How to make Chinese New Year rice cake. 如何制作华人新年年糕。

Chinese New Year cake is the traditional Chinese food, Is the main food of the Lunar New Year food. A sticky glutinous rice steamed pastries, during the Spring Festival, will use rice cakes to worship ancestors and gods. Rice cakes, also known as "higher year" mean eating rice cake has the symbolism of raising oneself taller in each coming year or salary increase.

There are many types of rice cakes, and today I introduce the banana leaves rice cakes is my mother made.

Ingrediance
Glutinous rice 500g
Sugar 500ml
Fresh banana leaves (or tin foil instead)

1. Glutinous rice make into powder reserve. Wash and dry fresh banana leaves, Cut banana leaves according to the shape of the container used. Ensure that the smoother surface of the banana leaf faces upwards.

2. The sugar and glutinous rice mix together, create a dough.

3. stamped with medium heat steam about 5 hours to cooked, during steaming time to add water, need to use hot water and stirring, in order to avoid uneven rice cakes.

4. When the rice cake is ready, Pour the mixture carefully into the container to get rid of air bubbles

5. The most common way to eat rice cakes: cut into lumps, steaming hot or add rice cakes and fried noodles to eat. You can also add sweet potato or taro fried together. This is my favorite way to eat.

年糕（rice cake; new year cake）中华民族的传统食物， 过年吃年糕是中国人的风俗之一，是农历新年的应时食品。一种用黏性大的糯米蒸成的糕点，在春节的时候，就会用年糕来拜祭祖先和神明。年糕又称为“年年高”， 意味着人民在生活和工作中一年比一年提高。

年糕分为很多种类， 今天我像大家介绍的是我妈妈做的香蕉叶年糕。

用料
糯米 500g
糖 500ml
新鲜蕉叶（或锡纸代替）

1. 糯米拿去磨成粉备用。新鲜蕉叶洗净抹干，根据使用的容器的形状切香蕉叶。确保香蕉叶的平滑表面朝上。
2. 将糖和磨好的糯米粉加在一起，彻底搅拌，直到面糊光滑没有任何颗粒。
3. 加盖用中火蒸约5个小时至熟，蒸的时候若要加水，要加热水和搅拌，以免年糕不均。
   4.当年糕准备好后，将混合物小心倒入容器中以除去气泡.
4. 年糕最常吃法：切成块状，蒸热或是把年糕块加面粉团炸来吃。也可以加番薯或芋头一起炸。这个是我最爱的吃法。