It takes about 3 hours to cook in an ordinary cauldron. Although many people know that glutinous rice needs to be soaked before making zongzi, it still takes a long time to be cooked thoroughly when making zongzi and cooking zongzi. Therefore, it takes a long time to cook in an ordinary cauldron.

Cook in a pressure cooker for about 30 minutes. Ordinary pressure cooker: first open the lid to boil water, then put zongzi in and cover the lid and pressure valve. Simmer for 30 minutes, then turn off the heat and stew until the steam valve stops steaming. Note that the fire is like this ~ it is more convenient to use an electric pressure cooker.

Cook with firewood for about 2 hours. Rural families burn firewood stoves. In cook the meat, it takes a long time to cook zongzi. Generally, fruit trees are used as firewood, which has great firepower, especially at the bottom of the pot. The cauldron is heated evenly, so the fire is very small. It's just a matter of adding more firewood or less firewood. Generally, it takes 65,438+0.5 ~ 2 hours to cook zongzi. Do not add much firewood, and let zongzi stew in the pot for a while. This kind of zongzi tastes like zongzi leaves. Rice wraps the zongzi leaves, and the taste of nature goes straight into people's tongue. However, this cooking method is rare in cities. Although some families still burn coal to cook zongzi, the "taste" is still different.