Gray Pancake

Gray Pancake

　　Gray Pancake is a food made by mixing glutinous rice and regular rice, grinding them into a slurry, letting it settle, filtering it through plant ash, and then steaming it in a bamboo steamer. It is a specialty of Shangrao.

The people of Shangrao have the custom of making Gray Pancake during the Ghost Festival (Zhongyuan Festival, on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month).

Ingredients: glutinous rice, regular rice, plant ash (used only for filtering)

Preparation steps:

First: Mix glutinous rice and regular rice in proportion and soak them

Second: Grind the soaked mixture of glutinous rice and regular rice into a slurry

Third: After the slurry settles, filter it using plant ash

Fourth: Steam the filtered slurry in a bamboo steamer until fully cooked