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Zongzi with red dates, red beans, glutinous rice

2024-10-22 14:59:53 483

The Loong Boat Festival is coming. The most urgent thing is to learn how to make Zongzi and give it to your family. It is clean and sanitary, and you can configure the ingredients as you like. It uses red dates, red beans and glutinous rice. It tastes soft, glutinous, sweet, simple and delicious.

Details of ingredients

Glutinous rice500 grams
Red beans120 grams

Technique

difficultySimple
workmanshipcook
tasteSweet fragrance
timeThree hours

Steps to make Zongzi with red dates, red beans, glutinous rice

1. Prepare glutinous rice and red beans.
Soak in clean water for 6 hours, clean the red dates thoroughly and set aside for later use.
3. Boil the dried zongzi leaves in boiling water for a few minutes, then turn off the heat and soak until soft.
4. Take a zongzi leaf and fold it into a bucket shape at 1/3.
5. Add soaked red dates, red beans, and glutinous rice.
6. Add red dates according to your own taste and alternate between them.
7. Fold off the remaining zongzi leaves and cover the exposed surface, then pinch the middle part.
8. Fold the zongzi leaves towards both sides where they are pinched, and fold a corner along the way.
9. Tie cotton thread in the middle, and a Zongzi will be finished.
10. Pack them one by one.
11. Put it in a pressure cooker, add water and cook until cooked. Let it simmer for 1-2 hours for a more delicious taste.
12. Tasting.