How to make red bean and barley rice dumplings as follows:
Main ingredients: 80 grams of mung beans and 20 grams of barley.
Accessories: 2 slices of ginger, 25 grams of rock sugar, 8 glutinous rice balls.
1. Prepare the ingredients. If you like sweeter rock sugar, you can add more rock sugar.
2. Wash the barley and mung beans.
3. Cut 2 slices of ginger.
4. Add ginger to about 1000~1500ml of water and cook in a pressure cooker for 20 minutes.
5. After the barley and mung bean soup is cooked, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, put the glutinous rice balls in and cook. ?
Cooking tips:
1. You can soak mung beans and barley in advance without using a pressure cooker.
2. To make the glutinous rice balls more flavorful, you can also use red beans for the same reason.
Notes on eating Yuanxiao:
1. Don’t eat too much Yuanxiao
In addition to not being suitable for eating Yuanxiao for breakfast, it is best not to eat Yuanxiao as a main meal. It's okay to eat some Yuanxiao at nine or ten o'clock after breakfast or when adding a snack in the afternoon, but one or two taels each time is enough.
While eating Yuanxiao, you should not eat other foods with high sugar content; you should also reduce the intake of other staple foods. Generally speaking, if you eat three Yuanxiao, you will lose half a tael of staple food. If late-night snacks are close to bedtime, it is best not to eat Yuanxiao. Otherwise, as mentioned earlier, such foods are difficult to digest, slow to empty, and will also increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract. After eating Yuanxiao, it is best to move for more than two hours before going to bed.
2. Don’t forget to drink soup when eating Yuanxiao
After boiling, many nutrients in Yuanxiao, such as trace elements and nutrients, will be dissolved in the soup. Therefore, don’t forget to drink soup when eating Yuanxiao. Drinking soup can promote digestion and absorption, which is often called "original soup into original food". However, when drinking soup, be careful not to add sugar to the soup. If you are eating salty Yuanxiao, you can put some shrimps and vegetables in the soup to supplement nutrition, but it is best not to add any more oil or seasonings.