December 21: Usher In Longer Days with Dōngzhì's Glutinous Rice Balls
Find a new way to welcome longer days by enjoying Chinese rice balls! The Chinese winter solstice offers a great traditional food in dumplings but on this day, the actual day of the solstice, enjoy its most important dish. Known as Tang Tuan, the Glutinous Rice Ball is traditionally served in a sweet ginger soup.
The ginger soup-rice ball combination offers many textures and varieties, as shown by these quick and easy dinner ideas. Rice balls can even be made in different colors which add delight to cooking photography. Try a thicker broth if you want something filling or embrace tradition with a more basic broth. Play with the colors too-you might as well make this a festive meal! Have fun with these ideas while enjoying something different from your everyday fare. Make this meal a celebration for brighter days to come!
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Baked veggie-stuffed arancini (rice balls)
It’s very aromatic, for the brown rice is cooked in the water of soaked porcini mushrooms (very delightfully fragrant), and the herbs, along with the sun-dried tomatoes and garlic powder also add to the “pizza-like” flavor. And unlike traditional arancini, these rice balls are baked, so we avoid all the unhealthy disadvantages of frying.
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Baby Tang Yuan aka Glutinous Rice Balls
A traditional Chinese sweet soup with a tweak
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Coconut and Azuki Glutinous Rice Cake
Coconut and Azuki (Red Bean) Glutinous Rice Cake 椰汁紅豆糯米糕—For Chinese New Year
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Pumpkin 7-up Hee Pan
Pumpkin 7-up Hee pan is a traditional Chinese steamed glutinous rice cake that is soft and chewy.
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