Does the red bean rice dumplings need to be cooked during the 2022 Dragon Boat Festival? Can you drink the zongzi water? Red bean rice dumplings are loved by many people. If you like sweet rice dumplings, red bean rice dumplings are the first choice. If you plan to make red bean rice dumplings by yourself, but don’t know whether the red beans should be cooked, you can check out my introduction!

Do red beans need to be cooked for red bean rice dumplings?

No need to cook. Generally, the ingredients used in making rice dumplings are raw. The red beans inside only need to be soaked and do not need to be cooked.

First of all, cooked red beans and raw glutinous rice are easily crushed when mixed together, which is inconvenient when making rice dumplings, and cooked red beans are easier to spoil.

But there is a situation where you can boil the red beans. For example, if you are about to make rice dumplings, but the red beans have not been soaked, you can boil the red beans in hot water for half an hour to boil the red beans.

Can you drink Zongzi water?

You can drink it, but it doesn’t taste very good. Many people drink Zongzi water.

1. The main materials of Zongzi are: Zongzi leaves and glutinous rice. Different fillings will be added to different flavors of Zongzi, all of which are healthy and beneficial to the body. The water used to cook Zongzi is generally clear water. It is ready to drink after being fully heated.

2. The water used to cook the rice dumplings will be rich in rice dumpling leaf polysaccharides, rice dumpling leaf flavonoids, and minerals such as selenium, iodine, calcium, magnesium, and iron. It is also rich in a variety of vitamins and amino acids, and the smell is also good. It is relatively fresh. In terms of ingredients, zongzi water is good for health. However, the taste of zongzi water is not very good. Therefore, although zongzi water is drinkable, few people will drink it.

Why can’t you cook rice dumplings in cold water?

There is no such saying, and according to life experience, most of the common ways of cooking rice dumplings in life are to cook rice dumplings in cold water.

The main ingredient of Zongzi is glutinous rice. Glutinous rice needs to be fully heated before it becomes soft and rotten. If you use hot water to cook Zongzi in a pot, uneven heating will easily occur and the Zongzi will appear. Therefore, in general households, cold water is used to cook rice dumplings in a pot.