Lotus root powder dumpling(ou fen yuan zi )

The method of making lotus root flour dumplings is as follows:

Raw materials for making lotus root powder round seeds:

400 grams of lotus root powder, 5 grams of red and green silk, 5 grams of kumquat, 15 grams of honey jujube, 10 grams of peach kernel, 5 grams of pine nut kernel, 7.5 grams of hemp powder, 50 grams of tangyouding, 75 grams of soft white sugar and 1 gram of Osmanthus fragrans.

The steps of making lotus root powder dumpling are as follows:

Crush the red and green silk, kumquat, jujube, peach kernel and pine nut kernel, add sesame powder, soft sugar and sugar oil to form the filling heart, and rub it into the filling heart as big as marble. The lotus root powder is crushed and sifted into a small basket. Then put in the stuffing, roll a layer of lotus root powder, take it out, put it into the claw fence, put it into the boiling water pot, and then put it into a small basket, roll a layer of lotus root powder, repeat several times in turn, to make it a big round. Add water to the pan and put in the balls. Cook and put into the original juice soup with sweet osmanthus.

The characteristics of lotus root powder plums are as follows

It looks like pigeon eggs, with brown red color, soft waxy texture and sweet taste.

Lotus root powder dumpling

Lotus root flour dumpling is a traditional food with a history of more than 200 years. The lotus root powder balls in Yanfu of Jiangsu Province and Huanggang of Hubei Province are the most famous. Traditional glutinous rice dumplings are made from glutinous rice flour, while lotus root flour dumplings are made with originality.

The lotus root flour balls in Yanfu, Jiangsu Province are made of lotus root flour as the outer skin, and the stuffing is very exquisite. They are made by mixing the pickled diced sugar oil with a variety of fruit materials, such as peach crisp, kumquat cake, walnut kernel, peanut kernel, etc., and most of them are cooked for eating.

In the south of Huanggang, Hubei Province, the lotus root ball is pink and transparent, soft and waxy, and it is a famous local dish. Mix the lotus root powder with cold water, then wash it with boiling water, rub it into long strips, cut it into small pieces, then press the small pieces flat, wrap the stuffing with Osmanthus fragrans, peanuts, sugar, sesame, etc., seal it and rub it round, boil it in boiling water or steam it in a pot, and then fry it with lard and sugar. In Huanggang, Hubei Province, Sixi meatballs (Pearl meatballs, meat meatballs, fish meatballs, lotus root flour meatballs) are indispensable to the wedding banquet

Lotus root powder round can be used as both seasonal snacks and banquet dishes, especially its outer layer is smooth, elastic, transparent and dark brown, and its stuffing is sweet and refreshing.

Jiangsu Yanfu lotus root powder meatballs

Lotus root flour is a famous local snack in Jiangsu Province. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, an imperial chef from Huduo (now the seat of Jianhu County) elaborately made a special kind of court snack with folk flavor - lotus root flour dumpling, which was greatly appreciated by the emperor.

A few years later, the chef returned home, and brought back the method of making lotus root flour dumplings to his hometown of Huduo. Then the palace snacks spread in Huduo

Lotus root powder and round seed has become a special dish for Chinese and foreign guests in Jiangsu Province. The round and transparent lotus root powder balls are soaked in the thick soup, half floating and half sinking. They look like floating Tan balls. They are flexible and elastic on chopsticks. They are tender and refreshing in the mouth, chewy and fragrant.

Lotus root powder is round, transparent, elastic, soft, tender and brown. The filling is made of lotus root powder and five kernels (peach, apricot, jujube, melon seeds, etc.) with sweet taste. Chew the aftertaste, avoid fat taboo. It is rich in nutrition and has the function of strengthening bone and blood. Jianhu, Funing, Luoqiao and other places hold banquets to entertain relatives and friends. The guests passing by Jianhu always look forward to the chance to have a good taste. When Ba Jin, a famous writer, led a delegation to Jianhu City, he tasted the flavor and praised it. In 1958, Jiangsu Province was famous for its famous dishes. After tasting it, economist Fei Xiaotong wrote an article in the newspaper and called it "treasure".

practice

Raw material: 400 grams lotus root powder. Red green silk 5g, kumquat 5g, jujube 15g, peach kernel 10g, pine nut 5g, hemp powder 7.5G, sugar oil 50g. Soft sugar 75 grams, 1 gram osmanthus.

The practice of "lotus root powder round seed" is more complicated. First of all, we should make stuffing. We should take pine nuts, melon seeds and walnuts to fry and crush; cut kumquat cake; grind sesame pastry; rub the above stuffing together with Osmanthus fragrans, sugar and lard to form dough, and then knead them into small balls for use; grind lotus root powder into flour with dough stick, take a small bamboo, put the balls in, sprinkle lotus root powder, roll well, and heat in boiling water pot Once, immediately pick up, and then down to the inside, sprinkle with lotus root powder, roll well, and then under the pot, so three to four times in a row, lotus root powder round son will do successfully. When eating, put it in a water pot and cook until it floats. Add sugar and Osmanthus fragrans. "Lotus root powder round" can also be called "osmanthus lotus root powder round" or "five kernel lotus root powder round". Changing the cooking method, it can also be used as "crispy lotus root powder round" or "shredded lotus root powder round".

Note:

In the production of lotus root powder, it is necessary to soak in boiling water before rolling, which is closely related to the chemical composition of lotus root powder. Lotus root powder is made from fresh lotus root. According to scientific determination, it contains 87.2% starch. Starch is a polysaccharide formed by the polymerization of glucose produced by photosynthesis in plants. It is a mixture of amylose and amylopectin, in which amylose accounts for about 15% and amylopectin accounts for about 85%. Amylose is insoluble in cold water, but soluble in hot water, while amylopectin is insoluble in water. When heated to boiling water, it will form a sticky gel. Lotus root powder dumpling is made of starch gelatinization. The filling core of dumpling is sticky, which can be stained with a layer of lotus root powder and formed after repeated times.

Its production is simple and fastidious. It consists of four processes: preparing materials, rubbing stuffing, ironing and making soup, among which ironing is the most fastidious. First, the pulp, oil, sugar, sesame powder and sweet scented osmanthus, almonds, walnut, pine nuts, kumquat cake, etc. are made into stuffing heart, rolled into a ball, put into a tea tray or bamboo plaque with lotus root powder, evenly sieve, make it stick with a thin layer of powder, and then put it into boiling water with a leaky spoon, so it is made five or six times. The dumpling is even and smooth, the filling is sweet and refreshing, and the soup has a strong fragrance of osmanthus.

nutritive value

Lotus root powder is a kind of beet with unique flavor. It is divided into two kinds of meat and vegetable. It is sweet and refreshing, moistening and appetizing, tender, smooth and soft. It has high nutritional value and medicinal value, and can relieve alcohol and refresh. It is suitable for people who suffer from hypertension, coronary heart disease and do not eat lard. It can nourish the body, widen the chest and replenish qi.

1. Clearing away heat and cooling blood: lotus root is cold and has the function of clearing away heat and cooling blood, which can be used to treat heat diseases; lotus root is sweet and liquid, and is especially beneficial to people with fever, thirst, bleeding, hemoptysis and bleeding;

2. Laxative, spleen invigorating and appetizing: lotus root contains mucus protein and dietary fiber, which can combine with bile acid salt, cholesterol and triglyceride in food, so as to excrete it from feces, thus reducing the absorption of lipids. Lotus root exudes a unique fragrance, also contains tannin, has a certain spleen antidiarrheal effect, can enhance appetite, promote digestion, appetizer healthy, beneficial to poor appetite, anorexia recovery;

3. Nourishing blood and promoting muscle: lotus root has high nutritional value, rich in trace elements such as iron and calcium, and rich in plant protein, vitamins and starch. It has obvious functions of Tonifying Qi and blood and enhancing human immunity. Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine calls it "tonifying the middle, nourishing the spirit and benefiting qi";

4. Hemostasis and stasis dispersing: lotus root contains a lot of tannic acid, which can contract blood vessels and stop bleeding. Lotus root can also cool blood and disperse blood. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is a good food therapy for febrile disease.

Suitable population

It is suitable for people with high fever, hematemesis, hypertension, liver disease, loss of appetite, iron deficiency anemia and malnutrition.

Use it when you are happy

Several large VATS were set up on the farm in front of the house. The soaked lotus root segments were mashed in the vats and the juice was mashed. After the impurities were filtered out with a clean cloth, the wet lotus root powder was picked up. Clean and dry straw was spread on the farm in front of the house. In order to facilitate ventilation, a clean white cloth was spread on the straw to dry the wet lotus root powder. In rural areas of Northern Jiangsu Province, there is a wedding or birthday banquet. It is auspicious. Because the lotus root flour dumpling is a kind of beet, it can also be used as staple food. People like to ask for a mouth color. They like to form a couple, and they like to be round and round. The "lotus root flour dumpling" has a homonym and both meanings. Therefore, the lotus root flour dumpling should be served at both the festive and birthday banquet. There are dozens of tables for the seven aunts and eight aunts in the farmhouse banquet. When the price of fresh lotus root is cheap in autumn, the owner makes lotus powder from the fresh lotus root produced in his own lotus pond. Some people do not treat, but for their own spring festival food, nutrition of the elderly and children, and to send people to the city and other rural relatives. Also some do lotus root powder and lotus root powder round son specialized households, do lotus root powder more. So at the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, the women in front of the farmer's house in the water village tie blue cloth headscarves on their heads and girdles around their waists with lotus leaves, busy pounding lotus roots and drying lotus root powder.

Other related

In the Xianfeng Period of the Qing Dynasty, lotus root was appointed as a tribute for imperial food. Because it is homonymous with the "couple", it is folk custom to use lotus root to wish a happy marriage, but also because it comes out of the mud and does not dye. It is the same as lotus as a symbol of clean and noble personality.

Hubei Huanggang lotus root powder meatballs

Bahe nine hole lotus root, produced in Xishui, Huanggang, is a famous dish in Hubei Province. It has two more holes than ordinary lotus root. It is the only "nine hole lotus root" in the world. Its skin is jade white, the lotus root tube is round, the node is unnecessary, the meat is crisp and juicy, the content of iron and calcium is large, and the sugar starch is rich. Each lotus root has four or five sections. It is tender and crisp. It tastes sweet and crisp when eaten raw. It can relieve heat and relieve alcohol. Cooked food does not change color when fried and stewed. It is mellow and sweet with peculiar flavor. sesame

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