1, different flavors

The filling of the dumplings is more fancy, in addition to the traditional bean paste, peanuts, black sesame, osmanthus, and now there are flowers, fruits, coarse grains, and even fresh meat, shrimp, roasted meat with dried plums, etc., sweet, salty, meat and vegetarian flavors, so the taste is very rich.

The flavors of Yuanxiao are relatively homogeneous, with traditional Yuanxiao having only sweet flavors, and the more common ones being black sesame, peanut and bean paste.

2, the appearance of different

Yuanxiao is a layer of glutinous rice flour layer by layer rolled out, the surface is dry and rough, there is glutinous rice floating powder, the shape is not very regular, the head is larger, the soup will become cloudy when cooked in the pot.

The package of glutinous rice flour and water and over, moisture, smooth surface wet sticky, rolled out is a regular round, cooked in the pot after the soup is also relatively clear.

3, cooking time is different

Yuanxiao is more resistant to cooking, cooking about 10 minutes, after cooking the texture of rough, chewy, after cooking the pot of soup is also thicker.

Cooking dumplings take less time, boiling water for 3 minutes to float out of the pot. After the dumplings are cooked, the skin is still smooth and shiny, the texture is delicate and the glutinous rice flavor is light.