Do you want to cook reed leaves before making zongzi?
Reed leaves can be used to wrap zongzi, but before use, they should be boiled in boiling water for a period of time to ensure that reed leaves are clean and will make them soft and easier to wrap.
In addition, the water boiled by reed leaves can be drunk, because it can be used to make zongzi, which tastes fragrant and has high nutritional value. It contains various vitamins, trace elements and minerals needed by human body, and has the effects of clearing away heat, moistening lung, enriching blood and benefiting qi, and is especially suitable for the elderly, women and children.
How long do reed leaves cook?
Everyone will clean the fresh leaves of Zongzi and cook them in water. The purpose of this step is disinfection, and the taste will be more tough and not easy to go bad.
Because the leaves of Zongzi are not so clean when they are picked, they can be well sterilized and cleaned when they are cooked, so the leaves of Zongzi are still cooked better. How long does it take to cook? It is best to put it on the stove and cook it slowly 10 minute. Remember to take it out and wash it with clean water after cooking.
Zongzi wrapping method
1. Seasoning of dumpling stuffing: First, mix fresh pork with a little monosodium glutamate, sugar, wine, salt and soy sauce and knead repeatedly until the seasoning penetrates into the pork, and then package.
2. Bundling of glutinous rice balls: The glutinous rice balls with bean paste should not be tied too tightly to prevent rice grains from squeezing into the bean paste. If it is not cooked thoroughly, it will be caught. Bacon jiaozi If you use fat pork, don't tie it tightly, and the tightness is moderate. If you use lean meat, tie it tightly, because the lean meat will shrink after cooking, and the fat juice of dumplings will leak into the water, which will not keep the dumplings fat and waxy.
3. Cooking of Zongzi: Zongzi must be boiled so as not to fall off. Water should be soaked on the surface of zongzi, rolled again and boiled for about 3 hours. Do not add raw water in the process of cooking zongzi. It should be noted that Goushui Zongzi cannot be cooked with other Zongzi. Take it out when it's cooked. Open the leaves of zongzi when eating. Zongzi is fragrant and fragrant. Oil but not greasy, waxy but not sticky, salty and sweet, fragrant and tender.