We can choose to use long glutinous rice or round glutinous rice according to our own preferences. The taste of long glutinous rice is generally sticky, but it will harden after cooling, while the viscosity of round glutinous rice is lower, but the taste is softer than long glutinous rice. If you want to make pearl meatballs at ordinary times, you just need to prepare the meat stuffing and roll it into a ball and wrap it with glutinous rice.

Is round glutinous rice or long glutinous rice used to make pearl balls?

In fact, we don't pay much attention to making pearl balls at home. The nutritional value of round glutinous rice is similar to that of long glutinous rice. You can choose to use long glutinous rice or round glutinous rice according to your own preferences.

Long glutinous rice is sticky when cooked, but it will harden after cooling. Round glutinous rice is not as sticky as long glutinous rice, but softer than long glutinous rice. If you like sticky beads, you can choose to use long glutinous rice.

Usually, we want to make pearl meatballs at home. We just need to prepare a proper amount of meat, chop it into meat stuffing, then add onions, ginger, salt, chicken essence and other things to the meat stuffing, and finally knead the meat stuffing into a ball and wrap it in glutinous rice for steaming.