Zongzi with Red Beans and Sweet Dates

2024-04-04 06:43:37 129

It is the traditional custom of the Chinese people to eat Zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival. Zongzi, also known as "corn millet", "drum dumplings". It has a long history and a variety of styles. In the Jin Dynasty, Zongzi was officially designated as the food of the Dragon Boat Festival. There are many shapes of Zongzi, including regular triangle, regular quadrangle, sharp triangle, square, long shape, etc. In my memory, the most traditional thing in our hometown is the triangular Zongzi, which is big and wrapped with two layers of fresh reed leaves. It is slowly cooked in a big iron pot. The night before the Dragon Boat Festival, it usually takes 3-4 hours. Then it is soaked until the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival. The Zongzi is soaked into light green and smells delicious< Br>

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Technique

difficultybeginner
workmanshipcook
tasteSweetness
timeThree hours

Steps to make Zongzi with Red Beans and Sweet Dates

1. Freeze fresh zongzi leaves overnight in the refrigerator, take them out and wash them for later use.
2. Soak glutinous rice in advance for about 3 hours.
3. Red beans are also soaked in advance, then mixed with glutinous rice and honey dates for later use.
Take three pieces of zongzi leaves.
5. Form a funnel-shaped nest.
6. Add red beans and glutinous rice.
7. Add honey dates and fill them up to 8 points, then pinch them with your hands like this.
8. Fold off the leaves on top.
9. Pinch and wrap the leaves tightly.
10. Wrap the remaining leaves until the tail is very small.
11. Tie cotton thread and cut a piece of cotton thread to make a beautiful triangular zongzi.
12. After wrapping, put it into the pot.
13. Add enough water, bring to a boil and reduce the heat. Cook slowly for 3 hours.
14. Soft and sticky with the fragrance of red beans, sweet with honey dates.........