[Northeast] Fish dumplings are served every year

Overview

Eating fish during the Chinese New Year has always been an important part of the traditional Chinese New Year cuisine. All eight major cuisines in my country are inseparable from fish dishes. Especially during the New Year’s Eve dinner, people can’t live without fish. Fish has the same pronunciation as "yu", and it also symbolizes mascots. For example, carp means more than enough profit; silver carp means more than one year after year; mandarin fish means more than wealth and honor. This is the sentiment that our country has had for thousands of years. They also make rice cakes, steamed buns and other foods into the shape of fish to please them. I used glutinous rice flour to make fish dumplings every year, which can be used as a snack during the Chinese New Year. They are sweet, soft, glutinous, bright in color, and vivid in appearance, which means that there are fish every year and there is more than enough every year.

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• food coloring
• water-milled glutinous rice flour
• white sugar

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Use about one-fifth of the total amount of water-milled glutinous rice flour to form a dough with water, put it into a pot and cook until thoroughly cooked.

   

2. 2 Put the cooked glutinous rice dough into the glutinous rice flour and add appropriate amount of sugar.

   

3. 3 Add appropriate amount of warm water to form a dough of moderate hardness, then add 1 tablespoon of cooking oil and knead evenly.

   

4. 4 Divide the mixed dough into several portions, add food coloring to each portion and knead evenly.

   

5. 5 depending on the sweetness you like. Take a small piece of white dough and green dough and knead them together into an oval shape; similarly knead the pink dough and white dough into an oval shape.

   

6. 6 Use chopsticks to pinch the fish in the middle, flatten the fish tail with your hands, and arrange the fish body and tail to make it more vivid.

   

7. 7 Use a toothpick to press some patterns on the tail of the fish.

   

8. 8 Roll into two small white balls, dip them in a little water and put them on the head of the fish to make fish eyes. Make sure they are firm enough to prevent them from falling off when boiling.

   

9. 9 In addition, make other small fish and match the colors as you like.

   

10. 10 Put it in the pot and cook it, then stick it on the fish eyes with black sesame seeds.

    

11. 11 Finished product pictures

    

12. 12 Finished product pictures