Glutinous rice balls with peanuts filling

The other night my mom phoned me and informed me that "dong zhi" falls on the next day. I replied innocently asking if it's the "zhong zhi" making time again. Mom was shocked that until today, I still don't know what is "dong zhi" and corrected me that it means it is time to make "tang yuan".

I was rather relieved that I have a packet of glutinous rice flour in my pantry and a container of peanuts in fridge. So on that night itself, I pan roasted some peanuts and grounded them into powder form.


Returning from work on winter solstice festival day, got over with preparing dinner and I began making the glutinous rice dough. After dinner, I wrapped some glutinous rice balls with peanuts filling and cooked in malacca sugar, screw pine leaves and ginger soup.










Finished product