Try This Peanut Butter Tangyuan Recipe for Lantern Fest

汤圆 Tāngyuán – glutinous rice dumplings generally made with a sweet and slightly savory black sesame filling – are a staple at most Chinese dinner tables come Lantern Festival.

The holiday is celebrated on the 15th day of the first lunar month and falls (fittingly enough) on this coming Tuesday, Feb 15, marking the official end of the Lunar New Year period.

To make this Lantern Festival special, why not try something a little different with your tangyuan this year? Like this recipe for peanut butter tangyuan, provided by the folks over at NAKED Nut Butter, a Beijing-based expat-run nut butter brand.

Tangyuan Ingredients

• Glutinous rice flour
  

• Hot water
  

• NAKED peanut butter
  
  

Soup Ingredients

• Brown Sugar
  

• Ginger
  
  

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Method

1. Add hot water to glutinous rice flour in a 1:2 ratio, mixing until it forms a dough.
   
   

   
   

2. Roll the dough into a long, narrow log shape.
   
   

   
   

3. Evenly divide the dough into 10 pieces (or however many tangyuan you would like to make).
   
   

   
   

4. Take a piece of dough and, using your hand, roll into a ball and flatten.
   
   

   
   

5. Take a small teaspoon of cold NAKED peanut butter and place in the center of the dough.
   
   

   
   

6. Carefully pull the sides of the dough to enclose the peanut butter.
   
   

   
   

7. Boil water with brown sugar and ginger slices, to taste.
   
   

   
   

8. Put the tangyuan in the boiling soup, cook for 4 to 6 minutes.
   
   

   
   

Finally, serve up in a bowl and enjoy!

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Images courtesy of NAKED Nut Butter