How to wrap Zongzi

People eat a lot of food in their lifetime. Only delicious food that is cooked with care will make people linger. So, let me introduce to you how to cook wrapped rice dumplings.

1.Ingredients summary: glutinous rice, red beans, pork belly, barbecued pork, salted egg yolk, and dried shrimp.

2. Soak the rice dumplings leaves and strips in advance, and wash them before use.

3. Soak the red beans overnight so that they are easier to cook.

4. Soak the glutinous rice for one hour in advance and wash it clean.

5. Soak and clean the red beans and glutinous rice

6. Add appropriate amount of salt and soy sauce for seasoning and mix well

7. Chop shallots

8.Cut the pork belly into pieces.

9. Heat oil in a pan, add appropriate amount of salt and sauté shallots.

10. Add the chopped pork belly and stir-fry, then add seasonings: four-season sauce, cooking wine, pepper, fermented bean curd, and chicken essence. Light soy sauce. stir fry

11. Keep stir-frying until the pork belly is evenly coated with the sauce and changes color. Shovel up.

12. Scoop up the stir-fried pork belly.

13. Fry the shrimps with a little oil until fragrant

14. Cut the barbecued pork into pieces.

15. Cut the salted egg yolk in half using a thread. This is the salted egg yolk pickled at home for 22 days, it is fragrant and oily. One of our rice dumplings is half a salted egg yolk, and you can cut it according to your personal preference.

16. Everything is ready, let’s start making zongzi

17. Bend 2-3 pieces of zongzi leaves into a funnel shape, grab a handful of glutinous rice, then put pork belly, barbecued pork, dried shrimp, half a salted egg yolk in order, grab a handful of glutinous rice and red beans to cover them, cover the top zongzi leaves downwards, twist them tightly and fold them to one side, wrap them into a square zongzi, then use soaked and cleaned zongzi strips to tighten them, OK.

18. The wrapped rice dumpling consists of four asymmetrical corners.

19. Beautiful and delicious rice dumplings

20. Put the wrapped rice dumplings into boiling water.

21. Cook over high heat for 1.5 hours, then turn off the heat and simmer for 3-5 minutes. My sister said that food cooked in a pressure cooker doesn’t taste as good, so she chose this pot to cook it slowly.

22. After cooking, pick up the cooked rice dumplings and do not keep them soaked in the pot. Hang them up so that they can be preserved longer. Or let it cool and store in the refrigerator.

23. Beautiful and delicious big meat and salted egg dumplings

24. Big meat dumplings and delicious salted egg dumplings

The dish of wrapped zongzi may seem complicated, but if you put your heart into it, you can do it well in just a few tries. In addition, if you give yourself some special care every now and then, your mood will improve and you will naturally be healthier.