How to make Cantonese Zongzi

Do you have a kid? Do you think about food for your children over and over again? If so, you are a qualified and competent parent. If not, then you can start learning now. You should know that a variety of delicious food will definitely be beneficial to the physical and mental development of children. Well, let me introduce to you how to make Cantonese-style rice dumplings.

1. Wash the glutinous rice several times with clean water and put it in a large plate. Pour in clean water until the water covers the glutinous rice and soak it for 20 minutes.

2.121Put the drained glutinous rice back into the plate, add 3 teaspoons of salt and 2 tablespoons of peanut oil and mix well.

3.212 Take out the soaked glutinous rice and drain the water.

4.1 Cut the salted egg yolks in half and set aside. Peel the mung beans and wash them and set aside.

5.2 Cut the pork belly into small pieces, add 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of five-spice powder, 1 teaspoon of peanut oil and 1 tablespoon of soy sauce and mix well.

6. Wash the fresh palm leaves you bought with water, put water in a pot and bring it to a boil, put the palm leaves into the pot and cook for 5 minutes. While cooking, use chopsticks to press the palm leaves completely into the water. After the palm leaves are cooked, take them out and soak them in cold water for later use.

7. Take two palm leaves, with the smooth side facing up, and stack the two palm leaves horizontally together.

8. Hold both ends of the palm leaf with both hands, and bend it into a funnel shape from the middle of the palm leaf with the bottom of the funnel closed.

9. Put a spoonful of glutinous rice in the funnel and put an appropriate amount of mung beans on the glutinous rice.

10.1Put glutinous rice on top of the pork belly.

11.2 Place salted egg yolk and pork belly on the mung beans.

12. Move the excess part of the funnel-shaped palm leaf forward to cover the glutinous rice, press it tightly, and wrap the top of the "funnel" with both sides downward, with the front end overlapping vertically.

13. Fold the overlapping part to one side and hold it tightly.

14. Tie the rice dumplings tightly with straw rope.

15. Place the rice dumplings in the pressure cooker and add enough water to submerge them.

16. Bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to medium heat and cook under pressure for 40 minutes. Remove from pressure after all the gas in the pressure cooker has been released.

Maybe you have never eaten Cantonese-style rice dumplings before, and you don’t know how to make them. Now, follow your heart and learn to make this dish. You should know that the sense of accomplishment and joy after making it is really delightful.