【Ningbo】Brown sugar rice cake
Overview
New Year cake is a traditional food of the Chinese nation and a seasonal food during the Lunar New Year. It is a steamed cake made from sticky glutinous rice or rice flour. During the Spring Festival, many regions in my country pay special attention to eating rice cake. New Year cake comes in three colors: red, yellow and white, symbolizing gold and silver. New Year cake is also called Nian Nian cake, which is homophonic with Nian Nian Gao, which means that people's work and life are improving year by year. Therefore, ancient people wrote poems about rice cake: rice cake means slightly cloudy, white like silver and yellow gold. I look forward to good times and good fortune as I age, and I sincerely and silently wish for wealth to come. Ningbo's water-milled rice cake is the most famous. I remember when I was a child, there was a rice cake processing factory next door to my house. My aunt worked there, and she would always sneak in. The freshly made and unformed rice cakes were soft and glutinous, steaming, and I put them into a ball with pickles wrapped in the middle. When I took a bite, it felt like a delicacy in the world. I still think of it all the time. This brown sugar rice cake was often made by my mother when I was a child. In my impression, my mother would always eat rice cakes in different ways. She said that rice cakes are grown every year, so you must eat rice cakes during the Chinese New Year.
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Ingredients
Steps
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Cut the rice cake into slices of about 5 mm.
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Pour a little vegetable oil into the pan and fry the rice cake slices.
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Fry until bubbly on both sides and turn yellow in color. Pour out and set aside.
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Pour a little water into the pot, add brown sugar and boil.
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Simmer until the soup is thick and has dense bubbles.
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Pour in the fried rice cake and stir-fry until the sugar juice evenly coats the rice cake slices.
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Sprinkle in cooked white sesame seeds and stir-fry evenly.
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Plate.
