The invention relates to healthy glutinous rice cakes and a making method thereof, and belongs to the field of
food processing. The healthy glutinous rice cakes are prepared from the main raw materials of glutinous
rice flour,
pteridium aquilinum pulp, konjaku flour, a nutritive additive and edible
sugar according to a certain
mass compounding ratio, wherein the glutinous
rice flour is prepared through the steps of soaking glutinous rice in water, draining the soaked glutinous rice and
grinding the drained glutinous rice into
powder; the
pteridium aquilinum pulp is prepared through the steps of eliminating
astringent taste of raw fresh
pteridium aquilinum, adding water, and squeezing juice; the nutritive additive is prepared through the steps of performing
water extraction on 8 kinds of traditional Chinese medicines including common
andrographis herb, herba ajugae, fructus forsythiae, pummelo pericarp, daghestan sweetclover
herb, bulbiferous falselily
bulb,
cinnamomum camphora roots and root-
bark of Chinese Hydrangeavine, and performing
drying into
powder. The specific making method comprises the following steps of taking materials, performing uniform blending, adding water, kneading dough, then performing separation and shaping, then wrapping the shaped glutinous rice cakes with Japanese banana leaves, finally loading the wrapped glutinous rice cakes into
steaming baskets, and performing
steaming so as to obtain the cooked glutinous rice cakes. The healthy glutinous rice cakes disclosed by the invention are light green and satisfactory in color, slightly have fresh smell, are soft, glutinous, delicious rather than oily, are rich in
nutrition and easy to absorb by the human bodies, and also have the health-care efficacies of clearing heat, removing
toxicity, invigorating the
stomach, promoting
digestion, dispelling wind, dissipating dampness, relieving the chest stuffiness, promoting circulation of qi, soothing meridians and activating collaterals and the like.