Chinese Food Recipes

Green bean cake, made around the Dragon Boat Festival, is a traditional summer food that can prune heat. The small glossy stuffed cake is fragrant and delicious and can serve to smooth the urine, allay inflammation and remove toxic materials. There is a custom of eating green bean cakes on Dragon Boat Festival in urban and rural Suzhou.

Green Bean Cake has a long history. From the eighteenth century, green bean cake was a gift to be valid for local residents dedicated officials. Its materials are mainly boiled green-bean powder, steamed sweet-potato powder, vegetable oil, lard, white sugar, rose, dateplum persimmon, etc.

Recipe: Green Bean Cake

Taste: Sweet and delicious.

Features: Slippery and soft.

Ingredients for Green Bean Cake Recipe:

250 grams (0.55 lb) green beans
300 grams (0.66 lb) glutinous rice floor
200 grams (0.44 lb) non-glutinous rice flour
250 grams (0.55 lb) sugar
20 grams (1 1/2 tbsp) cooking oil

Method to make Green Bean Cake Recipe:

1, Wash the green beans and cook in 500 g (1 cup) of water till the beans explode. Put the beans into a container to cool off.

2, Mix the two kinds of rice flours. Add the sugar, oil and the cooled off beans and mix well. Put the mixture in a porcelain plate on whose surface oil has been rubbed. Steam for 45 minutes and the cakes are ready.

3, Enjoy this fragrant and delicious Green Bean Cake.