The best way to make dumplings is to soak the rice for 5 hours.

The most important thing when wrapping zongzi is the time to soak up the glutinous rice, many people don't master this key step, the cooked zongzi will surely be pinched leakage of rice. Soak glutinous rice, generally put glutinous rice into the water (1 catty glutinous rice corresponds to 2 pounds of water), glutinous rice soak up time not less than 5 hours and not higher than 5 hours, because 5 hours enough to soak the glutinous rice completely swollen.

If the glutinous rice soak time is too short, the glutinous rice absorbs less water, which will lead to the rice dumplings sandwich leakage, and glutinous rice soak time is too long, glutinous rice will be soaked very soft, cooked rice dumplings to eat is not soft and sticky, so will be soaked in glutinous rice for 5 hours is the most appropriate. Cooking rice dumplings, can not just add water, but need to add a little salt and edible alkali, because the salt can draw out the sweet flavor of glutinous rice.

Note:

1, it is worth noting that the dumplings must be wrapped with grass rope or cotton thread, do not use plastic glass rope.

2, when buying dumplings should pay attention to distinguish between normal dumplings and green dumplings, normal dumplings natural color, smell no odor, cooking dumplings water was brownish-yellow, and green dumplings leaves, bright colors, smells like water, cooking dumplings water was green.

3, with grass rope or cotton thread bundling dumplings must not be too vigorous, so that the rice will enter the red bean filling, resulting in dumplings filled with grains of rice boiled impermeable, half-ripe state, dumplings must pay attention to is the ingenuity.

4, cooking rice dumplings to master the fire, to avoid cooking or cooking broken.