Pearl ball(zhen zhu yuan zi )

Method of making pearl balls:

Raw materials for making pearl balls:

Tangyuanmian 750 grams, 500 grams of sweet sink, 150 grams of soaked rice.

Steps for making pearl balls:

Sweet dumpling bread sink, wrapped in soaked rice outside, steaming on the cage can be.

Pearl ball

Zhenzhu Yuanzi is a famous snack in Mianyang, Hubei Province, which is one of the famous "three steams in Mianyang". Mianyang pearl round is made of lean pork and fat meat, and then steamed with glutinous rice. After the round is steamed, the whole glutinous rice on the outside is shiny and looks like a pearl, so it gets its name.

Most of the steamed dishes in Mianyang are served as the main dishes in the banquet, so Jiang Hanping had the custom of "not serving on the grid". This dish is mostly served in a small steamer. The traditional steamer is about 17 cm in diameter, small and refined, commonly known as "duolong".

To make pearl balls, it's best to use fat and thin meat to make stuffing. If it's too thin, it's not smooth enough. If it's too fat, it tastes greasy. After steamed, the dumplings taste soft and waxy, and taste delicious. The glutinous rice grains wrapped in the outer layer stand up, crystal white and shiny, just like pearls, which makes people can't bear to chopsticks

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Characteristics of dishes

It is small and salty, simple to make, delicate and delicious.

practice

Practice 1

Main ingredients: pork (lean) (400g) pork (fat) (100g)

Accessories: glutinous rice (100g) water chestnut (100g)

Seasoning: shallot (15g), ginger (15g), monosodium glutamate (5g), rice wine (5g), salt (10g), pepper (5g)

practice

1. Chop the lean pork into minced meat;

2. Cut pig fat into soybean size granules;

3. Peel the water chestnut and cut it into small pieces of soybean;

4. Wash the glutinous rice, soak it in warm water for 2 hours, then drain it;

5. Add MSG, refined salt, scallion, ginger, rice wine and pepper into the bowl, add 300 ml water in three times, stir vigorously, then add diced fat meat and diced water chestnut, mix well;

6. Extrude them into meat balls with a diameter of 1.6cm;

7. Put the meatballs into the sieve with glutinous rice, roll and stick the glutinous rice;

8. Place the glutinous rice meatballs one by one in the steamer and arrange them neatly. Steam them in the boiling water for 15 minutes, then take them out and put them on the plate.

9. In general, home-made products should be put on a plate, with cabbage leaves on the bottom and a little peanut oil on it. The purpose is not sticky, and it has the smell of cabbage.

Practice 2

Materials used

200g pork

100g glutinous rice

Seasoning

Proper amount of salt

A little chicken essence

Ginger 1 piece

A little starch

practice

Wash the glutinous rice and soak it in water for 2 hours in advance

Mince Pork and ginger into mince

< I3. < / I add some salt and a little flour

< I4. < / I add a little chicken essence according to personal taste

Stir with chopsticks in one direction and marinate for half an hour

Take out the soaked glutinous rice and drain it thoroughly

< i7. < / I knead the cured meat into a round, roll it in the glutinous rice, and make the outer layer of the round evenly covered with glutinous rice

Put the prepared round into the steamer, put it on the boiling water and steam over high heat for about 15 minutes

Practice 3

Materials used

Glutinous rice 60g

200g pork stuffing

accessories

Eight water chestnuts

1 egg

Seasoning

A little salt

Chicken essence 2G

Ginger 5g

1 tablespoon cooking wine

1 tbsp sesame oil

5 shallots

A little white pepper

practice

The glutinous rice should be soaked in water for half a day, at least 2 hours

< I2. < / I prepare the steamer

< I3. < / I chopped scallion, ginger and water chestnut

< I4. < / I put minced meat, water chestnut, egg, scallion, ginger and seasoning into a large bowl

< i5. < / I stir clockwise with chopsticks

< I6. < / I use both hands to make a walnut sized ball and stack it on the plate

< i7. < / I soak the glutinous rice overnight, drain the water, and wrap the whole body of the meatball with glutinous rice

Put it on the steamer and steam it for 12-15 minutes

Practice 4

Main ingredients: glutinous rice, fat and lean meat, sea rice, horseshoe

Ingredients: green onion, ginger, egg white

Seasonings: salt, soy sauce, pepper, sesame oil

Method:

1. Cut the lean and fat meat into small pieces and chop them. Add the fried sea rice and chop them into a large bowl.

2. Cut the scallion white and ginger.

3. Chop the horseshoe and squeeze out part of the juice. spare.

4. Add chopped green onion and ginger, salt, pepper, an egg white, sesame oil and a small amount of soy sauce to the minced meat.

5. Add horseshoe juice several times, stir while adding, feel the meat is sticky and strong.

6. Add chopped horseshoe and mix well. Take about 20 grams of minced meat each time. Beat three to five times between two hands, and then gently knead it into a round shape.

7. Wash and soak glutinous rice one day in advance.

8. Drain the glutinous rice, put in a ball and roll to make the ball full of glutinous rice.

9. Put the meatballs into the steamer with rice dumpling leaves. Put all the meatballs into the steamer in turn. Boil the water and steam for 15 minutes.

Cooking skills

1. Glutinous rice has no taste, so you can add more salt, but you'd better not use soy sauce, otherwise it's easy to change color and affect the appearance of the round;

2. The stuffing must be mixed in one direction until it is viscous (i.e. vigorous), so that the round meat tastes stronger;

3. Boiling water on the pot, you can avoid steaming too long, so the meat round tenderer;

4. You can also add horseshoe, shrimp meat, etc. according to your personal preference to add flavor.

5. Glutinous rice must be soaked for at least 3 hours in advance, which can make it grow. This is the process of waking up glutinous rice. I soaked it all night. If I steamed it without soaking, it tastes hard and not delicious.

6. Stir the meat in one direction.

7. Choose meat to three fat seven thin, too thin meat taste hard yo, not enough lubrication.

8. The fascia must be removed from the refined meat of pearl balls;

9. When chop minced pork, put starch on the chopping board and mix until it tastes good;

10. The glutinous rice should be white, soaked and dried thoroughly.

11. If you don't have rice dumpling leaves, you can use lotus leaves or carrot slices instead. Brush a thin layer of oil on the steamer directly. However, with Zongye or lotus leaves will have a delicate flavor.

nutritive value

This dish can help to regulate anemia, indigestion, invigorate spleen and appetizer.

pork

Pork is rich in high-quality protein and essential fatty acids, and provides heme (organic iron) and cysteine to promote iron absorption, which can improve iron deficiency anemia; it has the effect of tonifying kidney and nourishing blood, nourishing yin and moistening dryness; compared with other parts of pork, pig essence meat is rich in high-quality protein, less fat and cholesterol, which can be eaten by the general population.

Pork is rich in high-quality protein and essential fatty acids, and provides heme (organic iron) and cysteine to promote iron absorption, which can improve iron deficiency anemia; it has the effect of nourishing kidney and blood, nourishing yin and moistening dryness; however, fat pork has high cholesterol and fat content, so it is not suitable to eat more, while obese people and those with high blood lipid are not suitable to eat.

Glutinous rice

Glutinous rice contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid and starch, which is rich in nutrition. It is a kind of warm and strong food. It has the effect of Tonifying the middle and Qi, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and stopping sweating. It can relieve spleen and stomach deficiency, poor appetite, abdominal distension and diarrhea. Glutinous rice has astringent effect, and has good therapeutic effect on frequent urination and night sweats.

water chestnut

The phosphorus content in water chestnut is the highest in rhizome vegetables, which can promote the growth and development of human body and maintain the needs of physiological function. It has great benefits for the development of teeth and bones. At the same time, it can promote the metabolism of sugar, fat and protein in the body and regulate the metabolism

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