Colorful pattern dumplings
Overview
During the Lantern Festival, northerners must eat dumplings in addition to eating Yuanxiao and glutinous rice balls. The dumplings are shaped like ingots and people take them to attract wealth. There are many kinds of fillings in the dumplings, which can be filled with various auspicious ingredients. They have the meaning of wealth, happiness and contentment, and mean that people with wealth and longevity in the new year will have more blessings.
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Steps
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Kneading dough: Divide the flour into three parts, add purple sweet potato powder to one part, add green juice powder to one part, and add nothing to the other part. Add an appropriate amount of water to each part and knead it into a dough, cover it with plastic wrap and keep it.
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Prepare the stuffing: cabbage is homophonic to the word "hundreds of wealth". Eat dumplings stuffed with cabbage on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to pray for hundreds of wealth! Wash and chop the cabbage, add appropriate amount of salt and marinate for 10 minutes, drain off the water and set aside. Peel the green onion, wash and chop. Beat the eggs and fry them in an oil pan. When frying the eggs, add a little more oil. You don’t need to add more oil when mixing the stuffing. The stuffing is very fragrant when mixed with peanut oil. Wash and chop the green onions. You can add more green onions to enhance the flavor. Peel the carrots, wash and grate them, then chop them into small pieces. Prepare all the ingredients, add salt, five-spice powder, oyster sauce, and a little light salt soy sauce and mix well.
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Making dumplings: Copper coin dumplings, one of the fancy dumplings, are made from 3 different colors of dough. Knead them into long strips, divide them evenly into small dough balls, roll them into cakes, fill them with fillings, and then shape them into ordinary dumplings. Anyone can do this, and then make a group of 4 and match the colors.
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Press 4 dumplings together one by one, and then cut out lace, shaped like an ancient copper coin with a four-corner hole in the middle. In the north, a few are wrapped during the Chinese New Year, which symbolizes wealth and good luck.
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Make some wheat dumplings to celebrate the harvest. Take a piece of dumpling skin, put the dumpling filling on it, pinch it from the beginning with one hand, fold the left side to the middle once, and the right side to the middle. Repeat this action until the other end is closed and pinched tightly. Shaped like wheat ears, northerners call them wheat ear dumplings, symbolizing a full harvest!
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Finally, make a few Yuanbao dumplings, just make them as you like! It's very simple. The two ends of the wrapped dumplings are butted together and pinched tightly. They are shaped like ingots. As the name suggests, ingots symbolize the rolling in of wealth!
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Cooking dumplings, my family’s customary method of cooking dumplings: add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, lower the water to boil and add the dumplings, bring to a boil and pour some cold water, then boil and pour some cold water again, turn off the heat after the third boil, and the dumplings will be cooked just right.
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Take it out of the pan and put it on a plate. Very delicious vegetarian dumplings.
