The treatment of rice dumpling leaves:

1, cleaning. Fresh rice dumpling leaves one by one along the grain rinse wipe clean, this step can remove the surface of the rice dumpling leaves attached to the dust and debris and so on.

2. Boil. Fresh rice dumpling leaves after cleaning, put into a large pot of water boiled for a few minutes, so that out of the rice dumpling leaves can be softened, and then more tough, wrapped up the rice dumplings to more handy.

3, soak. Boiled with water after soaking, so that the water fully penetrate into the dumpling leaves inside, packaged and boiled dumplings easier to cook.

Types of zongzi leaves

1, reed leaves

Reed leaves is the reed leaves, in many parts of China's riverbanks, lakes and marshes can be seen all over the place, some parks, roadside are growing. When the reed leaves grow, pick them down and trim them a little, then cook them and use them to wrap the dumplings.

2, Ruo bamboo leaves

Ruo bamboo leaves are Ruo bamboo leaves, common in the market, more than 6-10 yuan a catty. With fast growth, large leaves, high yield characteristics, generally available for a large number of picking, many areas also like to use this leaf to pack rice dumplings. In addition, some areas will also be used to make decorations to decorate the restaurant, but also used to prepare utensils, combined lunch boxes, cut into various shapes, etc., it can be said that there is a very market value, currently in the Hainan region of China, but also proprietary artificial planting, providing tourists to watch and pick.

3, bamboo shoots shell leaves

Bamboo shoots shell leaves are bamboo shoots out of the ground when wrapped in the tip of a few pieces of crust, usually in the shoots will naturally fall off, although it looks unattractive, but with bamboo shoots flavor, many people like to use this leaf wrapped in rice dumplings.

4, Shuusei

Shuusei is a kind of foliage plants, native to the tropical regions of the Americas, in our country, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other provinces and regions can be seen, more growth in the dense forest shady and wet place, is the deluxe version of the rice dumplings, the market is rarely seen.