The bark, leaves and flowers of cinnamon have a strong smell, among which the flowers are the most concentrated, followed by pedicels, bark and leaves. Branches, leaves, fruits, and flower stems can be extracted into cinnamon oil. Cinnamon oil is the raw material for the synthesis of cinnamic acid and other important spices. It is used as raw material for cosmetics, as well as ingredients for chocolate and cigarettes. It is used medicinally as deodorant, wind repellent and irritant fragrance, and has anti-corrosion effect.
Cinnamon powder is usually used to bake bread, snacks, and pickle meat food in western countries. In addition to cinnamaldehyde, cinnamon oil also contains more than ten kinds of ingredients, such as benzaldehyde, cinnamyl alcohol, caryophyllene, coumarin, etc. it is widely used in beverage and food flavoring, pharmaceutical formulas, blended essence, and high-grade cosmetics. For example, cola drinks contain cinnamon oil.
Let's learn to make some cinnamon desserts.
1. Roasted banana with cinnamon and brown sugar
Ingredients: 2 bananas, 30-40g brown sugar, 10ml lemon juice, 3-5g cinnamon powder
Step 1. Heat the pan over medium heat, peel the bananas, put them into the pan, and pour in the lemon juice.
Step 2. Mix brown sugar with cinnamon powder and sprinkle them on bananas.
Step 3. Just heat it for 2-3 minutes. It doesn't matter if the sugar doesn't melt completely.
2. Cinnamon sugar toast
Ingredients: a slice of fresh milk toast, an egg, an appropriate amount of granulated sugar (black sugar can also be used), an appropriate amount of cinnamon powder and a little bit of salt
Step 1. Break the eggs with a little salt and cut the toast into strips.
Step 2. Heat the pot over a low heat, dip the toast with egg, and put them into the pot to fry. You can apply cream on the bottom of the pot in advance. It would taste even better.
Step 3. Add proper amount of cinnamon powder into the sugar, mix them, crush them slightly and sprinkle them on toast.
3. Creme Catalana
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon cinnamon powder, 80g sugar, 120g water, 150CC pudding milk, 3 whole eggs, 1 egg yolk, 150 CC fresh cream, 60g sugar
Step 1. Mix cinnamon powder with water.
Step 2. Caramel: heat granulated sugar over low heat and add Step 1 mixture into it, boil it over low heat for about 5 minutes.
Step 3. Add sugar into the cream and mix them.
Step 4. Pudding: add an egg yolk, a whole egg and Step 3 mixture into fresh milk, and mix them with an egg-whisk. Pour the mixture into a container (70% full), put it into a preheated oven at 160 ℃, and bake it for about 25 minutes.
Step 5. Pour Caramel on the pudding.
4. Honey cinnamon toast cup
Ingredients: 1 egg, half a cup of small farmer fresh milk, 1 and 1 / 2 cups of toast, 2 teaspoons of fine granulated sugar, 1 / 4 teaspoon of cinnamon powder, appropriate amount of honey and a little sugar powder (can be omitted)
Step 1. Cut toast into dice. Put eggs in a microwave cup and then pour in milk.
Step 2. Add sugar and cinnamon powder in and mix them well.
Step 3. Add the toast dices in and fully dip them into the egg milk liquid, and then put the cup into the microwave oven and heat it at high temperature for 2 minutes.
Step 4. After taking it out, add honey or sugar powder!
