What rice is zongzi made of? What kind of rice is delicious in jiaozi?

Delicious zongzi also has requirements for the choice of rice. Not all zongzi are delicious, and some rice is not suitable for making zongzi. So what rice is zongzi made of? What kind of rice is delicious in jiaozi?

What rice is zongzi made of glutinous rice?

Glutinous rice is also called Jiangmi, but the names of the north and the south are different. Glutinous rice is the protagonist of zongzi. Zongzi are mostly made of glutinous rice, so round glutinous rice should be chosen for making zongzi. Round glutinous rice is more sticky and waxy than long glutinous rice.

Black glutinous rice is made from the skin of maple leaves and their tender stems, mashed in a mortar, air-dried slightly, and then soaked in a certain amount of water. After soaking for one day and one night, the leaf residue is taken out and filtered to obtain a black dye solution. Black dye juice should be put into a pot and boiled to 50-60 degrees Celsius with slow fire, and then glutinous rice should be soaked in it to get black glutinous rice.

Yellow glutinous rice can be extracted from fruits and tubers of plants, such as yellow flowers or gardenia and Huang Qiang. Boil the yellow flower, or mash the gardenia and soak it in water to obtain a yellow-orange dye solution. You can also mash it with Huang Qiang, mix it with glutinous rice and knead it vigorously to get yellow glutinous rice.

Purple glutinous rice is cooked with the same variety of red bluegrass with different leaves. The leaves are slightly longer and darker, the boiled color is thicker, and the soaked rice turns purple. Purple glutinous rice is very different from purple rice. Purple rice is not sticky. If you wrap zongzi with purple rice, you need to add glutinous rice to adjust the taste.

Red glutinous rice is a new hybrid of rice and sorghum, which is used by merchants to make high-grade zongzi.

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Yellow rice is a kind of grain in the north, which is the finished product of millet or peeled millet. In the northern countryside, zongzi has been made of rhubarb since ancient times. The first-class yellow glutinous rice dumplings taste sticky and sticky, and the small red dates in Shandong are particularly sweet.

Although the alkaline zongzi is yellow, it is still made of glutinous rice, but in order to increase the elastic taste, edible alkali is added.

Sago itself is not the seed of any plant, but the starch processing product of tropical palm plants. After soaking and washing these starches, the round particles produced are sago. The crystal zongzi made of sago is crystal clear and attractive.

However, transparent rice dumplings like ice dumplings are not made of sago. Ice jiaozi is made of kudzu root powder, which is starch extracted from the roots of pueraria plants.

What kind of rice is delicious in jiaozi?

The choice of rice dumplings wrapped in glutinous rice is really particular:

Indica rice and glutinous rice in Anhui. Indica rice and glutinous rice, however, are slightly less waxy and sticky and easy to digest.

Japonica rice and glutinous rice in Jiangsu; Japonica rice is waxy and sticky, but it is not easy to digest. Japonica rice dumplings, cooked for a long time, do not paste, the particles are crystal clear and full, and they taste glutinous but not sticky, smooth and refreshing. Hangzhou Wufangzhai sells 50 boxes a day (320g each).

Guizhou Huishui black glutinous rice, also known as purple glutinous rice, has a long cultivation history. Since the Song Dynasty, Gong Mi, a tribute to the emperor by local officials, is a treasure in imperial cuisine.

Black glutinous rice is known as "black pearl". According to people's eating habits, black glutinous rice and brown rice are eaten together, and white glutinous rice and polished white rice are eaten together. So generally speaking, the nutritional value of black glutinous rice is much higher than that of white glutinous rice. Compared with white glutinous rice, black glutinous rice is helpful for pregnant women to nourish postpartum weakness, increase milk and breastfeed their babies. Black glutinous rice not only has a good nourishing effect on lying-in women, but also is a good nutritional tonic for patients with chronic diseases, convalescent patients and people with physical weakness. Therefore, it has become a treasure on holidays and a good gift for guests.