Lantern Festival is one of the most traditional festivals in China, and in this festival can not be missing is the dumplings, because it means the reunion, but many people often ignore the cooking dumplings, that as long as you put the water inside the open can be actually cooking dumplings is also need a lot of skills, then we go to see how to cook dumplings it.
water milled dumplings
Raw materials:
Press dry fresh water milled powder 1500 grams, 1000 grams of sand filling (such as fresh meat only 750 grams).
Preparation:
1. Take 250 grams of water-ground flour, kneaded with the right amount of water to form a powder, patted into a cake, when the water boiled into the pot, boiled to mature gravy fish out, immersed in cold water. And then 1250 grams of water-ground flour in a jar, rubbed with both hands, while the cooked gravy from the water into the crushed grains of flour, kneaded into a powder, covered with a damp cloth, to be used.
2. According to the amount of pulling agent (20 per 500 grams), the agent pinched into a pot shape, into the chenggongsha filling, and then the edge of the gradual closure, that is, the salty soup dumplings.
3. When the water boils, put the dumplings into the pot, push along the side of the pot with a spoon, when the dumplings float out of the water, add a little cold water, and cook for another 7 to 8 minutes, when the dumplings look like the skin is a deep jade color, glossy, that is, cooked.
Black Sesame Dumplings
Ingredients:
Black Sesame Filling Ingredients: Black Sesame Seed Powder 40 grams, 40 grams of sugar, 20 grams of lard
Water Ground Dumpling Powder 100 grams, 85 grams of lukewarm water
Preparation:
Black Sesame Seed Filling Method:
1. Black sesame seeds into the dry pan in a small fire until cooked, turn off the fire
2, cooled into the blender, polished into black sesame powder
3, add sugar, lard, mix well, put into the refrigerator more than an hour
4, take out the divided into six, pinch together into a ball.
Directions:
1. Pour warm water into the dumpling powder a little bit and mix it into a smooth dough. Molasses for 10 minutes.
2. Knead the dough into long strips and divide into six small doses.
3: Take one small dosage, knead it in the palm of your hand and flatten it a little. Slowly pinch the dough with your hand, put in the black sesame filling, close the mouth with the tiger's mouth of your hand and knead it gently.
4, pot of boiling water, into the dumplings billet, stirring with a frying spoon along the side of the pot to promote the dumplings turn up, in order to prevent sticking to the bottom of the pot, high heat cooking to dumplings floated, turn the heat to low, cover the pot to cook, see the open on the addition of a little cold water, continue to cover the child to cook, **** three times the addition of cold water, cook until the dumplings become larger and softer can be.
A, how to cook dumplings
gently pinched in the pot before the application of clean hands micro-pinch curls, so that the skin on the slight cracks, so that the pot to cook through the curls inside and outside of the cooked, will not pinch the raw and soft, smooth and tasty.
Boiling water under the water to boil, slowly put the snacks into the pot, at the same time should be followed by a spoon to gently push it away from the same direction, slightly stirring, so that it rotates a few times, do not stick to the pot.
Slow cooking on high heat to cook for a few moments, to be the currant floats, quickly switch to a small fire to cook slowly, otherwise it will make the currant in the pot constantly rolling, cooked currant outside the cooked in the raw is not delicious.
Points of cold water in the process of cooking the Lantern, each boiling pot should be at the same time point into the appropriate amount of cold water, so that the pot of Lanterns to maintain a seemingly rolling non-rolling state. After opening the pot two or three times, and then cook for a while, you can eat out of the pot.
Diligent change of water pot of boiling water cooked two or three times in a row after the snacks, that is, should change the water in a timely manner. Because this time the pot of Lantern soup has become thick and greasy, if you continue to eat, not only Lantern cooked slow, and easy to clip raw.
Timely cooking of the raw rice snacks in the glutinous rice flour contains more water, if the snacks are done after a long time, there will be deterioration phenomenon, the raw rice snacks are frozen and then boiled, but also often boil the skin, affecting the appearance.
Quickly out of the pot has been boiled Lanterns if a moment to eat, should be timely out of the pot, and will be placed in clean cold boiled water, to be cooled and fished out into the plate.
Second, how long to cook dumplings cooked through it
In the cooking dumplings to not stick to the pot, it is necessary to use a spoon to stir from time to time, and cooking dumplings should be added a few more times when the cold water, the general cooking dumplings need to be about ten minutes, depending on the key to the fire, but it is not recommended to cook for too long, otherwise the dumplings will be stuck together.
First, the pot of water to boil, then gently put the raw billet dumplings into the pot, mix with a spoon, so as not to stick to the pot, the rounds float, add cold water, repeated twice, and so the dumplings are floating up, you can get out of the pot. If you leave them in the pot without fishing them up, they will be mushy for too long. If you want to make the soup dumplings more delicious, you may want to cook the soup and the dumplings separately, if it is a sweet filling just slightly add sugar to the soup. If it is a savory filling such as fresh meat, then the soup can be richer, such as vegetables, nori and other ingredients can be added to the soup, put the cooked . Soup dumplings directly in the soup can be enjoyed. Before cooking frozen soup dumplings, if you put them directly into boiling water, the result will be cooked outside and raw inside. Instead, they should be placed in cold water first, so that the dumplings are full of cold water, and then placed in boiling water, so that they can be evenly heated.
How long to cook dumplings? Cook soup dumplings under boiling water, when the water boils, put the soup dumplings slowly into the pot, at the same time should be followed by a spoon to gently push it away, slightly stirred in the same direction, so that it rotates a few times and does not stick to the pot. Slow cooking, high-fire cooking for a few moments, after the dumplings to float, quickly switch to a small fire slow cooking, otherwise it will make the dumplings in the pot constantly rolling, cooked dumplings outside the cooked in the raw is not delicious.
How long to cook the dumplings? If you even the most simple dumplings do not know how to cook, now after reading the introduction should know it, dumplings after cooking must be timely out of the pot, it is best to separate the soup and dumplings, either eat immediately, otherwise it will be stained together, not only affecting the beauty of eating is also very difficult, these are cooking dumplings a little skill.
Third, the heat of the dumplings
Calories: 311 calories (100 grams)
Dumplings are one of the famous snacks in Ningbo, but also one of the representative snacks in China, a very long history. According to legend, soup dumplings originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, the rise of eating a novelty food, that is, with a variety of fruit bait as a filling, the outside with glutinous rice flour rolled into a ball, cooked, eat up sweet and savory, interesting. Because this glutinous rice ball cooked in the pot and floating and sinking, so it was first called "floating Yuanzi", and later some areas of the "floating Yuanzi" renamed Lantern. Unlike the northern people, Ningbo people in the Spring Festival morning have a family get together to sit **** into the traditional custom of dumplings.
Ningbo dumplings to fine white water milled glutinous rice flour for the skin, lard, sugar, black sesame powder for the filling, dumplings thin and slippery skin, white as sheep's fat, shiny, smooth and flavorful.
Nutritional value
Soup dumplings in the production of different fillings due to the addition of its nutritional content varies, but most of the glutinous rice flour for the skin, should not be digested, do not eat more.
Applicable People
The general population can eat
Diabetic patients should not eat; children, the elderly, weak digestion should not eat more.