Eating zongzi at Dragon Boat Festival. The best food is meat zongzi and white zongzi. In fact, when you learn one, you can get everything together. The meat zongzi bought outside is more fat and less lean. It's too greasy to eat. It's more reassuring to make your own dumplings.
Step1:Soak the glutinous rice for 3 hours in advance. Soak and drain. Marinate with a little salt and soy sauce for more than 30 minutes. The effect of pickling is as shown in the figure above.
Step2:Choose the pork with less fat and more lean. Wash and cut well. Marinate with salt, cooking wine and soy sauce for more than 3 hours. I put less meat. If you like meat, you can put more.
Step3:Wash the fresh zongzi leaves. Put them in a pot of boiling water and cook for about 3 minutes. Drain.
Step4:Now it's time to pack. Choose two leaves. The leaves should not be damaged.
Step5:Fold it over. Fold it into a funnel shape. There should be no holes in the bottom. Otherwise, the rice will leak.
Step6:Put in half of the glutinous rice. Then put in a large piece of meat and a little fat. Continue to put in the glutinous rice to fill. Compact. Fold it. Tie it with a thread.
Step7:Put the wrapped zongzi into the pot. Cover the zongzi with water in the pressure pot. Press for about 2 hours. If you use the ordinary pot cover to cook, it may take longer.
Step8:Take out the cooked zongzi, drain the water, cool it at room temperature, and then put it in the refrigerator freezer for storage. When eating, take it out and steam it. Here are about 20 quantities.
Step9:Plus a white rice dumpling. It's also about 1 jin of glutinous rice for 3 hours. Put 25g of sugar and marinate for more than 30 minutes. In the white glutinous rice dumpling, you can also add red dates or bean paste stuffing according to the taste, and make it into date dumpling or bean paste dumpling. The picture above shows dates.
Cooking tips:Zongzi must be solid. There should be no leaks. Otherwise, they will be scattered when cooking. There are skills in making delicious dishes.