Lvdagunr (Rolling Donkeys)

     Rolling Donkey is a rice cake made from bean-flour and is a famous Chinese snack in Beijing. Nonetheless, as a southerner in China, my mom enjoys cooking it during holidays and festivals for family. It is made from steamed sticky rice, scattered with fried soybean powder and filled with red beans. After being cut into blocks, it is rolled in soybean powder, which is why this snack gets its name, Lv Da Gun. When you roll it in soybean powder, it looks like a donkey rolling on the ground, raising dust.

       It is the first time I cook it and unfortunately it is not quite successful since I can't find the right flour my mom told me to use in the market here and it is very hard to control the softness of the sticky rice flour in a totally different pan. I tried twice and it did take me some time to figure out the exact time of steaming and the different amount of each flours.

      Recipe: 

      1.Mix the sticky rice flour with regular flour, add water and stir it hard.

      2. Steam the flour mixture.

      3.Fry soybean powder in the hot pan.

      4. Roll the rice cake and place rea bean filling in.

      5. Cut the cake into small pieces.

      6.Dip the powder.