Desserts
Tangyuan rice balls with sesame filling
Soft rice dough balls are filled with sweet sesame paste and served in a warm ginger broth.
Servings in this printout: 4
Ingredients
- 250 g glutinous rice flour
- 1.8 dl warm water
- 100 g black sesame seeds
- 50 g sugarfor the filling
- 40 g buttersoft
- 1 l waterinto the soup
- 60 g sugarinto the broth
- 1 piece fresh gingerabout 3 cm piece
Method
- Grind sesame seeds finely and mix with sugar and soft butter. Refrigerate the filling to set.
- Mix the glutinous rice flour with the warm water. Knead to a soft, smooth dough.
- Divide the dough into 16 pieces. Flatten the piece, add a small dollop of filling in the middle and close the dough into a ball.
- Boil water, sugar and sliced ginger in a pot. Simmer for 10 minutes.
- Cook rice balls in batches in gently bubbling water for 5-6 minutes until they rise to the surface. Transfer to bowls and pour over the ginger stock.
Original recipe nutrition per serving
The nutrition values below belong to the original recipe. They are not nutrition values for the separate GL-only version. No macro package has been verified for the GL-only version.
Nutrition values have not been calculated for this recipe.
A reliable glycemic load estimate is not available.
Some ingredient data or calculation inputs could not be verified, so there is no reliable estimate for the whole serving.
Why is the estimate missing?
- A suitable GI value was unavailable for this ingredient.
GL for the study serving
Original recipe GL unavailable
The GL of 30.5 is based on the serving tested by Chen et al., whose filling was unspecified. The homemade black sesame rice balls and sweet ginger broth require a separate estimate.
Calculated GL · ≈ 30.5 / serving
Confidence · Low Some values or assumptions in the calculation are uncertain.
How was the estimate calculated?
GI value reported in a source
Separate version amounts and preparation
Servings for these amounts · 1
- 115 g · Boiled Lee Chun glutinous rice balls, test serving
- 250 ml · Drinking water
This historical comparison covers 1 test serving. It contained 115 g of boiled Lee Chun glutinous rice balls and 250 ml of water.
Research sources and technical details
Source names and technical notes appear in their original form.
Sources and limitations · B
- Chen et al. (2010), Table 2 · Glucose-reference GI 61 ± 10 SEM, 15 healthy adults, 120 min.HUMAN_GI
- Chen et al. (2010), methods and Table 1 · 115 g of boiled Lee Chun glutinous rice balls provided 50 g available carbohydrate and were served with 250 mL water.CARBOHYDRATE
Notes
- The dough dries quickly. Cover unused pieces of dough with a damp cloth.