Cooking 4: Glutinous Rice Balls Recipe for Winter Solstice Festival Step by Step Tutorial with Photos 冬至汤圆~
Dear Steemit friends~ As time goes time, it's just another 9days until a brand new year.
At this special day, we Chinese used to celebrate Winter Solstice Festival which can also be known as Dongzhi Festival. It is traditionally a time for the family to gather around and reunion at the end of the year. By this, it is common that we make a special dessert which is called tangyuan (湯圓) or alternatively known as glutinous rice balls to symbolize reunion “团圆” because they are round in shape.
Let's Start! :D
Ingredients:
Glutinous Rice Balls
-250 grams Glutinous Rice Flour
-1 cup Water
-1 drop Food Colourings
Ginger Syrup
-50 grams gingers
-3 stalk of pandan leaves
-50 grams brown sugar (self-adjustments)
Steps by step tutorial:
1.Pour the measured glutinous rice flour into a mixing bowl, combine water little by little, stir and knead until it forms a smooth and flexible dough is formed.
2.When the dough is ready, add your desired colour. Pink, red, blue, green, any colours are fine :)
3.Split dough into different parts and shape the dough into small tiny balls or whichever shape that you desire.
4.Shape the dough into balls by a circling motion on your palm.
5.Peel ginger and tie a knot on the pandan leaves. Alternatively, substitute with pandan essence that could be found at the supermarket.
Information: Just in case you're wondering what is Pandan Leaves, it is a herb that you can widely found in Asia countries. It tasted very similar to vanilla with a very fragrant sweet and green taste to your dish. It is always widely known as Asian Vanilla in western countries.
6.Boil the ready-made glutinous rice ball over medium heat until it floats on the water means it's ready.
7.Cook the measured brown sugar, pandan leaves and ginger. Boil over medium heat for 10 minutes. Then add the cooked glutinous rice balls into the syrup and serve hot :)
Disclaimer: All photos are taken originally while I am preparing the dessert.
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Looking delicious...👌👌😋
Thank you :D It's our tradition to have it on this particular day to represent reunion in our family.
I read it in this blog and it's great that you represent reunion in your family.
Have a good day!
That’s a good introductory to Winter Solstice delicacy. i normally make them in a few colours, each colour to represent one member of the family. 🙂
That's a great idea. I like to keep things simple so I just used 1 different colour to brings up the overall looking of the dessert :D
Me too. I am so lazy. So it’s either i make them in all colours or i skip that year. Think next time i’ll just buy ready made 😬
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in China, we eat dumplings for Winter Solistics
That is very interesting! In countries like in Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan. We used to make this glutinous rice balls for Winter Solstice Festival. It could be a sweet dessert or savory, depending on your favourite flavour.
yum yum!!!!!!!!!!!!!
miss eating 'tang yuan' :(