What is the best dish to cook with glutinous rice balls? What is not the best dish to cook with glutinous rice balls?

Tangyuan, also known as Tangtuan Fuyuanzi, is one of the representatives of traditional snacks of the Han nationality. At the same time, it is also the most distinctive food of the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival, and it also expresses the ancient people's yearning and expectation for a happy life. So, what is the best to cook with Tangyuan? What can't be eaten with Tangyuan? Let's take a look at the introduction of Encyclopedia Knowledge Network!

Contents of this article

1. What to cook with glutinous rice balls

2. What should not be eaten with glutinous rice balls?

3. The effect of cooking rice wine and glutinous rice balls together

What to cook with glutinous rice balls

1. Scallion salty soup: Usually, the glutinous rice flour dumplings are cooked in the same way as noodles to give them a salty taste, which makes them taste special. The dumplings are soft but not mushy, and are paired with scallions, mushrooms, minced meat, and chopped green onions in the soup, making them taste like glutinous rice noodles in soup, which is unique.

2. Longjing soup: Choose green glutinous rice balls with light green color, fresh and mellow fragrance, tender taste, refreshing and non-greasy. First put Longjing tea leaves in a cup, pour in a proper amount of boiling water and soak for two minutes, drain the tea juice and pour in boiling water again. Put the cooked glutinous rice balls in a bowl, then pour in a proper amount of tea juice, and you will have Longjing glutinous rice balls with a unique flavor.

3. Shredded seaweed soup: You can use fresh meat dumplings or frozen dumplings, pick them up after cooking. Then take appropriate amount of kimchi, small shrimp skin, half a bowl of soup, a little shredded seaweed or wakame, add half a bowl of soup and kimchi to a pot and boil over low heat, sprinkle with small shrimp skin, add cooked dumplings, serve in a bowl, and sprinkle with shredded seaweed for decoration, which is both beautiful and delicious.

4. Jujube kernel porridge soup: The glutinous rice balls can be stuffed with peanuts, red bean paste, sesame, etc., and can be picked up after cooking. Then take appropriate amounts of red dates, almonds, walnut kernels and crystal sugar. Soak the walnut kernels in hot water for 5 minutes and remove the thin skin; then soak the red dates until soft and remove the core; soak the almonds until soft and remove the skin; put all the ingredients into a juicer and add half a bowl of water to make a paste. Boil the jujube kernel paste over low heat, add crystal sugar, and pour it on the cooked glutinous rice balls, and you will have a bowl of jujube kernel porridge glutinous rice balls.

What can't be eaten with Tangyuan?

So far, there is no food that cannot be eaten with glutinous rice balls, but because glutinous rice balls are made of glutinous rice, they should not be eaten with chicken. The following are the taboos of eating glutinous rice balls:

1. People with excessive damp-heat, phlegm and fire should not eat it; people with fever, cough with yellow phlegm, jaundice, and abdominal distension should not eat it; diabetic patients should not eat it or eat less; in addition, because glutinous rice balls are extremely soft and sticky and difficult to digest, people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat too much.

2. Whether sweet or salty, glutinous rice balls and rice cakes are high in carbohydrates and sodium. People who are overweight, have diabetes or other chronic diseases such as kidney disease and high blood pressure should eat them in moderation.

3. Tangyuan should be heated before eating. Cold glutinous rice food is not only very hard, affecting the taste, but also difficult to digest.

4. It is not advisable to eat too many glutinous rice balls at one time.

The effect of cooking rice wine and glutinous rice balls together

1. Laozao, also known as fermented glutinous rice, rice wine, and sweet wine, has the functions of strengthening the spleen and appetite, relaxing muscles and activating blood circulation, removing dampness and eliminating phlegm, nourishing blood and beauty, and prolonging life. It is most suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and the weak to drink.

2. In the south of the Yangtze River, people in the south of the Yangtze River say that rice wine is a must-drink for nourishing pregnant women. This drink is fragrant, sweet and refreshing, rich in vitamins, amino acids and other nutrients, without any food additives, preservatives, pigments, etc., and is a natural green drink.

3. As a traditional Chinese medicine, glutinous rice is sweet and warm in nature. It enters the spleen, kidney and lung meridians and has the effects of warming the stomach and spleen, replenishing qi and stopping diarrhea, and promoting body fluid and stopping sweating. After being made into fermented glutinous rice dumplings, it not only enhances its tonic function, but also increases the effect of promoting blood circulation and unblocking collaterals: for example, it promotes gastric juice secretion, increases appetite and helps digestion for patients with chronic atrophic gastritis and indigestion.