Zongzi is the Dragon Boat Festival to eat traditional food, the main material is glutinous rice, and then you can add meat, dates, bean paste, egg yolks and other fillings, made of sweet or savory. Zongzi package after the main or water cooking method to heat cooked, so that more can be cooked out of the flavor of the zongzi leaves, so that the fragrance of the zongzi leaves and glutinous rice fully mild. Then cook rice dumplings with cold water or hot water?

One, cook rice dumplings with cold water or hot water

If the raw rice dumplings to use cold water in the pot, with cold water in the process of cooking glutinous rice has a slow cooking process, can make the rice dumplings cooked out of maturity consistency, there is no hard heart. The leaves of the rice dumplings will also be able to cook out the flavor in the process of warming up, and the taste and texture will be more natural. If the rice dumplings in the hot water in the pot, there will be the phenomenon of cooked outside and raw inside, the texture of the rice dumplings is also relatively hard. If the dumplings are cooked cold, you can heat the dumplings directly in boiling water.

Two, cold water cooking dumplings to cook how long

The main raw material of the dumplings is glutinous rice, raw glutinous rice is not easy to cook, heating takes longer, about 30 minutes - 3 hours, depending on the pot you use and the method of making dumplings. If you use a pressure cooker you can cook it for 15-30 minutes. If you use a regular stove it will take longer to cook, usually 3 hours is more appropriate. It is recommended to soak the glutinous rice a few hours in advance when making the dumplings so that it cooks faster and can be cooked in 40 minutes. If the dumplings are cooked, boil cold water and cook for about 10 minutes.

Three, cooking rice dumplings tips

1, to cook rice dumplings do not reveal the filling, the package of rice dumplings must be tight. Regardless of the shape of the package, whether it is a triangular dumplings, quadrangular dumplings, or long dumplings, the corners must be tightened, so as not to expose the filling. After the final wrapping of the dumplings, they must be wrapped with a rope to ensure safety.

2. Before cooking the dumplings, put the wrapped dumplings neatly into the pot. The dumplings should not be too small. There should not be too much space between the dumplings and the dumplings, otherwise the dumplings will roll around in the pot when adding water, causing the leaves to fall apart and the glutinous rice to leak out, turning it into a pot of "rice soup".

3. Cooked rice dumplings should be taken out and put into the refrigerator. Don't soak them in water. If you soak them for a long time, the dumplings will be soft and have too much water, which makes them taste bad.