Zongzi

Zongzi

Overview

On Labor Day, our water town had a dragon boat race. Let’s make dragon boat rice dumplings today to warm up for the Dragon Boat Festival😊 Compared with making rice dumplings, I think writing the recipe is more difficult. Will it be unclear? Then I’m sorry to the readers😔

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Make preparations 2 hours in advance. Wash the glutinous rice, eyebrow beans, and mung beans and soak them in warm water and set aside. Cut the pork belly into small pieces, add appropriate amount of salt, pepper, and light soy sauce and set aside.

    Zongzi step 1

  2. Dried rice dumpling leaves and straw ropes are soaked in water for later use (you need to take a large basin and soak it completely)

    Zongzi step 2

  3. After 2 hours, the rice dumplings are drained and dried.

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  4. Drain glutinous rice, eyebrow beans and mung beans.

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  5. Put it into a basin, add 2 tablespoons of salt with a 5ml measuring spoon, add an appropriate amount of oil, and mix well!

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  6. Start packing! Take two leaves and place them side by side in the palm of your hand.

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  7. Put an appropriate amount of rice, compact it, and add pork.

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  8. Place an extra layer of rice on the pork and press it again until the rice dumpling leaves are 80% full.

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  9. Fix the rice dumpling body with the thumb and index finger of your left hand, gently press the front end of the rice dumpling leaf with the other three fingers, and fold the front end of the rice dumpling leaf forward with your right hand.

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  10. With your left hand, hold the folded part tightly.

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  11. In the same way, fold the tail end of the rice dumpling leaf over and secure it with your hands.

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  12. Take a piece of straw rope and wrap it around the rice dumpling several times, holding it firmly with your hands while wrapping it, and then tie it into a knot. The results are shown in the figure.

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  13. Put it into a pressure cooker, add water to cover the rice dumplings, and put 1 tablespoon of salt in the water, otherwise the salt in the rice dumplings will escape into the water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to medium heat and simmer for about 20 minutes.

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  14. Finished product!

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  15. 😍😍😍

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