1. Can the water for cooking zongzi be used for cooking porridge? Yes, as long as the water for cooking zongzi is clean, there is generally no problem.
Zongzi needs cold water to be put into the pot, then gradually heated to boiling water, and then stewed. When the water is boiling, it is easy to put zongzi into the pot. Because in the case of boiling water, the glutinous rice on the surface of zongzi will be cooked first, but the glutinous rice inside will not be heated. If you wait until you are familiar with it, the surface of zongzi will become crisp and tasteless. Cooking with cold water and slowly heating the zongzi evenly can make the zongzi thoroughly cooked, and it can also slowly release the fragrance of leaves and penetrate into glutinous rice, which is much better than boiling water. This is actually the same as boiling eggs with hot meat. Everything that needs to be cooked slowly for a long time needs cold water to be put into the pot.
Second, how long does it take to cook zongzi? According to the situation, it takes about 30 minutes to 3 hours for raw zongzi, and 15-20 minutes for cooked zongzi.
Zongzi is mainly made of glutinous rice. You can add your favorite ingredients to glutinous rice, or you can add no ingredients. Generally speaking, if you cook raw rice dumplings yourself, it takes about 3 hours to steam rice dumplings with ordinary cookers, because glutinous rice itself is not easy to cook.
If you buy cooked zongzi in the supermarket, you only need to cook it in the pressure cooker for 15-20 minutes. However, the specific time of cooking zongzi is mainly related to the size of zongzi, the cooking utensils used in cooking and the firepower, so the time of cooking zongzi can be adjusted according to these.
What's the point of cooking zongzi? 1. Be sure to boil the water thoroughly before cooking zongzi. If the water is not boiled, put the zongzi in. There is too much water in the zongzi and it may be eaten raw. In addition, when putting zongzi, water must not pass through zongzi.
2. When cooking zongzi, the amount of water may decrease gradually. If you add less water when cooking, you can add more water, but you can't add cold water or low-temperature water. On the contrary, add boiling water, so that the taste of zongzi will be softer and more glutinous.
Don't take out the zongzi when it is cooked. We can continue to heat zongzi by using the residual temperature in the pot. Just soak zongzi for half an hour. The zongzi cooked in this way will be soft to eat, and it can ensure that the zongzi is cooked well. If zongzi is cooked and taken out immediately, there may be some raw rice in it.