1, jiaozi surface should be hard.
Pack jiaozi on New Year's Eve. When kneading dough, stir the dough vigorously. Because there are many people in our family and jiaozi during the Spring Festival, we should make the dough wrapped in jiaozi in advance and put it aside to sober up. The process of proofing will soften the dough.
If the dough becomes soft, it will "wake up softer", so that the wrapped dumpling skin has no support and is easy to boil in the pot. It's best to be jiaozi in the Spring Festival, so we should work hard on the dough.
2. jiaozi wants to chop loudly.
It's best to chop jiaozi, especially meat, during the Chinese New Year, and try not to use a meat grinder. The louder the dumpling stuffing is chopped, the more prosperous the family is and the population is. At the same time, noise will scare away unlucky things such as "Nian Beast", "Little Man" and "Poor God", so every household will hear the sound of chopping jiaozi in the early hours of New Year's Eve.
3. jiaozi must have a lucky draw.
On New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, a pack of jiaozi should have some colorful heads. Traditionally, there are chestnuts, jujubes, coins, sweets and so on. Chestnuts represent everything goes well, jujubes represent prosperity, coins represent wealth, and sweets represent sweetness.
Nowadays, people generally use coins, and they add colorful heads to make eating jiaozi feel ceremonial. Children who don't like eating at home, in particular, will eat more jiaozi to get coins. When wrapping jiaozi, jiaozi should cover his mouth tightly, which is called "covering a small population", and at the same time, he should avoid breaking the skin when cooking jiaozi.
4. Let jiaozi be "blessed"
Generally, the wrapped jiaozi should be placed on the "curtain", that is, the circular jiaozi curtain. When you put jiaozi, don't put it anywhere, just put it at will. Generally, it should be placed from outside to inside, or from inside to outside, and placed at equal intervals in each circle, preferably clockwise. This circle is called "Yuanfu", and clockwise represents a day of "crossing more smoothly".
5, cooking jiaozi does not break the skin
When cooking the wrapped jiaozi, be careful not to leak or break, which means not to leak or break money. There are many techniques for cooking jiaozi without breaking the skin, such as making the dumpling skin harder and squeezing it tighter when wrapping jiaozi.
When rolling skin, the middle is thick and the edges are thin. When cooking jiaozi, order water three times. Because there are many people in the family, we have to pack a lot of jiaozi at a time. When cooking jiaozi, don't cook too much in one pot to prevent jiaozi from sticking together and easily breaking the skin.