【Nanjing】Red Bean Small Lantern Festival

Overview

According to folk saying, the New Year is not over until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month; New Year's Eve has just passed and the Lantern Festival is approaching in the blink of an eye! The protagonist of the Lantern Festival is naturally the Yuanxiao. For those of us who are used to eating big stuffed Yuanxiao, it’s great to have some different small Yuanxiao. It is also a famous snack in Nanjing~Red Bean Small Yuanxiao, and it is the delicacy in our memory~~~ The traditional way of making Red Bean Small Yuanxiao~ includes osmanthus and fermented rice wine, but because I am allergic to alcohol, I omitted it when I made it. I remember that when I was a child, I was weak and easy to get sick, and I often suffered from headaches and dizziness. My mother would often stew red beans, peanuts and red dates together, and let my sister and I drink a small bowl before going to bed to strengthen the body's nutritional supply. Because red beans and peanuts are foods that are not easy to cook. At that time, the national economy was poor, and there were no advanced gadgets such as pressure cookers on the market. I saw that my mother would always pack red beans and peanuts in an iron lunch box before going to work, and then take them to the big steamer in the workplace cafeteria to steam them, and then cook them again after she came back. Add some red dates to a casserole and stew it; when there is glutinous rice flour at home, I will knead a lot of small dumplings and cook them together, so that the whole family will have breakfast tomorrow; so for me, the red bean dumplings have a special emotion. Although I have been eating them since I was a child, I never get tired of eating them, and the more I eat them, the more I like them~~~

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• little lantern festival
• peanuts
• red beans
• white sugar

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare red beans, peanuts and small yuanxiao

   

2. 2 Wash the red beans and peanuts, add appropriate amount of water and put them into the electric pressure cooker

   

3. 3 Close the lid and lock it, activate the "bean/gluten" button

   

4. 4 Time is up

   

5. 5 Overcooked red beans and peanuts

   

6. 6 Take another casserole and pour appropriate amount of water into it and bring it to a boil

   

7. 7 Pour in the small yuanxiao, stir to disperse, cover and simmer over high heat

   

8. 8 When all the dumplings float, scoop 5 tablespoons of cooked red beans and peanuts into the casserole

   

9. 9 When it boils again, add 1 tablespoon of sugar

   

10. 10 Stir until melted and turn off the heat

    

11. 11 Eat it while it's hot~the sweet, soft and glutinous soup is thick