Cooking rice dumplings is generally cooked with cold water, but the premise of water must be soaked in rice dumplings 3 to 5 inches, if the water is not soaked in rice dumplings, it is easy to lead to rice dumplings cooked on one side, part of the situation is not cooked. In the process of cooking water will evaporate, so the water should be soaked over the dumplings 3~5 inches. The dumplings are generally very difficult to cook, generally the dumplings should be cooked for more than 2 hours, but because the size of the dumplings are different, the size of the fire is also different, coupled with the sealing degree of each pot is not the same, so there is no accurate time. It is best to continue to soak the cooked dumplings in the pot for an hour, which not only prevents the dumplings from being undercooked, but also ensures that the moisture in the dumplings does not dry out and harden. Below and we will look at cooking dumplings with cold water or hot water, and dumplings cooked how long will be cooked in detail.

First, cook rice dumplings with cold water or hot water, how long to cook

1, in the process of cooking rice dumplings, such as the need to add water should be added to the boiling water, and do not add cold water.

2. It has been proven that dumplings cooked in cold water are more delicious. Because as the water temperature slowly rises, the flavor of the leaves will slowly penetrate into the glutinous rice, cooked rice dumplings will be more fragrant. In addition, cold water can make the rice dumplings cooked out of the maturity of the same, no hard heart.

Cooking rice dumplings must be cold water in the pot, so that the water in the pot slowly heated, the fragrance of the rice dumplings slowly resolved, so that the water to cook the rice dumplings are all rice dumplings leaves in the water, cooked out of the rice dumplings will be more sweet and savory. There is glutinous rice is soaked, become a little soft, if the sudden heating, may be outside the glutinous rice because of heat expansion caused by the explosion, so it will become watery like porridge, and slowly heating, it will let the dumplings in every glutinous rice are full of water, like cooking rice, slowly cooked. The flavor in the palm will also be more rich and sweet.

3, the amount of water must also be sufficient, it is best not to add water in the middle. Generally require more than two inches of water surface over the dumplings, because the dumplings will absorb a lot of water in the ripening process, the volume will also be expanded, the top of the water surface of the dumplings is not easy to cook, and the texture is dry and hard.

Second, how long will the dumplings cook

1, dumplings cook for how long and dumplings the size of the dumplings themselves, glutinous rice must be softened beforehand, soak when it is best to add some salt to know cooked or not, cooked to a certain extent to fish up and pressed with the finger, feel the softness and viscosity is cooked, otherwise, turn over and continue to cook.

2, depending on how big the dumplings package, palm leaves packaged tightly in the loose have a great relationship, red beans, peanuts to soak a little longer, glutinous rice half an hour is enough to use the pressure cooker on the steam in an hour. Cooking dumplings time and the size of your package of dumplings related to the glutinous rice must be the first to soak soft, soak when it is best to put some gray water (salty), so that cooked dumplings are delicious.

3, pressure cooker cook twenty minutes to half an hour on medium heat. Too long easy to cook the dumplings broken. If you don't use a pressure cooker, if the package is tight, it may take 2 hours, the inside can be cooked through, or the middle will be a grain. If you wrap it loosely, it will be faster, one and a half hours.

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Note:: The doctor reminded that glutinous rice is high in calories and should not be eaten too much at a time. Most of the dumplings are made of glutinous rice, lack of fiber, high viscosity, not easy to digest. Therefore, when making dumplings, add some mixed grain rice or red beans, barley, yam, taro or sweet potato, etc., can reduce the burden on the stomach and intestines. Eat dumplings with a bowl of light vegetable soup, such as winter melon, bamboo shoots, squash soup can help digestion. Eat rice dumplings drink some hot black tea can play a good role in digestion and stagnation, but can not be matched with cold drinks, because that is easy to let the glutinous rice coagulation, more difficult to digest.

The dumplings are the first choice for the Dragon Boat Festival, because the taste of each place is different, if you like to eat dumplings, you can do the filling according to personal taste, for the knowledge of dumplings we have learned?