Guess which delicacy the ancients referred to as, floating yuanzi, referring to soup dumplings.

Soup dumplings, also known as floating Yuanzi, are one of the representative snacks of the Han Chinese people. Originated in the Song Dynasty, the main ingredient of soup dumplings is glutinous rice flour, which is sweet in flavor and warm in nature, and belongs to the spleen, stomach and lung meridians, rich in carbohydrates, calcium, iron, riboflavin and niacin, etc. It has the therapeutic effect of tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, astringing sweat and stopping leakage.

The production method is to put the black sesame into the oven to roast, and then poured into the wall-breaker broken, pour the butter into the pot, melted and poured into the sugar, constantly stirring until the sugar melted, poured into the crushed black sesame seeds, stirring until sticky, black sesame seed filling rolled into a small ball and frozen, poured into the glutinous rice flour, lard, and three times to add 45 to 50 ℃ hot water, and into a dough, kneaded for 5 minutes or so, the dough pulled into a small The dough is pulled into small doses, wrapped into the frozen black sesame seeds ball, frozen overnight take out of the bag can be.

The glutinous rice flour, sugar and oil content of the dumplings is high, may induce ketoacidosis; dumplings in the oil and calories are high, overconsumption is easy to increase blood lipids and body weight; the old and weak digestive function is reduced, especially the elderly swallowing reflexes are more sluggish, may be swallowing obstacles caused by accidental inhalation, should be consumed in small quantities.

Type distinction:

1, Chongqing Ling Tangyuan.

The twentieth century, the thirties, Ling Tangyuan founder Lin Minghe in Chongqing Shuangfengyi street selling tandem Tangyuan, named Lin Tangyuan, because his Tangyuan due to the real work of the material, skin sticky filling, sweet and savory, and soon became popular in the mountain city, and gradually enjoy a good reputation near and far. Later, he opened the Yuhuixiang business, and successively in Chengdu, Kunming, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanning and other places to open a branch, the industry is gradually bigger, Lin Minghe also gradually developed into the Chongqing business community around the magnates and tycoons.

2, Chengdu dumplings.

Lai Yuanxin, a native of Jianyang, went to Chengdu at the beginning of the last century to sell soup dumplings, which were called "Lai Dumplings" because of their good quality and flavor. The dumplings are made of the finest glutinous rice flour kneaded with water and wrapped with a filling made of sesame, sugar and lard. The dumplings are characterized by sweet and smooth, fat but not greasy, glutinous but not sticky.