The dumplings are generally boiled, with an ordinary pot to cook 3-4 hours, casserole cooked out of the dumplings will be particularly fragrant. If it is sold in the supermarket is already cooked, then put the water to cook ten minutes to heat through can be eaten.

Expanded Information

Modern Practices

Seasoning of the filling of the dumplings: salted pork dumplings should be first fresh pork with a little monosodium glutamate, sugar, wine, salt, soy sauce and mix repeatedly rubbed until the seasonings penetrate the pork before wrapping.

The bundling of dumplings: bean paste dumplings should not be bundled too tightly to prevent the rice grains squeezed into the bean paste, if the cooking is not through the phenomenon of entrapment will occur. Salted pork dumplings if you use fat pork should not be tied tightly, moderately loose can be. If you use lean pork should be tied tight, because the lean meat will shrink after cooking, dumplings fat juice will leak into the water, can not keep the dumplings fat sticky.

The cooking of the dumplings: boiled dumplings must be water rolled before falling dumplings, the water should be dipped over the surface of the dumplings, to be re-rolled up and then after a high fire to cook for about 3 hours. Do not add raw water in the process of cooking rice dumplings. It's important to note that the spouted rice dumplings can't be cooked together with other dumplings.

Take out the dumplings while they are still hot. When you eat, open the leaves of the zongzi, zongzi fragrance nose, the entrance oil is not greasy, glutinous and not sticky, salty and sweet moderate, tender and fresh is the best.

The zongzhi materials: zongzhi leaves package zongzhi leaves in different regions, there are regional disparities from place to place, the south more Ruo leaves bamboo, or reed leaves, Hainan Island region of China will also use a Lingnan endemic plant "Shuu leaf" as a zongzhi wrapped in the shape of the zongzhi leaves, the shape is usually triangular, angular conical or square cone-shaped. In the Central Plains, the leaves used for wrapping zongzi are mostly mistletoe leaves, which are wrapped in a rectangular shape.

Precautions

Eating taboos

1, eating zongzi at the same time it is best to drink tea, to help swallowing and digestion, eat in moderation, eat less at a time, you can choose the mini zongzi

2, eating zongzi should be accompanied by cold vegetables, fruit salad, to alleviate gastrointestinal discomfort

3, zongzi should be sufficiently heated, boiled hot to soften before eating

4, such as gastric disease people eat rice dumplings can choose white rice dumplings, do not dip sugar, do not eat too sweet

5, gallstones, cholecystitis and pancreatitis patients, do not eat meat dumplings, egg yolk rice dumplings, such as fat, protein content is too high in the dumplings.

6. They need to be fully heated until soft before consumption.

Note:

An ordinary salted meat dumpling contains about one bowl of rice and about 400 to 500 calories. Therefore, experts recommend that to eat dumplings, it is best not to exceed three a day for women and five for men.

Eating rice dumplings at the same time, with vegetables, fruits can help intestinal, gastric peristalsis, can avoid eating rice dumplings caused by intestinal, gastric indigestion.

In addition, two hours before bedtime, the best not to eat dumplings, do not touch a lot of water-containing cold fruits and vegetables, such as watermelon, so as not to cause diarrhea or abdominal pain.

The dumplings should be eaten while hot, added fat, meat, egg yolk dumplings should not be eaten cold, for people with poor digestive ability to pay particular attention. Some of the poor quality of glutinous rice in the cold will have hardened phenomenon, grains and cereals dumplings after the cold back to the phenomenon is more obvious.

The dumplings are a staple food and can be eaten at all three meals, with breakfast being even more appropriate. Because breakfast is usually loss of appetite, the number of food and drink is small, fragrant and warm dumplings eat convenient.

Vegetarian dumplings calories are not as high as the legend, but after all, belongs to the grain, eat dumplings should be reduced accordingly, rice, steamed buns, noodles and other staples, otherwise it will bring too much starch to cause weight gain, but also may be too full of indigestion caused by swelling. Generally speaking eat a large dumplings reduce a small bowl of rice can be.

Production taboos

The calorie content of the dumplings varies according to their "size" and "content", and the calorie content of each meat dumpling is about 450 to 600 calories, while the calorie content of Taiwanese meat dumplings varies from 1.5 to 2.5 calories. The content of the meat dumplings certainly has a direct impact on its calorie content, such as the use of pork and the use of barbecued pork as an ingredient, the calorie content is naturally different.

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