The uneaten glutinous rice balls can be stored at room temperature or frozen. There is no need to take them out when stored at room temperature. You need to fish out the glutinous rice balls for frozen storage.
Tangyuan is a dessert that many people like to eat, but it is a food made of glutinous rice. Eating too much at one time will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and make it difficult to digest. Therefore, some people find that they cannot finish the glutinous rice dumplings after cooking them, and then the remaining
I don’t know how to preserve glutinous rice balls.
In fact, the glutinous rice balls that can be cooked and eaten can be stored at room temperature, refrigerated, or frozen.
1. Store at room temperature. Uneaten glutinous rice balls can be stored at room temperature. This is the simplest and most common storage method. There is no need to take the glutinous rice balls out of the soup. You only need to keep the cooked glutinous rice balls in the soup.
Take it out together, pour it into a large bowl, cover it with plastic wrap, and store it in a cool and ventilated place.
However, the glutinous rice balls cannot be stored in this way for more than 24 hours at most. They will deteriorate over time. You can heat them in the microwave before eating them again.
2. Store the uneaten cooked glutinous rice balls in the refrigerator. You need to prepare a crisper box with a lid. Put the uneaten glutinous rice balls into the crisper box together with the soup, and close the lid of the crisper box.
When you want to eat, take out the refrigerated glutinous rice balls from the refrigerator and heat them in a pot before eating. At this time, you can add an appropriate amount of rice wine, which will make the reheated glutinous rice balls taste better, but the storage time of the refrigerated glutinous rice balls will also be longer.
It cannot be too long, because the properties of the glutinous rice balls will change if they are soaked in the soup for a long time, and the taste will not be as good as when they are freshly cooked.
3. Frozen storage: Uneaten cooked glutinous rice balls can also be stored frozen. When storing cooked glutinous rice balls in this way, you need to take the glutinous rice balls out of the soup, rinse them with cold boiled water, and then put them in a clean place.
In a fresh-keeping box or bag, be sure to keep the glutinous rice balls individually when placing them, and then put them in the freezer of the refrigerator. This will keep the cooked glutinous rice balls for a longer period of time. When you eat them again, you can take them out of the freezer and put them away.
Thaw at room temperature, then put an appropriate amount of water in the pot and heat it, then put the thawed cooked glutinous rice balls in the pot and cook again. After cooking, take them out and eat them directly.