The Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon. Many people's families have already begun to prepare the ingredients for making zongzi. They can also send some to their relatives and friends during the Dragon Boat Festival. Then, should we use fresh or dry zongzi leaves for making zongzi? What are the varieties of Zongye?
Do you use fresh or dry leaves for making rice dumplings
When the leaves are dried in the sun, the original fragrance of bamboo leaves will be locked into the leaves, so when using dry leaves to make dumplings, the original fragrance of bamboo leaves can penetrate into the dumplings more, and the cooked dumplings are more fragrant.
It is suggested that you give priority to dry Zongye when buying Zongye, which can not only put an end to the concern of turning green Zongye, but also make zongzi with flavor.
Which is better, dry or fresh
Fresh is good, because fresh Zongye can permeate the fresh fragrance of Zongye
Fresh, southern dumpling leaves, banana leaves, choose smooth surface soft tough better. Bamboo leaves or reed leaves are often used in the north. No matter what leaves are fresh, the best, but also the most able to maintain a unique fragrance. Before cleaning, both fresh and dry leaves should be soaked with water. The soaked leaves are soft and easy to wrap.
Variety selection of Zongye
The standard of improved rice dumpling leaves is wide and long, generally 10 cm wide and 40 cm long. Leaves less than this standard are not suitable for planting.
At present, there are two kinds of leaves selected as improved varieties of rice dumplings. One is dark pure green, no stripes, thick leaves, long petioles, which can be used repeatedly; flower flower
How to make rice dumplings with dried leaves
1. Get the materials ready. Zongye, glutinous rice and other ingredients.
2. Soak the glutinous rice in cold water for about 3-4 hours, then control the moisture.
3. Zongye also need to soak in advance, oh, it's best to boil and disinfect after soaking.
4. Highlight here! Pick up two pieces of rice dumpling leaves, smooth side up, from the bottom of the roll up, a funnel-shaped, funnel below to wrap a little tight oh.
5. Next, scoop the right amount of stuffing into the rice dumpling leaves, and use the spoon to compact.
6. After that, fold the protruding leaves, and gently press down the leaves on both sides, then fold the remaining leaves, and fold the small tail inward. Finally, tie up the rice dumplings with rope or white thread.
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Generally, fresh rice dumpling leaves should not be wrapped directly after they are bought. In addition to washing, it's better to soak them in cold water for about 8 hours, or scald them in boiling water for half an hour to one hour. In this way, the rice dumpling leaves will become soft, not easy to crack and better wrapped. But the leaves soaked in cold water will turn green when they are boiled. The color of the soup is yellow, with fragrance but no peculiar smell, so it should not be dyed or treated with liquid medicine.
How to deal with fresh Zongye
Method 1
1. When washing rice dumpling leaves, use a fast clean cloth to scrub from the head to the tip of the leaves. The friction is small, so that the washing can be more close to the rice dumpling leaves and the washing is cleaner; If you wash from the end of the leaf tip, the friction will be great, not easy to wash.
2. Put the washed rice dumpling leaves and rice dumpling rope into boiling water and soak them for about 3 minutes. In this way, the soaked dry rice dumpling leaves are better, and the soaked rice dumpling rope is more flexible and can not be easily broken.
Method 2
1. First of all, the rice dumpling leaves should be fresh.
2. Wash the leaves of rice dumplings, moisten the surface, don't dry them.
3. Find a big bag and dish up all the Zongye. It's like a circle around the city. Zongye has toughness. Don't use force to avoid breaking the tendon.
4. Tie the bag tightly, and then put the bag with Zongye into the refrigerator storage room. Pay attention to the frozen one!
5. Take out the bag the next night (at this time, the dumplings are frozen), take them out, put the frozen leaves in the basin and automatically thaw them.
make Zongzi This method not only does not take time to cook rice dumpling leaves, but also can make them flexible and soft. Moreover, the fragrance of rice dumpling leaves is much better than that of cooked ones. The rice dumpling cooked at the boiling place has a sweet fragrance, which is very natural!
Method 3
1. Cut off the petiole of Zongye and soak it in water overnight. Fresh Zongye do not need to soak overnight.
2. Clean both sides of the rice dumpling leaves with clean water. You can wipe them by hand or use cleaning tools to clean them, but do not use too much force to avoid damage.
3. Add some water to the pot and bring to a boil.
4. Put the leaves in boiling water and simmer for 3 minutes. Tips: if there are many leaves, you can turn them properly with chopsticks when boiling, and let each leaf soak as much as possible.
5. Take out the rice dumpling leaves, rinse them with clean water, and put them into the rice basket to drain the water.
What kind of plant is Zongye
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Banana leaves (such as Yunnan, Guangxi, Hunan);
Broad leaved bamboo leaves (such as Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian);
Reed leaves (such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Anhui);
Bamboo shoot shell (such as Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan);
Lotus leaf (such as Shandong, Henan).
How to choose Zongye
When buying Zongye, don't buy 'rejuvenated' Zongye
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2、 After smelling the flavor, the dumplings made of 'rejuvenated leaves' had a slight sulfur flavor instead of strong flavor;
3、 You can take a look at the water that is used to cook the rice dumplings. The water turns green after 'turning green' rice dumpling leaves are boiled, and the water turns pale yellow after normal rice dumpling leaves are boiled.
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But I also want to remind you that the two methods of 'seeing' and 'smelling' are not very accurate, because sometimes the color and smell are not so obvious, and 'boiling' is a very effective method. You can also exclude & lsquo; by brand logo and QS logo; Green rice dumpling leaves & quot
How to wash fresh Zongye
Because the leaves of rice dumplings are dry and crisp, they need to be soaked and cleaned with water. In this way, not only the leaves of rice dumplings become tough, but also they are clean. Because it needs cleaning one by one, it needs some patience. Soak overnight.
In the process of cleaning, unqualified zongzi leaves should be detected, and simple rest of zongzi leaves should be carried out with scissors.
Then put the cleaned rice dumpling leaves into a large pot with water, boil for 10 minutes, add a few spoons of salt at the same time, adding salt can play the role of sterilization and fixation.
Pour out the salt water to boil the rice dumpling leaves, rinse with hot water, and then soak in the pot for standby.