How to make Zongzi

If you come home from get off work every day and there is a hot, sweet and delicious meal waiting for you, you will definitely feel happy. Of course, few people can obtain such happiness. However, you can give yourself this happiness, you can make something delicious for yourself. Of course, if you don't know how to do it, you need to learn first. Well, now I will teach you how to make zongzi.

1.121 Soak the glutinous rice in warm water and then soak it in caustic soda. If you soak it in warm water, it only takes half an hour. Rinse the bamboo leaves and bamboo ropes with water.

2.212 Ingredients: glutinous rice (more or less depending on personal preference), zongzi leaves, palm rope, candied dates, white alkali

3. Cut the candied dates in half. If you want to eat them by yourself, you can leave them uncut to eat more. However, if you don’t cut them, the hollow center will not be able to hold more rice.

4. It's time to make zongzi. There are many ways to make zongzi, some are pointed and some are flat. While the rice is soaking, I will teach you how to make pointed and flat zongzi. (Friendly reminder: It is best to use ropes torn from palm trees to tie zongzi. Many people use plastic ropes because they can't find them or because they want to be convenient. I don't recommend this. When cooking zongzi at high temperatures, the ropes will often decompose some toxic substances, just like when you use boiling water to scald a plastic bottle, there will be a peculiar smell, right?)

5. Tip-end Zongzi: Rotate the Zongzi leaf into a funnel shape and continue to rotate so that the head and tail of the leaf overlap (pay attention to a trick here, it is best to fix the tail of the leaf and rotate the head of the leaf with your right hand so that the harder head of the branch is inside, so that it is tied more firmly)

6. After filling the rice, press down the leaves and tie them up.

7. The finished product is a flat rice dumpling.

8. Pattern: Flat Zongzi: Fix the leaf head, rotate the leaf tail, overlap the leaf head and tail. Here we can find that the flat type only needs to rotate 90 degrees to overlap, while the pointed type needs to overlap 180 degrees. After filling the rice, just cover the leaves and tie them up without leaking.

9. Start cooking over high heat. Because you have soaked rice with alkali before, don't add too much alkali to the boiling water now. Just add until the water turns yellow. Too much will make it bitter. If it is appropriate, it will be very fragrant. Cook for half an hour. Stir it with chopsticks in the middle.

10. Remove from the pan and don’t fall apart

11. Hey, delicious food is with you, and you are in a good mood every day

After reading the editor’s detailed analysis of making zongzi, I believe you have a general understanding of it. But if you want to make it delicious, it depends on your own ability. Everyone has a different ability to understand recipes, so the taste of the dishes they make will naturally be different.