Meat and Vegetarian Eight Treasure Rice Dumplings
1.
Wash the glutinous rice and then soak it in clean water for more than 3-4 hours. I soaked it at 10 in the morning and wrapped it at 4 in the afternoon. The best way is to soak in the evening in advance, and it will be fine the next day, which is convenient and time-saving
2.
Red beans, peanuts, red cowpeas soak for more than 3-4 hours
3.
Wash the red dates and soak
4.
Cut the pork belly into long strips of appropriate size, then add salt, cooking wine, light soy sauce, white pepper and pepper to marinate for about 2-3 hours, longer time is more delicious
5.
Wash the zong leaves and soak in clean water. I bought the kind of vacuum-packed fresh leaves, a pack of 50 pieces, 3 yuan a pack, the kind of dried leaves is best to soak for a while. In fact, it's the same in the end
6.
Pick out the pepper from the marinated pork belly, then add glutinous rice, red beans, red cowpea, and peanuts and mix together. The minced meat is done
7.
Mix the soaked glutinous rice, red beans, red cowpeas, and peanuts together. The sweet veggie rice dumpling filling is also finished. Now you can start the package, I will take the vegetarian as an example here
8.
Take two zong leaves, then fold them in half in the middle, and then turn them counterclockwise to form a funnel.
9.
First grab the vegetarian stuffing, then put a jujube
10.
Then put in a handful of stuffing, don’t put it too slowly at the beginning, you can put more if you are skilled
11.
Then wrap the excess zongzi leaves towards you, and then tie them with cotton thread,
12.
I don’t care about the shape of what I eat, as long as I don’t show the filling. Expose my work
13.
In fact, the package is proficient, and the package is very fast. Remember to separate the meat and vegetables, because they have to be cooked separately
14.
Fill the pot with water, and then put in the wrapped zongzi. I said before that the meat and vegetables should be separated to avoid odor, and the meat will be greasy when it is cooked. First boil on high heat, then turn to low heat and cook for about 3-4 hours , Look at the water in the pot in the middle, if you find that the water is running low, add some water to prevent the pot from burning dry
15.
The cooked rice dumplings are placed on a plate and let cool. If you can’t eat too much, you can freeze them in the refrigerator. When you want to eat them, just take them out and heat them up.
Tips:
It’s really easy to pack, but it takes a long time to cook, but when the water is boiled, you can smell the scent of rice dumplings all over the house.