Pork belly zongzi (one of the traditional Dragon Boat Festival delicacies)

Dragon Boat Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, and it is also an important folk festival. On this day, people will eat zongzi, race dragon boats and hang mugwort leaves. Among them, Zongzi is one of the most representative foods. Pork belly zongzi is one of the classic tastes.

material preparation

To make pork belly zongzi, you need to prepare the following materials:

1. glutinous rice

2. Pork belly

(hen's) egg

4. Lentinus edodes

5.bacon

6. red dates

7. sugar

8. salt

9. cooking wine

10. soy sauce

1 1. Soy sauce

12. Onion, ginger and garlic

Production steps

1. Prepare materials

Soak glutinous rice for at least 6 hours in advance to fully absorb water. Cut the pork belly into small pieces and marinate it with cooking wine, salt, soy sauce and soy sauce for half an hour. Boiled eggs, mushrooms, bacon and red dates are cut into small pieces for later use.

Cooking glutinous rice

Put the soaked glutinous rice into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, bring it to a boil over high heat, turn to low heat and cook until the glutinous rice becomes soft and rotten, which takes about 45 minutes.

Stir-fried stuffing

Put pork belly in a pot, add onion, ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant. Add bacon, mushrooms and red dates, and continue to stir fry. Finally, add sugar, salt, cooking wine, soy sauce and soy sauce, and stir-fry evenly after seasoning.

Wrap zongzi

Put the cooked glutinous rice, fried stuffing and boiled eggs on the table respectively, and prepare to wrap jiaozi. Blanch zongzi leaves with hot water, knead them into a funnel shape, add appropriate amount of glutinous rice, and then add stuffing and eggs. Finally, add a proper amount of glutinous rice, wrap it with zongye, and tie it tightly with string.

Boiled zongzi

Put the wrapped zongzi into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, turn to low heat after the fire is boiled, and cook for about 3 hours. Take it out to cool after cooking.