Steamed dumplings are one of the common pasta in life, mainly made of flour, glutinous rice, black rice and other ingredients. There are many kinds, which can be used as staple food or snacks. Generally, every 65,438+000 g of steamed dumplings contains about 220 calories, which is relatively high compared with many foods in life.

Steamed dumplings are also a very popular specialty snack, which is said to have originated from steamed buns. The main difference between it and steamed stuffed bun is that the top is not sealed and it is pomegranate-shaped. It was first called wheat, with flour as the skin, meat as the stuffing and stamens as the top. The dialect is called steamed dumplings.

The origin of steamed dumplings

Steamed dumplings, also known as steamed dumplings, Xiaomi, steamed dumplings, Slightly Beautiful, Slightly Beautiful and Guipengtou, are a kind of Han snacks with steamed noodles wrapped in hot bread. Steamed dumplings are a very popular specialty snack, which originated in the early Yuan Dynasty. Today, Shangtu Teahouse in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia still uses the name of Ming and Qing Dynasties, but there are also names such as "steamed dumplings" and "steamed dumplings", and the name "steamed dumplings" appears more frequently.

Steamed dumplings have a long history, and there are different regional characteristics in materials used in different places, such as cut stuffing in Henan, duck oil in Anhui, paper skin in Jiangsu, egg meat in Jiangxi, scallion pork in Hebei, mutton and green onions in Hohhot, Sanxian in Suzhou, beef in Hangzhou and chrysanthemum in Changsha, Hunan. There are mutton barbecues in Linqing, Shandong, dry steamed barbecues, shrimp barbecues, crab barbecues, pork liver barbecues and ribs barbecues in Guangzhou, all of which have their own local characteristics.