Red group (Xinghua Pinghua word: × ng-du× ng; Xinghua dialect: a? Tua (also known as fen Tuan and Yuan Tuan) is a kind of special food widely loved by Putian people.

Red jiaozi is usually filled with mung beans or glutinous rice and added with sugar. Glutinous rice flour is mixed with some flour and red things and kneaded into skin with water. After the skin stuffing is wrapped into a ball, it is put into a red jiaozi impression, stamped and shaped, and then chicken and banana leaves are placed under it and steamed in a steamer. Putian red ball is round, red in color and sweet in stuffing, which means round, prosperous and sweet. It is not only a favorite food, but also an auspicious cultural symbol.

manufacturing method

When making, the stuffing is kneaded into a ball with a diameter of about 5 cm, that is, "red ball stuffing". Wrap the "stuffing" with "skin" and put it in a wooden box (commonly known as red ball print) to print a red ball with a flat ball missing from the upper arch (the pattern on the curved surface is generally printed with blessings, blessings, longevity, happiness, wealth, Ding, Gui and Shuang in the middle).

Put the printed red balls on the bottom of washed chicken leaves (called chicken plantain leaves by immortals) (ginger leaves, a kind of ginger plant) or a kind of Castanopsis fargesii leaves, and steam them in a steamer with high fire. After about 20 minutes, open the steamer and red, delicious and shiny red balls appear immediately.