On holidays, people have the habit of eating and steaming. Zhaoqing steamed dumplings are a kind of zongzi. The material packaging system is special. Generally, zongzi is wrapped in awn leaves, showing a distorted quadrangle, while Zhaoqing is wrapped in local unique winter leaves and aquatic plants, showing an Egyptian pyramid shape, each weighing about 0.5 kg. Its ingredients are mainly glutinous rice, unprocessed mung beans and pork, or mushrooms, sausages and salted eggs as fillings. It can be eaten in a vat of fire for 7 to 8 hours. It is fragrant while it is hot, and the entrance is loose, smooth and sweet.
Specific practice: The day before jiaozi's package, wash and peel the pork, cut it into small cubes, and add salt, sugar, spiced powder and vegetarian ingredients. Wash mung beans, soak them overnight, then rub them out by hand, then remove them with clear water, drain the water in the bean meat, and remove them evenly with a little oil and salt. Wash glutinous rice, drain water, add appropriate amount of soy sauce, salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate and spiced powder and mix well. Cut the salted egg yolk into two pieces. Cut the barbecue, duck and ham into pieces. Remove the stems of mushrooms, wash them, soak them in water, take them out and drain them. Wash and soak the shrimp. Wash chestnut meat, stew it "rotten" and take it out for later use.
Steamed dumplings are wrapped in dried lotus leaves (that is, dried lotus leaves should be washed with water first, then soaked in warm water and coated with a little oil), covered with glutinous rice first, and then covered with mung beans; Then add pork, ham, barbecue, roast duck, mushrooms, shrimp skin, chestnuts and half salted egg yolk; Finally, nail a layer of mung beans and a layer of glutinous rice, wrap them into a "square", tie them tightly with water plants, then put them in a steamer and steam them with boiling water. Wrapped in lotus leaves, steamed dumplings have a fragrant lotus leaf flavor and are particularly delicious.
Zhaoqing steamed dumplings have three characteristics: first, ordinary zongzi are wrapped in bamboo leaves in a quadrangular triangle, while Zhaoqing steamed dumplings are wrapped in winter leaves in a pillow shape or a mountain shape with four corners. 2. The main raw materials are glutinous rice, mung beans and fat pork in the ratio of 10:6:4. Packaged, steamed and not boiled are generally about 0.5 kg each. Third, the packaged semi-finished products should be put in a big bottle and boiled for 8 hours, and a lot of boiling water should be added when cooking.
Zhaoqing has many local products, such as Duan inkstone, flower mat, Dinghushan tea cake, seven-star sword flower, frangipani flower, purple begonia and so on. And Zhaoqing steamed dumplings. Zhaoqing steamed zongzi is a kind of zongzi, which is made of glutinous rice, mung beans, fat pork, and proper amount of refined salt, distiller's yeast, peanut oil, white sesame seeds, spiced powder and other ingredients. Zhaoqing steamed dumplings are unique in that they are wrapped in big winter leaves, which are not only fragrant, but also fresh. Winter leaves are cold, which has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials and reducing fire. Fresh steamed dumplings, the winter leaves cooked for a long time have turned dark green, and the surface of glutinous rice absorbs chlorophyll from the winter leaves, showing a transparent light green. The smell of winter leaves mixed with glutinous rice and mung beans is mouth-watering, sweet and smooth, and the cheeks remain fragrant after eating, which is very popular. People who come to Zhaoqing always buy some Zhaoqing steamed dumplings and leave Zhaoqing for home.