Red Date Rice Dumpling

Name: Red Date Rice Dumpling
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 800g Round glutinous rice; 500g Small red dates; Some Cold water; Some Zongye; Some Small rope

by meggy dancing apple

4.7 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

2h

Serving

2

It's Dragon Boat Festival again, and the street is filled with the fragrance of rice dumplings.

There are all kinds of zongzi for sale in supermarkets, but I can’t want to buy it, because I have the materials for making zongzi at home, and I also have the craft of making zongzi, so I can make and play while harvesting, so why not do it!

I bought the zongzi leaves during the Dragon Boat Festival last year. I remember I bought several packs at that time, and I bought a lot of them for my relatives and friends. The remaining zongzi leaves are placed in a cool and ventilated place. One year has passed, the fresh green has disappeared, but the leaves are still neat.

Soak the zongzi leaves in cold water for 3 hours. The leaves absorb enough water and become very soft. The dried zong leaves have a slightly worse appearance than fresh zong leaves, but the taste is still very strong.

I have packed several flavors of rice dumplings, including my snacks to large "red date rice dumplings".

Compared with the many flavors of rice dumplings in the South, the red date rice dumplings are too simple. Except for the round-grain glutinous rice, there are small red dates. Therefore, the two materials must be selected well. Round glutinous rice is more fragrant, sticky and glutinous than long glutinous rice; for small red dates, choose the one with thick meat and small taste.

White is white, and red is red. Take a bite of the fine product, although it is faint, it brings out their respective fragrance. The traditional red date rice dumplings in the north, this stuffing cannot be beaten, and it must be eaten every year. This is delicious, red and white, jujube fragrant, although it is a snack, it can serve as a meal. "

Ingredients

Red Date Rice Dumpling

1. Prepare the ingredients: Wash the round glutinous rice a few hours in advance and soak it in cold water enough to absorb enough water; wash the small red dates without soaking in water; the dried rice dumplings I use, soak them in cold water a few hours in advance to soften them before use , Fresh rice dumpling leaves can be used directly after washing.

2. Take two zong leaves, press one to increase its width, cut off the hard stems and leaf tips at both ends, and fold them at 1/3 or 1/4 of the bottom of the leaf to form a small funnel shape, with the tip of the bottom leaf Block it to prevent the rice from leaking out; if you want to pack a small zongzi, fold it at 1/4, and if you want to pack a big zongzi, you can fold it at 1/3.

3. Put an appropriate amount of glutinous rice at the bottom of the "funnel", pound the porcelain with chopsticks, and place 4 jujubes. Cover the surface with a layer of glutinous rice. There should be a little space from the edge of the top zong leaves so that the rice will not leak when wrapped.

4. Fold the upper leaves, press them on the glutinous rice, and wrap the leaves on both sides tightly to form a diamond-shaped zongzi.

5. Hold the zongzi tightly in your hand and tie it firmly with a small rope.

6. The wrapped rice dumplings are placed in a pot of cold water; I use the rice cooker for "soup" and it takes 1.5 hours, and I can use a normal pot to time it at my own discretion.

7. The red date rice dumplings are rich in jujube, and they can be used as a snack!

Tips:
1. If fresh zongzi leaves are used, they are better than dried zong leaves in terms of appearance, taste, or convenience during production and final shape;
2. For jujubes, choose varieties with small nucleus, thick meat and sweet taste, and the jujube meat should not be too dry, so that the wrapped zongzi will be fragrant and the jujube meat will be ruddy;
3. Hot glutinous rice food should be eaten well for digestion. Although it can show stickiness when eaten cold, it is not easy to digest, so eat it according to your physical fitness.