Black Sesame Dumplings (Tang Yuan) This recipe is part of our collection of Chinese holiday and festival foods. Sign up for our newsletter to receive family-friendly activity, recipe and craft ideas throughout the year! Tang Yuan Recipe-Black Sesame Filling (Source: China's Sichuan Food blog).

Ingredients of Black Sesame Dumplings (Tang Yuan)

  1. You need 1 cup of glutinous rice flour.
  2. You need 1/2 cup of water.
  3. You need of Filling :.
  4. Prepare 3 tbs of black sesame seed.
  5. It's 3 tbs of brown sugar.
  6. You need 3 tbs of unsalted butter (softened, not melt).
  7. You need of For the syrup:.
  8. It's 2 of " ginger (skin off).
  9. Prepare 2 cups of palm sugar (I used jaggery, coz no palm sugar here).
  10. It's 2 of pandan leaves.
  11. You need 3 cups of water.

Black Sesame Dumplings (Tang Yuan) instructions

  1. Roast sesame seed on a pan in very low heat in 7 minutes (keep eye on it, make sure it's not burn) and remove from heat..
  2. Grind roasted sesame in food processor until find add palm sugar and butter (do not melt the butter).
  3. Mix well rice flour and 1/2 cup of boiled water and knead dough just 5 - 10 minutes until no more stick to your hand. And cover with plastic so it will not dry..
  4. Rolled up the toasted sesame and make it into balls. (approximately as big as marble) and keep it on the fridge up to 1 or 2 hours until set..
  5. Take the rice flour dough and flatten with your hand and fill with the filling. And closed the dough over the filling. When it's done just cover with plastic so it won't dry..
  6. Make a ginger syrup, with fill 3 cups of water on a sauce pan together with 2 cups palm sugar and ginger, and pandan leaves bring it to boil..
  7. Now in the other sauce pan, boiled 4 cup water and bring it to boil, and add the dough in the boiling water. Cook until it floats..
  8. Serve the balls with ginger syrup when it's still hot. Enjoy!.

Tang Yuan is a dessert made of glutinous rice balls in a sweet clear soup usually served during the Winter Solstice Festival to mark the arrival of winter. Red bean dumpling (红�汤�) is a common dessert in Chinese cuisine (the other is black sesame dumplings). A fixture in the Yuanxiao festival, tangyuan are sweet glutinous rice balls with a black sesame filling in a ginger syrup. Aside from the dough, there's also the sesame filling. Technically, tangyuan can have all sorts of different fillings, but a very common one is made with black sesame seeds and sugar.

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