Recipe: Tasty Black Sesame Dumplings (Tang Yuan)

Black Sesame Dumplings (Tang Yuan). Black Sesame Dumplings (Tang Yuan) - This recipe calls for a perfect dessert with sweet black sesame paste dumplings served in ginger syrup. I don't have much of a sweet tooth, except for a few desserts. One of the Chinese desserts I absolutely love is tang yuan (汤圆) or sweet dumplings filled.

Make the filling: In a medium bowl, combine the ground black sesame seeds, powdered sugar and melted butter. Sue Chan says these dumplings are like the best peanut-butter-and-honey sandwich you've ever had. This recipe is a take on tang yuan, the traditional black. You can cook Black Sesame Dumplings (Tang Yuan) using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Black Sesame Dumplings (Tang Yuan)

1. Prepare 1 cup of glutinous rice flour.
2. It's 1/2 cup of water.
3. Prepare of Filling :.
4. It's 3 tbs of black sesame seed.
5. Prepare 3 tbs of brown sugar.
6. Prepare 3 tbs of unsalted butter (softened, not melt).
7. You need of For the syrup:.
8. It's 2 of " ginger (skin off).
9. You need 2 cups of palm sugar (I used jaggery, coz no palm sugar here).
10. You need 2 of pandan leaves.
11. Prepare 3 cups of water.

This recipe is part of our collection of Chinese holiday and festival foods. Sign up for our newsletter to receive family-friendly activity, recipe and craft ideas throughout the year! The tang yuan dough recipe makes about one dozen sesame balls (four servings). In a food processor or blender, finely grind the roasted black sesame seeds.

Black Sesame Dumplings (Tang Yuan) instructions

1. Roast sesame seed on a pan in very low heat in 7 minutes (keep eye on it, make sure it's not burn) and remove from heat..
2. Grind roasted sesame in food processor until find add palm sugar and butter (do not melt the butter).
3. Mix well rice flour and 1/2 cup of boiled water and knead dough just 5 - 10 minutes until no more stick to your hand. And cover with plastic so it will not dry..
4. Rolled up the toasted sesame and make it into balls. (approximately as big as marble) and keep it on the fridge up to 1 or 2 hours until set..
5. Take the rice flour dough and flatten with your hand and fill with the filling. And closed the dough over the filling. When it's done just cover with plastic so it won't dry..
6. Make a ginger syrup, with fill 3 cups of water on a sauce pan together with 2 cups palm sugar and ginger, and pandan leaves bring it to boil..
7. Now in the other sauce pan, boiled 4 cup water and bring it to boil, and add the dough in the boiling water. Cook until it floats..
8. Serve the balls with ginger syrup when it's still hot. Enjoy!.

Add the caster sugar (AKA superfine sugar) and use a spatula to mix together in the food processor a bit. Tang yuan was one of them. After a two-week holiday trip to Thailand, I had just returned to the small city where I was living and working in northeast China. These dumplings are chewy on the outside and delightfully different on the inside too, thanks to sweet black sesame paste. Celebrate Chinese New Year with these Sesame Glutinous Rice Dumplings (Tang Yuan)!