There are many ways to eat pumpkin, in addition to cooking, boiling porridge to eat, you can also make pumpkin balls small snacks, let's take a look at how pumpkin balls are delicious and simple.
First, the preparation of pumpkin balls
1. Prepare pumpkin, sugar, glutinous rice flour, white sesame seeds and cooking oil.
2. First peel the pumpkin, then wash all the pumpkin meat, cut it into evenly sized pieces, and then put all the pumpkin directly on a plate.
3. Add the right amount of water to the pot, then put the whole plate of pumpkin directly into the pot, steam for about ten minutes, and wait until the chopsticks can be completely stuck into the pumpkin, and the pumpkin will be steamed.
4. Use a spoon to mash the steamed pumpkin into a puree, and then add an appropriate amount of white sugar to the pumpkin, the amount of white sugar is determined according to your own taste, and you can also add some honey to the pumpkin puree.
5. Add glutinous rice flour to the pumpkin puree and stir well, so that the pumpkin puree and glutinous rice flour can be completely fused, and kneaded into a smooth dough with a golden surface.
6. Cover the pumpkin dough with plastic wrap and let it rise for 10 minutes.
7. After kneading the pumpkin dough into a ball of uniform size, roll it in the sesame seeds so that the surface can be dipped in enough white sesame seeds to start frying.
Second, the frying method of pumpkin balls
1. Add cooking oil to the pot, when the oil is about warm, put down the pumpkin balls in turn, and use a low heat throughout the process.
2. Fry the pumpkin balls for five minutes, in the process of frying the pumpkin dumplings, you must keep using chopsticks to flip the balls, you can avoid the situation that the balls are not cooked well, and you can also avoid the color is not good.
3. When the pumpkin dumplings are fried until golden brown, they can be fished out, the oil in them is controlled, and after cooling, they can be eaten.
The glutinous rice flour used to make pumpkin balls can be bought directly and can also be made at home. The method is very simple, first soak the glutinous rice overnight, beat it into slurry water after the water mill, then pack it in a cloth bag, hang it for a night, and wait until the water droplets are dry, to break all the wet glutinous rice flour balls, and after drying, the glutinous rice flour will be ready.