How to make espresso dumplings? Can I eat coffee and glutinous rice balls together?

Today is the winter solstice, so Qianjie is here to wish everyone: Winter! To! Hurry! Happy! As we all know, the Winter Solstice is not only a solar term, it is also an important festival. On important days, there will always be some special food culture. For example, in the south where Qianjie is located, a pot of round sweet glutinous glutinous rice balls will be cooked on the winter solstice, which means that people are round and round. When it comes to glutinous rice balls, coffee stars who don't even let go of tea eggs will naturally not miss this opportunity-coffee glutinous rice balls, have you tried it?

The so-called coffee glutinous rice balls is a coffee dessert made by pouring coffee on the glutinous rice balls similar to Afjado. Because it is similar to Afjado in various aspects, it is often called a Chinese Afjado. Every Lantern Festival or Winter Solstice, as long as glutinous rice balls appear, we will be able to easily share coffee glutinous rice balls on major platforms. Is it really as delicious as everyone says? Today, Qianjie will come to get the flavor of this coffee dumpling for everyone!

How to make coffee dumplings? The making of coffee dumplings is very simple. As mentioned earlier on Qianjie, we only need to pour coffee on the dumplings. However, it is best to choose high-intensity coffee extracted with a mocha pot or an espresso machine. Because the taste of glutinous rice balls is relatively strong, we need to use coffee with a higher concentration to make the taste of coffee stand out in this dessert.

So first, let's cook a serving of glutinous rice balls first. The glutinous rice balls selected here on Qianjie are naturally a very classic style, with traditional glutinous rice skins and sesame and peanut fillings. Then insert a digression here: How to cook glutinous rice balls without breaking the skin. Because Qianjie believes that if friends want to try it, then this little trick of cooking glutinous rice balls is also a necessity.

It is also very simple. Just boil the water and pour it into the glutinous rice balls, and then pour in a small amount of water at room temperature. The purpose is to keep the water in the pot at a high temperature without boiling. This can effectively reduce the "stirring" of the glutinous rice balls and reduce the risk of skin breaking. Then every time the hot water in the pot boils, add a small amount of room temperature water to cool down until the glutinous rice balls float, and then we can turn off the heat, and then you can get a perfect cooked glutinous rice balls.

When the glutinous rice balls are cooked, the next thing we have to do is extract an espresso. If this is your first attempt, Qianjie Association recommends that you use deep-roasted coffee beans to make espresso. Because deep-roasted coffee will have a strong burnt aroma, which can form a sharp contrast with the sweetness of glutinous rice balls. Therefore, the coffee beans used in Qianjie here are a combination of Qianjie's classic Italian style sold by Qianjie Taobao Tmall. The espresso made with it not only has a very strong aroma of chocolate, caramel and nut, but also has a very thick oil., can be a good way to "group out" with Tangyuan. The extraction parameters are as follows: powder amount: 20g, powder-to-liquid ratio: 1:2, and time: 30 seconds.

We can either extract and concentrate it separately and pour it into the glutinous rice balls, or we can directly place the glutinous rice balls at the outlet of the espresso coffee to pick up the espresso coffee. There is almost no difference between the two. Here, Front Street chose the latter.

When the espresso coffee is extracted, we just need to take out a spoon and stir it slightly, and we can start tasting the delicious coffee dumplings! (To say one thing, it's a bit like tea eggs)

Not to mention, it really wasn't dark cuisine! Just as Qianjie thought, the burnt aroma of coffee and the sweetness of dumplings formed a sharp contrast, one bite down we can taste the bitterness of coffee and the sweetness brought by dumpling sesame filling at the same time, then the chocolate, caramel, nut flavor of coffee and the aroma of dumpling skin and sesame filling will quickly bloom in the mouth, every bite, this aroma becomes more and more intense. It is really a soft, glutinous, fragrant, sweet in one, very good!

Later, Front Street used the medium-roasted Front Street Strawberry Sugar·Rose Summer Blend to make a coffee dumpling. Since it was not roasted as deeply as the former, the espresso made with it would have some acid.

This type of coffee glutinous rice balls tastes unique. Although the acidity will be relatively high when entering the mouth, as the mouth gradually gets used to it, we can begin to capture the aroma of strawberry, citrus, and berry in the coffee. Then the other aspects of the experience are no different from the former. It is the contrast between the taste of coffee and the sweetness of the glutinous rice balls. The taste is soft and glutinous and has a lasting fragrance. Overall, the coffee dumplings are still very good. If you are not satisfied with the routine, then try this unique approach. It can really bring you an excellent and special experience. But if people don't drink sour wine very often, then the best choice for coffee beans is deep-roasted coffee beans, such as Qianjie's classic Italian combination of Qianjie Bean List ~ Happy Winter Solstice ~~

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FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou China, selling freshly roasted beans from its own farm in Yunnan as well as dozens of carefully selected single-origin beans from around the world for both pour-over and espresso. The products deliver consistently excellent quality and great value, with shipping within 24 hours. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers, and the beans are now available online at the Tmall 。

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