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Lantern Festival golden dragon koi dumplings, 🎊 good luck for the whole year!

Lantern Festival golden dragon koi dumplings, 🎊 good luck for the whole year!

For Lantern Festival luck, hot water dough with oil kneaded in yields supple tangyuan wrappers, shaped into golden dragon and koi motifs, chewy outside with festive fillings and auspicious blessings inside.

Instructions

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    Prepare the ingredients.

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    Pour the white sugar into the glutinous rice flour, then pour in hot water and stir into a dough, kneading until there is no dry flour.

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    Then add the oil and continue kneading until fully absorbed.

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    Take a 15-gram piece of dough from the dough, cook it in boiling water, then remove it and drain the water before putting it back into the main dough.

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    Continue kneading until fully combined.

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    Just pull and mix the rice dough a few more times.

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    Divide the dough into four portions, and add food coloring to three of them to make red, yellow, and pink.

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    Use red as the base and add three other color blocks.

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    Turn it over and wrap it around the sesame filling.

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    First roll it into a tadpole shape, then pinch out the goldfish's tail.

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    Cut off half of the straw tip, then carve out the fish scales, making them interlaced and staggered for a more vivid effect.

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    Finally, just add the fish's eyes.

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    Put the koi fish rice balls into boiling water.

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    Cook until it floats, then remove it.

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Ingredients

Main Ingredients

  • glutinous rice flour
    100 g
  • Hot water
    80 g

Seasonings

  • Cornstarch
    10 g
  • oil
    10 g
  • Powdered sugar
    a pinch