How to make meat-flavored rice dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival

Food, clothing, housing and transportation are important components of life. Among them, "food" has always been the most important for Chinese people. Only by eating well can we ensure a good body. Only by having a good body can we work and study better. The method of making meat-flavored rice dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival is very simple, and the taste is also very good.

1. Prepare glutinous rice and soak it in water for several hours.

2. Soak mung beans and peanuts in water at the same time.

3. Soak the mushrooms in water. There is no need to soak dried radish in water.

4. Prepare the pork belly

5. If you buy dry zongzi leaves, you also need to soak them in water. When soaking them in water, you need to press them with something heavy so that the leaves can be completely soaked in water.

6. Add the soaked mushrooms into the pork belly to season them.

7. Cut the pork belly into thin slices, add salt, soy sauce, and thirteen spices, and stir well to make it tasty.

8. After soaking the leaves, clean them one by one with a cloth and drain them for later use.

9. Soak glutinous rice and peanuts for several hours. Drain the mung beans and put them in a bowl.

10. Mix glutinous rice, peanuts, mung beans and dried radish together, add salt and thirteen spices and mix well, then add lard and mix well.

11. Take two pieces of zong leaves and roll them into a triangle shape.

12. Add glutinous rice, pork and mushrooms in the middle. It needs to be compacted so that the cooked rice dumplings will not fall apart when eaten.

13. Put the glutinous rice in the rice dumplings, cover the front with the leaves at the back, fold down both sides, and fold the remaining leaves to one side. Finally, tie it tightly with a rope.

14. This is the tied rice dumpling

15. After wrapping everything, put the dumplings into a pressure cooker, add water to cover the dumplings, turn on the heat, and cook for 25 minutes until cooked.

16. Turn off the heat, pick up the rice dumplings leaves and place them on a plate.

17. The whole house is filled with the aroma of zongzi. I can’t wait to open one and taste it.

You can use your imagination and add your favorite ingredients and sauces to create your own creative dish. Cooking is not difficult. As long as you are willing, you will immediately gain confidence even if you are not good at cooking.