In China, the glutinous rice flour available to consumers generally has some quantity of regular rice flour already mixed in, to make it easier to work with. **It is actually a bit tricky to recommend an absolute ratio of glutinous rice flour to water for tangyuan, as it all depends on the make-up of one’s rice flour. This will help the tangyuan to be particularly chewy, sticky, and mochi-like.Īt this point, you can use the tangyuan dough right away, or you can let it rest in the fridge for a few hours. Remove the dough, let it cool a little, and knead it back into the main dough. Bring a pot of water to a boil and add the small round of dough, and simmer on low until it floats. Tip for more mochi-like, glutinous tangyuan: Break off about 1/4 of the dough (the exact quantity doesn’t matter), and flatten it into a round disc. Hold back the final few tablespoons of water – when the flour starts to come together, add only enough water to form a smooth and workable dough.Ģ. Mix the dough: In a medium bowl, mix the flour and water, adding the water in batches.
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There is a trick to getting your tangyuan skin to be glutinous, sticky, chewy, and easy to handle, so if the yuanxiao from Beijing’s traditional pastry makers aren’t enticing enough, you can try your hand at making your own! The Dough Tangyuan dough with glutinous rice flourĢ00g (just over 1 cup) Chinese glutinous rice flour **ġ. The instructions below may look complicated but it’s really not. It was surprisingly easy, and I ended up getting carried away with several variations: Traditional tangyuan, black rice tangyuan, and a combination of both – marbled black-and-white tangyuan. This year I too decided to make a few batches of tangyuan myself. And then she adds walnuts, generous chunks of them: I dare you to find a Beijing vendor who uses as many walnuts as she does. Her fillings, for example, go beyond boundaries: Black sesame? Red bean? She combines them both, so the red bean paste is not cloyingly sweet.
And as much as I love yuanxiao, nothing can beat my grandmother’s tangyuan. But since my family never gets tired of anything involving glutinous rice, we’ve already gone through several rounds of yuanxiao(purchased) and tangyuan, made by my grandmother.
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Yuanxiao and tangyuan – glutinous rice balls stuffed with a range of fillings – are a must for the Lantern Festival (Yuanxiao Jie 元宵节) on the 15th of the first lunar month, or the first full moon of the new year.
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