How to make Chidou Yuanxiao?

Red beans (red beans) 100g, glutinous rice flour 250g, rock sugar 15g.

Second, practice.

1, wash and soak red beans overnight.

2. Put the soaked red beans and soaked water into the rice cooker together, and then add a proper amount of water.

3. The glutinous rice flour is heated with water and becomes snowflake-like.

4. Knead into a small circle by hand.

5. After the water in the pot is boiled, continue to cook for about half an hour, and add glutinous rice balls and rock sugar.

6. Continue to cook for about ten minutes until the small round balls float.

Yuanxiao is one of the traditional snacks in China, which belongs to the eating custom of Lantern Festival. The practice of Yuanxiao is mainly stuffing, which is mixed first, then spread into large round pieces, dried and cut into squares smaller than table tennis. Then put the stuffing into a machine like a big sieve, pour the rice flour on it and "sieve" it. As the fillings collide with each other, the rice sticks to the surface of the fillings and becomes spherical, which becomes Yuanxiao. The North "rolls" Yuanxiao and the South "wraps" Tangyuan, which are two foods with different practices and tastes.

Folk custom of eating Yuanxiao on Lantern Festival. Yuanxiao is called "Tangyuan", "Zi Yuan", "Floating Zi Yuan" and "Shui Yuan" in the south. It is made of glutinous rice (sweet potato in some areas), solid and stuffed. The fillings are red bean paste, sugar, hawthorn and so on. Can be boiled, fried, steamed and fried.

At first, people called this kind of food "floating Zi Yuan", and later they called it "dumpling" or "dumpling". These names are similar to the word "reunion", which means reunion, symbolizing family reunion, harmony and happiness. People also miss their departed relatives and place their hopes on future life. Eating Yuanxiao, like a full moon, symbolizes family reunion and entrusts people with good wishes for their future life.