The dumplings are usually cooked for 40-120 minutes. If you use a pressure cooker to steam the time needed is shorter, if it is an ordinary steamer need to extend the time. To see the cooked rice dumplings cooked or not, cooked to a certain extent to fish up with a finger pinch, feel the rice dumplings soft and sticky is already cooked rice dumplings.
1, room temperature preservation of the dumplings, boiling water in the pot, with medium-high heat for 10 minutes to eat. If the dumplings are large, you can cover and turn off the heat to smother them in the pot for 5 to 8 minutes. Time to pay attention to not too long, soaked in water for too long easily cause the texture of the dumplings deteriorated.
2, frozen frozen preserved rice dumplings, do not need to be taken out in advance to thaw, direct cold water in the pot, boil over high heat and continue to cook over medium-high heat for 20 minutes, so that the rice dumplings will be cooked, will not appear in the middle of the cold and hard situation. If you think the time is too long, you can choose to cook with a pressure cooker, high heat pressure for 15 minutes.
3, raw dumplings
If the dumplings are raw, put in the pot to cook for a longer time, usually need 40 minutes to 1 hour or so. Do not fish out immediately after cooking, but also in the pot for about half an hour, so that the dumplings can be thoroughly cooked cooked through. If the dumplings are bigger and tighter, then the cooking time will be longer, so you need to control the time. Especially in the cooking of some meat dumplings, must increase the time, than ordinary white rice dumplings or bean dumplings to cook for a long time, so the dumplings inside the filling is what also determines how long it needs to cook.
4, cold rice dumplings
Cold rice dumplings are already cooked rice dumplings, so as long as it is cooked to heat it. Cooking cold rice dumplings then generally into the pot to cook 10 minutes, into the microwave oven to cook 5 minutes basically can eat. However, if some of the dumplings are large, you can extend the time, be sure to heat the dumplings completely before eating.
The water content of the dumplings is high, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter, so you simply can't keep them at room temperature for a long time and put them in the refrigerator for a few days, which is also a cause for concern. In fact, in a sense, rice dumplings and steamed bread and other staple foods, can be placed in the freezer after freezing long-term preservation. In the frozen state, the starch can be maintained without drying the state, as long as the time to eat to take out and re-steam a little, or microwave freezing can be, there is no significant change in taste.