Is Yuanxiao the same as Tangyuan? What's the difference between Yuanxiao and Tangyuan
4hw.com.cn: the Lantern Festival is coming in 2019. When it comes to the Lantern Festival, it must be inseparable from tangyuan. The North eats Yuanxiao and the South eats tangyuan. Many people think it's just two names of the same food. Are Yuanxiao the same as Tangyuan? What is the difference between the two? Let's take a look with Sihai life channel.
1、 Taste difference
Glutinous rice balls: glutinous rice balls are not only sweet, but also salty. They are both stuffed and solid. Among them, the salty dumplings basically do not add stuffing in the middle, and rely on the soup to taste salty; Solid dumplings without stuffing are very light, but a small amount of white sugar is put into the soup, which is not as greasy as sesame raw stuffing. It is suitable for people who are afraid of oil.
Lantern Festival: the biggest feature is sweet. There are relatively few kinds of fillings, mainly black sesame, five kernels, bean paste, etc., plus some white sugar.
2、 Difference between fillings
Tangyuan: black sesame, bean paste, walnut kernel, nut kernel and jujube paste were the first. Now people's tastes are becoming more and more picky. In order to meet the market demand, Yuanxiao and Tangyuan have also broken the tradition and entered the fruit taste. In the past two years, there have been Western flavors such as coffee and Matcha, which are a little messy and gradually want to be charming.
Lantern Festival: it was first filled with assorted stuffing and jujube paste. The assorted stuffing is actually a mixture of sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, cinnamon, walnut kernel and nut kernel. It feels like the five kernel stuffing in the moon cake.
3、 Differences in manufacturing process
Tangyuan: the process of making Tangyuan is like making dumplings. You need to reconcile the glutinous rice noodles first and wake up thoroughly; Then make stuffing. The water content in the stuffing is more than that of the Lantern Festival stuffing. It can be scattered like dumpling stuffing or kneaded into small balls; Finally, pull a piece of noodles, pinch it into pieces, wrap the stuffing in it, and knead it into a ball.
Lantern Festival: it is mainly filled with stuffing. First make the stuffing and cut it into small pieces. Then shake the stuffing back and forth in a large basket containing glutinous rice noodles (now with a machine) until a thick glutinous rice coat is rolled on the outside of the stuffing.
4、 Taste difference
Tangyuan: the skin is strong, and the filling is also chewy. The boiled soup will be viscous, a little like drinking rice soup.
Lantern Festival: the skin is smooth and the taste is delicate. Because there is much water in the filling, the filling will flow out like quicksand at the moment when the dumplings are bitten; In addition, the soup made of glutinous rice balls is clearer than that of yuanxiao.