Material of jiaozi Zongzi leaves: Ruo leaves, or winter leaves, or banana leaves.
Bandage rope: banana peel, or water grass, or cotton thread.
Stuffing: glutinous rice, red beans, pork, peanuts, and more, such as red dates, sesame seeds, chestnuts, mushrooms, ham and so on.
Accessories: spiced powder, salt, edible oil, soy sauce, sugar, etc.
Self-made method of 3 packs of zongzi;
Raw materials: 50 bamboo leaves, 500 grams of glutinous rice, 200 grams of jujube, tied thread 1 ball.
1. Soak glutinous rice in water at the ratio of 1 bowl of rice and 4 bowls of water. Because Jiangmi has strong water absorption, it is delicious to soak in enough water, otherwise it will be stiff. Soak rice for 4-5 hours in summer and overnight in winter, so that rice can get enough water. You can't soak for long in summer. After a long time, rice grains are easily broken.
2. Wash jujube with clear water, soak it, cook it with medium fire for 10 minute, and take it out for later use. It is best to use jujube, because jujube is not easy to buy after the Dragon Boat Festival, so we have to change it into jujube. Red dates are boiled in water to filter out the bitter water, and the dumplings made are not as bitter as red dates.
3. Soak the bamboo leaves in water, and then soak them in boiling water. Bamboo leaves become flexible after soaking in boiling water, and they don't like to break when wrapping zongzi. My bamboo leaves are usually soaked in hot water and frozen in the refrigerator. When you use it, just take it out and scald it with boiling water, and you don't need to soak it again.
4. Cut the hemp rope into 60- 100 cm for binding zongzi. Spread two palm leaves alternately and fold them into a triangular bucket.
5. Put a jujube in the lower corner to block the gap in the bamboo bucket to avoid rice leakage. Cooking zongzi with red dates will swell, and the hole in the lower corner of zongzi will be blocked more tightly. Fill it with rice and put a jujube on each side. Because I use dates, I put three in each zongzi. You can put 5-8 pieces of dates, and it is not sweet if you put less.
6. Fill the bucket with bamboo leaves and press them by hand. Only when it is filled and compacted can it be wrapped tightly. The looser you are, the more you love to leak rice. This may be the principle of catching sand. The wrapped zongzi is quadrangular.