Moist Cornbread Recipe
This Moist Cornbread Recipe is prepared by steaming method. It was served as
main dish in the past in China. Now restaurants usually cook coarse grain as
dessert. Cornbread is one of it.
Steamed Cornmeal Bread/Cornmeal Cake
Ingredients:
2 cups whole wheat powder
1/2 cup Chinese date
1 cup cornmeal
1 egg
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon yeast
1/2 cup of milk
Procedure:
1. Mix cornmeal, whole wheat, egg,sugar,yeast, slowly add milk while stir(by
chopstick) at the same direction until it almost becomes paste. Knead by hands
into a piece of dough. Cover, let it stay for 40mins in warm place or until it
totally ferments.
2. Place several pieces of vegetable leaves on the drawer of a steamer. Pour
on the above paste. Place Chinese date on the surface. Cover.
Steam for 20mins over high heat.
3. Turn off heat, cut into small pieces,each piece have some Chinese
date on it.Serve.
Serving Methods: Serve as main food or desert
Beneficial Function: Corn contains much edible fibers. It helps to remove grease in our body and
so is very suitable to eat after a big oily meal.
Chinese date supplements Qi, regulates stomach and spleen.
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