Homemade Lotus Seed Dumplings with Osmanthus Wine Sauce

Popular snack in the Jiangnan region.Sweet and sour, it benefits yin nourishment, improves complexion, promotes lactation, enlarges breasts, strengthens energy, quenches thirst, and reduces swelling. Rice dumplings are soft and glutinous.

Grapeseeds provide a sweet taste.Rice flour is used to make the dumplings. Cordyceps add color and sweetness.Safflower enhances fragrance and appearance. It is suitable for those who do not drink alcohol as it has low alcohol content even after cooking.Main ingredients: 2 grams of safflower, 3 tablespoons of fermented rice wine, 150 grams of glutinous rice flour, an appropriate amount of rock sugar, 1 egg, and 5 grams of cordyceps. Steps:

. Mix glutinous rice flour with hot water to form a dough.

　　. Roll the dough into small balls, sprinkle some glutinous rice flour on the bowl to prevent sticking.(Reserve extra for later use by freezing). Use the "Steam and Cook" function of an electric rice cooker... Beat the egg.. When water boils, add the rice dumplings.. Add rock sugar.

. Add cleaned cordyceps.

. Boil until the dumplings float to the surface.

. Slowly pour in the beaten eggs.. Add safflower.

. Add fermented rice wine at the end of cooking.. Tips:. Overcooking fermented rice wine will make it sour, so add it last.. This recipe uses the "Steam and Cook" function of an electric rice cooker.

4. Beat the eggs.

5. Once the water boils, add the dumplings.

6. Add the rock sugar.

7. Add cleaned goji berries.

8. Cook until the dumplings rise to the surface.

9. Slowly pour in the beaten eggs.

10. Add the osmanthus flowers.

11. End the program and add the glutinous rice balls.

Tip

1. Overcooking the glutinous rice balls will make them sour, so add them last.

2. The "steam and cook" function of an electric rice cooker is used here.