{"id":123,"date":"2008-08-14T21:04:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T13:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/?p=123"},"modified":"2008-08-15T19:29:33","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T11:29:33","slug":"glutinous-rice-balls-in-ginger-soup-%e6%b1%a4%e5%9c%86%e7%b3%96%e6%b0%b4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Glutinous Rice Balls in Ginger Soup (\u6c64\u5706\u7cd6\u6c34)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This dessert is usually serve in Chinese winter festival<\/a> (\u51ac\u81f3) or winter solstice <\/a>on 22 Dec every year. \u00a0It is also being served during other Chinese festival to indicate togetherness or reunion\u00a0(\u56e2\u5706)<\/p>\n

The ginger soup here is the same as the sweet potato in ginger soup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ingredients (4 to 8 servings) <\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. 500 grams Glutinous rice flour. (or you get 2-3 packets of the ready made frozen glutinous rice balls from supermarket, and they comes with fillings too)<\/li>\n
  2. 1 section of ginger tuber (about 5-10 cm)<\/li>\n
  3. Sugar to taste (about 8 table spoon and you adjust accordingly)<\/li>\n
  4. 5 bowls water for the soup<\/li>\n
  5. 2 or 3 pandan leaves<\/li>\n
  6. Plain water for making the dough<\/li>\n
  7. A pot of water for boiling the rice balls<\/li>\n
  8. Optional: crush peanuts <\/a>mixed with sugar (3:1 ratio)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Method<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Wash the ginger, and smash it slightly with a handle of a cleaver or chopping knife or anything hard.<\/li>\n
    2. Put water in the pot and ginger.<\/li>\n
    3. Boil for about 20 – 30 minutes<\/li>\n
    4. Add sugar to taste and stir.<\/li>\n
    5. Add in pandan leaves and boil for another 1-2 minute, and turn off fire.<\/li>\n
    6. If using ready made rice balls, skip this step.\u00a0 Put the flour in a big mixing bowl, slowly add plain water and knead into dough.\u00a0 Put the dough on a cleaned table top, and knead till smooth.\u00a0 Roll it into a long strip and pinch off bit by bit of about a 2 cm or bigger size.\u00a0 For each of these bit, put into the middle of both palm and roll in circular motion to make small ball.<\/li>\n
    7. Boil a pot of plain water.\u00a0 Put in the rice balls and let it continue to boil.\u00a0 They are cooked when they float in the water.<\/li>\n
    8. Scoop them into individual serving bowl, and pour ginger soup into the bowl.<\/li>\n
    9. Serve immediately. (soaking too long will make the soup cloudy and sticky)<\/li>\n
    10. Optional, to prepare a plate of crush peanut mixed with sugar as a dip for the glutinous rice balls (especial for self made that does not have fillings)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      This dessert is usually serve in Chinese winter festival (\u51ac\u81f3) or winter solstice on 22 Dec every year. \u00a0It is also being served during other Chinese festival to indicate togetherness or reunion\u00a0(\u56e2\u5706) The ginger...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,76],"tags":[133,74,134],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desserts","category-recipes","category-vegetarian-recipes","tag-dessert","tag-ginger","tag-glutinous-rice-ball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}