What is a donkey roll? What materials are used to make it?

Donkey rolls are a specialty snack in Beijing. The finished product is yellow, white and red. The final production process requires wrapping with soybean flour, like a wild donkey rolling around in the suburbs, raising clouds of yellow soil, hence the name Donkey rolls. It is soft and has a unique flavor. The bean filling melts in the mouth and is sweet. You don't have to chew the soybean flour after it enters your mouth. You can savor it carefully. It is a traditional snack suitable for all ages. Many friends have heard of it, but do you really know it?

Contents of this article

1. What is Donkey Rolling?

2. What materials are donkey rolls made of?

3. Where is the snack of donkey rolls from?

What is Donkey Roll?

Donkey rolls are bean flour cakes. It is one of the famous traditional snacks in old Beijing. The finished product has three distinct colors: red, white and yellow. Because it needs to be wrapped with soybean flour in the final production process, it is like a wild donkey rolling around in the suburbs, raising clouds of yellow dust, hence the name Donkey rolls.

1. Donkey rolls, also known as bean flour cakes, are one of the famous traditional snacks in old Beijing. The finished product is distinctly red, white and yellow. Because the final production process requires wrapping it with soybean flour, it looks like the yellow earth raised by wild donkeys in the suburbs, hence the name Donkey rolls.

2. When frying soybean noodles, be sure to use the lowest heat and constantly stir with a spatula to prevent it from getting burnt. The longer the frying time, the darker the color of the soybean noodles will be.

3. The steamed glutinous rice dough is very sticky, so prepare a bowl of cold water next to it when rolling it out, and apply a little cold water while rolling.

4. Don’t spread the red bean paste too thickly, otherwise it will be difficult to wrap tightly when rolling and it will not look good after cutting. When cutting, use a sharp knife to keep it round as much as possible to avoid flattening. When cutting, also dip the knife in cold water first to prevent sticking.

5. After the preparation is completed, it should be consumed as soon as possible. The rest can be placed in a fresh-keeping box and stored in the refrigerator. Before eating next time, heat it in the microwave and sprinkle with soybean flour.

What materials are donkey rolls made of?

Donkey rolls are made of soybean flour, glutinous rice flour and red bean paste. First, pour warm water into the glutinous rice flour and knead it into dough. Then roll it flat with a rolling pin and spread it on a plate. Wrap it with plastic wrap and steam it in a steamer for a few minutes. Then turn to low heat and continue steaming for more than ten minutes. Put the soybean flour in the pot and fry it until golden. Take out the dough, spread it with red bean paste, roll it up, roll it in the soybean flour again, and cut it into sections.

Donkey rolls are a specialty snack in Beijing. The finished product is distinctly yellow, white and red. The soybean flour sprinkled on it during the final production process resembles the yellow earth kicked up by wild donkeys in the suburbs of old Beijing, hence the name "Donkey rolls".

Donkey rolls are made of three main ingredients: soybean powder, glutinous rice flour and red bean paste. If you want to make soybean powder yourself, you can first wash the soybeans and drain the water, put the soybeans in a heated wok, turn to medium-low heat, and stir-fry with a spatula until the soybeans are fragrant, then scoop them out and pour them into a wall-breaking machine to grind them into soybean powder, filter them and grind them again, and the soybean powder is ready.

When steaming glutinous rice dough, if it is accidentally steamed dry, you can add an appropriate amount of water and continue to steam it. In this way, the donkey rolls will be softer and more glutinous. But because of this, donkey rolls are more glutinous, so try not to eat them before going to bed. It is best to do some simple exercise after eating, such as taking a walk.

Where is the snack called donkey rolls from?

Donkey rolls are one of the traditional snacks of old Beijing and Tianjin.

The finished product of Donkey Roll is distinct in yellow, white and red, and looks very good. Because the soybean flour sprinkled in the final production process is like the yellow soil raised by wild donkeys in the suburbs of old Beijing, it is named "Donkey Roll". The raw materials of "Donkey Roll" are rhubarb rice flour, soybean flour, Chengsha, white sugar, sesame oil, osmanthus, green and red silk and melon seeds. Its production is divided into three processes: making the dough, mixing the filling and forming. The outer layer of the finished "Donkey Roll" is covered with bean flour, which is golden yellow, and the bean filling is sweet. It is soft and has a unique flavor. The bean filling melts in the mouth and is sweet. You don't need to chew the soybean flour after it enters your mouth. You can taste it carefully. It is a traditional snack suitable for all ages.