The Dragon Boat Festival is coming, and as a seasoned foodie, of course I won’t miss this opportunity to eat rice dumplings!
Guangdong has a vast land and rich resources. Different places have different kinds of rice dumplings. Which one has the best rice dumplings?
People from all over Guangdong are welcome to come and battle!
Huizhou: Fragrant gray water rice dumplings are now available in many mountainous areas in Huizhou. Villagers still use the traditional method to make gray water rice dumplings: a plant called mosquito bite is mixed with dried banana leaves and straw and burned into ash. After settling for one day,
Put the ash into a cloth bag, put it into water and boil it several times, filter out the ash residue, and then let the gray water stand until the debris in the gray water settles. The remaining gray water is used to soak glutinous rice and soak it in the ash water.
Soak in water for about 1 to 2 days. When the glutinous rice is soaked until golden brown, you can wrap the rice dumplings.
Zhaoqing: Among the many rice dumplings in Guangdong, Bao Gong’s Iron Fist Wrapped in Steamed Brown Rice Dumplings, Zhaoqing’s steamed rice dumplings can be said to be the most popular and popular.
The steamed rice dumplings have a pyramid-like shape and are about one kilogram in size. After seven or eight hours of steaming, the steamed rice dumplings are fragrant and fragrant when eaten hot. They are loose and smooth in the mouth. They are fragrant and mellow, fat but not greasy.
Chaoshan: "Half salty and half sweet" mandarin duck rice dumpling is the "fighter" among the best rice dumplings in Chaoshan.
Also known as "double-cooked" rice dumplings, its filling is half salty and half sweet.
One bite, it's sweet and fragrant, and it's a favorite among everyone.
Leizhou: Duck Mother Zongzi There is a kind of rice dumpling called "Duck Mother Barley" in Zhanjiang, Leizhou and other places.
This kind of rice dumpling is actually a very, very, very large rice dumpling, big enough to hold two or three kilograms of rice. After eating one bag, you will be so full that you can walk on the wall.
Zhongshan: It is a tradition for Zhongshan people to eat Ludou Zong during the Dragon Boat Festival.
Zhongshan's Ludou Zongzi is unique in that it is in the shape of a round stick, as thick as an arm, and has two kinds of ingredients: sweet and salty.
Taishan: Twisted angle rice dumplings are rich in fillings, but the leaves are wrapped so tightly that even the corners of the rice dumplings are twisted. They are very different from the flat square shape of Cantonese rice dumplings and the raised and pointed pentagonal shape of Zhaoqing rice dumplings.
Therefore, it is also called Twisted Corner Rice Dumpling.
Yunfu: Xingxing wrapped steamed brown rice dumplings are a specialty of Xinxing County, Yunfu City, Guangdong Province.
Xinxing steamed rice dumplings are soft, fragrant and slippery. Xinxing steamed rice dumplings are made of glutinous rice, mung beans, pork, cured meat and other ingredients wrapped in local winter leaves.
Yangjiang: Zongzi is wrapped in rice dumplings. The popular saying in Yangjiang is "wrapped rice dumplings" and it was called "corn millet" in ancient times.
In addition to glutinous rice and pork fillings, Yangjiang’s rice dumplings are also filled with mung beans and egg yolks. One (Yangjiang people call it a strip) wrapped rice dumpling is equivalent to a bowl of glutinous rice filled with the aroma of pod leaves.
Dongguan: Dongguan Daojiao rice dumplings wrapped in steamed brown rice are rich in flavor, soft and delicious, and they are very particular about the ingredients used. They use high-quality glutinous rice, salted duck egg yolk, Hunan lotus, pork belly, mung beans, plus sand ginger and five-spice powder.
It is prepared with other seasonings, and the cooked rice dumplings are topped with caster sugar. It is oily but not greasy in the mouth.
Qingyuan: The shape of the hunchback rice dumpling is flat at both ends and raised in the middle of the back, resembling a hunchback doll, so it is called "hunchback rice dumpling".
The production of humpback rice dumplings is quite special. The glutinous rice must be washed and soaked for 3 hours. The fillings must also be marinated to make delicious rice dumplings.
Guangzhou: Huangpu Boluo Zong There are slight differences between Huangpu Boluo Zong and the common Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings on the market. First, Boluo rice dumplings are wrapped in banana leaves, while Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings generally use holly leaves or bamboo leaves; second, Boluo rice dumplings are wrapped in banana leaves.
Wrap tightly and can be sliced ??and eaten after cooking.