Take the bean paste dumplings that we often eat, for example. The timing of filling with red bean paste is also very particular. The first step is to wash the red beans first, then put them in a small pot and soak them in water for more than two hours or one night. Pour a proper amount of cold water into the pot, then pour the soaked red beans into the pot, turn on the fire and start cooking until there is less water, and then add sugar water to continue cooking. If we put sugar in advance when cooking red beans, it will make the bean paste difficult to cook, which will affect the taste of jiaozi bean paste, and the bean paste will naturally not taste good.

These tips for making these fillings are not only suitable for making zongzi fillings in our family life, but also suitable for some big factories that make zongzi. Take the well-known experts in Jiangsu and Zhejiang as an example, this principle is also strictly observed when making dumplings. After their bean paste has been extracted and screened in many meticulous sand washing processes, special filler formula will be added in the final process, which is also an important reason to ensure the delicate texture of their bean paste.

How do you put sugar in jiaozi?

For friends who like to eat sweet food, it is actually a good choice to add sugar when making zongzi, but if sugar is added directly in the process of making zongzi, it will lead to the loss of sugar with the boiling water of cooking in the subsequent cooking, which will not play a role in sweetening. So at this time, we should learn to add sugar in some previous processes.

We can soak glutinous rice one day in advance. In this process, we can remove the glutinous rice floating on the water surface and achieve the function of screening. When we take out the glutinous rice, we can add sugar and stir it evenly, so that the sweetness of sugar can be firmly locked in the glutinous rice of zongzi, and the sweet smell will become a major feature of this homemade zongzi.

A small amount of sugar, when added to zongzi at the right time, will raise the sweetness of sweet zongzi to a higher level and ensure the taste of zongzi. Friends who have studied go home and try it themselves.