Wumi Yuanzi

Overview

Black rice, also known as Ami rice and green rice essence. In most areas, it falls on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month. Many families use black rice leaves to cook black rice, which has become a custom. Some also do it during the Beginning of Summer or Qingming Festival. But people here are always eager to eat black rice before the eighth day of April. Black rice is oily and fragrant. It is made by soaking glutinous rice in black leaves for several hours and then cooking it. Eating black rice can dispel wind and detoxify. The meatballs wrapped with salted egg yolk are rolled in glutinous rice soaked in black rice juice, steamed for 10 minutes, and the fragrant black rice balls are ready!

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• qingming
• beginning of summer
• lunch
• students
• cooking wine
• glutinous rice
• minced pork
• salted egg yolk
• umi juice
• ginger
• green onions
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash the glutinous rice and soak it in black rice juice for more than 4 hours. If the weather is hot, put it in the refrigerator to soak.

   

2. 2 Drain the soaked glutinous rice and set aside.

   

3. 3 Take out the salted egg yolk and set aside (the vacuum-packed salted duck eggs I used are a bit lacking in taste. It is recommended to use fresh salted duck egg yolks)

   

4. 4 Add salt, cooking wine, chopped green onion, and ginger into the minced meat and mix well in a clockwise direction. Take a little minced meat and wrap it with salted egg yolk.

   

5. 5 Roll the meatballs wrapped in salted egg yolk into a round shape.

   

6. 6 Evenly wrap the glutinous rice soaked in black rice juice, and gently press the surface with your hands to prevent the glutinous rice from falling off easily.

   

7. 7 Put the prepared black rice balls into a basin.

   

8. 8 Put water in a steamer, bring to a boil over high heat, add black rice balls and steam for 12-15 minutes.

   

9. 9 The fragrant black rice dumplings are ready!