Xiangxi Bacon Zongba

Name: Xiangxi Bacon Zongba
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 5 catties Glutinous rice; piece bacon; A handful red beans; A handful green beans; A handful peanut; Some straw

by Meimeijia's Kitchen

4.8 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

2h

Serving

2

The Dragon Boat Festival is here, and the "alternative zongzi" in Xiangxi is very popular. Some people can't get tired of eating them, and some are discouraged!

Life flies quickly, and it’s the Dragon Boat Festival in a blink of an eye. For foodies, I am thinking about all kinds of edible festivals all year round. No, there are still a few days left on the Dragon Boat Festival. I can’t help but make zongzi!

I ate zongzi when I was young. There are two kinds of rice dumplings and multi-grain zongzi. After coming to Xiangxi with my husband, I remember that the first time I ate the local zongzi, I was shocked. The zongzi is so delicious! Since then, the zongzi at home has not attracted me anymore. No matter what the season is, I have to buy a big local zongzi to relieve my greed! Fortunately, they are sold on the streets all year round, but a rice dumpling costs 20 yuan, which really hurts to eat, take advantage of the Dragon Boat Festival, and make it at home! Let go of eating, have enough zongzi addiction!
The zongzi in Xiangxi is not the triangular or quadrangular shape that we usually see. It is relatively large and long, like a pillow, so we also call it "pillow zong". The shape is different, and the filling is even bigger. The same, Xiangxi is rich in bacon, and the dumplings in Xiangxi are wrapped in bright, fresh, salty, fat and thin bacon! The glutinous rice also has a faint yellow color in it. When you bite it, it is salty and delicious. It is so strong that it feels like you have to swallow your tongue if you are not careful! Xiangxi pillow dumplings that will fascinate you with one bite, friends who like to eat glutinous rice must try it!
Although we can buy special products from various places nowadays, we can buy them on Taobao, but where are the ones sold at home and are willing to put them out! Especially this year's bacon is more expensive than the sky. How much bacon can be in a 20 yuan bacon dumpling! Meimei is really addicted to make it at home. The fat and thin bacon is big and chunky. Add some red beans, peanuts, mung beans and other grains. If you like to eat salted egg yolks, you can also put one in. My saliva is about to drain, and I quickly eat a zongzi to relieve my greed.
The pillow dumplings in Xiangxi are simpler than the triangle dumplings we usually pack. Friends who don't know how to pack dumplings can easily get started. This Dragon Boat Festival, don't let it go! But if you put bacon in zongzi, some people really like it and others are afraid. My husband thinks that the fireworks smell is too strong and unpalatable. So if you don’t have bacon at home, or don’t like bacon, then put fresh ribs or pork belly. Well, remember to marinate the meat in advance to make it delicious. The meat must have some fat. After a long time of cooking, the fat of the fat will penetrate into the glutinous rice. The taste is oily but not greasy, and the glutinous rice is smooth. Slippery, that taste, tut! It is definitely the best-tasting zongzi you have ever eaten!

Let's take a look at the specific approach-

Ingredients

5 catties Glutinous Rice
piece Bacon
A handful Red Beans
A handful Green Beans
A handful Peanut
Some Straw

Xiangxi Bacon Zongba

1. A handful of straw, the rice we eat is grown from the straw.

2. Burn the straw into ash, collect the ash, put it on a sieve, pour the freshly boiled water on the straw, the filtered water is the ash water we will use today, the first time the ash water is thicker and the color The golden color is used to soak rice, and the second and third filtered water is used to cook rice dumplings. The rice dumplings boiled with grass grey water have a light fragrance and golden color. They are much more delicious than ordinary white rice dumplings.

3. The glutinous rice is ready. It is best to choose this kind of round glutinous rice for making zongzi, which has a more glutinous and fragrant taste. The glutinous rice does not need to be soaked. Just wash it slightly before making it.

4. Wash all the miscellaneous grains and put them in a pot together with the glutinous rice. Pour in the grass gray water. Do not use too much water. After soaking the rice and miscellaneous grains, a little water can leak out from the bottom of the pot.

5. Wash the bacon and cut it into your favorite shape. It doesn’t need to be too small.

6. Stack two zong leaves and hold them in your palms. Use a spoon to scoop a few tablespoons of glutinous rice and place them on the zong leaves. Slightly trim the rectangle with your hands, making it a little lower in the middle.

7. Place the bacon in the middle low area.

8. Cover the bacon cubes with glutinous rice and compress them by hand. Tighten the zong leaves on both sides.

9. Cover the zong leaves on both ends, and you must pinch your hands tightly during operation, otherwise the glutinous rice will easily fall apart.

10. Hold the left hand tightly, take the heald strip with the right hand to wrap the zongzi and tie it tightly.

11. The glutinous rice is easy to air dry. While making it, soak the wrapped zongzi in the grass ash water. After everything is done, you can directly put it on the fire and start cooking. Bring to a boil on high heat and cook for two hours on low fire. Because the size of the zongzi is different, the cooking time is different. You can peel one and taste it when you are two hours old. Make sure it's well done.

12. The rice dumplings boiled with grass ash water are golden and golden in color, and the unique grass ash aroma is overflowing, beautiful and attractive.

Tips:
Compared with other ordinary rice dumplings, Xiangxi pillow dumplings are made with grass gray water, so there will be a slight difference in taste, and the color is golden yellow, which is particularly attractive. This difference in taste is not easy to describe, but it has a slightly salty taste. It’s very unique. Nowadays, rice straw is not easy to find. You can add some alkaline water instead. The rice dumplings made by soaking rice in alkaline water have the same effect.

The zongzi must be delicious, the glutinous rice must be pressed tightly, and a little force should be applied when tying it. The zongzi produced in this way, the rice grains are all fused together, the taste is more springy, elastic, and the taste is very good.