Ingredients needed:
For the dough,
· Glutinous rice flour
· Water
For the filling,
· Gula melaka
· Grounded peanut powder
· Plain or coloured sugar
· Chocolate chips
· Any other flavors that suits your tastes eg. Red bean paste, blueberry purée etc.
Steps to making tangyuans:
For the dough,
#1 Pour water into the flour, until knead-able dough is obtained
(Tip: You may choose to add small amount by small amount of water, so as to ensure that the flour is not too dry or wet. In any case that it is, add more water or flour respectively. This is to ensure easy addition of fillings and rolling of tangyuans later)
For the fillings,
#2 Mix peanut powder with small amount of water until a thick peanut paste is obtained
#3 Cut gula melaka into small cubes
For the rolling of tangyuans,
#4 Sprinkle flour over your hands (so that the dough would not stick to your palm)
#5 Take a small ball of dough, and roll it with a rolling pin until desirable thickness is obtained (preferably thin skin so that the taste of the fillings becomes more obvious)
#6 Place the rolled dough on your palm, and add in the fillings of your choice onto the centre of the dough
#7 Roll up the edges to cover the fillings
#8 Ensure that the fillings are covered up, before rolling the tangyuans into a ball
For the cooking of tangyuans,
#9 While rolling Tangyuans, keep water for boiling
#10 Add tangyuans into a pot of boiling water
(The tangyuans are done when they are floating on the surface)
You make choose to add it to soup/roll it with peanuts/bake them.
Soup: Add sugar to boiling water, until desired sweetness and serve with tangyuans
Rolling with peanuts: Remove cooked tangyuans from boiling water and roll it over peanut powder
Baked: Place uncooked tangyuans into the toaster, until it turns crispy brown. Ready to serve.
Fondue: melt chocolate and dip plain Tangyuans into it.
THE TANGYUAN SONG!
EASY WAY OF REMEMBERING HOW TO MAKE TANGYUANS:
(Sing according to the tune of row, row, row the boat)
Roll, roll, roll the balls,
Gently press it down!
Put in the fillings, put in the fillings and
Roll it up again!
Address:
Through our research and interviews we have found that the skills of making Tangyuans are fast disappearing in Singapore! We thus want to conserve tradition of making Tangyuans through our younger generation. THAT’S YOU!
Traditional method of cooking Tangyuans is not that difficult after all! However, it may also seem pretty easy but do not judge too easily! The making of dough and the rolling of fillings into the skin is tricky! One must have ‘witty’ fingers to do the trick! So, friends come on let’s get together and start the kneading and rolling.
After learning the skills, share this with your family and friends. Let the skills be passed to the masses so that our ancestral traditions remain for long!
You can make these Tangyuans with other flavors too. You all are free to experiment. Bring modifications and let the food live on!
Here is a small activity that you may be interested to try out! The answers will be revealed on the next blog post. So, stay in tune!
Across:
1. Pass the skill to masses so that our ancestral _______ remain for long!
2. The dough is made of __________ rice flour.
3. One of the ingredients used is grounded _________ powder.
4. Other ___________ include chocolate and red bean paste.
5. __________ some flour over hand so dough will not stick to the hand.
Down:
6. This session is _________________________
7. Before boiling, _________ them into balls.
8. After this session, I’ll definitely remember to _______ with my friends and family!
Hope you enjoy!
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