Dry zongzi leaves can be soaked in cold water or hot water.
Due to the loss of water, the texture of dried zongzi leaves will become brittle. Zongzi will break when they are bent. Therefore, they need to soak in water so that the dried zongzi leaves can absorb enough water. In this way, the dried zongzi leaves will become tough.
Soak the dried zongzi leaves in cold water or hot water. However, when the water temperature rises, the time for soaking dry leaves will be shortened. Generally speaking, it takes more than 12 hours to soak in cold water, but only1~ 2 hours in hot water.
What kind of blisters are used for dried zongzi leaves? Soak them in clear water.
No matter what kind of zongye it is, the first thing to do is to soak it in clear water for a period of time. You can add water to the leaves of zongzi, which will be very soft and not easy to break.
When drying leaves, add a proper amount of salt and soak them in light salt water, which can quickly penetrate water into the leaves, make them soft, enhance their toughness, and disinfect them to make them cleaner. After soaking the leaves, rinse them with clear water, drain them and boil them.
After the leaves are cooked, they can't be wrapped directly. Immediately after taking out, it should be put into water 1 hour, which can also improve the toughness of leaves.
After these three steps, the toughness of zongzi leaves is very good. When wrapping zongzi, it won't crack, break holes or leak rice.
How to deal with the dried zongzi leaves 1, soak the dried zongzi leaves in water one night in advance, and brush both sides of the leaves repeatedly the next day. For safe sterilization, the leaves can be steamed for another half an hour, and then dried and cooled. The leaves will soften, and you can enter the process of making zongzi.
2. Dried leaves do not have all the fragrance of fresh leaves. Fresh zongzi leaves are more fragrant. After the leaves are dried, the original fragrance of bamboo leaves will be "locked" in the leaves. Therefore, wrapping zongzi with dried zongzi leaves can make the original fragrance of bamboo leaves go deeper into zongzi, and the cooked zongzi will be more fragrant.
3. The processing technology of vertical industry generally includes: washing, boiling, washing, soaking and cutting. After these processes, the leaves will become more elastic, so that the leaves will not break when making zongzi. In addition, zongzi leaves are more likely to penetrate their own flavor into zongzi, making it have the fragrance of zongzi leaves.