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What's the difference between Yuanxiao and Tangyuan

What's the difference between Yuanxiao and Tangyuan

4hw.com.cn: the Lantern Festival is coming. It must be inseparable from Tangyuan when it is mentioned. In the north, Yuanxiao is eaten. In the south, tangyuan is eaten. Many people think that it's just two different names for the same food. Is Yuanxiao the same as Tangyuan? What's the difference between the two? Let's take a look at it with Sihai life channel.

I. taste difference

Tangyuan: in addition to sweet Tangyuan, there are also salty tangyuan. There are both filled and unfilled ones. Among them, the salty Tangyuan is basically salty without filling in the middle, and it depends on the soup; while the solid Tangyuan without filling is very light, only a small amount of white sugar is put in the soup, which is not as greasy as the sesame raw filling, so it is suitable for people who are afraid of oil.

Lantern Festival: the biggest characteristic is sweetness. There are relatively few kinds of fillings, mainly black sesame, Wuren, Dousha, etc. and some white sugar.

II. Difference between fillings

Tangyuan: the first to black sesame, bean paste, walnuts, nuts, jujube mud based. Now people's tastes are becoming more and more picky. In order to meet the market demand, Yuanxiao and tangyuaner also break the tradition and march towards the fruit taste. In the past two years, there have been Western tastes such as coffee and Matcha, which are a little bit of messy and gradually charming.

Lantern Festival: the first to mix stuffing, Zao clay stuffing mainly. The mixed stuffing is actually a mixture of sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, cinnamon, walnuts and nuts. It feels like the five kernel stuffing in the moon cake.

III. differences in manufacturing process

Tangyuan: the process of making Tangyuan is like making dumplings. You need to mix the glutinous rice noodles and wake them up; then you need to make the stuffing. The water content in the stuffing is more than that of the Lantern Festival stuffing. It can be spread like the dumpling stuffing, or it can be kneaded into a small ball; finally, you need to pick up a piece of noodles, knead it into a piece, wrap the stuffing in it, and knead it into a ball.

Lantern Festival: it's mainly filled with stuffing. First, make the stuffing, cut it into small pieces, and then put the stuffing in a big basket filled with glutinous rice noodles and shake it back and forth (now with a machine), until the stuffing is rolled on a thick layer of glutinous rice coat.

IV. difference in taste

Tangyuan: the skin is strong, and the stuffing is chewy. The soup will be thick and a little like rice soup.

Lantern Festival: the skin is smooth and the taste is delicate. Because there is a lot of water in the filling, the filling will flow out like quicksand at the moment when the Tangyuan is bitten. In addition, the Tangyuan boiled soup is brighter than the Lantern Festival.