Xiaozao Zongzi
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Soak the glutinous rice one day in advance, so that the glutinous rice will absorb the water, so as to reduce the final cooking time. The round glutinous rice I use here, you can choose any glutinous rice you like, and you can do whatever you like. You don’t need to care too much. Types of glutinous rice
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The dried zong leaves are soaked in water one day in advance and soaked so that they are soft.
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The dates should also be cleaned in advance and soaked for a while, but the dates don’t need to be soaked for too long, soak them for 3-4 hours.
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Before using the zong leaves, put some salt in the pot and cook for 5 minutes in advance, take it out to cool, and clean it. Cut off the big hard stalks at both ends of the zong leaves, and then take a piece of zong leaves according to the size of the zong leaves. If the zong leaves are small, You can take two pieces and stack them up and roll them up into a cone shape from the middle
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Put a date at the bottom first
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Put some glutinous rice on top of the jujube, then cover the jujube, and press it. Note that the rice should be filled as hard as possible.
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Put two more dates on the filled glutinous rice, one on each side, and then fill the filled dates with glutinous rice, compact, I pack three dates in a zongzi, you can according to your own situation Depends on
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Dear friends, before wrapping, use a spoon to compact the glutinous rice. After compaction, pull the two upper leaves down to wrap the cone underneath, and follow the outline of the glutinous rice filled dumplings one by one. Do some shaping, wrap it up, and tie it firmly with a citronella rope to complete it. If you don’t have a citronella rope, you can use ordinary cotton thread. As long as it is not afraid of high temperature boiling, it can tie a strong rope. All ok
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Put the wrapped zongzi in a pot under cold water and cook for about 2 hours (depending on the degree of soaking of the glutinous rice!) until the glutinous rice is soft and glutinous. Store in the freezer of the refrigerator for unlimited time. When you eat, take out the upper pot and steam it and you can eat it. If you like sweet friends, take some sugar and eat with it. It is delicious.
Tips:
1. I chose round glutinous rice, but there are many kinds of glutinous rice, such as round glutinous rice, long glutinous rice, etc. Relatively speaking, round glutinous rice tastes softer and glutinous than long glutinous rice. So I like to eat sticky glutinous rice. Friends of you can consider choosing round glutinous rice, otherwise choose long glutinous rice;
2. The soaking time of glutinous rice is actually very random, ranging from 2-4 hours soaking to 1 day, because it can be compensated in the later processing. For example, if glutinous rice is not soaked, you can consider using it. Boil the rice dumplings for a long time to make the glutinous rice soft and waxy. If the glutinous rice is soaked for a long time and in place, you can cook it for a short time, the glutinous rice will become soft and waxy, so you can adjust it yourself;
3. This zongzi is made without adding any sugar. It is purely set off by the sweetness of dates, but if you like sweet friends, add some sugar and eat it! It will be more delicious~ You can make DIY at will~ I wish you a good appetite;
4. It is really hard to wrap the zongzi into a triangle shape. In fact, you can try a variety of shapes you are used to or you like. It doesn't matter what shape you want as long as the packing is tight and the bundle is strong.
