When cooking glutinous rice balls: is it better to cook in cold water or boiled water?

In a blink of an eye, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is about to arrive. Everyone knows that this day is the traditional festival "Lantern Festival", and it is essential to eat glutinous rice balls. However, every year when we come here, people ask, "When cooking glutinous rice balls, should I put them in cold water or hot water?" The glutinous rice balls cooked by the method are either broken skin and reveal the filling, or stick to the pot, and the result is not satisfactory.

So how exactly should we cook the glutinous rice balls without breaking the skin and revealing the filling?

It's quite simple. Prepare glutinous rice balls and salt in advance, it is difficult to cook glutinous rice balls according to the following method.

First: add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, turn on the fire, and boil the water.

Second: When the water in the pot boils to about 50 degrees, pour in a spoonful of salt and stir to dissolve the salt.

Next: When the water temperature reaches 60-80 degrees Celsius, pour the prepared glutinous rice balls into it.

Then: Use a spoon to slowly push the dumplings along the side of the pot. After pushing for a while, cover the pot.

Finally: stay beside the pot, push the dumplings with a spoon from time to time, add a little cold water when the water reaches a certain temperature and boil, cover the pot, and cook, after about three times of boiling, the dumplings are ready.

Of course, in addition to doing these five points well, there are still some skills to know.

1. For the glutinous rice balls to be cooked, it is wrong to put them in cold water or boiling water! When cold water is placed in the pot, the water has not boiled, and the dumplings are already sticking to the pan; when the hot water is placed in the pan, the water boils, the heat expands and contracts and the dumplings will break and reveal the filling. When the water temperature is between 60-80°, it will neither make the dumplings stick to the pot nor break the skin and reveal the filling, so it is important to choose a suitable temperature.

2. Dumplings are also a staple food in our daily life. Cooking dumplings is like cooking dumplings. The water will keep boiling. At this time, we need to keep adding cold water. After about three times, the pot can be boiled.

3. After the glutinous rice balls are cooked, scooping the glutinous rice balls is also a skill. How can we keep the glutinous rice balls from breaking? What you must know: Do not use a slotted spoon to pick up the dumplings. The spoon for scooping the dumplings is also an important factor. If you want to avoid breaking the skin, you have to use a spoon, and be careful not to scratch the skin of the dumplings when scooping.

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