Piggy leaf cake step 6
  7. Roll the red dough into a long strip and cut into small uniform pieces

    Piggy leaf cake step 7
  8. Roll the small red dough into a round shape, flatten it, and cut it into pig's trotter shapes with a knife

    Piggy leaf cake step 8
  9. Attach the pig's feet to the stuffed dough

    Piggy leaf cake step 9
  10. Then use the red dough to make two ears

    Piggy leaf cake step 10
  11. Roll the red dough into a cylindrical shape

    Piggy leaf cake step 11
  12. Attach the ears of the pig, press the cylindrical shape flat and stick it on, then use chopsticks to poke two small holes, then cut out the eyes from seaweed and stick them on, and the cute pig is ready.

    Piggy leaf cake step 12
  13. Place the prepared piglet leaf cake on the leaves. After the water boils, put it into a steamer and steam it over high heat for ten minutes and then take it out

    Piggy leaf cake step 13
  14. The steamed piglet noodles are juicy

    Piggy leaf cake step 14
  15. Strike a pose

    Piggy leaf cake step 15