Cute Monkey Brown Sugar Balls

Cute Monkey Brown Sugar Balls

Overview

In the Year of the Monkey, the Lantern Festival cannot be without monkeys. Let’s let the cute monkey brown sugar balls come to make the Lantern Festival lively this year! The method of making this cute monkey brown sugar meatballs is based on the Japanese way of eating, but considering the dietary preferences of us Chinese, I did not add soy sauce when making my brown sugar meatballs. In fact, I also tried adding soy sauce, but it was really hard to accept the strange smell of soy sauce in the Yuanxiao dipping sauce. I removed the soy sauce and used brown sugar as the dipping sauce. The taste was really great. I have never tried eating Yuanxiao like this in my life. I quickly summarized the method and shared it with everyone. If you like DIY, you can give it a try. It is very simple.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Add water to the white cloud beans and cook until mashed. Remove the water and mash into a puree. Boil the chestnuts, remove the shells and mash them into a puree. Mix the chestnut puree and the white cloud bean puree and add an appropriate amount of sugar. Heat the butter or lard in the pot to melt. Add the mixed chestnut bean paste and stir-fry for a while. If fragrant, stir-fry until fragrant. Knead into a ball. Turn off the heat and let cool for filling.

    Cute Monkey Brown Sugar Balls step 1

  2. Prepare the glutinous rice flour, then boil the water. Pour the newly boiled water into the glutinous rice flour one at a time and mix with chopsticks. The hot water can make the glutinous rice flour sticky and easy to stuffing. Note that the water must be poured in batches and not all at once. The 320 grams of water is only a reference amount. You can increase or decrease it according to the situation of the glutinous rice flour

    Cute Monkey Brown Sugar Balls step 2

  3. Use chopsticks to quickly mix it into a half-paste-half-powder floc, then stop adding water

    Cute Monkey Brown Sugar Balls step 3

  4. Then knead the glutinous rice flour into a smooth dough with your hands. If it breaks easily, it means there is less water and you need to add a little more water. If it is too sticky, add some glutinous rice flour and continue kneading

    Cute Monkey Brown Sugar Balls step 4

  5. Divide the glutinous rice noodles into several 17-gram large balls and small balls that are slightly larger. Knead them well and cover them with plastic wrap. If you don’t cover them, they will dry out and crack easily

    Cute Monkey Brown Sugar Balls step 5

  6. Flatten the big meatballs, put about 4 grams of chestnut bean paste filling and wrap them up. Note that if they crack easily, you can dip your hands in water and knead them to prevent them from opening

    Cute Monkey Brown Sugar Balls step 6

  7. Wrap the stuffed meatballs, dip a little water on both sides, stick the two small meatballs together, place them separately on a plate sprinkled with glutinous rice flour

    Cute Monkey Brown Sugar Balls step 7

  8. Use a utility knife to cut the dried milk or cheese slices into the shape of the monkey's face. Use a chocolate pen soaked in boiling water to squeeze out the chocolate sauce to frame the monkey's various facial expressions. You can also use seaweed instead of chocolate sauce. Note that the dried milk here is more delicious than the cheese slices, with a sweet and sour taste

    Cute Monkey Brown Sugar Balls step 8

  9. Boil water, put the meatballs in and cook. When cooking, if water splashes every time, add a little cold water. Do not let big splashes appear in the pot, otherwise the monkey ears will easily melt or deform. Once cooked, turn off the heat, take them out and put them into a basin of cold water. The cold water will not make the yuanxiao stick together

    Cute Monkey Brown Sugar Balls step 9

  10. String the Yuanxiao with bamboo skewers

    Cute Monkey Brown Sugar Balls step 10

  11. Add about 100 grams of water to the pot and bring to a boil, add brown sugar and boil, then pour in water starch, stir well and boil to form a dipping sauce. The sweetness can be increased or decreased according to your preference. If you like soy sauce, you can also add soy sauce

    Cute Monkey Brown Sugar Balls step 11

  12. Put the skewered Yuanxiao in the pot and pour the dipping sauce

    Cute Monkey Brown Sugar Balls step 12

  13. Put the facial expression on the Lantern Festival and decorate it with ears on both sides. The cute monkey brown sugar balls can be enjoyed beautifully. If you like jam, you can also add a little jam to the sauce and put it according to your favorite taste

    Cute Monkey Brown Sugar Balls step 13

  14. Let me chew it before you eat it

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  15. There is also a cute monkey playing naughtily in the water

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