Cute Squash Ball

Name: Cute Squash Ball
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 300g pumpkin; 150g Glutinous rice flour; 80g starch; 50g Sugar; Some Red bean paste; 150g Flour; Some water

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Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

15m

Serving

2

Chinese medicine believes that pumpkin is warm in nature and sweet in taste, and enters the spleen and stomach meridians. It has the functions of nourishing the middle and nourishing qi, reducing inflammation and pain, detoxification and killing insects. It can be used for qi deficiency and fatigue, intercostal neuralgia, malaria, dysentery, ascaris, bronchial asthma, diabetes and other diseases. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says it can "buy the middle and nourish qi". "Yi Lin Ji Yao" records that it can "benefit the heart and restrain the lungs."
Eating pumpkin often can make the stool smooth and the skin plump, especially for women. It has a beauty effect. Zhang Zhidong, a famous official in the Qing Dynasty, once suggested that Empress Dowager Cixi eat more pumpkin.
As the saying goes, "Medicinal tonic is not as good as food tonic." Okay, not to be wordy. The cute little ball made by yourself is a bit reluctant to eat. It is good to entertain your girlfriends.

Ingredients

300g Pumpkin
150g Glutinous Rice Flour
80g Starch
50g Sugar
Some Red Bean Paste
150g Flour
Some Water

Cute Squash Ball

1. To prepare the ingredients, it’s best to choose old pumpkins. The taste will be sweeter. I didn’t buy them, so I used tender pumpkins with green skins, which are just as delicious

2. 150 grams of glutinous rice flour (to increase the elasticity of the balls); appropriate amount of red bean paste (fill according to your own taste, or leave it alone); toothpicks (tools for modeling); wolfberry (for pumpkin balls)

3. 50 grams of sugar, 80 grams of starch, 150 grams of flour (more can be prepared. When the flour is used for kneading, if the dough is too wet, it is not easy to shape, so add flour and knead until it is not sticky. Add the flour according to the situation at the time)

4. Steam the pumpkin, peel the pumpkin, cut into thin slices (convenient for steaming), it must be steamed over high heat, about 10 to 15 minutes.

5. Add auxiliary materials to mash the steamed pumpkin to make it into a puree. Warm reminder: You still don’t need water.

6. After the pumpkin is mashed, add glutinous rice flour, sugar, and starch to knead (if the noodles are too wet during the kneading process, you need to add flour, if the kneading is dry and wet, you don’t need to add flour); in order to make pumpkin balls The shape of the kneaded dough should not be too wet, or it should not stick to your hands.

7. This is the kneaded dough

8. For the filling shape, knead the dough into long strips and divide it into small doughs of about 20 to 30 grams. After rounding the dough, press it flat, put in the red bean paste, put it together as if making a bun, and then round it (let it sink) Enough wrapped in the ball, not leaking out); use a toothpick to press a shape of rice on the flat side, and put wolfberry in the middle of the rice (you can replace it with other food)

9. Put the pumpkin balls on the plate and steam them. This is the cute pumpkin balls. You can eat them when you put them on the plate and steam them for about 10 to 15 minutes. Don’t put the pumpkin balls close to each other. Make sure to leave a distance, otherwise they will stick together after steaming.

Tips:
To make pumpkin balls, the focus is on kneading the noodles. If the noodles are too dry, add some water. If they are too wet, add flour or glutinous rice flour and continue kneading.