The origin of steamed rice dumplings is a stirring story of love - according to legend, in ancient times, there was a pair of young men and women in Duanzhou, the woman was called Ah Qing and the man was called Ah Guo, who were y in love with each other. However, the parents of Ah Qing think that Ah Guo is just a scholar, no wealth and no power, do not allow their daughter and he fell in love. For this reason, Ah Guo is determined to be strong.

This year, when the big exam came again, he packed his luggage and rushed to the capital. Early in the morning, Ah Qing arrived, sent overnight with winter leaves wrapped in glutinous rice mung bean rice balls, urged him to take care of the journey, do not forget the two sides of the love. When Ah Guo got a high school diploma, the emperor wanted to recruit him as his emperor's son-in-law, but Ah Guo refused to do so. The emperor was furious and imprisoned him. Ago daily strokes the rice ball and weeping, the Princess of the strange, Ago said: chaff still do not give up, let alone the rice ball?

The Princess was touched and released Ago to return home. A Guo and A Qing finally became immortal. Later people found with winter leaves wrapped in glutinous rice, mung beans, pork and other materials made of rice balls taste sweet and delicious, so they have to follow suit, and later, more into the Duanzhou New Year's Eve when the family must have things. Wrapped steamer, "fruit green" also.

Expanded Information:

The day before the package of rice dumplings, the first day of the pork was washed and peeled, cut into small cubes, mixing the right amount of salt, sugar, five-spice powder, taste of the mix. Mung beans washed, soaked overnight, and then rubbed out the bean skin, and then pulled out with water, bean meat drained water, with a little oil, salt and fishing. Wash the glutinous rice, drain off the water, add the appropriate amount of soy sauce, salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate and five-spice powder and mix well. Cut one salted egg yolk into two pieces.

Wrapped steamed rice dumplings is the choice of dry lotus leaves wrapped (i.e., dry lotus leaves, to be washed with water, and then soaked in warm water to soften, coated with a little oil), the first layer of glutinous rice, and then a layer of mung beans; and then put into the fat and lean pork and half of salted egg yolks, etc.;

Finally, and then pinned a layer of mung beans and a layer of glutinous rice, wrapped up into the "quadrangular Wrapped in lotus leaves wrapped in steamed rice dumplings, steamed with a fragrant flavor of lotus leaves, eat up particularly tasty.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Wrapped Steamed Rice Dumplings