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New Year Firecracker Tangyuan 🧨 | The Star Dessert of the New Year's Eve Dinner!

New Year Firecracker Tangyuan 🧨 | The Star Dessert of the New Year's Eve Dinner!

Playful New Year tangyuan shaped like firecrackers, made from hot-water glutinous dough tinted red, yellow, and grey, wrapped around cranberry filling and boiled until pillowy and chewy.

Instructions

  1. 1
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    Prepare the ingredients.

  2. 2
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    Mix glutinous rice flour, cornstarch, and powdered sugar, then add hot water. First, stir with chopsticks until it becomes flaky, then knead it by hand into a dough.

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    Add oil and knead repeatedly until it can be stretched.

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    Divide the dough into different sizes, and knead in the red, yellow, and gray food coloring respectively until well mixed.

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    Roll the gray dough into a thin strip to make the 'fire roller,' divide the red dough into 3g portions, roll each into a ball and flatten it, then wrap a cranberry along with the fire roller strip.

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    Roll the closure into a cylindrical shape, then take a small amount of yellow dough and roll it into a long strip, wrapping it around the top of the firecracker near the spinning side.

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    After the water boils, add the 'firecracker' tangyuan.

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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
  • Dried cranberries
    to taste

Seasonings

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