Daojiao steamed rice dumplings have become the number one food in Daojiao, in its biggest feature is the rich flavor, rich fillings, cut when the color and aroma, excellent appearance, eat up soft and delicious. And its fundamental reason is that it has always paid attention to the selection of materials and materials and its rules and strict method of work: glutinous rice must be a high-quality local late made short foot glutinous to ensure that its grains of rice full of viscous and transparent soft; salted egg yolks must be two days in advance to open the salted egg yolks fished out to dry and standby, so that the taste is more sweet and fragrant (which has a single ingredient, the double ingredient of the points: i.e., to put a yolk and put the yolks of the points of the two egg yolks); the five brisket meat also The pork belly is marinated for two days beforehand, and then watered to get rid of the smell of pork; Xianglian, green beans (which used to be the main green beans) are mixed according to the recipe ratio, together with minced garlic, ginger, five-spice powder and other seasonings. These main and auxiliary materials are currently wrapped in order by hand into the special zongzhong leaves (zongzhong leaves that is a kind of palm leaves, available in the market, before use, wash and cook soft standby. In the past, some people used banana leaves to save money, but they were not authentic). Wrapped rice dumplings of higher technology, must be wrapped in the dumplings impermeable, inside the rice can not be leaked out, boiled and dipped in the water can not seep in. Therefore, they must be tied tightly with salty grass. Water village women force, bundling up no soft. Steamed rice dumplings, mastering the fire is also the key (generally must be fierce fire boil more than 5 hours). The freshly steamed dumplings are fragrant and mouth-watering.
Steamed rice dumplings should be eaten while hot only fragrant (so away from the pot for a long time of steamed rice dumplings before eating the best again for the heating process), unraveling the leaves of the rice dumplings, cut with a knife (authentic eating method is to use the original bundled rice dumplings of the grass rope twisted open, more natural interest). Then sprinkle a layer of powdered sugar, the texture, called for people to savor. "Pearl white girl, promised to match the pen leaf Lang, dressed to take a bath, undressed on the bed of teeth" - the ancient literati with its funny and witty analogies, directly and locally to do zongzi, zongzi eating a series of process simple and clear to say a clear! Gray rice dumplings, is the collective name of the alkaline water dumplings (before the rural local method of taking alkali, is to use grass straw ash soaked in water after the ash, for alkaline water, so called gray rice dumplings). Practice is purely with glutinous rice, without filling and flavor, eat when cut and dipped in syrup (honey is better) flavored, soaked in alkaline water glutinous rice dumplings refreshing and tasty, a different flavor. Because of the gray rice dumplings too white, so most people do outside the time to add the red water soaked in wood, or in the rice dumplings in the heart directly into a small wood strip, cooked into a red skin gray rice dumplings or white skin red heart gray rice dumplings (wood is also written Songmu, a tree that can be dipped in red liquid, the scientific name to be examined).
There is also an original gray rice dumplings: with bean paste, lotus seed paste and then add sugar and other types of filling, into a pure sweet gray rice dumplings, quite creative. Do not belittle this "Cinderella", in the material shortage of years of drought, the poor are more keen to batch production of this food. One is because of the low cost, easy to do; two is because with alkaline, easier to save, not easy to deteriorate, (eat also do not need to be heated); three is to dry it sliced into the sun, into the dumplings dry, into the jar urns to store up in the belly of the barren instantly take a few pieces out of the pot boil a little bit, and then add some glutinous rice flour, sweet potatoes, yellow sugar, and a meal of a unique flavor of the soup "Yen day! "The first thing you need to do is to take a few pieces out of the pot and add some glutinous rice flour, sweet potato and yellow sugar.