How to make delicious Qingming vegetable cakes at home?

To make beautiful and delicious Qingming vegetable cakes, the key is to boil the Qingming vegetables, fully knead them with glutinous rice flour, and knead the natural green pigments of Qingming vegetables into the dough. Vegetable cakes have color and toughness. The amount of glutinous rice flour used and whether the kneading is sufficient, these details determine the taste of Qingming vegetable cakes.

Ingredients: Qingming vegetables, glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour, salted vegetables, bacon, green garlic sprouts, and a little salt. Preparation work is as follows:

1. Wash the Qingming vegetables, boil water in a pot, add some salt and a few drops of oil, then put the Qingming vegetables into the boiling water for a while, cool them with cold water and then chop them.

2. Mix glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour in a ratio of 2:1. Chop the garlic sprouts finely, chop the salted vegetables and chop the bacon.

Steps:

1. Heat oil in a wok, add chopped bacon and stir-fry until fragrant and oil comes out, then add salted vegetables and stir-fry until fragrant.

2. Sauté the garlic sprouts over high heat until fragrant, turn off the heat, take it out and let it cool down to serve as the filling for the vegetable cake.

3. Add the mixed powder to the chopped Qingming vegetables, then add an appropriate amount of water that has been soaked in the Qingming vegetables, knead it into a dough as soft as an earlobe, and cut it into small portions of about 40 grams each. .

4. Wrap an appropriate amount of filling into each small dumpling, make it into a green body, place it on corn leaves or palm leaves, and then stack it in the steamer.

5. After the water in the steamer is boiled, add the raw Qingming vegetable cakes, steam over high heat for 10 to 12 minutes, and eat while hot.