Glutinous Rice Dumplings
Tang Yuan is also known as glutinous rice balls. This dessert is made during the Dong Zi festival and it comes in different colors like white, pink, green, yellow, blue and orange.
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 418kcal
Ingredients
Syrup
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1.5 cups water
- 2-3 pandan leaves/ screwpine leaves
Rice Dumplings
- 2 cups glutinous rice sticky rice flour
- 1 tablespoon fine sugar
- 7 oz (275g) water
- food coloring 2-3 different colors
Instructions
- To prepare syrup, boil water in a pot. Add the screwpine pleaves and let it boil on medium fire for 5 minutes. Add sugar and let it boil for 5 minutes. Lower fire and let it simmer to another 15 miuntes. Sugar can be added to taste if you like. Set aside.
- In a big bowl, mix glutinous flour with sugar.
- Add water and knead to form a paste. Continue to knead until it form a soft dough and no longer sticks to your hands.
- Divide into 3-4 portion and add 2-3 drops of food coloring to each portion of dough.
- Divide into small balls and lightly shape into balls using both palms.
- Set aside a few hours or overnight, as this will make the dough a bit harder and easier to handle.
- Boil another pot of water, drop the dumplings into the boiling water. As soon as it floats to the transfer it to the syrup water.
- Serve.
Notes
You can add a few slices ginger to the syrup water if you like. Or you can replace the fine sugar with palm sugar or brown sugar using same method.
Nutrition
Serving: 4people | Calories: 418kcal | Carbohydrates: 95g | Protein: 6g | Sodium: 13mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 19g