Sweet Dumplings
These delicious sweet dumplings are filled with sesame paste and eaten at the end of the Chinese Spring Festival.
Ingredients
Cooking Instructions
step 1
Put Black Sesame Seeds (3/4 cup), cooked Peanuts (1/3 cup) and Granulated Sugar (1/3 cup) into a blender and blend until smooth.
step 2
Heat the Lard (3/4 cup) in a pan until it melts.
step 3
Add the melted pork lard into the sesame mixture and mix them evenly.
step 4
Put the sesame mixture into the refrigerator until it is cooled. Shape the sesame seed mixture into balls and set aside.
step 5
In a bowl, combine Water (to taste), Sweet Glutinous Rice Flour (1 2/3 cups) and Unsweetened Cocoa Powder (1 cup).
step 6
In another bowl combine Water (to taste) and the remaining Sweet Glutinous Rice Flour (1 2/3 cups).
step 7
Mix both bowls separately until combined. Knead the dough to form two rounds.
step 8
Knead the dough to form one round.
step 9
Knead to form another round.
step 10
Roll the dough into long cylinders, with alternating side by side.
step 11
Cut the dough into 1-inch thick pieces. Flatten each piece with your hand until it becomes thin enough to wrap around sesame seed ball.
step 12
Wrap each sesame seed ball with two-tone "wrapper" and set aside.
step 13
Put the dumplings into boiling water until they are done.
step 14
Serve and enjoy!
