How to cook yuanxiao
Products
Walnuts - 30 grams
Peanuts - 30 grams
Roasted almonds - 30 grams
Dates - 30 grams
Dried apricots - 30 grams
Dark raisins - 30 grams
Butter - 120 grams
Brown sugar - 6 tablespoons
Vanilla sugar - 2 sachets
Round rice - 0.5 kilograms
Orange - 2 pieces
Water - 0.6 liters
Fresh ginger root - 3 centimeters
Cinnamon - 1 stick
Badian - 1 star
How to cook yuanxiao
1. Grind rice in a blender or coffee grinder until flour, sift.
2. Grind peanuts, almonds, walnuts, dried apricots, raisins and dates in a blender one by one, arrange in separate cups.
3. Powder the brown sugar with a mortar.
4. In separate cups mix peanuts with raisins, walnuts with dates, almonds with dried apricots, add a pinch of vanilla sugar and a teaspoon of powdered brown sugar to each bowl.
5. Soften butter in a warm place, distribute into cups with dried fruits and nuts, mix thoroughly.
6. Gradually pour 0.3 liters of boiling water into the rice flour, add the remaining powdered sugar, stir the dough for 5 minutes until a tight consistency.
7. Divide the dough into three parts and place them in separate cups.
8. Pour a teaspoon of juice into each cup, knead the dough so that it is evenly colored.
9. Roll out the dough into sausages about 2 centimeters wide.
10. Cut the sausages into 6 pieces, roll each into flat cakes.
11. Put the filling in the center of the cakes, mold the balls.
12. Dip each ball in water and roll in rice flour several times.
13. Squeeze juice from oranges.
14. In a saucepan, combine water and orange juice with the pulp.
15. Peel and finely grate the ginger.
16. Pour a bag of vanilla sugar, grated ginger, cinnamon stick and star anise into a saucepan.
17. Put the saucepan on the burner, bring to a boil over high heat.
18. Put the rice balls in a saucepan, wait until they come up, and leave on low heat for a few more minutes.
19. You can serve the balls by placing them in orange juice.
Fusofacts
- Yuanxiao - Chinese national dish made from rice flour, cobbled balls with or without filling, boiled in water.- In China, yuanxiao is prepared for the "Lantern Festival", according to the lunar calendar it takes place on the 15th of the 1st month. The Chinese celebrate the end of the Spring Festival or the traditional New Year by lighting red lanterns and eating yuanxiao.
- Rice flour cakes appeared in China in the 7th - 13th centuries. In ancient sources, the dish is described as a liquid with pieces of dough, which is made according to the lunar calendar in the middle of the first month. - The Chinese serve yuanxiao for breakfast and as a dessert.
- The unfilled yuanxiao are served in broth, while the sweet balls are served in ginger syrup.
- For the yuanxiao filling, dried fruits, nuts, hawthorn berries, beans, chocolate, sweet black sesame seeds, red bean paste are used.
- The Chinese believe in the omen that if all relatives eat yuanxiao together, the family will always be happy.
- The cost of products for cooking yuanxiao - from 500 rubles. (on average in Moscow as of July 2019).