Jujube Rice Dumplings

Jujube Rice Dumplings

1. Wash the zong leaves in advance, soak them in warm water for several hours

2. Soak the round glutinous rice a few hours in advance

3. Pour the water out of the soaked glutinous rice, prepare the jujube paste and tools

4. Use two or three zong leaves, stack them and arrange them into a funnel shape

5. Put glutinous rice, then put jujube puree

6. Cover the last layer with glutinous rice, and it’s 80% full

7. Then cover the zong leaves, use any position you like to wrap the zongzi so as not to leak the rice, and tie it with a rope or straw

8. Wrap all the glutinous rice

9. In a large saucepan, add the rice dumplings, fill with water, turn on high heat and boil, change to low heat and cook for two hours, turn off the heat, and simmer for one hour

10. The sweet and glutinous rice dumplings are ready

Tips:

The glutinous rice should be soaked for enough time to make it soft and glutinous. The filling can be changed to whatever you like.