Oil-soaked jujube, which originated in Wenzhou, is a kind of Wenzhou cuisine, but now it has become a popular pastry food in China. People who don't know this name may think it is an oil-soaked jujube, but it is not. It is a cake made of glutinous rice mixed with white sugar or brown sugar, sesame seeds and peanuts.
Oil-soaked dates used to be used to entertain guests at weddings or other festive occasions. For example, when Bian Xiao was a child, he usually ate oil-soaked dates during the Spring Festival, because his parents would buy a big bag of oil-soaked dates before the Spring Festival and give them to guests and their families on New Year's Eve or during the Spring Festival. Moreover, when the economy was not so developed in the 1990s, it was a very happy thing for our children to eat such a plate of dates soaked in oil during the Chinese New Year! Of course, oil-soaked jujube has become a very common cake now, which is not comparable to other brands of cakes, but for us after 90, it is still a unique taste of childhood!
Share the following practices: Step 1, mix glutinous rice flour and rice flour with water according to a certain proportion, knead the glutinous rice flour into balls, and knead the glutinous rice flour balls into thin strips or circles like jiaozi; Step 2, then pour an appropriate amount of oil into the pot and heat the oil. In order to make the oil-soaked dates more fragrant, you can choose peanut oil or tea seed oil; Step 3, then put glutinous rice flour balls or glutinous rice flour strips into hot oil and fry them until they are golden on both sides. If you find that the dumplings stick together, you can add a little water to separate them. Step 4: Add proper amount of peanuts or sesame seeds to the fried dumplings. If you like sweets, you can also sprinkle a proper amount of brown sugar powder or white sugar powder, and then gently stir fry a few times.
Did you eat dates soaked in oil when you were a child, or did you eat delicious ones? Welcome to share your childhood food in the comments section below!