1. Mix the sticky rice and sticky balls, soak it in clean water overnight. If it’s hot, put it in the refrigerator. Drain the water and mix in a small amount of baking soda before use.
2. Soak the dried rice dumpling leaves and straw rope overnight, then use boiling water to scald them for disinfection, and carefully clean each of the rice dumpling leaves.
3. Wash the beef and set aside.
4. Cut beef into small pieces, add curry powder, salt, soy sauce, dark soy sauce, a few drops of lemon juice, starch, green onion, and ginger slices, mix well and marinate overnight.
5. Mix the sticky rice mixture with curry powder, salt, soy sauce, dark soy sauce, and marinated curry beef and marinate for a while. Note that in this step, you should pick out the green onion and ginger slices from the curry beef, and the salt is better than Usually put more.
6. Take two zong leaves slightly staggered and stacked together, cut off the rhizome.
7. Rolled into a funnel as shown in the figure.
8. Add the sticky rice mixture to 8 minutes full.
9. Fold and compact the remaining zong leaves on both sides.
10. The remaining zong leaves above are smoothed by hand and turned over.
11. Bind the rice dumplings firmly with rope, and cut off the excess rice dumpling leaves.
12. Add enough water to the pot and boil and put in the wrapped zongzi. The water must be under the zongzi. Boil on high heat for 1 hour, turn to low heat for 1 hour, and turn off the heat and let it be stuffy for another 2 hours.
Tips:1. Putting a small amount of baking soda into the sticky rice can make the zongzi more chewy and help digestion.
2. Add a small amount of starch when marinating beef to make the cooked beef softer.
3. When boiling, the water must be under the rice dumplings. When boiling on high heat, please add hot water instead of cold water in time when the water is low, otherwise it will be easy to get caught.
4. The cooking time can be adjusted according to the size of the zongzi.
5. The dumplings that cannot be eaten can be placed in cold water, refrigerated or even frozen.
6. Don't eat too much at one time or it will not be easy to digest.
