You can heat the glutinous rice balls in a microwave oven for 3 minutes. Take a deep bowl that can be used by microwave oven, put a proper amount of glutinous rice balls and pour boiling water. The boiling water must not pass through the glutinous rice balls, then cover the bowl with a layer of plastic wrap suitable for microwave oven, and poke a few small holes with a toothpick to facilitate heat dissipation. Put it in the microwave oven with medium heat for three minutes and take it out. You can see that the dumplings have floated, and a bowl of sweet glutinous dumplings is cooked.

Eating dumplings on the winter solstice is especially popular in Jiangnan. There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls is one year older". Tangyuan is also called tangtuan, and eating tangtuan on the winter solstice is also called "Winter Solstice Tuantuan" or "Winter Solstice Round". According to the records of the Qing dynasty, Jiangnan people made dough with glutinous rice flour, which was covered with lean meat, apples, bean paste, shredded radish and so on. The winter solstice group can be used to worship ancestors or to give gifts to relatives and friends.

Sweet dumplings are sweet, so there is no need to add sugar to the soup to reduce calorie intake; If it is a small dumpling without stuffing, the soup can be replaced by sweet osmanthus, liqueur, scented tea, longan red date soup and longan ginger soup, which can have the effect of tonifying the body and dispelling cold; When cooking salty dumplings, you can put some vegetables to increase cellulose.