pour in another spoonful of mung beans, and finally spread a layer of glutinous rice (two spoonfuls) and compact it at the four corners, and the surface will be ironed. If it is uneven, it will stagger or the edges and corners will be unclear! Folding in half in four directions, compacting and demoulding;
tie it with a mat and serve. After all the bags are wrapped, put them in a large iron pot and cook them in an open fire for about 12 hours.
Steaming has a long history. Steaming packages in the Southern and Northern Dynasties has become a regional custom, which has been recorded or described in many historical books and ancient poems. "History of the South" once recorded an interesting story about the Qi Ming Emperor eating steamed bread in the Northern and Southern Dynasties: "Taigong entered the imperial food. There is steaming, and the emperor crosses it, saying,' You can break it, and the rest will be filled for dinner'. " This shows that steaming has become a "tribute" and "imperial food" at that time, and the emperor's love and cherish for it also shows that steaming has been quite valuable at that time.
steamed dumplings are different from the common zongzi in four special places: 1. They are huge in shape, with obvious edges and corners, pyramid-shaped and weigh at least one catty! 2. Choose winter leaves with green color, fragrant leaves and antiseptic, which are unique to Zhaoqing! Ordinary zongzi is too small to be wrapped! 3. The best peeled mung bean is a unique formula for fruit steaming. The ratio of mung bean to glutinous rice is 1: 1, or 1: 2.4. It takes a long time to cook in open fire, which is more than ten hours, about twelve hours, until glutinous rice, mung bean and pork are completely blended. It tastes fragrant and mellow, and has the function of clearing away heat and toxic materials.
here, zongzi is wrapped in Dragon Boat Festival, and big zongzi is wrapped and steamed in New Year, and the winter leaves produced by Zhaoqing are used for fruit wrapping and steaming. This kind of leaves is huge and fragrant, which is different from ordinary zongzi leaves! Farmers in many places in Zhaoqing will plant their own dumplings just to wait for the New Year. (Of course, there are many shops specializing in making steamed dumplings in Zhaoqing now, so we also need to love the molds that are indispensable for steaming packages in winter all year round! Don't think that it will be easy to have a mold, and it is still not easy to package a standard pyramid with edges and corners!