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Chapter 206 Sixi Rice Balls

It was just before 6 o'clock when Qin Huai and Ouyang got home.

Qin Huai planned to try the Sixi glutinous rice dumpling, which is simpler and easier to understand by hearing the name.

Qin Huai can make glutinous rice balls.

Not only can he make glutinous rice balls, but he can also make Yuanxiao. Tangyuan is a must-eat snack on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the Qin family. No matter whether you eat more or less, you must first eat a bowl of glutinous rice **** with dinner, usually stuffed with sesame seeds.

There was a time when eating fruit glutinous rice **** was very popular in Qiu County, and Qin Huai also tried making it several times. Maybe it was because the recipe was wrong and the taste wasn't very good. After eating it a few times, the Qin family returned to the embrace of sesame-filled glutinous rice balls.

As for the Lantern Festival, Qin Luo discovered that the glutinous rice **** in the north and the south are actually different when watching TV. The ones in the south are called glutinous rice **** and the ones in the north are called Yuanxiao. The glutinous rice **** are wrapped, and the dumplings are rolled out, and the dumplings are bigger. Qin Luo immediately didn't even want to eat the snacks in Gongdou Opera, but wanted to eat the dumplings.

Qin Huai tried making Yuanxiao several times according to the recipes in "The Encyclopedia of Desserts". Qin Luo found that they were not much different from glutinous rice balls, and the skin of Yuanxiao was not as smooth and sticky as glutinous rice balls. The most important thing is that all Yuanxiao are sweet, unlike glutinous rice **** and meat fillings. After eating Yuanxiao a few times, Yuanxiao will be relegated to the sidelines.

Over the years, there have been many more dim sums thrown into the cold palace by Qin Luo than the concubines thrown into the cold palace by the emperor in the TV series.

In Qin Huai's opinion, making glutinous rice **** is very simple.

This snack is basically not difficult. Even though Sixi Tangyuan is a complex type of glutinous rice **** that requires 4 kinds of fillings and 4 shapes, its seasoning and **** are not very difficult.

Although the game system complains all the time that Qin Huai does not style dim sum at all, there is indeed no need to style many dim sum.

There are 4 shapes of Sixi glutinous rice balls, which is also to distinguish the glutinous rice **** with different fillings to avoid mixing them during cooking.

Qin Huai started studying the recipes as soon as he got home.

The recipe was very simple. Qin Huai browsed it briefly and made a mental note before starting to make the dough.

When making Sixi glutinous rice balls, the skin is the most troublesome.

You need to use special water-milled flour, also called glutinous rice flour, which is actually glutinous rice flour. If you want to make water-milled flour by hand, the steps are very complicated. You need to soak the glutinous rice overnight, grind it into a slurry with a water mill, put it in a cloth bag and hang it up overnight, drain the water in the slurry, and put the remaining wet glutinous rice flour in the bag. Crush it and dry it to make water-milled powder suitable for making glutinous rice balls.

This is an old practice from the past.

It's different now. With the advancement of science and technology, you can buy water-milled powder directly in supermarkets, with any quality and grade you want.

Qin Huai found six bags of water-milled powder from the cabinet that had never been opened before. There were six bags of different brands. He picked out the best-looking bag based on the packaging and ingredient list, poured it into a small bowl, and stirred it into a dough with cold water.

When Qin Huai first moved in, the cabinets in the kitchen of this house were empty, and there was not even rice in the house.

When Qin Huai brought ingredients from Huang Ji home for the first time to practice crab roe Shaomai, there were more ingredients at home.

There are all kinds of ingredients needed for all kinds of baking dishes, including all kinds of sugar, all kinds of powder, all kinds of yeast... Even the cleaning lady bought 6 rolling pins.

Qin Huai felt that the house was too small and the conditions did not allow it, otherwise Gong Liang would definitely ask the cleaning lady to order a super large steamer of the same style as Huangji and stuff it into the kitchen.

Qin Huai slowly pressed the dough into a thin cake shape and put it into boiling water to cook.

Ouyang stood outside the kitchen and watched. He was shocked when he saw Qin Huai put the rice **** into the pot directly. He thought that he had offended Qin Huai in the past two days. Qin Huai was determined to take revenge on him and cooked a pot of rice **** for himself.

Ouyang began to reflect on what he had done in the past two days.

Could it be that he drank four cups of hand-made lemon tea yesterday and didn't bring Qin Huai one cup, which made Qin Huai feel unhappy.

Or it was revealed that he went to Guanhe Tower for a secret meal at noon the day before yesterday. Qin Huai, as Huang Ji's chef, decided to give himself some color.

Or maybe Qin Huai discovered that he secretly ate three large packages of cheese sticks when he went home this morning?

Ouyang looked at the dough rolling in the boiling water and swallowed nervously.

This is glutinous rice flour dough. If you eat it hard, it will fill your stomach.

Can he apply for dipping it in sugar later?

Is it too late to confess now?

"I didn't mean to go to Guanhe Tower to eat the day before yesterday. I just heard that the food there is good." Ouyang said.

"The food at Guanhe Tower is pretty good. The squirrel mandarin fish is the signature dish, and the water shield tofu soup is also famous." Qin Huai nodded.

Ouyang:?

That's not it?

Ouyang continued to confess: "I didn't mean to eat all the cheese sticks in the refrigerator. I mainly couldn't hold it back. That stuff didn't occupy my stomach at all, and I couldn't stop eating one after another. You know me, before I have been so poor for two years that I can't even bear to eat a cheese stick. Sometimes, Hui Huisai would give me one before I could eat it. Now that there are so many cheese sticks in front of me, I really can't resist their temptation. "

Qin Huai stared at the pot without looking at Ouyang. Seeing that the dough had floated, he quickly ordered some water, turned down the heat, and cooked the dough thoroughly.

Qin Huai suffered a loss in this regard when he first made glutinous rice balls. The dough was not cooked thoroughly and the whole pot of glutinous rice **** was ruined.

"You also like to eat cheese sticks. Tell me earlier. You can write a note and stick it on the refrigerator later, telling the cleaning lady what flavor you want to eat. She will buy new ones every day."

"Don't just eat cheese sticks, eat some fruit too."

"Ah?" Ouyang was confused.

While Ouyang was confused, the dough in the pot had been cooked. Qin Huai took out the dough and soaked it in cold water without draining it. He spread the dough on the chopping board and kneaded it, added cooked lard, and started to look like Knead the dough as you would knead dough.

At this point, Ouyang understood.

Oh, it turned out that instead of letting him eat boiled glutinous rice dumplings, Qin Huai was really making snacks.

Only then did Ouyang feel relieved and continued to watch aggressively.

The steps of kneading dough are very similar to kneading dough. They are kneaded repeatedly until the dough is smooth and not sticky.

After kneading the dough, Qin Huai began to make glutinous rice balls.

The fillings are all brought from Huangji in the afternoon.

The four fillings of Sixi Rice Balls are actually very simple. To put it bluntly, there are two salty fillings and two sweet fillings. The vegetable and pure meat ones have a salty filling, while the bean paste and sesame fillings have a sweet filling.

Qin Huai also asked Huang Shengli in the afternoon, and received a positive reply. The filling of Sixi glutinous rice **** is the most common filling.

This snack is a homemade snack that every household in Longcheng makes. In the early years, there were small stalls selling it everywhere in the streets and in front of the school. For such a popular snack, the fillings must be the most popular and common.

Qin Huai didn't prepare much ingredients. He only made 16 glutinous rice dumplings in total, 4 gnocchi for each portion, which is enough for 4 servings.

Sixi glutinous rice **** are absolutely large glutinous rice balls, several times larger than ordinary small glutinous rice balls. They are sold in high-end and more sophisticated stores in small bowls. A glutinous rice ball, both in terms of quality and price, goes up instantly.

Qin Huai's family didn't have that many bowls, so he found four big bowls and prepared to squeeze four glutinous rice **** into one bowl to make ends meet.

For Qinhuai, cooking glutinous rice **** is more difficult than making dumplings.

Friends whose mothers are not good at cooking know that mothers who are not good at cooking can easily break the glutinous rice balls.

When I put the glutinous rice **** in the pot, there was a pot of glutinous rice **** in the pot. When I turned off the heat and opened the lid, there was a pot of sesame and glutinous rice skin soup in the pot.

Qin Huai is also someone who has practiced cooking for such a long time, so he will definitely not make such a stupid mistake as boiling the glutinous rice **** into pieces. But if you want to cook glutinous rice **** well, especially large glutinous rice **** like Sixi glutinous rice balls, it also requires certain skills.

To cook glutinous rice balls, boil the water and gently add it along the edge of the pot. While cooking, stir gently from time to time to prevent the glutinous rice **** from sticking to the bottom. When the water in the pot boils again, add water in time to keep the water boiling but not boiling. When the glutinous rice **** float to the end, cover the pot and simmer for two minutes over low heat. It is considered done.

The above is theoretical knowledge.

In actual operation, there is a lot of room for upward and downward movement.

For example, glutinous rice **** are made of glutinous rice. In theory, if the chef's level is high enough, the final cooked glutinous rice **** can be made to look white and translucent like white porcelain, so glutinous that they will stick to the bottom when you pinch them with chopsticks, and they will not stick to your teeth when eaten. Full but not overflowing.

The above is all theoretical.

Generally speaking, glutinous rice **** are a snack that looks very homely, but has a very high upper limit and a very low lower limit.

This directly made Qin Huai a little nervous when cooking glutinous rice balls.

How can I put it, cooking glutinous rice **** gives the feeling of making soup.

The last time Qin Huai stared at a pot so nervously, always paying attention to the state of the water in the pot, was when he was making soup in Yunzhong Canteen.

Finally, the glutinous rice **** came out of the pot.

There is no strong aroma, just a faint smell of cooked glutinous rice flour. Qin Huai served four bowls of glutinous rice balls, one for himself, one for Ouyang, one for Gong Liang, and one for Guo Mingzhu. The two bowls next door were placed in the insulated box first, and they were sent over after Qin Huai and Ouyang had finished eating and confirmed that they had not overturned and that there were no problems.

Yes, there is even a thermos in the kitchen.

The freshly cooked glutinous rice **** were so hot that Qin Huai didn't dare to take a bite even if the skin had been blown so much that they didn't seem to be hot anymore. Without Qin Luo as a reference, Ouyang didn't dare to speak rashly, so he could only blow on the dumplings and sniff them.

Qin Huai didn't know what kind of smell he could smell. There was no fragrance in the dumplings. At most, it smelled like cooked glutinous rice flour, not even a fragrance.

"What kind of glutinous rice **** are these? They are so big and strangely shaped. I saw when you made them just now, they seemed to have meat fillings." Ouyang asked.

"Sixi glutinous rice dumplings are Longcheng's special snacks. I have never eaten them before. I checked the recipe online and tried to make them today."

"Remember to give me feedback after you finish eating."

"Don't worry, I've tried so many things for you, don't you know me? Professional tasting!" After Ouyang finished speaking, he took a bite.

"hiss-"

Ouyang almost spit out the dumplings in his mouth.

He picked one with sesame filling, and the sweet one was hot.

Ouyang breathed in hissingly and stirred it wildly in his mouth with his tongue. He raised his head and opened his mouth, like a fish that was washed up on the shore and was about to die of thirst. He struggled for a while before swallowing the dumplings.

"Sweet." Ouyang commented.

Qin Huai:…

What on earth was he expecting?

Qin Huai had given up on Ouyang being able to give him any useful comments. He carefully scooped out the vegetable and meat dumplings with a spoon and took a small bite.

It's very soft and doesn't stick to your teeth.

With Qinhuai's current level of dough kneading, he can make very beautiful dough balls.

Qin Huai glanced at the dumplings in the spoon.

pretty.

The filling of the vegetable and meat stuffing is green. At first glance, you can only see chopped green shepherd's purse, and the meat only has sporadic minced meat. It tastes very much like shepherd's purse dumplings without much meat.

Wrap the dumpling fillings into glutinous rice balls. It's not that it's not delicious, it's very fresh, and the color of the fillings is also very beautiful, but it tastes a little weird.

Qin Huai was seventy percent full after dinner. Now he didn't dare to eat the big dumplings quickly. He could only eat them slowly in small bites. While eating, he tasted the dumplings and thought about whether the shepherd's purse filling could be changed.

When he searched for recipes online, the fillings for vegetable and meat fillings were not uniform. There were shepherd's purse fillings and shredded radish fillings. Both of these are very popular vegetable fillings. Qin Huai thought he could try shredded radish fillings tomorrow. of.

After finishing the vegetable and meat dishes, Qin Huai started to eat pure meat dishes.

tasty!

The glutinous rice **** are stuffed full of meat fillings, without any extra ingredients. The main purpose is to fill the meat fillings, and meat fillings are the king.

This is the taste of the most common and delicious meat-filled snacks

Qin Luo will definitely fall in love with this stuffed glutinous rice dumpling. There is nothing else but more meat.

After Qin Huai finished eating the glutinous rice **** stuffed with fresh meat, Ouyang was able to finish the glutinous rice **** stuffed with sesame seeds. He drank a few mouthfuls of glutinous rice **** before he could speak:

"tasty."

"It's just too hot. I'm glad I didn't get burned to death."

"Who told you to eat in such a hurry? If you eat red bean paste stuffing, it will get even hotter. Haven't you heard the famous joke? Eating a red bean paste bun will burn you all the way to the back of your head."

After Qin Huai finished eating two salty glutinous rice dumplings, he knew that sweet stuffed glutinous rice **** were his specialty, and the bean paste filling and sesame filling were both cooked by Qin Huai himself some time ago, so he would definitely not go wrong, so he had to make sure they were right.

"You eat the rest first, and I'll deliver the dumplings to the next door." Qin Huai stood up and went to the kitchen to bring the bowl.

Ouyang continued to laugh and eat the bean paste stuffing.

Qin Huai rang the doorbell next door with two bowls of Sixi glutinous rice balls.

"Here, who is it?"

The person who opened the door was Gong Baozhu. Because the heating was on in the room, he was wearing a thin singlet. His clothes, sleeves and even trousers were a little wrinkled. He looked like he was working.

"Master Qin!" Gong Baozhu said in surprise. He glanced at the bowl Qin Huai was holding and screamed, "Sixi glutinous rice balls! I haven't eaten this for a long time!"

Gong Baozhu quickly brought Qin Huai slippers and welcomed Qin Huai in.

"Master Qin is here, Lao Gong, don't look for your shabby tea leaves in the room, Master Qin is here to visit." Guo Mingzhu stood at the door of the kitchen and shouted inside, "Master Qin, do you want some juice? I'm just in time To squeeze juice."

Gong Liang hurriedly came out of the room and said to his daughter: "Baozhu, go to the cabinet above and have a look. I clearly remember that there is a jar of mountain clouds."

Gong Baozhu's eyes were only fixed on Sixi Rice Balls: "Dad, let's not look for it today. Maybe you left it at another house and forgot to pick it up. I'll ask my brother to look for it tomorrow."

"The dumplings will get cold if you don't eat them now."

Only then did Gong Liang see Sixi Rice Balls.

Gong Liang was almost moved to tears.

He told Qin Huai that he wanted to eat Sixi Rice Balls at noon, and Qin Huai made them in the evening!

Still working overtime!

He was so touched that he wanted to buy something for the house next door.

Zheng Da really doesn't know how to do things. Qin Huai rents a two-bedroom apartment to live alone and doesn't know how to rent a larger house.

If you rent a single-family villa, it would be best to have a garden. Wouldn’t there be more things you can buy?

"Mr. Gong, I happen to be free today, so I took the time to make Sixi Rice Balls after I came back. Please try to see if they are made authentically and if there are any problems. This is my first time and I have no experience."

"No problem, no problem, what's wrong with such a beautiful dumpling?" Gong Baozhu couldn't wait to get a spoon from the kitchen, scooped up a dumpling stuffed with shepherd's purse and put it in his mouth.

One mouthful.

Gong Baozhu showed a satisfied expression.

"Hmm~ I can eat Uncle Huang's cooking for lunch, and I can also have Sixi Rice Balls made by Master Qin at night. It would be great if I could eat like this every day."

Guo Mingzhu stood at the door of the kitchen, helplessly looking at her unpromising daughter, shaking her head and smiling: "You are only as promising as you are, not as good as your dad. Your dad's ultimate ideal when he was young was to eat crab roe for a month. After eating the double crab buns for a month, you will be satisfied with the Sixi rice dumplings.”

"Mom, it's different, it's delicious!" Gong Baozhu said seriously, "Master Qin's Sixi glutinous rice **** are super delicious!"

After that, Gong Baozhu wrapped up the remaining half of Sixi glutinous rice dumplings in one bite, and then scooped up another bowl of shepherd's purse glutinous rice dumplings.

"Dad, you don't like to eat shepherd's purse stuffing anyway, and mom doesn't like to eat it either, so I'll help you both eat it!" Gong Baozhu said vaguely.

Qin Huai immediately grasped the key point and looked at Gong Liang: "Mr. Gong, don't you eat shepherd's purse?"

Gong Liang nodded: "I ate a lot when I was a kid. Sometimes my family would eat dumplings like those from the north during the Chinese New Year. I would cry when I saw the shepherd's purse dumplings."

Qin Huai nodded: "That was my mistake. I forgot to ask you if you have any dietary restrictions. Sixi glutinous rice **** also have shredded radish filling. I will make shredded radish filling tomorrow."

"My dad doesn't like to eat stuffed radish stuffing either." Gong Baozhu answered quickly, "He just likes to eat mint stuffing that no one makes nowadays."

"Mince filling?" Qin Huai thought for a while and pulled out the relevant information in his mind, "It is made by mixing a variety of nuts, dried fruits, and sweet fillings such as coconut and sesame. It is usually used to make moon cakes. The stuffing?”

Gong Baozhu didn't know very well and swallowed the glutinous rice **** in his mouth: "Maybe, I don't know how it is made. It is basically impossible to buy glutinous rice **** with mince fillings now. Everyone doesn't like to eat them."

"That's because they don't know how to make it." Gong Liang said, "The dumplings with mint filling made by Master Jing back then were the most delicious!"

(End of chapter)