Black Sesame Dumplings (Tang Yuan). Black Sesame Dumplings (Tang Yuan) - This recipe calls for a perfect dessert with sweet black sesame paste dumplings served in ginger syrup. One of the Chinese desserts I absolutely love is tang yuan (汤圆) or sweet dumplings filled with black sesame paste or ground peanuts. Tang Yuan is a popular sweet Chinese dessert, used to celebrate holidays including Lantern Festival (元宵节)and Winter Solstice Festival (冬至), but is served as desserts now and sometimes as breakfast in cold winter mornings.

This recipe is a take on tang yuan, the traditional black. Make the filling: In a medium bowl, combine the ground black sesame seeds, powdered sugar and melted butter. This recipe is part of our collection of Chinese holiday and festival foods. You can have Black Sesame Dumplings (Tang Yuan) using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Black Sesame Dumplings (Tang Yuan)

Prepare 1 cup of glutinous rice flour.
You need 1/2 cup of water.
Prepare of Filling :.
It's 3 tbs of black sesame seed.
You need 3 tbs of brown sugar.
It's 3 tbs of unsalted butter (softened, not melt).
You need of For the syrup:.
You need 2 of " ginger (skin off).
It's 2 cups of palm sugar (I used jaggery, coz no palm sugar here).
It's 2 of pandan leaves.
You need 3 cups of water.

Sign up for our newsletter to receive family-friendly activity, recipe and craft ideas throughout the year! Tang Yuan Recipe-Black Sesame Filling (Source: China's Sichuan Food blog). Toast black sesame in a pan or oven (detailed guide can be find here) and then ground them into powders. Tang yuan was one of them.

Black Sesame Dumplings (Tang Yuan) instructions

Roast sesame seed on a pan in very low heat in 7 minutes (keep eye on it, make sure it's not burn) and remove from heat..
Grind roasted sesame in food processor until find add palm sugar and butter (do not melt the butter).
Mix well rice flour and 1/2 cup of boiled water and knead dough just 5 - 10 minutes until no more stick to your hand. And cover with plastic so it will not dry..
Rolled up the toasted sesame and make it into balls. (approximately as big as marble) and keep it on the fridge up to 1 or 2 hours until set..
Take the rice flour dough and flatten with your hand and fill with the filling. And closed the dough over the filling. When it's done just cover with plastic so it won't dry..
Make a ginger syrup, with fill 3 cups of water on a sauce pan together with 2 cups palm sugar and ginger, and pandan leaves bring it to boil..
Now in the other sauce pan, boiled 4 cup water and bring it to boil, and add the dough in the boiling water. Cook until it floats..
Serve the balls with ginger syrup when it's still hot. Enjoy!.

After a two-week holiday trip to Thailand, I had just returned to the small city where I was living and working in northeast China. These dumplings are chewy on the outside and delightfully different on the inside too, thanks to sweet black sesame paste. Celebrate Chinese New Year with these Sesame Glutinous Rice Dumplings (Tang Yuan)! They are little gooey dumplings stuffed with a sweet black sesame filling. Little nutty with a roasted flavor and little sweet.