There is a custom of making zongzi in many places on the Dragon Boat Festival, and we are no exception. My mother wraps a few strings every year. Some people will go to the mountains to pick zongzi leaves a few days ago, some people will go to the market to buy them, and some people will use last year's leftovers! Do you want to cook it before wrapping jiaozi? Let me introduce it.

Steamed or boiled before the leaves of all-in-one dumplings?

Dried zongzi leaves are suitable for cooking before wrapping. Add a proper amount of clear water to the pot, and after the water is boiled, put the zongzi leaves into the water and simmer for about 10 minute. If the cooking time is too long, it will easily affect the freshness of the leaves, so that the leaves lose a certain fragrance, and the finally cooked jiaozi also lacks the fragrance of the leaves; If the used zongzi leaves have not been cooked, it is easy to make them unusable if they are cooked for too long. If the cooking time is too short, it is easy to make its sterilization incomplete.

What should I do before the dried zongzi leaves are cooked?

1. When washing zongzi leaves, use a quick and clean cloth to scrub down from the head of zongzi to the tip and tail of zongzi. The friction is small, which makes the rice dumplings washed more tightly and cleanly. If you wash from the tip and tail of zongzi leaves, the friction will be great and it will be difficult to wash.

2. Soak the washed zongzi leaves and zongzi rope in boiling water for about 3 minutes, so that the soaked dry zongzi leaves are better wrapped, and the soaked zongzi rope is more elastic and not easy to break when knotted.

How to deal with fresh zongzi leaves if they are not cooked?

1. Wash the surface of fresh zongzi leaves with clear water, and don't dry them.

2, find a bigger bag, put all the leaves in a circle, the leaves are tough, don't use force, so as not to break the ribs.

Tie the bag tightly, and then put the bag containing Zongye in the refrigerator storage room. Be careful, it must be frozen.

4. Take out the bag overnight, take out the zongzi leaves and put them into the basin to melt automatically.

5, only need hydration, this method does not take time to cook the leaves, but also makes the leaves tough and soft, and the fragrance of the leaves is much better than that of the boiled leaves, and the cooked jiaozi is more delicious.

How to wrap zongzi with dried zongzi leaves

1. Choose 23 zongzi leaves and stagger them, that is, the upper zongzi leaves press half of the lower zongzi leaves.

2. Fold the leaves into a funnel.

Put half a meter in this funnel, then put some red dates, and then put some rice to cover the red dates. Jiangmi and funnel mouth are flat, too few zongzi are flat, too many can't be wrapped.

Fold the leaves and let them wrap all the rice. Wrap the zongzi with cotton thread for 4-5 times, and tie the movable buckle, which is convenient to untie when eating zongzi.