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How to make adzuki bean glutinous rice cakes?
Adzuki bean glutinous rice cakes are a food made with adzuki beans and glutinous rice as the main ingredients. Not only are they soft and sticky in texture, but they also have a high nutritional value, making them very popular among people. Many people especially like to order some to take home from restaurants. In fact, the method of making adzuki bean glutinous rice cakes is very simple, only 4 steps can be completed, and it is especially suitable for making at home!
First, Ingredients
Main Ingredients: appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour
Accessories: appropriate amount of bean paste, appropriate amount of coconut flakes, appropriate amount of roasted peanuts, appropriate amount of milk
Second, How to Make Adzuki Bean Glutinous Rice Cakes
1. Knead glutinous rice flour into a dough with milk. Knead until the surface of the dough is smooth.
2. Divide the dough into small balls. Press them into cakes, wrap the bean paste inside, and roll them into balls.
3. Brush a layer of oil in the steaming pot, place the kneaded glutinous rice dumplings on the steaming pot and steam them.
4. Wrap steamed glutinous rice dumplings with a layer of coconut flakes or crushed peanuts.
Three, Nutritional Value of Adzuki Beans
Adzuki beans are rich in vitamins B1, B2, protein, and various minerals, with the effects of blood nourishment, diuresis, edema reduction, and promoting heart activation. Adzuki beans have the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, invigorating the spleen and stomach, diuresis and edema reduction, and relieving stuffiness, which can treat symptoms such as difficulty in urination, edema due to spleen weakness, beriberi, and others. Eating adzuki bean soup can have a therapeutic effect on edema, beriberi, and difficulty in urination. It can also treat liver cirrhosis, ascites, and replenish the body’s deficiency. The soup made by boiling adzuki beans with winter melon is a good food therapy for edema. Boiling adzuki beans with mung beans and Job’s tears can treat diarrhea. In addition, adzuki beans can be used with traditional Chinese medicine, such as boiling adzuki beans with forsythia and angelica to treat liver abscesses and other conditions.
Adzuki beans are rich in lysine, and are best mixed with grain foods to make bean rice or bean porridge for consumption. They are usually made into bean paste or used as ingredients for cakes. Adzuki beans are not only delicious and tasty food, but also a wonder drug for treating diseases. According to traditional Chinese medicine, adzuki beans have a sweet, sour, mild, and non-toxic taste, with the effect of dampness expulsion and spleen replenishment, which is suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach. They are often used in food therapy for hypertension, atherosclerosis, edema caused by various reasons, and for cooling the body, detoxifying, strengthening the stomach, and other purposes.
