Do you want to cook or soak the dried zongzi leaves first? It's best to soak the dried zongzi leaves first and then put them in the pot to cook.
Dried zongzi leaves are dehydrated products of fresh zongzi leaves, which are easy to be boiled by direct cooking. Before cooking, it is best to soak them in cold water for 2 hours, and then put them in the pot for about 5 minutes. If you don't need them urgently, you can just soak them in cold water for a day, and you can still soak them.
Do you still need to cook the dried zongzi leaves after soaking for one night? It's better to cook them.
Before making zongzi, the palm leaves should be boiled, and the water should be boiled. On the one hand, the leaves will not be hard and brittle, and on the other hand, the green taste of the leaves can be removed. Wash it after cooking, then air the leaves and remove the water. Of course, many people say that it is ok to cook or not. The boiled leaves are softer and better wrapped. Of course, the fragrance of the leaves is slightly lighter. But you'd better cook it.
How to deal with the dried zongzi leaves 1, cut off the petioles of zongzi leaves and soak them in water overnight.
2. Wash the front and back sides of the leaves with clear water, which can be wiped by hand or cleaned with cleaning tools, but the strength should not be too great to avoid damage.
3. Add a proper amount of water to the pot and bring it to a boil.
4. Put the leaves in boiling water and boil for 3 minutes.
Tip: If there are many zongzi leaves, you can turn them properly with chopsticks when boiling, so that each zongzi leaf can be soaked as much as possible.
5. Take out the leaves, rinse them again with clear water, and put them into a rice washing basket to drain the water.
Attention when handling:
When scalding zongzi leaves, if they are dry, they need to be soaked in clear water for one night, but if they are fresh, they don't need to be soaked overnight, but they all need to be put in water, gently cleaned and then scalded in boiling water, so as to ensure that the zongzi leaves are cleaner. If bamboo leaves are selected for zongzi leaves, they will be more resistant to cooking. In addition, after cooking or scalding the zongzi leaves, you need to put the zongzi leaves in clear water, and then use them to wrap zongzi.