Glutinous rice balls are usually white, but now people are getting better and better at playing with them. How can they make colorful glutinous rice balls? So which brand of colorful glutinous rice balls is good? How to make colorful glutinous rice balls? In this issue, we will Let me introduce it to you in detail! Which brand of colored glutinous rice balls is good?
General glutinous rice balls brands have colored glutinous rice balls. You only need to go to major supermarkets to buy them! In fact, colored glutinous rice balls are just added with a little seasoning. It’s not difficult, you can try making it yourself! Let’s introduce the making method below!
A complete list of how to make colorful glutinous rice balls
Purple glutinous rice balls
Steam or cook the purple sweet potato in a pressure cooker (it can be easily cut through with chopsticks), let it cool, peel it, put it in a large container and use the back of a large spoon to press it into a puree. Pour in an appropriate amount of milk or water, white sugar, and glutinous rice flour. , knead until the mashed potato is soft and does not stick to your hands, and then knead it into small balls.
Yellow glutinous rice balls
I am lazy again, there are also orange-yellow sweet potatoes, or You can also use pumpkin. Steam it or cook it in a pressure cooker, puree it, add glutinous rice flour and water, and use the same method to make yellow glutinous rice balls.
Brown glutinous rice balls
Yes Don’t many recipes call for cocoa powder? Ignore him, do you have chocolate on hand? Add a little hot water to the chocolate, slowly let it melt, add glutinous rice flour, milk or water, rub it, haha, brown balls Here it comes.
Green glutinous rice balls
This is a little more troublesome. I use matcha powder. If you don’t have it, you have to make it honestly. Vegetable juice. As for vegetable juice with a strong green color, I know spinach and leeks. Spinach is better. The juice won’t smell like leeks when squeezed. Moreover, there is a way to pick the spinach leaves without a juicer. After boiling the water, blanch it for fifteen seconds, take it out, put it in a bowl and crush it continuously, and the green juice will flow out. For the red glutinous rice balls, I chose red yeast rice powder. I remember that red yeast rice powder is a regional specialty. It is more common in Hunan and is a natural pigment. It should not be available in every place.
In addition, you can use red dragon fruit. Well, this is not common. Carrots? You can, but you don’t need a juicer. It's still quite troublesome.
But, we can use brown sugar. Also, I remember that the color of Pu'er tea seems to be red. You can use Pu'er tea water and add glutinous rice flour to roll the balls. Of course , the color of the meatballs made by these two methods is very light, and the color is not very correct.
Are colorful glutinous rice balls highly nutritious?
This year’s colorful glutinous rice balls have become the main product of the Lantern Festival , various colors of glutinous rice balls are sold in the frozen sections of several large supermarkets in the city. They are no longer the monotonous white in previous years, but green, yellow, blue, red... The colorful glutinous rice balls attract a lot of people. Most of the citizens' purchases are young people, and most middle-aged and elderly people still choose traditional white glutinous rice balls.
Not only are they innovating in color, but this year businesses are also making a big fuss about the taste of glutinous rice balls. In addition to the traditional sesame, bean paste, and peanut flavors, there are also glutinous rice balls with spinach, pumpkin, purple sweet potato, blueberry, strawberry, grape and other fillings. Some brands have even launched the Huaxianzi series, fruit series, and vegetable series. Such series of products Most of them come in gift boxes with exquisite packaging.
The small glutinous rice balls are no longer just about inner beauty. In order to catch the focus of some visual young people, they also work hard both internally and externally. They are colorful and beautiful. The nutritional value of glutinous rice balls is actually not high, because merchants use less vegetable juice when making colorful glutinous rice balls, and the vitamins are easily soluble in water. The vegetables in the glutinous rice balls will lose part of their nutritional value during cooking, so colorful glutinous rice balls There is almost no vitamin content left in the glutinous rice balls.