The dumplings can be cooked for forty minutes to two hours.

Cooking the dumplings in cold water is sufficient. After the rice dumplings are cooked and placed in the pot to simmer for ten minutes, the texture of the dumplings is softer and more glutinous. Zongzi leaves need to be put into the hot water before use to soak for about ten minutes, in the use of a brush to scrub the surface of the impurities. Cooked rice dumplings, overnight storage should be placed in the refrigerator.

Cooking rice dumplings notes

1, the water above the rice dumplings. When cooking rice dumplings, the water must be concealed over the rice dumplings above the position of about 2 inches, because the rice dumplings will expand when heated, if the water surface is not high enough, the rice dumplings are easy to rise above the water surface, and thus the part of the water surface will not cook.

2, do not rush out of the pot. After cooking the dumplings, do not rush the dumplings out of the pot, you can use the residual temperature in the pot to continue to heat the dumplings, heating about half an hour or so can be taken out, so that the texture of the dumplings cooked out of the texture will be more soft, and can ensure that the dumplings have been cooked through.

The above content reference? Baidu Encyclopedia - Rice Dumplings