Soy sauce is not used in glutinous rice. Soy sauce is marinated in the meat together with the meat. Use the marinated meat to wrap the rice dumplings, and the cooked rice dumplings will have a soy sauce color. But if you don’t like to eat pure white rice, like noodles, you can add some alkali to the rice. The rice will turn yellow and the color will look better, but it depends on your own taste. Generally, you don’t need to add salt to sweet rice dumplings, but you need to add salt to other flavors.

When putting the glutinous rice into the zongzi leaves, you can mix the zongzi rice with some seasonings or other ingredients that you have prepared in advance. When making rice dumplings, use a rope to tie them as tightly as possible to prevent them from falling apart during cooking and causing the glutinous rice to lose a certain amount of stickiness and glutinousness.

Due to different regions, the materials and even the leaves of the rice dumplings are very different. Even the shape of the "wrapped" is also very different. For example, in the early days, it was popular to use ox horns to worship the sky. Therefore, in the Han and Jin Dynasties, The rice dumplings are mostly made into angular shapes and are used as one of the items for worshiping ancestors. In addition, there are generally various shapes such as equilateral triangles, equilateral squares, pointed triangles, squares, and rectangles.

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The calories of rice dumplings vary according to their "size" and "content". The caloric content of Taiwanese meat rice dumplings is about 450 to 600 calories. The Taiwanese meat rice dumplings range from 385 to 671 calories, with an average of 495 calories. The Huzhou rice dumplings range from 400 to 520 calories, with an average of 459 calories. Of course, the content of the meat rice dumplings also directly affects its calories. For example, use The calories contained in pork belly and barbecued pork as ingredients are naturally different.

When making zongzi, it is best to use materials that meet the "three less and one more" (less oil, less alkali, less sugar, and more fiber) to increase the fiber content of the zongzi, or mix glutinous rice with ordinary rice. Increase the fiber of the rice dumplings;

When making rice dumplings with bean paste, it is recommended to replace lard with "vegetable oil" to reduce the calories of the rice dumplings. Naked rice dumplings have fewer calories than ordinary rice dumplings, each containing about 210 to 250 calories. Alkaline rice dumplings also have smaller calories due to their small size. The calories are about 100 to 120 calories before being dipped in sugar, and 120 calories after being dipped in sugar. to 150 kcal.

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