Yellow rice is soaked in warm water at about 30 degrees for 8 hours, and rice soaked in this way will make the dumplings shinier, taste better and give off a special rice flavor. Yellow rice is a grain with high nutritional value, many people usually like to eat yellow rice porridge, in the Dragon Boat Festival, yellow rice dumplings are also very popular. Yellow rice is sticky and glutinous, and red dates are sweet. If you think it's not sweet enough, you can also dip it in white sugar. Yellow rice dumplings are the dumplings of Shanxi Province, and yellow rice is also called yellow sticky rice. In addition to lowering blood sugar, yellow rice has a higher nutritional value than glutinous rice and is equivalent to millet.

It has better protein, minerals iron, potassium, zinc and vitamin B1 and vitamin B2 than glutinous rice. Meanwhile, traditional Chinese medicine believes that yellow rice has the effect of benefiting qi and tonifying the middle. Put the zongzhong leaves in boiling water for 1~2 minutes, the zongzhong leaves have good toughness and are not easy to crack after wrapping. Wash the yellow rice and red dates separately in water. Take a rice dumpling leaf, make a nest shape and fold the thin leaf inside. Use a big spoon to scoop the yellow rice, poke the rhubarb rice with chopsticks, and wrap the dumplings with sharp edges.

Add a sweet date, flatten the top with the rhubarb rice, press down the extra leaves, fold the extra leaves and hold them tightly to tie the dumpling. Once wrapped, put it in a rice cooker and cook for an hour, then turn off the heat. Yellow rice is used to replenish deficiency and benefit the essence and qi, moisturize the lungs and replenish the kidneys, and is used for lung and kidney yin deficiency. It is suitable for people who are chronically ill, weak or fatigued. Yellow rice nourishes yin and moistens the lungs, dispels lung dryness and lung heat. It makes breathing smooth and comfortable. Yellow rice lubricates the intestines and stimulates defecation.

It can treat yang deficiency and yin deficiency, and can treat diseases such as frostbite, scabies, toxic heat and toxic swelling. Like this recipe, remember to collect and pay attention to it, rhubarb rice soaked one night in advance. Soak it thoroughly and cook it better. After the dried rice dumpling leaves are softened in cold water, it is best to cook them in boiling water for two minutes. When wrapping the rice dumplings, press it on top. The rice dumplings will not fall apart easily. During cooking, if you want to add water, you can use boiling water instead of cold water.