1. Wash the red beans and peanuts, soak for 4 hours, drain the water for later use
2. Wash the glutinous rice and soak it in clean water for 2 hours. Keep the rice water for later use
3. Drain the glutinous rice, add sugar and stir well for later use
4. Soak the dried zongzi leaves in the rice-washing water for a while until they become soft, and rinse them off with clean water
5. Fry the upper stem with scissors
6. Put it in a pot of boiling water and cook for 10 minutes
7. Take out cold water and rinse again to control the moisture
8. Two zongzi leaves overlap at the bottom
9. Roll up the bottom diagonally
10. Roll up again
11. Form a funnel with a bottom seal
12. Fill the bottom of the funnel with a spoonful of glutinous rice and compact
13. Add 2 peanuts and a spoonful of red beans
14. Put another candied date
15. Put a spoonful of glutinous rice on top
16. Fold down the excess leaves on the upper part with your hands facing inward
17. Cover it with the leaves above, press it tightly, and roll it up
18. Tie it with cotton thread
19. Do the others in turn
20. Put it in a pressure cooker, add water that has not been used for rice dumplings, turn on the beans and tendons to cook, and then simmer until the steam runs out automatically after the program is over.
Tips:The bottom of the zong leaf funnel must be sealed so that there is no gap, otherwise the rice will leak when cooking. If you don't have a pressure cooker, you can cook it in a boiling pot for half an hour and then simmer for 10 minutes.
