Yuanxiao, reunion, and floating yuanzi are one of the representatives of traditional Chinese snacks. They are spherical foods made of glutinous rice flour.

Usually filled, cooked and eaten.

It is also the most distinctive food during the Lantern Festival and has a long history.

It is said that glutinous rice balls originated in the Song Dynasty.

At that time, Mingzhou (Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province) became popular in eating novel foods, which were stuffed with black sesame and lard, added with a little white sugar, and rolled into a round shape with glutinous rice flour. After cooking, it tasted sweet and delicious.

, quite interesting.

Because this glutinous rice dumpling floats and sinks in the pot, its earliest name was "Fu Yuan Zi". Later, someone changed "Fu Yuan Zi" to Tang Yuan.

? Ingredients: 100 g of water-milled glutinous rice flour, 25 g of purple sweet potato flour.

Fillings: 40 g red bean paste, 20 g grated coconut, 20 g sugar, 10 g lard.

Method: Use warm water to grind the water into glutinous rice flour and make a dough.

Add purple sweet potato, mix well and let stand for 20 minutes.

Mix red bean paste with warm water, then add coconut and sugar to make the filling.

Knead the dough and divide into portions.

Wrap into glutinous rice balls and bring to a boil over high heat.

Open the pot and reduce heat to low until cooked.

Ingredients for rose glutinous rice balls: glutinous rice flour, strawberries, dried roses, sugar, honey. Method: wash the dried roses, dry them and remove the stems.

Beat the sugar into powder, add honey, stir into rose sauce and set aside.

After cleaning the strawberries, soak them in light salt water for 15 minutes.

Puree the strawberries and set aside to heat.

Heat strawberry juice and glutinous rice flour and knead evenly.

Prepare the filling.

Add some glutinous rice flour to the rose sauce and mix well.

Take a piece of dough, roll it into a ball, flatten it, and put a little rose sauce in the middle.

Slowly close the mouth and knead into glutinous rice balls.

Pour boiling water into the pot and cook.

? Pumpkin health soup ingredients: sweet pumpkin, sesame glutinous rice balls, fresh milk, water, glutinous rice flour, sugar, salt.

Method: Wash the pumpkin, peel it, cut it into pieces, sprinkle a small amount of water, and microwave it in the microwave for 4-5 minutes to soften the pumpkin.

Take out the pumpkin and mash it into pumpkin puree with a rolling pin.

Add water to the pot and bring to a boil, add Ningbo sesame glutinous rice balls, stir-fry briefly until the glutinous rice balls float, add half a bowl of cold water and continue to boil, then scoop out the cooked glutinous rice balls and soak them in ice water.

After cleaning the pot, add an appropriate amount of fresh milk and water, pour in the pumpkin puree that has been pounded in advance, mix well, and after it boils, add an appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour to thicken the pumpkin paste.

Finally, put the cooked glutinous rice balls into the pumpkin paste, add an appropriate amount of sugar and a little salt, and mix well.