Time flies year round, unknowingly we have come to June midsummer, this month there are good days to look forward to, that is, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival this day in addition to see the dragon boat racing, will also be given to the children to wear scented pouches, tie colorful rope to protect the peace, etc., which are the people's best wishes for life. Of course, the most important thing is the Dragon Boat Festival this day to eat the heart of the dumplings. Zongzi is wrapped in zongzi leaves with glutinous rice as the raw material plus a variety of ingredients, and then steamed and become, sweet and salty, meat and vegetarian.
The Dragon Boat Festival is still a good day to get together with family, prepare a table of rice and a pot of rice dumplings, eat up especially delicious. But you will eat rice dumplings, package rice dumplings cooking rice dumplings you will? Many people say, this is not simple, not directly soak the glutinous rice, and then prepare the rice dumplings leaves to put in, adjust the desired filling, you can put in the pot to cook, if it is really simple on the good.
My grandma told me, wrapped up the dumplings remember not to cook directly in the pot, to add one more step it, so that the dumplings eat up to soft and sweet, the color is also very good, more delicious than those bought outside, it is alkaline water, dumplings inside a bit of alkaline water, not only the color becomes golden, but also the protein molecules inside the glutinous rice to absorb water to strengthen the ability to reduce the cooking time, but also extend the preservation of the time, but also The following is the specific method of rice dumplings to share with you.
Alkaline rice dumplings
Ready ingredients: 2 pounds of glutinous rice, 50 grams of alkaline water, rice dumpling leaves
Operation of the specific process:
Step one: first of all, ready sticky rice is not required to soak, so that the dumplings after the soaking, cooked out of the texture of the texture of the less elastic, and do not have to soak the rice dumplings, as long as a simple cleaning out of the rice dumplings to eat the texture is Q elastic The texture of the dumplings is Q-bouncing. So the glutinous rice directly with clean water in the basin, and then add about 50 grams of alkaline water, mix well, and then drizzle a little cold water, the glutinous rice are wet, the basin is still a little bit of water on it.
Step two: the choice of wet rice dumplings dry leaves can be, if you buy a dry rice dumplings remember to soak in water for 20 minutes before using, so that used to wrap the rice dumplings will not be ruptured exposed. Then the dumpling leaves to get a good shape, pour glutinous rice into the hand squeeze press tight, if you want to add fillings can be adjusted in advance together with glutinous rice together put in. When wrapping the dumplings, be sure to compact, so that the taste is delicious, glutinous rice do not have to put too much, the dumplings tied, and then repeat the operation can be.
Step 3: After the dumplings are wrapped, do not immediately go to the boil, you can first soak in a little alkaline water added to the basin soak for a few moments, and then start the pot poured enough water, the dumplings fished out of the pot, the water must not be more than the dumplings, the first to turn on the fire to boil the water, the water boiled with a small fire to cook 3 hours or so after you can take out and eat, it is best to eat after the cool, the texture of the soft and tender viscous, the earth's delicious.
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