The dumplings are usually cooked for 40-120 minutes. If you use a pressure cooker to steam the time needed is shorter, if it is an ordinary steamer need to extend the time. To see the cooked rice dumplings cooked or not, cooked to a certain extent to fish up with a finger pinch, feel the rice dumplings soft and sticky is already cooked rice dumplings.

1, raw rice dumplings

If the raw rice dumplings, put in the pot to cook for a longer period of time, generally need 40 minutes to 1 hour or so. Do not fish out immediately after cooking, but also in the pot for about half an hour, so that the dumplings can be thoroughly cooked cooked through. If the dumplings are bigger and tighter, then the cooking time will be longer, so you need to control the time.

Particularly in the cooking of some meat dumplings, be sure to increase the time, than ordinary white rice dumplings or bean dumplings to cook for a longer period of time, so the dumplings inside the filling is what determines how long it needs to cook.

2, cold rice dumplings

Cold rice dumplings are already cooked rice dumplings, so as long as you cook it to heat up. Cooking cold rice dumplings then generally into the pot to cook 10 minutes, into the microwave oven to cook 5 minutes basically can eat. However, if some of the dumplings are large, you can extend the time, be sure to heat the dumplings completely before eating.

3, frozen rice dumplings

Frozen rice dumplings are generally placed for a long time, and after freezing the texture of the glutinous rice inside are very hard, so cook frozen rice dumplings time to be a little longer, but after all, it is a cooked rice dumplings, than to cook raw rice dumplings time to be slightly shorter. Usually put in the water to cook for about 15 minutes can be eaten.

Of course, after cooking, you have to peel the leaves back and look at them, if they are still cold or the rice is still hard, then you have to heat them up in the microwave oven again before you can eat them.

Duanwu Festival dumplings symbol

1, the most widely known symbol is to commemorate the Qu Yuan, in the history of the story, the patriotic poet Qu Yuan faced with the pain of losing his country in the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar into the Miluo River, the people at that time in order to prevent fish and shrimp infringement on the Qu Yuan, will be used to fill a bamboo tube into the rice put into the river, which is the dumpling of the predecessor.

2, the dumplings have "all the children" and "in the son" of the harmonic, implying prosperity, some areas of the people will give each other nine rice dumplings mean to seek children.

3, in folklore, there is also the symbolism of driving away the dragon, with the dragon's most afraid of ai leaves and colorful silk thread tied together, you can drive away the dragon, which is also the development of the shape of the dumplings.

4, zongzi "brown" and "in the" pronunciation is similar, in ancient times there is the meaning of merit. In ancient times, if a scholar to prepare for the examination, can be in the Dragon Boat Festival when the gift of rice dumplings to him to eat, and wish him success in the examination. Nowadays, you can also eat rice dumplings in the Dragon Boat Festival, blessing the students to take the exam smoothly, get a good exam results.