Difference between dumplings and Lantern The traditional way of eating dumplings introduced

One, the practice is different

Yuanxiao is rolled out, the filling is cut into small pieces, placed in a layer of rice flour wicker colander, constantly sieve roll, sieve roll while sprinkling water, the formation of Yuanxiao. The only sweet snacks are the sweet ones.

Soup dumplings are made of glutinous rice and water, even with the water with the rice with a stone mill grinding, grinding out of the glutinous rice flour drained and refrigerated for three or four days, then add water and formed into a ball, put a few hours to do the outer skin. There are sesame and meat fillings, both sweet and salty. To make it, wrap the filling inside like a large wonton and knead it with your hands.

Two, different dietary festivals

Yuanxiao is the festive diet of the Lantern Festival.

Soup dumplings are the festive diet of the Spring Festival, the seventh day of the seventh month and the Shangyuan Festival (Lantern Festival) of the South, and are also the traditional food of the South to entertain family members returning home from faraway places and family dinners, whose significance is quite comparable to that of the dumplings in the North.

Soup dumplings are mostly boiled and eaten, but they can also be fried in oil.

Yuanxiao can be eaten boiled, fried or plucked, steamed or baked.

Cooking the dumplings takes less time, about 3-5 minutes to float, and the soup is clear after cooking. Because the filling has a lot of water in it, the filling will flow out like quicksand the moment the dumpling is bitten.

Cooking the Yuanxiao takes longer, often more than 10 minutes, Zhuhou's soup becomes cloudier because the raw glutinous rice flour absorbs water, a bit like drinking rice soup. The Yuanxiao also tastes chewier.

Expanded Information:

Soup dumplings, also known as "Yuanxiao", "Tangduan", "floating yuanzi", is one of the representatives of the traditional Chinese snacks, is a ball-shaped food made of glutinous rice flour and so on. It is usually stuffed and cooked with soup for consumption. It is also the most characteristic food of Lantern Festival with a very long history.

According to legend, soup dumplings originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province) rose to eat a novelty food, that is, with black sesame seeds, lard filling, adding a little sugar, the outside of the glutinous rice flour rolled into a round, cooked, eat sweet and savory, interesting. Because these glutinous rice dumplings float and sink in the pot, they were first called "floating Yuanzi", but later some regions renamed them as soup dumplings. However, the dumplings symbolize the reunion of the family better, eating dumplings means a new year of family happiness, reunion, so is the first month of the 15th Lantern Festival essential food. And in some areas of the South, people in the Spring Festival will also be accustomed to eating soup dumplings, rather than dumplings.