Name: New Year Dumplings (元宵)
Yield: This recipe serves 4.
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 cup glutinous rice powder; ½ cup cold water, plus a little more; 1 tablespoon preserved cassia blossoms; 3½ tablespoons red bean paste; 1 tablespoon sesame paste; 1 tablespoon oil

Preparation info

This recipe serves
4
.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Key to Chinese Cooking

By Irene Kuo

Published 1977

About

Symbolic of good fortune because they are round, smooth, and full, these small dumplings are a traditional New Year treat as well as a year-round snack or dessert. The dough is smooth and satiny and a little chewy. The filling is sweet and nutty, with the fragrance of the cassia blossoms.

Ingredients

Filling

1 tablespoon sesame paste
1 tablespoon oil
3½

Asia
China
Snack
Dessert
Vegan
Gluten-free
New Year

Method

Filling

Scrape the sesame paste into a bowl. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a small skillet until hot; then pour it over the sesame paste and stir it in until the sesame paste is soft and pasty. Add the red bean paste and cassia blossoms and stir in circular motions until well blended. Put the b

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