Lantern Festival Dumplings

Name: Lantern Festival Dumplings
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 3
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: About 2000g Water mill glutinous rice flour; 1 small bowl Red bean paste; About 2 soup bowls Gruel

by Eyebrow

4.9 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

2h

Serving

3

Although the Lantern Festival has already passed, this video was filmed before the Lantern Festival. I haven't had time to edit it. Now it's finally done. Think about it, let's post it. The two capable hands in this video belong to the mother-in-law and the sister-in-law, making noodles, mixing stuffing, and making glutinous rice balls. They are the two leading actors.
We call glutinous rice balls Yuanzi here, and the status of Yuanzi and wonton is equivalent to dumplings in the north. It is necessary to appear on festivals, weddings and funerals. When I was young, I always thought that Yuanzi was the same thing as Yuanxiao and Tangyuan, but now I realize that the method is a little different.
Yuanzi fillings are divided into two types: sweet and salty. The salty stuffing is usually the shepherd's purse meat stuffing, which is blanched with greens and shepherd’s purse and chopped into vegetable puree, mixed with the minced meat, seasonings and oil; the sweet stuffing is usually fried with red bean paste and lard, sometimes with red dates. It is mixed with peanuts into red dates and peanut filling, but sesame filling is not common.
I don't know how other areas make noodles. It seems that many places in Shanghai use rice porridge to make noodles. Older people say that rice porridge and noodles are not easy to crack when they are made.

Ingredients

About 2000g Water Mill Glutinous Rice Flour
1 small bowl Red Bean Paste
About 2 soup bowls Gruel

Lantern Festival Dumplings

1. Material preparation: about 2000 grams of water-milled glutinous rice flour, about 2 bowls of rice porridge, about 2 bowls of shepherd's purse meat filling, 1 bowl of red bean paste filling. Forgive me for not having a specific weight ratio, as I said before, these are not what I prepared. In addition, these fillings are not all used in baoyuanzi, but also wonton.

2. Pour the glutinous rice flour into a large pot, add the rice porridge, and rub the flour in a little bit.

3. When you feel no grains of rice, don't feel sticky, and have moderate hardness, rub the strips and pick the agent, about the size of a ping-pong ball. We are all big rounds here, I usually eat 5 and I'm full.

4. It's time to make round balls. Take a potion and squeeze it repeatedly in your hand. The surface of the glutinous rice potion will become hard after being in the air for a long time, and it will become soft after a few squeezes, and it will feel soft and sticky.

5. Make a rounding agent, poke a small hole in the glutinous rice flour dumpling with your fingers, and sprinkle a little glutinous rice flour in the hole to prevent sticking.

6. Pinch into a small bowl. See the video for specific methods.

7. Fill in the filling and close the mouth with a tiger's mouth. See the video for specific methods.

8. In order to distinguish it from sweet stuffed balls, the salty stuffing is made into a drop shape, of course, it can be made into other shapes. The same is done for dousha Yuanzi, the shape is round. PS: My grandmother’s place is the other way around. Sweet ones make droplets, salty ones make rounds. If there are other fillings, they will make long rounds.

9. After the water is boiled, lower the ball and push it along the bottom of the pot with a spatula to prevent adhesion. After boiling, add a large bowl of cold water and cook until the ball floats on the water and rolls continuously. (My mother said that adding a piece of pig fat in the water can make the surface of the ball smooth and shiny and reduce adhesion)

10. This is shepherd's purse meat ball.

11. Bean Paste Yuanzi.

Tips:
1 Do not pour the porridge all at once when kneading the noodles. If there is too much powder, add porridge. If there is too much porridge, add more powder, but if you pour too much at once, if the powder is not enough, you can only buy it again. For now, it is better to go out less!
2 Shepherd's purse meat filling is actually composed of three kinds of raw materials, shepherd's purse, green cabbage and minced meat, of which shepherd's purse: green