Stirred dough

Stir-fried dough snack made from corn flour

Stirred doughSimplified| 搅团

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Traditional| 攪團
Also translated as| stirred paste
sticky corn-flour jelly

The stirred dough[1] (simplified Chinese: 搅团; traditional Chinese: 攪團), known as jiaotuan in Chinese, also translated as stirred paste,[2] sticky corn-flour jelly,[3] is a snack from Northwest China,[4] defined as a kind of "paste made of flour".[5]

The origin of the stirred dough cannot be verified, although its inventions has been traditionally attributed to Zhuge Liang from the Three Kingdoms Period.[6] At that time, the name was not yet called "stirred dough", but was figuratively called "water surrounding the city".[7]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Stirred dough (搅团/Jiaotuan)". China Daily. Feb 14, 2019.
2. ^ "Try a 'jiaotuan' – a unique snack from NW China's Shaanxi". The Global Herald. April 7, 2021.
3. ^ "Jiaotuan (sticky corn-flour jelly)". en.shaanxi.gov.cn. 2018-10-23.
4. ^ "Stirred dough". nnw.yanan.gov.cn. 2019-11-19.
5. ^ "Telling you about the Xi'an food you didn't know". China Daily. 2014-05-12.
6. ^ "Missing the stirred dough". Xiamen Daily. 2020-12-14.
7. ^ Zhang Jun (2021-09-06). "stirred dough". Xi'an Daily.