(ingredients, you can do whatever you want, red beans, nuts and so on can be recommended by a friend to add cashews are delicious)
1, fresh rice dumpling leaves bought back to be washed, the water boiled into the pot, cover the medium heat to cook for 20 minutes or so, cooked immediately open the lid to cool, after cooking, make sure to open the pot lid, otherwise the rice dumpling leaves will be pan yellowish-green
2, peanuts and dates soaked soft in advance, glutinous rice washed and soaked in water, ready for these spare, the method of wrapping the dumplings below to speak separately
3, all the dumplings wrapped up in a pot large enough to add more than the dumplings in a sufficient amount of water, a cage drawer pressed on the top, and at the same time pressure on a heavy object (my mom put the family machete pressed on it) in order to keep the dumplings from floating up to the surface of the water. So open a large fire after boiling to medium-low fire to cook for about three hours (depending on how many of your dumplings), remember when I was a child with a coal stove, my mother is the dumplings on the stove overnight, the next morning to eat the hot fresh dumplings. Home cooking rice dumplings practice diagram
The following is my mother wrapped rice dumplings when I photographed the whole process
1, rice dumplings leaves are relatively small, usually two stacked up, so that from the end of the roll up a cone
2, put a little bit of glutinous rice, and then jujubes and peanuts
3, the top and then a layer of glutinous rice, do not be too much, nine full
4, will be rice dumplings leaf the end of the rice dumpling leaves folded over the cover, left hand to support the rice dumplings, the right hand to the end of the rice dumpling leaves folded, remember not to cover the top too tightly, to loosely leave some points of space, otherwise the glutinous rice cooked expansion will break
5, well, the rice dumpling leaves folded the end of the rice dumplings folded to one side
6, with rice dumplings tied up in the waist (mom did not buy rice dumplings rope, with the home of the white cotton thread)
* package dumplings is very simple, the cone rolled, dumplings cover over the end of the folded up on the line, the key is that the rice can not be put too full, can not pack too solid, otherwise a cooked expansion, dumplings are easy to break the leaves, the taste will be relatively hard.