Daddy's Gourmet Store

Chapter 601 Colorful Rice Balls
Time slipped away quietly, and it was the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first lunar month in a blink of an eye.

According to traditional customs, the Spring Festival is truly over after the Lantern Festival.

After this day, people will embark on the journey again and officially start the new year.

therefore.

People end the day in the most lively way: watching lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, setting off firecrackers, dancing dragons and lions.
As the first full moon night of the year, on the Lantern Festival, it is an indispensable ceremony for the family to sit together and eat a bowl of glutinous rice balls, which symbolizes reunion.

For this sense of ritual.

Huang Yide and Song Cailian drove here in a hurry after get off work to reunite with Huang Tao and Xuanxuan.

However, due to the long distance and some traffic jams on the road, it was already night when the two arrived at Chengxi Old Street.

Huang Tao
"grandparents!"

As soon as the old couple arrived at the store, Xuanxuan's eyes lit up, and she hurried towards them.

"Oh, my good granddaughter!"

Song Cailian smiled instantly, and hurried to meet her, stretched out her hands to hug her, and hugged her into her arms.

She touched Xuanxuan's little head, and couldn't help asking: "Xuanxuan, have you missed grandma these days?"

Xuanxuan nodded vigorously: "Think!"

"I think about it every day!"

oops~
This little mouth is so sweet that it reaches Song Cailian's heart.

Song Cailian smiled lovingly: "Grandma misses you too!"

Huang Yide bent down and asked lovingly, "What about grandpa? Do you miss grandpa?"

Xuanxuan said loudly without thinking, "I want to!"

"Ouch~ my eldest granddaughter~"

The corners of Huang Yide's mouth reached to the ears: "Come on, grandpa will reward you with a bag of delicious food."

As he spoke, he lifted the plastic bag in his hand and shook it in front of her.

"Wow……"

Xuanxuan was pleasantly surprised, reached out and hugged the plastic bag, and couldn't wait to look through it: "Let me see, let me see what is there, ah, it's chocolate, I like it, and there are Oreos, ah!"

Her eyebrows were curved, and her dimples were shallow: "Grandpa, you are so kind, thank you, Grandpa."

Huang Yide touched her little face, and said with a chuckle: "Of course, Grandpa loves you the most, Xuanxuan. Of course, I want to buy Xuanxuan's favorite food!"

Xuan Xuan hee hee.

"Dad, Mom, you are here."

After Huang Tao finished his work, he greeted him, and asked with concern: "Are you hungry? I left some food for you, let's eat first."

Huang Yide and his wife replied: "Fortunately, I bought some snacks on the way, and I'm not very hungry."

Xuanxuan blinked her eyes, thought for a while, and asked, "Papa, are you going to make Lantern Festival?"

Speaking of Lantern Festival!

There will always be a little friend to argue about the difference between Yuanxiao and Tangyuan.

They are all white spheres, wrapped in glutinous rice. Is it just that the names of the north and the south are different?

For example, the taste, filling, production process, appearance, taste, etc. are all different.

The production of Yuanxiao is much more complicated than that of Tangyuan. The filling must be reconciled first, and the solidified filling should be cut into small pieces. Roll back into the basket and repeat several times until the stuffing is covered with glutinous rice noodles and rolled into a ball.

Due to the different production techniques, Yuanxiao has a thicker taste than Tangyuan.

After the Lantern Festival is cooked, the soup will be thicker, like glutinous rice porridge, with a soft skin, firm and chewy fillings, and a strong fruity and rice aroma.

The way of glutinous rice balls is a bit like making dumplings. First, add water to the glutinous rice flour and knead it into a ball. Then grab a small ball of wet noodles with your hands, squeeze it into a sheet shape, pick a ball of filling and put it on the glutinous rice sheet, and then turn it with your hands to close it. Made into glutinous rice balls.

As a southerner, Huang Tao naturally does not make the "rolling" Yuanxiao in the north, but the "bao" glutinous rice balls in the south.

But this time, instead of sesame glutinous rice balls, colorful glutinous rice balls were made.

Huang Tao smiled and nodded: "To be precise, it should be making glutinous rice balls, and they are also colorful glutinous rice balls."

"Wow~"

Xuanxuan smiled sweetly in surprise, and volunteered: "Xuanxuan, let's help you make colorful glutinous rice balls together!"

"it is good!"

Huang Tao hugged her and kissed her on the cheek: "Let's do it together~"

When the father and daughter came to the back kitchen, Laoqian and Xiaohu, together with the steamed pumpkin cubes and purple sweet potato cubes, used a spoon to mash them respectively, and kneaded them into glutinous rice flour while they were hot to form a Purple potato dough, pumpkin dough.

Lin Zifeng poured the black sesame seeds he had fried in advance, spread them evenly on the chopping board, and began to grind the sesame seeds with a rolling pin.

Seeing Huang Tao coming over with Xuanxuan in his arms, Old Qian couldn't help laughing and said: "Don't worry, wait for Uncle Qian to knead the noodles first, and then let's make stuffing and make colorful glutinous rice balls together!"

"Oh~"

Xuan Xuan probed into the basin, looking like a curious baby.

Seeing those white glutinous rice flour, pumpkin pieces, and purple potato pieces merged into one and changed color, when she showed a little surprised expression, she was even more eager to try.

"Come on, let's wash our hands first."

Huang Tao carried her to the sink, washed his hands with her, and then returned to Lao Qian.

Huang Tao took out the heated carrot juice and spinach juice from the steamer.

Pour the snow-white glutinous rice flour into the three stainless steel basins used for kneading noodles, first pour in the carrot juice, stir it a bit, then reach out and touch Xuanxuan's little nose, and immediately the powder in Xuanxuan A reddish white spot remained on Fen's nose.

Xuanxuan opened her eyes wide, and instinctively reached out to wipe her nose.

The results of it!
The powder was wiped from the tip of the nose to the palm of the hand.

Huang Tao couldn't help but chuckle.

Xuanxuan pursed her lips, and said coquettishly: "Papa, you are so bad, you are playing tricks on me again..."

She wants to "retaliate" back.

But how...

People are small and short, so they can't do it!
So depressing!

"Oh, my baby is unhappy."

Huang Tao stretched out his hand again with a smile, touched her face and said, "Okay, Dad knows it's wrong, so I won't mess with you anymore."

However, with this wave of his operations, the cutie Xuanxuan directly turned into a kitten with a colorful face.

Xuanxuan's beautiful brows were slightly frowned, and she yelled coquettishly, "Ah... Baba..."

Huang Tao laughed.

There is a cheerful atmosphere in the back kitchen.

After laughing and laughing for a while, Huang Tao also started to face each other seriously.

His craftsmanship is naturally nothing to say.

soon.

All the noodles were mixed into a moderately soft and hard dough by him.

Looking at the red, green, yellow, purple, and white dough, Xuanxuan immediately put the matter of being painted into a tabby cat by her father behind her, and asked eagerly, "Papa, can I make colorful glutinous rice balls now?"

"Wait a minute..."

Huang Tao explained: "Let it wake up."

As he said, Huang Tao wrapped the five-color dough with a damp cloth to prevent the glutinous rice dough from drying out.

Taking advantage of this spare time, Huang Tao brought over the prepared red bean paste stuffing, jujube paste stuffing, bacon stuffing, peanut walnut stuffing.

Immediately afterwards, I took the pork suet that had been cut into small cubes in advance, poured it into the crushed black sesame that Lin Zifeng had just crushed, and added a little soft white sugar, sweet-scented osmanthus, and kept stirring with hands to make the fillings fully Knead together to form a single mass until no white suet is visible.

This is the end.

All the required fillings are ready.

"Xuanxuan, you can start making it now. The dough of different colors needs to be filled with different fillings. You will make it with Baba later. Don't confuse it..."

Huang Tao helped her put on sanitary gloves together, and first prepared to knead a small piece of stuffing in his palm and knead it into a small ball.

Xuanxuan, who already has practical experience in making glutinous rice balls, started kneading the fillings with her hands without saying a word, kneading the fillings until they were round, then picked out the pink balls from the dough, kneaded them into a "little wine cup", and put them in The stuffing is wrapped in and finally closed and kneaded again.

Don't say it yet.

The cooking is well done, and the technique is very skillful and standard, like a little pastry chef!
Moreover, the glutinous rice balls made are also decent, and they look pretty good!

It's rare to be able to do this at such a young age!

While watching, Lao Qian and the others dropped their jaws in shock, and at the same time they did not forget to applaud.

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!
Lao Qian gave Xuanxuan a thumbs up and said loudly, "Xuanxuan did a great job!"

"A tiger father has no dog daughter!"

He wasn't trying to flatter Huang Tao by beating around the bush, but he sincerely thought it was a good job.

"Hee hee~"

In the back kitchen, her joyful laughter echoed.

(End of this chapter)