[dragon Boat Festival] Traditional Candied Date Rice Dumplings

Name: [dragon Boat Festival] Traditional Candied Date Rice Dumplings
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1000g Glutinous rice; 2 catties Reed leaf; Some Candied dates; Some Red jujube; Some Red bean paste

by Lily Yuer

4.8 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

1h

Serving

2

For the Dragon Boat Festival, there are many childhood memories. I remember that on the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, my mother would wrap the rice dumplings cooked the day before and let me send them to my mother's good friend's house. Then when I went to someone’s house, I would be very faceless and ask my sisters to make the "scented sachets". I don’t know if you remember the sachets, just make a shape like zongzi out of paper, and then make a circle with threads of various colors Wrap it in a circle to make a sachet. At that time, the sachets made by the sisters were all pretty. Then by the way, I asked my sister to make a colored rope for me and squeeze it on my wrist and ankle.
So as soon as the Dragon Boat Festival came, I was very happy to run around the dumplings that my mother had given me, and harvest my "trophies" by the way. But the sights of more than ten years ago are gone. Almost all neighbors have moved into high-rise buildings, and many of them have lost contact with them. Even if they are contacted, they will never give Zongzi anymore. Many times, everyone buys gift boxes from time-honored brands as gifts. The gifts are getting more and more exquisite, but I feel that there is a little human touch and hand-made deliciousness.
The day before yesterday afternoon, I wrapped two big pots of rice dumplings with my mother. My mother said that we will keep the rice dumplings for ourselves today, and we will send two pots of rice dumplings to our relatives another day. I don't know how to make rice dumplings. I have eaten them all these years. I never thought I had to learn them. This year is different, and I still feel that I have learned the last word. Mom still said, you can eat your girl, and Mom will make it for you. I said no, if one day my mother is gone, then I will never be able to eat the "mother's taste". So, my mother taught me patiently, look at the rice dumplings in the pot, I'm not bad! "

Ingredients

[dragon Boat Festival] Traditional Candied Date Rice Dumplings

1. The reed leaves should be cooked in a pot in advance.

[dragon Boat Festival] Traditional Candied Date Rice Dumplings recipe

2. The glutinous rice is soaked for several hours in advance.

3. Wash the red dates and candied dates and set aside.

4. Because the reed leaves I bought this time are very small, only 4 leaves can be folded on each other to make a relatively large leaf.

5. Overlap the leaf nest on the right side of the reed leaf with the leaf on the left.

6. Put in glutinous rice, you can put a jujube at the bottom if you like.

7. Then put red dates and red bean paste in the middle.

8. You can also put candied date stuffing in the middle.

9. Cover the filling with glutinous rice.

10. The left hand is like recycling, covering the top.

11. Tie the zongzi with string.

12. Put them in the pot one by one. The amount of water is less than the zongzi, and it must be a small fire, 40 minutes after SAIC is ready.

Tips:
1. The leaves wrapped in zongzi are best used to buy reed leaves. Many sold in the market are not reed leaves. The zongzi wrapped with reed leaves has a unique fragrance.

2. At first, you must use a low heat when cooking the zongzi, otherwise the zongzi soaked in the water will not be shaped properly and will be easy to batter.