How to make your own Zongzi

Making your own rice dumplings is a very lifelike home-cooked dish. You don’t need to prepare seasonings deliberately to make this dish. Just the basic salt, MSG, soy sauce and vinegar at home can make a delicate dish. The soup of this dish looks even more delicious and makes people drool.

1. Wash the rice dumplings leaves, boil water in a pot, boil for 5 minutes and then rinse with cold water. And cut off the roots with scissors.

2. Soak the glutinous rice in cold water for more than 8 hours (I soaked it overnight), changing the water twice in the middle and washing it clean.

3. Soak various beans for more than 8 hours, wash and drain

4. Cut the pork into larger pieces, add all seasonings and marinate for more than 2 hours. (Refrigerator)

5. Prepare the cotton thread for tying the rice dumplings

6. Fold the zong leaves into a cone shape at 1/3 (the big end)

7. Add a spoonful of glutinous rice

8. Put a piece of meat on the glutinous rice

9. Put glutinous rice on the meat

10. Press the rice dumpling leaf inward with your left hand

11. Fold the top leaf over and cover it completely.

12. Wrap the wire 3 to 4 times to tie it up.

13. Wrap the meat dumplings one by one. The same method is used to make bean-filled rice dumplings. Add beans, glutinous rice, and then the bean curd and tie it tightly.

14. All included

15. Add enough water to cover the rice dumplings, bring to a boil and cook over medium heat for 3 hours. Check the pan in the middle to see if it is sticky and try not to stir it.

16. After 3 hours, the rice dumplings are cooked. Although the ones I wrapped didn’t look good, they were very sturdy and not a single one leaked.

17. This is a bean-filled and meat-filled zongzi

18. In the last half hour of cooking the rice dumplings, I put some eggs and salted duck eggs in and cooked them at the same time.

Eating out frequently can pose a threat to your health. Making your own rice dumplings is simple and the ingredients are very healthy.