Jiuniang Xiaoyuanzi (sugar substitute version)

Overview

Jiuniang dumplings are a traditional snack in the Jiangnan area. They are made from glutinous rice flour into pearl-like white dumplings and cooked with sweet fermented rice. They are sweet and hot. A bowl of them in winter will warm your stomach and heart. After the sweet glutinous rice is cooked, the sweetness will be greatly reduced and it will be a little sour. I don’t like boiled sweet glutinous rice. After cooking the dumplings, add 2 tablespoons of cold sweet glutinous rice. The desserts are delicious and the burden is heavy. Sucrose is very high in calories, and excessive intake can cause obesity, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes, dental caries and other diseases. So this time I used sugar substitute for the fermented glutinous rice dumplings. Speaking of sugar substitutes, I have actually been exposed to it very early. After my dad got diabetes, the doctor recommended xylitol, which is a sugar substitute. It is extracted from corn cobs. I always thought it was a natural and harmless sugar substitute, but recently I learned that xylitol can cause gastrointestinal burden. This time I used a sugar substitute whose main ingredient is erythritol. Erythritol is produced by fermentation of glucose. Its sweetness is 60~70% of sucrose. Use it instead of sucrose to make rice dumplings, which are sweet and will not make you fat.

Tags

• snacks
• breakfast
• lantern festival
• winter recipes
• hot water
• sweet fermented rice
• water-milled glutinous rice flour
• zero calorie sugar

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Weigh 120 grams of glutinous rice flour. In addition, some glutinous rice flour for hand flour must be prepared.

   

2. 2 Prepare 85 to 90 grams of hot water at about 65°C. Since the glutinous rice flour has different water absorption and different degrees of moisture, the amount of water required is also different. When pouring the water, do not pour it in all at once, leave some for maneuvering.

   

3. 3 Start kneading it into a ball. At this time, the dough has very poor ductility and will break when you break it.

   

4. 4 Take a small piece of dough and press it flat, put it in a pot of boiling water and cook until it floats and take it out.

   

5. 5 Knead this piece of cooked dough together with the original dough, and the dough will be very stretchable.

   

6. 6 Roll the kneaded dough into strips, about as thick as your index finger, and cut into small sections with a spatula.

   

7. 7 Then roll it into a round ball, sprinkle a little dry powder and roll it to prevent sticking. If you cook it immediately, there is no need to roll in the dry powder.

   

8. 8 Boil a pot of water, add the small dumplings into the embryo, add a bowl of cold water after boiling, and cook until the dumplings float. If you like boiled sweet fermented rice, just add sweet fermented rice at this time and bring to a boil.

   

9. 9 After scooping up, add zero calorie sugar, of course you can also add sucrose or honey.

   

10. 10 Add 2 tablespoons of sweet rice wine, add more or less as you like.

    

11. 11 Sprinkle some dried sweet-scented osmanthus, which is fragrant, sweet, and has a little bit of wine flavor. It’s so comfortable to have a bowl of it warm in winter!