How to make Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings

For many female friends, they are very envious when they see others have good cooking skills. Today, just follow the editor to learn how to make Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings, and your cooking skills will definitely improve! Let’s get started together with the editor below!

1. Soak the mung beans overnight, wash the glutinous rice and soak it for about 2 hours; wash the peanuts and soak them for 2 hours; drain the soaked mung beans, peanuts and glutinous rice and put them in a large bowl.

2.1 Soak the dried zong leaves overnight in advance, wipe them with a soft cloth along the texture on both sides, scrub the zong ropes clean, add a small spoon of salt to a boiling water pot, put the zong leaves and zong ropes into the pot and blanch for about 2-3 minutes, then take them out and soak them in cold water for later use; (If there are too many zong leaves, it is best to blanch them in batches)

3.2 Add salt, sugar, soy sauce, five-spice powder and 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, mix well, and marinate for about an hour;

4. Marinate the pork belly overnight in advance with the following marinating seasonings: salt, sugar, Shaoxing wine, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, and five-spice powder. Take two pieces of zong leaves and stack them with the smooth side facing inwards, and make a funnel shape. Stuff the zong fillings with glutinous rice, pork belly, and glutinous rice again in order; fold the reserved zong leaves back to cover the fillings, fold and wrap to form a four-cornered zong, and tie it with a zong leaf rope;

5. Make the raw zongzi embryos one by one in the same way; put the raw zongzi embryos into the pressure cooker, add clean water, the amount of water must cover the zongzi, so as to avoid the fillings that cannot be submerged in the water being undercooked;

6. Place a flat plate upside down on the surface of the rice dumplings to weigh them down to prevent them from floating and falling apart during the cooking process. Place the pot on the stove and cook over high heat until steam comes up. Then adjust the heat to medium-high and continue cooking for about 45 minutes before turning off the heat. Wait for the pressure cooker to cool naturally before removing the lid and serving.

The Dragon Boat Festival rice dumpling introduced above is rich in nutrition and the preparation method is not very complicated. If you want to try it, hurry up and prepare the ingredients!