How to make Zongzi at home

In addition to making and eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival every year, in fact, modern people's living conditions have improved and they can eat rice dumplings 365 days a year. Use fresh rice dumplings leaves and various ingredients as fillings according to personal taste to make rice dumplings. As long as you pay attention to the wrapping method and the combination of food, rice dumplings can be stored for a long time at room temperature or in the refrigerator. Here are some ways to make rice dumplings at home.

The most common way to make rice dumplings

Because of the north-south dispute, it is better to choose the ingredients you are most familiar with and make sweet rice dumplings with candied dates.

⒈ Prepare all the ingredients in advance. If it is a sweet rice dumpling, candied dates, candied fruit, dried plums, etc. are all good choices.

⒉ Wash the fresh reed leaves and boil them in boiling water for 15 minutes to remove some oxalic acid. Soak the glutinous rice for one hour in advance.

⒊ Take two reed leaves and arrange them staggered, otherwise the rice will be exposed later. Use the top of the reed leaf to roll inward into a funnel shape.

⒋ First put a peanut at the bottom, then fill it with glutinous rice, and insert one or two candied dates in the middle.

⒌ Cover the glutinous rice with the reed leaves, and then move the reed leaves around the funnel-shaped bottom.

⒍Keep wrapping the reed leaves tightly until the top of the rice dumpling becomes an open triangle. Fold the opening and close the lid.