Red dates, candied dates and glutinous rice dumplings

Red dates, candied dates and glutinous rice dumplings

Overview

It’s another Dragon Boat Festival, and another year of delicious rice dumplings. As usual, I bought red dates, candied dates, and rice dumpling leaves, and made rice dumplings to eat at home. I always feel that no matter how much I eat, the food I buy doesn’t taste as good as the food I make myself.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Soak the glutinous rice one night in advance

    Red dates, candied dates and glutinous rice dumplings step 1

  2. Soak the rice dumpling leaves and rope one night in advance

    Red dates, candied dates and glutinous rice dumplings step 2

  3. The red dates are also soaked the night before

    Red dates, candied dates and glutinous rice dumplings step 3

  4. Candied dates are ready

    Red dates, candied dates and glutinous rice dumplings step 4

  5. Take a leaf, bend its big head into a bowl shape, and put in a red date

    Red dates, candied dates and glutinous rice dumplings step 5

  6. Fill it with glutinous rice and gather it from both sides

    Red dates, candied dates and glutinous rice dumplings step 6

  7. Cover from top to bottom

    Red dates, candied dates and glutinous rice dumplings step 7

  8. Tie up your waist with a straw rope,

    Red dates, candied dates and glutinous rice dumplings step 8

  9. Wrap all the rice dumplings and put them into the steamer. Add water higher than the height of the rice dumplings. Cover and boil for about 1 hour.

    Red dates, candied dates and glutinous rice dumplings step 9

  10. When everything is cooked, fill two basins, soak them in water, and let them sit for a while before eating them to make them stickier.

    Red dates, candied dates and glutinous rice dumplings step 10

  11. Finished product pictures

    Red dates, candied dates and glutinous rice dumplings step 11

  12. Finished product pictures

    Red dates, candied dates and glutinous rice dumplings step 12

  13. Finished product pictures

    Red dates, candied dates and glutinous rice dumplings step 13