What are the wooden dumplings
The wooden dumplings are a traditional specialty of Guangdong, belonging to the Dragon Boat Festival food. Gaozhou, Zhaoqing, Zhongshan and Shunde are all famous for their spouted rice dumplings. The zongzi are made with local sand. When making dumplings according to the portion of open good spout soaked glutinous rice, with mango leaves or sugar cane leaves wrapped into spout dumplings, about 15 centimeters long, three or four centimeters in diameter, cooked soon after the cease-fire. Flesh color golden transparent, crisp mouth not greasy, eat dipped in sugar or honey, a unique flavor; some of the alkaline water rice dumplings in glutinous rice is also added lotus seed paste or bean paste, cooked heart red meat yellow, crisp and smooth oil, even if the consumption of sugar or honey is not added, the same crispy and tasty, to remove the dampness of the spleen.
What is the ingredient of the wooden dumplings
The traditional wooden dumplings do not add fillings, mixing a little wooden dumplings into the glutinous rice, and wrapping them directly with winter leaves is the wooden dumplings. The most important reason why Cantonese people like to eat spaghetti dumplings is that spaghetti dumplings have the characteristics of clearing the fire and eliminating the poison, dispelling the dampness and strengthening the spleen. In terms of taste, the rice grains of the rice dumplings are not sticky and not sticky, the meat is golden and transparent, and it is crispy and not greasy. Alkaline rice dumplings in eating method is also relatively unique, Cantonese people in the consumption of alkaline rice dumplings like to dip in honey or sugar, alkaline rice dumplings refreshing texture popping teeth, but also full of a light fragrance of alkaline water. According to reports, add the zongzi, storage time is relatively long. As a food additive, a small amount of food can balance the pH of the human body.
Alkaline rice dumplings
Alkaline rice dumplings, as the name implies, the raw materials include alkaline water, said alkaline water, it is the ancestors with grass ash and water boiled and soaked for a day, take the supernatant and get an alkaline solution, is actually the soil of the plant alkali. Traditionally, mugwort, artemisia, and banana leaves collected from the mountains and fields are dried in the shade or sun, and then combined and burned before use. The hot ash powder is collected and soaked in boiling water, and the ash is filtered out to retain the alkaline solution. An ordinary, simple alkaline water rice dumpling with sugar or honey, mixed with the fragrance of bamboo leaves, has a unique flavor.
Gaozhou spouted rice dumplings
Gaozhou spouted rice dumplings are all folk practices, for the western Guangdong flavor, very pure. According to the introduction, adding water to the rice dumplings, storage time is relatively long. And consume a small amount of spout, can balance the body's pH level. Coupled with the smooth taste of spouted rice dumplings, not greasy, very popular with diners.