Lantern Festival, how can the Lantern Festival less? If you have time, try your own production.
Add some potato and melon to the skin and dough
National special cooking technician Wang Zhiqiang: usually eat dumplings are white, looked a little monotonous, you can first 'make an article from the skin', pumpkin and purple sweet potato is very suitable for adding to the production of colored rice balls.
Purple sweet potato, pumpkin cut into small pieces steamed, hot, respectively, mashing.Pumpkin into a water mill glutinous rice flour, mix well with chopsticks, add another to continue stirring, again add glutinous rice flour, until stirred into Cotton-like (the whole process without adding water), and knead into smooth dough, wrap with plastic wrap.
However, the sweet potato itself less water, add a small amount of hot water into the same as the pumpkin mud moist plus glutinous rice flour, no additional water, the dough will be very hard , There is no flexibility, good dumpling will be split, knead good purple potato dough should also be wrapped with plastic wrap.
The two types of dough that will be prepared are rubbed into strips and cut into their favorite pellets. Each pellet is crushed. The middle thick edge is thin and wrapped in stuffing.
If the package is not cooked immediately, please wrap the plastic wrap to prevent the dough dry and cracked.Once can not eat can be covered with plastic wrap, cryopreservation the next time you eat, do not thaw, as the supermarket to buy frozen glutinous rice balls as direct It's fine
Stuffed sweet and salty meat and vegetarian can package
Nutritionist Mao Huihui: black sesame dumpling dumpling, bean paste dumpling ... ... These conventional fillings have been unable to meet our increasingly picky mouth, dumpling stuffing can be much more than these types of basic what you can eat stuffing on the package.
Bean paste can also be done by yourself, red beans, kidney beans cooked pressed into the mud, add the right amount of brown sugar to a light sweet. Flowers can also be stuffing, rose chopped mixed with brown sugar to make stuffing, you can also add a small amount of sesame oil or sesame seeds Fen make filling more fragrant.
Fruit can also be, the filling can be fruit jam with the appropriate small pieces of fruit, both taste and taste, is not bad before the marinated sweet-scented osmanthus sauce can also come in handy, making dumplings, sweet, and after the folder Soup also accompanied by sweet-scented osmanthus and sweet, very delicious.
If you mix and match, you can also consider the nuts.A variety of dried fruit peeled peeled, broken with a blender, add a small amount of honey and mix well to make eight treasure stuffing.
If you can accept, you can also do mushrooms shepherd's purse, shepherd's purse chopped mixed with mushrooms Ding stuffing, add a little sesame oil will make the soup will taste more fragrant.Like the dumpling stuffing, many places in the south also eat meatballs, we can Try, stir-fry the meat until after seven, cooked celery Ding do fillings, stuffing with meat, nutrition delicious and healthy.
Soup glutinous fruit to do the substrate
Dietitian willow clothing: Compared to the traditional dumplings, fruit dumplings with fruit instead of sesame seeds, sugar and lard, more nutritious and healthier.
Moreover, since the soup is served with a bowl of soup, half a bowl of rice dumpling is fruit, reducing the amount of rice dumpling, even eating an entire bowl do not have to worry too much about indigestion, but also intake of various vitamins.
Moreover, the light to see such a bowl of rice balls, different colors of fruit together, looking very appetizing, but also according to their own tastes and preferences, into other fruits.
Uncooked dumplings, knead into about 1/3 or 1/4 of the traditional dumpling size can be boiled in water, the dumplings into the water, boiled rice should be used hot water. Medium heat cook for about 8 to 10 minutes, Cook until the dumpling is almost cooked.When the rice dumpling, took the opportunity to kiwi fruit, dragon fruit, strawberry wash well, cut into almost Ding size with glutinous rice balls.Put the cut pieces of fruit into the cooked dumpling, Of course, you can also add some additional ingredients, such as raisins, cashews, etc., delicious fruit dumpling baked!
Not only can add fruit, there is also a way to eat is to use glutinous rice to make glutinous rice balls (if it is for children to eat, do not use fermented glutinous rice), also known as wine glutinous rice balls, but also a different kind of taste, fragrant and refreshing, Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang People in other places especially like to eat like this.
Eat more delicious Lantern Festival eat
Nutritionist Wang Wei Qing: Every Lantern Festival, many people began to explore in the end should eat the Lantern Festival or eat dumpling issue.
In fact, most of the north eat the Lantern Festival, while southerners eat dumplings more Lantern is rolled, and dumplings are packages.
In general, the dumplings can only be cooked to eat, while the Lantern Festival is different, eat more chewy than the Lantern Festival, you can cook, you can steam, you can roast, or even fried (some local fried Lantern eat very common ), Roberts, eat a lot of kind.
However, whether it is the Lantern Festival or glutinous rice dumpling, waxy sticky skin + high-fat high-sugar filling, both inside and outside, such as large amounts of food, the pressure on the body digestive system can imagine, it is no wonder that many people elated To eat glutinous rice balls, the last but bloating, pantothenic acid, uncomfortable.This is not by chance, because the stomach after the intake of high sugar foods, gastric acid secretion will be significantly increased.
For the general non-high three crowds, each eat about 5 to 6 is fine.You can also use fermented cheese (without filling dumpling) instead, with a little corn kernels, pine nuts, etc., but the amount should not eat too many.
Avoid fried Lantern, Lantern wire and other ingredients to eat, although the stick slippery and delicious, leaving the body an extra burden of a lot of fat and carbohydrates, in the health of the negative.
Eat dumplings to good four pass
Sun Lihong, associate professor of nutrition at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
First eat food and then eat dumplings
In general, the Lantern Festival will eat some glutinous rice balls to eat the other. However, there is a problem, glutinous rice balls full, it can not eat other things, is not conducive to digestion. My advice is to eat other vegetables, light Refreshing cold dishes or hot dishes can be, first to add a little belly stomach fullness, and finally eat a few dumpling heighten the atmosphere of the Lantern Festival on the line, it is not easy to eat more.
With hawthorn and radish
Making glutinous rice sticky glutinous rice dumpling, not digestible, gastrointestinal dysfunction and people with diabetes, chronic pancreatitis, cholecystitis, try to eat less, at the same time may wish to help with digestive food, such as hawthorn, tangerine peel, Raw radish, etc .. "Daily herbal" that white radish raw raw thirst width, cooked food phlegm Valley .In our country there are useful radish supplementation to ease the food plot, indigestion and other symptoms of the record.
Do not forget to drink soup round soup
Grains, such as rice, rice and flour contain large amounts of vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and niacin, vitamin B1 content is particularly rich, it has to help digestion. And, B vitamins easily soluble in water, it is easy to lose to dumplings Of the soup.According to the determination of cooking process of 45% to 50% of the vitamin B1, part of the loss, most are dissolved in the soup.Therefore, when eating dumplings, you should drink the soup together.
Different people eat rice balls
Partial fat people in the choice of dumplings, for high energy fillings, such as nuts, red bean paste and meat stuffing, or appropriate restraint as well.Can choose the fruit filling and fruit filling, not only to satisfy the appetite, Glutinous rice contains a lot of starch, high energy, for the diabetic population, not only sweet dumpling should not be eaten, high fat meat stuffing is not preferred, try not to eat.And after eating glutinous rice balls, Must reduce the staple food accordingly.
