It is necessary to add sugar correctly when making fillings
Let’s take the sweet rice dumplings with bean paste that we often eat as an example. The timing of adding sugar to the bean paste filling is also very particular. First, The first step is to clean the red beans, then put the red beans into a small basin, add an appropriate amount of water and soak them for more than two hours or overnight. Pour an appropriate amount of cold water into the pot, then pour the soaked red beans into the pot, turn on high heat and start cooking until the water becomes less, then add sugar water and continue cooking. If we add sugar in advance when cooking red beans, it will make it difficult to cook the red bean paste, which will affect the taste of the bean paste rice dumplings, and the resulting bean paste will naturally not be delicious.
These tips for making these fillings are not only applicable to the making of rice dumpling fillings in our family life, but even some large factories that make rice dumplings will do this. Take Zhu Laoda, a well-known sweet rice dumpling expert in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as an example. They strictly adhere to this principle when making sweet rice dumplings. Their bean paste is extracted and screened through multiple meticulous sand washing processes before it is properly prepared in the final process. A special filler formula is added to ensure the delicate texture of their bean paste.
How to add sugar when making rice dumplings
For those who like sweet food, adding some sugar when making rice dumplings is actually a good choice to enhance the taste, but if you directly Adding white sugar during the process of making rice dumplings will cause the sugar to be lost with the boiling water during subsequent cooking, which will not increase the sweetness. So at this time we have to learn to add sugar in some previous processes.
We can soak the glutinous rice one day in advance. In this process, we can remove the glutinous rice floating on the water to achieve the screening effect. When we take out the glutinous rice, we can add white sugar to evenly mix it. Stir thoroughly, so that the sweetness of the white sugar can be firmly locked in the glutinous rice of the rice dumplings, and the sweetness will become a major feature of the rice dumplings you make.
A small amount of white sugar, added at the right time to the rice dumplings, will elevate the sweet taste of the rice dumplings to a higher level and ensure the texture of the rice dumplings. Friends who have learned this should go home and try it yourself.