Main Ingredients

Pumpkin

400g

Black sesame seeds

100g

Glutinous rice flour

200g

Accessories

White sugar

100g

Butter

70g

Steps

1. All ingredients: pumpkin, glutinous rice flour, black sesame seeds, white sugar, butter.

2. Mix black sesame seeds and white sugar evenly

3. Put the mixed black sesame seeds and white sugar together into a blender and beat them into pieces.

4. Crush the butter and add it. In a steamer, preheat the butter and sugar with steam and mix evenly.

5. Shape the mixed filling into balls the size of beef balls, and then put them in the refrigerator until they are hard. This will make it easier to make glutinous rice balls.

6. Wash, remove seeds and peel the pumpkin, cut into small pieces, put in a steamer over water, and steam for 15 minutes.

7. Grind the steamed pumpkin while it is hot into pumpkin puree

8. Add the pumpkin puree to the glutinous rice flour and mix

9. Use your hands slowly Knead slowly to form a uniform glutinous rice dough

10. Pinch out a small piece of dough from the kneaded glutinous rice dough and flatten it (about 20 grams), then add it to boiling water and cook.

11. Pick up the cooked "flat dough" and drain the water, cool it slightly and knead it with the previously mixed glutinous rice dough to form a non-sticky glutinous rice dough (if it is too sticky when kneading, You can add some dry glutinous rice flour in an appropriate amount)

12. Roll the dough into strips, divide it into small doughs of equal size, and roll them into rounds respectively.

13. Then gently press the small dough to make a groove

14. Then put in the fillings that have been prepared in advance, slowly wrap the glutinous rice balls around the fillings, and close the mouth. Pinch tightly and roll it into a round shape in the palm of your hand.

15. You’re done. When cooking the dumplings, boil a pot of hot water over high heat, add the dumplings and cook over medium heat until the dumplings float.

16. Hehe, the home-made glutinous rice balls are real and have huge fillings. You will be full after eating two.

Tips

1. Cooking a small piece of "flat dough" is the secret to the delicious glutinous rice balls. It not only makes the glutinous rice balls stretch better, but also makes the fillings It is not easy to loosen and crack when cooking, and the glutinous rice balls have a more elastic texture.

2. If there is sand in the black sesame seeds you buy, wash them first. Add water to the sesame seeds in the container to let the sand sink to the bottom. Then fry the sesame seeds with water in them.