Zongzi is a traditional food that must be eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival every year. Many people eat it at home, especially middle-aged and elderly people. When wrapping zongzi, glutinous rice is usually used for wrapping. Rice wrapped in zongzi is generally treated before it is wrapped, that is, it can be used to wrap zongzi by soaking. So is the rice wrapped in zongzi dry or wet? Let's take a look at it in detail! Is the rice wrapped in zongzi dry or wet

In most cases, the rice wrapped in zongzi is soaked glutinous rice, which is wet.

glutinous rice will become sticky after absorbing water, but the water absorption of glutinous rice is poor. If it is not soaked first, the cooked glutinous rice will taste bad and not sticky. Moreover, the soaked glutinous rice has better absorption ability and can absorb the fragrance on the leaves of Zongzi. Therefore, it is usually soaked in water to absorb water before wrapping Zongzi, making it taste better.

first of all, we should choose round glutinous rice, because round glutinous rice is more sticky and glutinous than long glutinous rice, and it tastes better. How many zongzi to wrap, how much glutinous rice to soak in proportion. When we choose the glutinous rice, we will soak it in warm water. The glutinous rice can be easily crushed on our fingers and can be used to wrap zongzi. In addition to white glutinous rice, we can also choose natural dyed five-color rice soaking method, which is the same as white glutinous rice, and it is better to soak it overnight. Can dried rice wrap zongzi?

No, because rice will swell in water. If you cook the wrapped zongzi in a pot with dried rice, the leaves will split.

The rice wrapped in zongzi is not soaked, so the zongzi is not easy to cook, and the rice is easy to be caught, thus losing the waxy flavor of glutinous rice. Moreover, when it is cooked for a long time, it will swell badly, which will break the leaves of Zongzi and make it difficult to digest after eating. Cooking for a long time also wastes energy.

The viscosity of glutinous rice is stored in cells. If it is washed with water, it will be wrapped immediately, even the top glutinous rice will not be very sticky. Because the water absorption of glutinous rice in direct cooking is poor, soaking glutinous rice before making dumplings will make rice absorb water more easily when cooking, shorten the cooking time of dumplings and improve the taste of dumplings. What's the rice for dumplings?

The rice used for dumplings is usually glutinous rice, so you should also know the taboo of glutinous rice when eating zongzi, which will adversely affect your health. Glutinous rice should not be eaten with chicken, otherwise it will have a great impact on the spleen and stomach, which is not good for health and is easy to cause diarrhea, spleen and stomach deficiency and other discomfort symptoms. Because glutinous rice is not easy to digest, people with weak digestive ability or patients with gastrointestinal dysfunction should not eat glutinous rice, and patients with diabetes, obesity, hyperlipidemia, kidney disease and so on should be careful to eat glutinous rice. Glutinous rice is a kind of warming food, so patients with damp heat, excessive phlegm, excessive internal heat, fever, yellow cough phlegm, jaundice, abdominal distension and other diseases should not eat more glutinous rice.