Because hot water is cooked in a pot, it is easy to cook outside and grow inside, which is what we often call hard core! When zongzi is cooked in cold water, the glutinous rice is heated evenly, so that it can be cooked inside and outside.

Put zongzi in a pot with cold water. After the fire boils, change to medium heat and cook for another 2 hours. Turn off the fire, don't open the lid, and stew for another half an hour! The rice in the middle of the zongzi cooked in this way is not only cooked thoroughly, but also the fragrance of zongzi leaves is soaked in the rice for a long time, so it tastes soft and glutinous and has the fragrance of zongzi.

When cooking zongzi, add a spoonful of salt to the water to make the taste of zongzi sweeter! Truth is like eating a watermelon dipped in salt. Watermelon tastes sweeter when dipped in salt! When cooking zongzi, adding some salt can better stimulate the sweetness of glutinous rice.

How to avoid buying spoiled zongzi?

1, expired zongzi can't be bought.

Conscientious businesses are generally discounted and the price is very low; And some unscrupulous merchants will put zongzi in the cold storage. In the second year, tear off the label or put a new label on the original label, and some will sell it directly with the new zongzi! Be sure to look at the date of production of zongzi; See if the packaging of zongzi is complete, especially at the label, so as not to buy expired zongzi!

You can't buy zongzi tied with plastic rope.

Now some merchants will tie zongzi with plastic rope for convenience. But zongzi tied with plastic rope needs to be cooked in a pot, and raw zongzi needs to be cooked for a long time. In this way, the harmful substances in the plastic are released after a long period of high-temperature cooking, and then soaked in rice with water, so the dumplings tied with plastic ropes can't be bought.