Red Beans and Candied Date Rice Dumplings

Name: Red Beans and Candied Date Rice Dumplings
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: Some Glutinous rice; Some red beans; Some Candied dates; Some Fresh reed leaves

by Xuefenger

5.0 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

2h

Serving

2

It is a traditional custom of the Chinese people to eat rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival. Zongzi is also called "corn millet" and "tube dumpling". It has a long history, and there are many kinds of tricks. In the Jin Dynasty, Zongzi was officially designated as a food for the Dragon Boat Festival. There are also many shapes of zongzi, generally there are regular triangles, regular tetragons, pointed triangles, squares, long shapes and other shapes. In our memory, the most traditional one in our hometown is the triangular rice dumplings, which are big and wrapped in two layers of fresh reed leaves. They are cooked slowly in a large iron pot. The night before the Dragon Boat Festival, they usually take 3-4 hours. Soak it until the Dragon Boat Festival the next morning. The taste is strong, the rice dumplings are soaked into light green, and the rice dumplings are fragrant. . . . . .
Because zongzi is made of glutinous rice, it is not easy to digest. When eating zongzi, you can drink some tea or sugar water to help digestion.
Last year, my mother and I just learned a new method of processing zong leaves. You don’t need to cook them. Just freeze the fresh zong leaves in the refrigerator overnight, take out the thawing, and the zong leaves are soft and easy to use. Let’s learn it. . . "

Ingredients

Red Beans and Candied Date Rice Dumplings

1. Frozen fresh zong leaves in the refrigerator overnight, take out and wash them for later use.

Red Beans and Candied Date Rice Dumplings recipe

2. Soak the glutinous rice for about 3 hours in advance.

3. The red beans are also soaked in advance, then mixed with glutinous rice, and candied dates are set aside.

4. Take three zong leaves.

5. The nest is funnel-shaped.

6. Add red beans and glutinous rice.

7. Put the candied dates, add to 8 minutes full, hold it like this with your hands.

8. Fold off the top leaves.

9. The leaves are twisted tightly.

10. It is enough to entangle the remaining leaves with small tails.

11. Tie the cotton thread and cut the cotton thread into a beautiful triangular rice dumpling.

12. Put it in the pot after wrapping.

13. Add enough water, change the heat to low after boiling, and simmer for 3 hours.

14. It is soft and waxy with the aroma of red beans and the sweetness of candied dates. . . . . . . . .

Tips:
When packing zongzi, you must pinch tightly. For the first time, if there is a hole in the tip, it will not be pinched tightly. You can put a red date to block it. This method is very useful for beginners. If you pack more times, you will be proficient. .