【Siye Restaurant】Dragon Boat Festival: Eating rice dumplings

Overview

How to cook 【Siye Restaurant】Dragon Boat Festival: Eating rice dumplings at home

Tags

• festival customs
• traditional food
• dragon boat festival
• zongzi
• cotton thread
• glutinous rice
• zong leaves

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Zong leaves

   

2. 2 Brush each piece clean

   

3. 3 Boil in water for 15 minutes to increase the toughness of the leaves

   

4. 4 Take out the cooked leaves and strain

   

5. 5 Wash the glutinous rice, soak it for 1 hour and strain

   

6. 6 Divide 2 strands of cotton thread into one

   

7. 7 Roll the rice dumpling leaves into an inverted triangle shape by hand

   

8. 8 Use chopsticks to press the rice tightly. You need to move it up and down

   

9. 9 Gami continues to tighten

   

10. 10 Flatten it with your hands and prepare to seal

    

11. 11 Press down the leaf diagonally with two thumbs

    

12. 12 The leaves cover down

    

13. 13 Extrude edges and corners

    

14. 14 Tie it up with rope

    

15. 15 Wrapped rice dumplings

    

16. 16 Put the pot on low heat and slowly simmer it with cold water for 5 hours

    

17. 17 Cooked rice dumplings

    

18. 18 Peel off the rice dumplings

    

19. 19 Dip in sugar and eat immediately

    

20. 20 Details