1, the first step in making rice dumplings is to soak the rice, the selected glutinous rice soaked in flowing tap water for about 4 hours, the purpose is to soak the rice through. It should be noted that the weather is hot, soaked in stagnant water glutinous rice is very easy to bad, so you should open the head of the water cage, let the water flow. When the rice is soaked, use a basket to drain the water naturally.

2, after draining the water, add five-spice powder, onion oil, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, sugar and other seasonings to the rice. Under the pot to open a small fire constantly stirring for about 15 minutes, until the glutinous rice has a little viscosity can be. Then, cut the meat to make dumplings into pieces and put it into the pot with spices to marinate for flavor. The rest of the ingredients are washed and dried.

3, the dumplings leaves dumplings rope soaked in water for about two or three hours, wash, dumplings leaves must be brushed on both sides. Next you can start wrapping the dumplings according to different flavors.

Wrapping dumplings

1, different places and different people have different packages of dumplings, but the same principle is to wrap tight, especially the rope should be firmly tied, or pack a leak a, boiled and fished out of the only leaves left.

2, the package of rice dumplings, first of all, is to choose two to three rice dumpling leaves, rice dumpling leaves overlap each other on the reverse side, nested into a funnel shape, filled with glutinous rice, meat, mushrooms, shrimp, chestnuts and other materials, and then use glutinous rice to seal all the materials, rice dumplings leaves flipped over to seal the heart of the stuffing, and then use rice dumplings tied tightly with the rope, it can be.

Cooking the dumplings

The best way to cook the dumplings is with stock, or big bone broth. Residents at home can choose to put the bones in the bottom of the pot, add water and boil over high heat, turn down the heat and then add the dumplings and cook for about 4 hours. If there is a pressure cooker residents, you can directly put the dumplings into the pot, add the dumplings did not exceed the broth, bubbling and then turn to a small fire pressure for half an hour can also be.

Small tips

1, the meat of the dumplings should be brined or marinated beforehand in order to be flavored.

2, when cooking dumplings, it is best not to just use tap water, so that the dumplings will be cooked out of the lack of a flavor, the choice of soup will make the dumplings more delicious.

3, meat dumplings must eat hot, so eat the dumplings cold and then eat must be heated, heating dumplings should not use the microwave oven, so that the water inside the dumplings are lost, it is not delicious. When heating the dumplings, it is best to add water to cook, if you are afraid of water taste heavy, you can add salt in the water, monosodium glutamate and other flavoring.