Our country has many traditional festivals. Different festivals may have different customs. So here, what I want to say is that during the Dragon Boat Festival, we all have a custom, That is rowing dragon boats and eating rice dumplings. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan, the great patriotic poet in ancient my country. When the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, we will bake rice dumplings at home or buy rice dumplings to eat. So how to make zongzi? Making rice dumplings is actually not difficult, and you don’t need many things. The most important things are glutinous rice, your favorite fillings, and then the leaves specially used for making rice dumplings. Once you prepare these, you can make rice dumplings at home.

1. Preparation steps for making rice dumplings

The methods of making rice dumplings may be different in different places, but the taste of the rice dumplings is mostly the same, so Next, I will introduce to you the method of making rice dumplings in my hometown. When we make zongzi, we choose glutinous rice. There are purple rice and white glutinous rice. We need to soak the leaves of the zongzi in water and clean them. Some places need to soak the glutinous rice, and some places don’t. It needs to be soaked. The glutinous rice may cook faster when soaked.

2. Steps to make rice dumplings

First, we use a pot to put the prepared glutinous rice, and another pot to put the fillings we prepared. My favorite is bacon and salted egg yolk. , a pot contains the leaves for making rice dumplings, and we prepare the thread. We shape the zongzi leaves into a funnel, then add some glutinous rice, then add some fillings prepared by ourselves, and then cover it with glutinous rice. At this time, we close the zongzi leaves on top and tie them with the prepared thread. In this way, the rice dumplings are wrapped. After making the rice dumplings, we need to use a large pot to cook the rice dumplings. The water must cover the rice dumplings. The rice dumplings will take several hours to cook.

The above is just the editor’s personal method of making rice dumplings in my hometown. So what do you think is the best way to make rice dumplings?