Three-Delicacy Purple Rice Cake

Three-Delicacy Purple Rice Cake

　　Yunnan has many snacks made with purple rice, but most are sweet in flavor. To offer a change, this savory version was created as an accompaniment to banquets. It is fragrant, soft, tender, golden on the outside, purplish-red inside, and deliciously savory.

　　Ingredients:

　　Main ingredient: 400g of purple rice.

　　Other ingredients: 50g each of cooked ham, wet starch, and soaked dried mushrooms, 20g of soaked dried shrimp, 4 eggs, and 100g of cooked chicken breast.

　　Seasonings: 3g of salt, 2g of MSG, 1g of pepper, 50g of sesame oil,

　　and 1kg of lard (consumes 100g).

　　Preparation:

　　(1) Crack the eggs into a bowl, add wet starch, and stir into a thin batter. Finely dice the mushrooms, dried shrimp, ham, and chicken, then mix them into the purple rice along with salt, MSG, pepper, and sesame oil.

　　(2) Heat a pan, grease it with fat, pour in most of the egg batter, and spread it into an omelet. Remove, flatten, spread a layer of egg batter on top, place the purple rice mixture on it, press flat, and roll it up.

　　(3) Heat the pan again, add lard, and when it reaches 60% heat, deep-fry the roll until golden brown. Remove,

　　slice into pieces, and serve.