How to make zongzi
Zongzi (Sticky Rice Dumplings) These are sold in large quantities before and after the Dragon Boat Festival. It's easy to buy them during this time, but it's difficult to buy them at other times. If you know how to make zongzi and have some experience, you can make your own. Just buy the raw materials and you can make it.
Method for Meat Zongzi
Ingredients Preparation
Sticky Rice 10 lbs (approximately 4.5 kg)Pork Belly 800g, salted Duck Eggs 20Chestnuts 500g Ham 300g Peanuts 3 tablespoons of oil, salt,Chicken Powder，White Sugar，Sesame Seeds 1 tablespoon each Soy Sauce 3 tablespoons, 2 tablespoons of cooking wine.
Method/Steps
1.Salted Duck Eggs Wash and set aside the egg whites,Duck Eggs Cut in half and set aside;
2. Cut the pork belly into pieces, add soy sauce, salt, white sugar, chicken powder, cooking wine, and peanut oil.Black Sesame Seeds Marinate for 4 hours;
3. Ham Steam Cook until done, cut into small pieces, add sugar and steam for 20 minutes, then cool.Chestnuts Peel and soak in leaves
4. After soaking the sticky rice for half a day, drain it, add alkali, salt, white sugar, and chicken powder, and mix well;
5. Fold two leaves of zongzi into a container shape, add duck eggs, pork belly, ham, chestnuts, and fill with sticky rice, and then fold and wrap with cotton thread.
Tips
After zongzi is packed, put it in a pressure cooker to cook.
Method for Bamboo Zongzi
Ingredients Preparation
Sticky Rice, dried Red dates Dried Red Dates Peanuts, dried red dates,Adzuki Beans Longan Dried Cranberries Dried Grapes Fragrant Oil, zongzi leaves, Lotus Root, Bamboo Cylinder, Cotton Thread. Method/Steps 1. Clean and dry the bamboo cylinder, and soak dried zongzi leaves and lotus root in water overnight. Wash sticky rice, red adzuki beans, peanuts, and dried red dates, and soak them in water overnight. Wash dried red dates, dried cranberries, and dried grapes and set aside.
2. Mix a suitable amount of soaked sticky rice and
Red Beans
, and peanuts to make red bean and peanut zongzi. Mix a suitable amount of sticky rice and dried red dates to make red date zong. Mix a suitable amount of sticky rice and dried cranberries and dried grapes to make a mixed zong.3. Brush a layer of fragrant oil inside the bamboo cylinder, wrap the outside of the bamboo cylinder with lotus root, and then fill the four types of zongzi ingredients into the bamboo cylinder, seal with zongzi leaves, and tie tightly with cotton thread. Place the bamboo cylinder zong in a pressure cooker with half a pot of water. 4. Cook in the pressure cooker for one hour, then let it stand for a morning.
Tips
Brush fragrant oil inside the bamboo cylinder, so that after opening the bamboo cylinder, the zong will not stick together. After taking it out, it will be more intact.
How to make Zongzi: Zongzi Wrapping Method
1. Take a large piece of zongzi leaf, fold it in half, and fold the bottom of the double layer upwards, and press with your hand.
2. Open the zongzi leaf, fill it with sticky rice, and try to fill the sticky rice into a long shape.
3. Fold the part of the zongzi leaf that doesn't have rice, and then pinch the sides of the leaf with your hand. Fold the tip of the zongzi leaf to one side.
4. Tie the zongzi with a string.
Fold the non-rice part of the leaves over, then pinch the sides of the leaves with your hand.
Bind the leaves with string to secure.
