How to make zongzi stuffing delicious

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China. People have the custom of eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival. The taste of rice dumplings made in different regions is different in the north and south, and the fillings of rice dumplings are also quite different. For example, people in the south like to make meat rice dumplings, while people in the north generally like to make vegetarian rice dumplings. When making rice dumplings, the preparation of the fillings is also very important. Let us learn about this aspect below.

How to make the filling of zongzi delicious

1. Big meat dumplings

Rice dumplings are one of the traditional foods. The zongzi weighs about two to three hundred grams, and is filled with glutinous rice, pork and mung beans. The more advanced ones are also filled with sausages, chestnuts, bamboo shoots, etc.

Main ingredients: glutinous rice, mung beans, pork belly, bamboo leaves, palm rope, salt, oil, MSG;

2. Egg yolk rice dumpling

Ingredients: glutinous rice, fresh pork belly, salted egg yolk, bamboo leaves

Seasoning: oyster sauce, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, Maggi chicken powder, Maggi umami sauce, minced ginger, five-spice powder

practice:

1. Prepare the ingredients for making egg yolk rice dumplings, cook the pork belly according to your favorite taste, and soak the palm leaves.

2. After the palm leaves are soaked, start wrapping them into a funnel shape.

3. Put the glutinous rice and fillings in, with rice on both sides and egg yolk and pork belly in the middle. For detailed illustrated instructions, see: How to make egg yolk rice dumplings.

3. Candied Date Zongzi

The main ingredients are: glutinous rice, candied dates, palm leaves, water, salt;

practice:

Wash glutinous rice and candied dates; blanch the raw zong leaves in boiling water, fold the leaves into a triangular funnel shape, put in a little glutinous rice and press it slightly, put in the candied dates and wrap them up. For detailed illustrated instructions, see: How to make candied date zongzi.

4. Red Bean Paste Zongzi

The main raw materials are generally: glutinous rice, bean paste, raisins, rice dumplings leaves, etc.

practice:

1. Soak the rice dumplings leaves in advance and rinse them clean.

2. Soak the glutinous rice for at least 4 hours. Rinse the raisins with clean water and mix them with the soaked glutinous rice.

3. Roll the rice leaves into a funnel shape with the smooth side facing inwards. For detailed illustrated instructions, see: How to make red bean paste rice dumplings.

5. Alkaline Rice Dumpling

The method of making salted pork and alkaline rice dumplings is very classic among all kinds of rice dumplings. The main ingredients are glutinous rice, pork belly, black-eyed peas, peanuts and edible alkaline.

If you want to know how to make delicious bacon and alkaline rice dumplings, you should pay attention to the detailed step-by-step illustrations of the making process.

6. Fruit Zongzi

750 grams of glutinous rice, 25 grams each of green plums, pineapple meat, and winter melon strips, 15 grams each of watermelon seeds, walnut kernels, raisins, and red silk, and 300 grams of white sugar. First, boil the green plums, pineapple flesh, and winter melon strips in sugar water, drain the water, and then marinate them in sugar for 24 hours to make the filling. Wrap into a five-pointed square-bottomed rice dumpling, boil for 50 minutes, and simmer for 4 minutes off the heat.