Yellow rice and glutinous rice dumplings are delicious, depending on personal taste.

Traditional rice dumplings are usually wrapped in glutinous rice, glutinous rice has a good viscosity, cooked, so that the dumplings also have a good viscosity, and glutinous rice is also relatively sweet, chewy. So, before making the dumplings, choose a better quality of glutinous rice, in which the round grain glutinous rice will be more viscous and glutinous than the long glutinous rice.

But in fact, the Dragon Boat Festival package zongzi, in addition to glutinous rice, there are many other ingredients is also a very good choice, such as rhubarb rice is also a good choice, rhubarb rice is the north of the most common kind of grain crops, also known as millet. And compared to millet, rhubarb rice particles are more large, but also more sticky a lot of viscous, viscous is very large, viscous than glutinous rice large northeast well-known traditional food sticky bean cake is the use of rhubarb rice made of.

The technique of wrapping the dumplings

The more the rice is soaked, the stickier it will be, and the more delicious the dumplings will be. In other words, as long as you soak the rice correctly, the longer you soak the rice for the dumplings, the better it will be, at least for about 3 hours. The correct way to do this is to submerge the glutinous rice in water, change the water 2~3 times a day, and soak it for a few days before wrapping the dumplings.

As the cells absorb water to swell the cell walls, the sticky ingredients are released, which can make the dumplings unusually sticky and soft. As long as you keep changing the water every day, the glutinous rice will not deteriorate, but the amount of water should be enough, otherwise the rice will be powdered after absorbing enough water and exposing it to the air.

The viscosity of glutinous rice stored in the cells, if the water panned immediately on the package dumplings, even if the top glutinous rice will not be very sticky. Because the dumplings glutinous rice directly boil water absorption, poor sex, package dumplings before the soaking of glutinous rice will make the rice easier to absorb water when cooking, shorten the cooking time of the dumplings, and improve the texture of the dumplings.