The home town of my mom is in Hubei, there is “ not to have dish over there not of evaporate ” consuetudinary, almost everybody loves to take evaporate course. Speak of evaporate food, I had had the evening of the New Year's Eve of …… of crowndaisy chrysanthemum of potato of turnip of fish of evaporate flesh, evaporate, evaporate, evaporate, evaporate, how can you get evaporate course less? Then my beg mom teachs me to do dumpling of pearl of —— of a expert dish.
我妈妈的家乡在湖北，那里有“无菜不蒸”的习俗，几乎人人都爱吃蒸菜。说起蒸菜，我吃过蒸肉、蒸鱼、蒸萝卜、蒸土豆、蒸茼蒿……除夕之夜，怎么能少得了蒸菜呢？于是我央求妈妈教我做一道拿手菜——珍珠圆子。
Mom lets me prepare those who do pearl dumpling first all sorts of material: Polished glutinous rice is abluent, immerse 2 hours with clear water ahead of schedule. A chop becomes pork, horse's hoof and ginger meat stuffing. Is my as it happens strange why to ask mom wants to add horse's hoof? Mom says to add horse's hoof to be able to increase the bright fragile mouthfeel of fleshy circle, taste not be bored with.
妈妈先让我准备好做珍珠圆子的各种材料：糯米洗净，提前用清水浸泡2小时。猪肉、马蹄与生姜一起剁成肉馅。我正好奇问妈妈为什么要加马蹄啊？妈妈说加马蹄可以增加肉圆的爽脆口感，吃起来不腻。
Chop stuffing can be an effort work really! My both hands is holding a knife, the flesh and horse's hoof ginger piece put on chopping board, as one knife chop of one knife ground falls, not a little while, feel both hands ache slightly, but the flesh that sees also became small broken end, I insisted patiently to come down again, meat stuffing eventually chop became good full marks / . An egg white, little salt, unripe pink and pepper are joined in meat stuffing, with the chopstick down agitate of a direction hind, souse half hours, stuffing stuff is good with respect to modulation. Mom teachs me to hold the meat stuffing that has bloated into fleshy circle, put the gently scroll in polished glutinous rice next, make dumpling outer and even be stained with a polished glutinous rice. In an instant between pink fleshy circle is wrapped went up the appearance of a white, extremely lovely! The dumpling that has done puts a pot for steaming food, conflagration evaporate is controlled 15 minutes, pearl dumpling has been done. Open boiler to build, meatball is wrapped on the silver-colored outfit with transparent a suit, originally adhesion polished glutinous rice becomes tender immediately rise, I scatter on a few green chopped green onion that had cut again, the fragrance of the flesh and chopped green onion diffuses to come immediately, whole kitchen is sweet rise.
剁馅可真是个力气活啊！我双手握着刀，把肉和马蹄生姜片放在案板上，随着一刀一刀地剁下，不一会儿，就觉得双手发酸，但看见一片片的肉也变成了小小的碎末，我又耐心地坚持了下来，肉馅终于剁好了满分/。在肉馅里加入一个蛋清、一点点盐、生粉和胡椒粉，用筷子顺着一个方向搅拌后，腌制半小时，馅料就调制好了。妈妈教我把腌好的肉馅捏成肉圆，然后放入糯米中轻轻地滚动，使圆子外层均匀沾满一层糯米。转眼之间粉红色的肉圆裹上了一层白色的外衣，可爱极了！做好的圆子放入蒸锅，大火蒸15分钟左右，珍珠圆子就做好了。揭开锅盖，肉丸子裹上一身透明的银装，原本粘着的糯米顿时变得温柔起来，我再撒上几粒切好的绿色葱花，肉和葱花的香味顿时弥漫开来，整个厨房都香了起来。
On meal of the eve of the lunar New Year, the pearl dumpling that I do got aunt of grandfather grandma, uncle people praise consistently, dumpling represents the meaning of round reunion circle, the night of the New Year's Eve, the family assembles in, true happiness!
年夜饭上，我做的珍珠圆子得到了爷爷奶奶、叔叔阿姨们的一致称赞，圆子代表团团圆圆的意思，除夕之夜，一家人齐聚一堂，真幸福啊！(文/沈意晨)