1, raw materials: dumpling leaves, glutinous rice.

2, soak the glutinous rice, some people will soak two or three hours, the correct soaking time is almost five hours, this time is not more or less, if less than five hours, the glutinous rice will have a sandwich, if higher than five hours, the glutinous rice has become very soft to eat is not soft and sticky, taste is very poor, so five hours is just right, another catty of glutinous rice with two pounds of water.

3, zongzi leaves have dry zongzi leaves and fresh zongzi leaves two kinds, bought dry zongzi leaves, to package zongzi need to be put in the water before soaking for a few hours to increase the toughness of the fresh zongzi leaves, need to be put in the pot, add salt and cook for a few minutes, and then put the zongzi leaves into cool water to get cool, soak, zongzong leaves one by one to wash.

4, in the soak before the glutinous rice, you need to wash the glutinous rice, do not wash too many times, two is almost, the first time to wash the glutinous rice, to hand scrubbing, the second wash the glutinous rice, to use the flow of water to rinse, so that the glutinous rice is very clean, to prevent the wash too many times, the loss of nutrients, and the taste is not good.

5, cook the dumplings, to cold water in the pot, put the dumplings in the pot, add enough water, but also sprinkled with a little salt and edible alkali, stirred evenly, with this water cooked out of the dumplings, eat more fragrant and soft, the taste is much better than the water cooked out.