Yulan Cake
2025-01-20 14:59:49 277
Yulan cake is a specialty snack in the Jiangnan region, made from glutinous rice and meat filling. Famous snacks in Wuxi. The creation of Yulan Cake began in the 12th year of the Qing Dynasty's Daoguang reign (1850 AD) by Wuxi Sunji Cake Shop, named after the blooming season of Yulan flowers. When making, use glutinous rice flour and boiled water to mix small pieces to make a cake embryo. Wrap the stuffing with vegetable lard, bean paste, fresh meat, roses, sesame seeds, etc., and then put it into a pan and fry it with oil, which is golden. The quality is best with a crispy outer shell, soft and sticky inner shell, sweet and salty taste, and enticing aroma. The meat filling should be mixed with seasonings first, wrapped in glutinous rice flour, and then pan fried. The fried yulan cake is attractive in color, crisp outside and fragrant inside. People in the south of the Yangtze River often eat it together with soybean milk for breakfast, which is not easy to be hungry.
Details of ingredients
Technique
Steps to make Yulan Cake
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1. Add salt, soy sauce, cooking wine, sugar, pepper, and egg white to the meat filling and stir vigorously.![]()
2. Add proper amount of boiled water to glutinous rice flour and make it into a dough.![]()
3. Divide the glutinous rice dough into small balls slightly larger than rice dumpling and roll them into slightly thicker skins.![]()
4. Mix the meat filling with chicken essence and minced scallions and ginger.![]()
5. Put the meat filling into the dough.![]()
6. Wrap it into small round cakes.![]()
7. Brush a little oil in the pot, heat to 50% heat, add small round cakes and press lightly, then simmer over low heat.![]()
8. Fry until both sides turn yellow and crispy, and the meat filling is fully cooked.
