Luanxi cake

Overview

Osmanthus fragrans, a shrub of the Asteraceae family, grows in the Mekong River. Luanxi cake is a cake steamed with glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour, orange flour and borneol sugar. It is a traditional snack in the Pearl River Delta. It is the most common snack in Zhongshan and Zhuhai. It is a special food in the Pearl River Delta for the Buddha's birthday on the eighth day of April. In some areas, the eighth day of April is also known as the Buddhist Festival Luanxi Festival, which is also related to Buddhism. On that day, every household makes Luanxi cakes and eats them.

Tags

• snacks
• cantonese snacks
• borneo sugar
• chengfen
• coconut
• glutinous rice flour
• luanxi ye
• rice flour
• white sugar
• crushed peanuts
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash and drain the Luanhua leaves

   

2. 2 Boil the luanxiang in boiling water, pick it up, put it into a food processor and add water to beat it well. Pour the slurry into a pot, add borneol sugar and boil until the sugar is melted, then turn off the heat

   

3. 3 Mix the glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour and rice flour and mix well. Pour in the Luanxi syrup and stir until smooth. Let it sit for 20 minutes

   

4. 4 Mix the chopped peanuts, white sugar, and shredded coconut, then add olive oil and stir to serve as filling. Grease the mold, wrap a ball of dough with filling and press it on the mold, flatten it and release it

   

5. 5 Grease a steaming basin and arrange the printed cakes. After the water boils, put it into the pot and steam it for 15 minutes. Turn off the heat and take it out after 10 minutes

   

6. 6 The fragrant Luanxi cake is out of the oven, I steamed five pots

   

7. 7 After it cools down a bit, put them together and taste one. It’s glutinous and fragrant, leaving a fragrant aroma on your teeth and cheeks!