How to Make Tang-yuan dumplings (The rice ball)

To make Tang-yuan dumplings, there are few ways to do it.

You can buy sticky rice powder from any Chinese grocery store or you can make it yourself using raw sticky rice. Here we are introducing a method to use raw sticky rice to make rice dumplings:

Ingredients: sticky rice, rice, white sugar, sesame paste, peach seed (crushed), sesame,melted lard.

Steps:

1. Mix sticky rice with rice (5000 g sticky rice with 1000 g rice), soaked in water for 1-2 days, mill with mill, put into cloth bag, hang and make to powder.

2. Mix evenly with white sugar, sesame paste, peach seed, melted lard and flour powder, make cubic stuffing ready for use.

3. Put some cold water into flour powder to make a dull, take a bit to nip it and flat it, put in some stuffing and rub into ball shape.

4. After boiling off the water, put in rice dumplings, turn heat to mild to medium. After rice dumplings float onto water, wait a moment, then you can fish out the rice dumplings and serve with soup.

For Deep fry:

• Using needle pinch some little holes on the rice dumplings to protect blow up.
• Heat the cooking oil to medium, put the rice dumplings in to the oil.
• When the dumplings look light yellow, slightly stir them so they will get evenly cooked.
• Keep fry till the dumplings become golden brown and take the dumplings out and put in a plate. Spike some table sugar on the dumplings and serve.