How to make salty and fragrant rice dumplings

Going to a restaurant to eat is certainly convenient, but let’s not talk about whether the restaurant’s hygiene is up to standard, even the safety of the ingredients is hard to say. Cooking by yourself allows you to choose the best ingredients and ensure hygiene. Salty and fragrant rice dumplings are simple to make and rich in nutrition. It is a dish that many people love.

1. Pick a large piece of zong leaves and wash them clean...

2. Put the washed zong leaves into the pot with cold water, add a little alkali and cook for 10 minutes.

3. Take out the cooked rice dumplings and soak them in cold water!

4. Cut the pork belly into pieces of appropriate size, add appropriate amounts of salt, sugar, oyster sauce, light soy sauce, and five-spice powder!

5. Mix the seasonings evenly and put them in the refrigerator to marinate and refrigerate.

6. Wash the glutinous rice, soak it for 5 to 6 hours in advance, and drain the water!

7. Soak the peanuts, mung beans and red beans in advance...

8. Drain the glutinous rice, pour it into a bowl, add salt, light soy sauce and dark soy sauce to color it, then add thirteen spice powder and stir evenly. Let it sit for 1 hour and set aside!

9. Then add the drained peanuts and red beans and mix well...

10. Prepare the leaves and start wrapping. As shown in the picture, fold a piece of leaves into a funnel shape...

11. Add a spoonful of glutinous rice to the funnel leaf, add appropriate amount of mung beans and pork...

12. Add a small spoonful of glutinous rice to cover the meat and mung beans. The glutinous rice should not be higher than the edge of the funnel leaf...

13. Fold the high side of the funnel leaf back to form a triangle shape!

14. Gently fold the left and right sides of the triangle up, and fold the long leaf in the middle to the end at a 90-degree angle, and a triangle shape will appear...

15. Wrap the three corners with a rope. Don’t use too much force, but wrap the zongzi with your palms, and tie a knot after wrapping it…

16. Put the wrapped dumplings in the pressure cooker one by one, add enough water to cover the dumplings, cover the pot and cook on high heat for 30 minutes, then on low heat for 15 minutes, and it is ready...

17. The wrapped rice dumplings…the finished product picture!

18. Don’t open the lid of the cooked rice dumplings in a hurry. Let them simmer for half an hour and they will be fresher…

How you eat will undoubtedly affect a person's sense of happiness. The method of making salty and fragrant rice dumplings is simple and can also bring a sense of happiness to the family.