How to make delicious Hunan bamboo shoots cake? Steps to make Hunan bamboo shoots cake

1. Ingredients: fresh mountain bamboo shoots, glutinous rice, peeled pork belly, salt, dried chili powder, and other condiments such as five-spice powder.

2. Wash the glutinous rice, soak it for half a day, and drain. Wash the mountain bamboo shoots and dry them.

3. Pound the glutinous rice in a stone mortar. Flatten the mountain bamboo shoots, cut into small sections, and mix evenly with the glutinous rice flour (the mountain bamboo shoots should be kept in small sections for a better taste).

4. Cut the pork belly into cubes, add to the glutinous rice and bamboo shoot powder, add salt and other seasonings, and mix evenly.

5. Knead the glutinous rice and bamboo shoots into a ball, make a paste, and make each cake (a cake as big as a pumpkin cake, about 6cm in diameter and 1.5cm thick).

6. Place it on a bamboo rack, cover it with bamboo paper or a bamboo cover, and bake slowly over a charcoal fire over low heat until the outside and inside of the cake are dry, and the fibers of the bamboo shoots on the surface are dry and the aroma is overflowing.

7. The bamboo shoot cake is now ready.