Zongzi
Overview
The Dragon Boat Festival is here, and every household is making rice dumplings - a Chinese tradition. During the Dragon Boat Festival, every household makes rice dumplings, hangs a statue of Zhongkui, wears sachets, hangs mugwort and calamus bags, races dragon boats, wards off evil spirits and exorcises ghosts, and pays homage to Qu Yuan.
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Ingredients
Steps
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Blanch the rice dumpling leaves with hot water and sterilize them. Remove the yolk from duck eggs, no egg white is needed.
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Glutinous rice should be soaked for 2 hours in advance.
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Pour off the water from the soaked glutinous rice and add salt and five-spice powder. Mix well.
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Wash the red dates and set aside. Available or not.
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Pork belly and chicken. Chicken is for eating, pork belly is for oil. You can also use fatty meat instead of pork belly. Add salt, chicken essence, soy sauce, oyster sauce, and thirteen spices. Marinate
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Cut off the leaf stems because they are very hard and affect the wrapping.
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Put a little bit of rice first, just a little bit, just a thin layer.
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Add a piece of chicken, a piece of pork belly, half a duck egg yolk, and a date. You can also match it as you like.
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Add rice to cover.
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Go in on the left side.
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Wrap the right side
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Put the lower part up, then stand it up and straighten it.
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Finally put the top together.
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Tie the rope tight!
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La la la, waiting to start cooking! Use a pressure cooker on the stove and cook over low heat for two hours. If you use a firewood rack to cook the pot, it will take a night to cook, but the food cooked over firewood will be more fragrant and delicious!
