Video tutorial on making triangular zongzi.

Steps for wrapping triangular zongzi:

1. Select three undamaged reed leaves, and stagger the front faces to increase the width.

2. Cut off the heads of reed leaves as shown in the figure.

3. Bend the reed leaves into a funnel shape, but the tip must be closed and there can be no holes. Pay attention to the stacking order of reed leaves. The upper reed leaves are inside and the lower reed leaves are outside. Put a little glutinous rice on the bottom first.

4. Put a candied date in the middle (meat in the middle of salty dumplings) and then fill it with glutinous rice.

5. Fold the reed leaf tail to the left and front.

6. Bend the reed leaves to cover the left, and then fold them to the right and back in the middle.

7. Turn right around the corner on the right.

8. Turn around the middle corner and tie it with cotton rope.

9. Wrap a triangular zongzi.

Zongzi, a steamed food made by wrapping glutinous rice with Zongzi leaves, is one of the traditional festival foods in China. Zongzi, as one of the traditional foods with the deepest historical and cultural accumulation in China, is widely spread. The custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has been popular in China for thousands of years, and even spread to East Asian countries. ?

Zongzi, or Zongzi Zan, is made of glutinous rice and stuffing and wrapped with bamboo leaves (or Hiragi leaves, bamboo leaves, etc.). ) and has various shapes such as sharp corners and quadrangles. Zongzi has a long history, originally as a tribute to ancestors and gods. North and South have different names. Millet is produced in the north, and glutinous rice is made into zongzi, which is angular. In ancient north, it was called "corn millet". In terms of taste, zongzi can be divided into salty zongzi and sweet zongzi.

Because of the different eating habits in different places, zongzi has formed a north-south flavor; From the stuffing point of view, there are dates wrapped in jiaozi in the north; In the south, there are many kinds of fillings, such as mung bean, pork belly, red bean paste, eight treasures, ham, mushrooms, egg yolk and so on. Among them, Guangdong bacon zongzi and Zhejiang Jiaxing zongzi are the representatives.