The detailed process of how to make dumplings

Lotus Seed Pork and Egg Yolk Zongzi

Zongzi is a traditional specialty of the Chinese nation. It is another year when the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival zongzi is a must eat, some places there are dragon boat races, it is said to be in honor of the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. People's appetites are really different, I like to eat salty meat dumplings, my husband likes to eat peanut dumplings, parents like to eat small date dumplings, so I do dumplings have to do several flavors. The variety of rice dumplings is even more numerous, to name a few. Sweet dumplings with small dates, bean paste dumplings, preserved beans, honey bean dumplings, chocolate dumplings, crystal dumplings, etc.; savory pork dumplings, egg yolk dumplings, bacon dumplings, ham dumplings, seafood dumplings, beef dumplings, etc.; the original flavor of the white rice dumplings, red bean dumplings, peanut rice dumplings, alkaline rice dumplings, etc., sticky sugar, honey, or with vegetables to eat. Rice for dumplings can be made from round, long-grain glutinous rice, rhubarb rice, sticky sorghum and other grains that have glutinous properties, but they are usually soaked 8-10 hours in advance before use. Dumpling leaves can be dried or fresh reed leaves, Ruo bamboo leaves, lotus leaves, but also fresh banana leaves, tung leaves, corn husks and so on. Dumpling rope can be used hemp rope, cotton rope, longer thatch, Ma Lien grass. But you can't use plastic rope, plastic things will release harmful substances in the high temperature state. Dumpling leaves and plant dumpling rope should be scalded with boiling water and washed before use. Glutinous rice marinade: 2 teaspoons of salt, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, 2 teaspoons of dark soy sauce Other Ingredients: 2 tablespoons of white wine, dried rice dumpling leaves, cotton threads in moderation

Main Ingredients

Glutinous rice

1,000g

Pork

300g

Salted duck egg yolks

30

Water-raised lotus seeds

Amount

Side Ingredients

22 teaspoons of salt

2 teaspoons of cooking wine

1/2 teaspoon of pepper

1/4 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate (MSG)

15g of ginger

2 teaspoons of dark soy sauce

2 teaspoons of sugar

1 teaspoon of five-spice powder

How to Make Dumplings with Lotus Root, Pork, and Egg Yolk

1

Wash the glutinous rice and soak it in water for more than 8-10 hours.

2

Cut the pork into 2-cm-square pieces, mix in all the pork marinade, seal and marinate in the refrigerator for 8-10 hours.

3

Drain the soaked glutinous rice, add all the glutinous rice marinade ingredients and marinate for 15 minutes.

4

Dry rice dumpling leaves in a pot of boiling water to soften, fish out and brush clean to soak in fresh water.

5

Cut off the hard tips of the leaves.

6

Remove the marinated pork from the refrigerator.

7

Drizzle white wine over the salted duck egg yolks.

8

Take a dumpling leaf and roll it into a cone shape first.

9

Put in a little glutinous rice.

10

And put in 2-3 pieces of pork.

11

Put a little glutinous rice, put in one salted duck egg yolk and 2-3 lotus seeds.

12

Then put a little glutinous rice and fill the cone.

13

Fold and wrap the extra leaves to make raw dumplings.

14

Tie the dumplings firmly with cotton first rope.

15

All the dumplings are wrapped.

16

Put the wrapped dumplings in a pressure cooker and add enough water.

17

Top inverted a plate to press the dumplings,

18

Pressure cooker with a lid on the stove on high heat to boil on the steam and then turn to a low heat, cook for 90-120 minutes, turn off the fire and then smothered for 60 minutes.

Tips

Key: 1, the glutinous rice should be fully soaked, so as to make the dumplings soft and sticky. 2, dry rice dumpling leaves hot before use, when the package will not rupture. 3, rice dumplings raw blank can not leak rice, to wrap tightly, bundled solid, otherwise you will find a pot of rice soup when cooking. 4, pressure cooker to cook rice dumplings can save time and energy, the ordinary pot to cook rice dumplings 3-4 hours to be good.