Methods and steps of wrapping zongzi

Ingredients: 500 grams of glutinous rice, 200 grams of candied dates, and appropriate amount of palm leaves.

Cooking steps:

1. Wash the fresh zongzi leaves, put them in the pot, add appropriate amount of water and salt, and cook for 15 minutes. This step can increase the toughness of zongzi leaves, and also can better cook the dirty things on zongzi leaves, take out the cooked zongzi leaves, wash them again, and then dry the water.

2. Soak the glutinous rice one night in advance until it can be crushed with your fingers. Take out the soaked glutinous rice and mix well with the washed candied dates.

3. Cut off the excess part of the head of reed leaves, fold it into a funnel shape, add a proper amount of glutinous rice, compact it, and then cover the glutinous rice with the remaining reed leaves.

4. Then fold off the extra leaves. Fold the extra leaves to one side. There is a triangle on the cone. Fold off the remaining leaves and tie a cotton rope. The rest are all wrapped up.

5. Before jiaozi is cooked, boil enough water in the pot. After the water is rolled up again, boil it for about 3 hours with high fire and take it out while it is hot.

Summary:

1, the leaves of zongzi should be boiled with salt water first, which can not only sterilize, but also make the leaves more resilient and not easy to crack when cooked.

2. There are also many techniques for bundling zongzi, and the methods are distinguished according to the stuffing. If it is bean paste, don't tie it too tightly to prevent rice grains from squeezing into the bean paste. If it is not cooked thoroughly, it will be caught. Bacon jiaozi If you use fat pork, don't tie it tightly, and the tightness is moderate. If you use lean meat, tie it tightly, because the lean meat will shrink after cooking, and the fat juice of dumplings will leak into the water, which will not keep the dumplings fat and waxy.

When cooking zongzi, be sure to cook the zongzi. Water should be soaked on the surface of zongzi, and no clear water should be added during cooking.