The Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon. Xiaobian still thinks it's most interesting to make zongzi at home. Although there are many zongzi sold in the market, it's still the most interesting to make zongzi by yourself. So how can zongzi be made delicious? What kind of rice is better for making zongzi?
All right, all glutinous rice is sticky and easy to be greasy. It's better to add some ordinary rice, because all glutinous rice is also hard to digest. The ratio of glutinous rice to rice is 7:3. Try it.
Of course, it's OK, but it doesn't taste as good as pure glutinous rice, and it won't be too sticky. It's better to use glutinous rice, and you have to choose the kind of glutinous rice with better glutinous properties. If it doesn't work, you can mix glutinous rice with some rice.
What is the rice of zongzi?
We all know that glutinous rice is used in making zongzi, and the quality of glutinous rice will be different. Glutinous rice has a good viscosity, cooked, can make dumplings also have a good viscosity, and glutinous rice is more sweet, chewy. Therefore, before making zongzi, we should choose better quality glutinous rice, among which round glutinous rice is more sticky and waxy than long glutinous rice. Zongzi leaves are zongzi leaves.
In addition to white glutinous rice, we can also choose the five color rice with natural dyeing. The same as white glutinous rice, it's better to soak overnight. Among them, black glutinous rice is mashed with the skin of maple leaf and its tender stem in a mortar. After a little air drying, it is immersed in a certain amount of water. After soaking for one day and one night, the leaf residue is fished out and filtered to obtain black dye solution. Black dye juice should be put into a pot and boiled to 50 or 60 degrees centigrade, then the glutinous rice can be immersed in it to get black glutinous rice
Yellow glutinous rice can be extracted from the fruits and tubers of Huanghua, huangzhizi, huangqiang and other plants. The yellow flower is boiled, or the Gardenia jasminoides Ellis is crushed and soaked in water to obtain the yellow orange dye solution. You can also use Huang Qiang and glutinous rice to get yellow glutinous rice
Purple glutinous rice is made from the same variety of red orchid grass with different leaf shapes. The leaves are slightly longer and darker, and the color is thicker when boiled, and the rice becomes purple when soaked
Red glutinous rice is a hybrid of rice and sorghum. It has been tested by the quality supervision, inspection and testing center of rice and rice products of the Ministry of agriculture. Its calcium, zinc, magnesium, iron and other beneficial minerals are 9-14 times higher than ordinary rice.
How to choose glutinous rice?
Color: the color of glutinous rice is milky white or waxy white, opaque and translucent (commonly known as yinnuo). The belly whiteness of glutinous rice is small, mostly transparent and translucent, with luster.
② Form: the glutinous rice is long oval and slender, while the rice is oval and round.
③ Texture: the hardness of glutinous rice is smaller than that of rice.
④ Rice: rice cooked with glutinous rice, cemented into a ball, not much expansion, but sticky, bright and transparent, rice cooked with rice, grain expansion and scattered, sticky small. By comparing the quality characteristics of glutinous rice and glutinous rice, we can identify whether glutinous rice is mixed with rice.
The starch in glutinous rice is amylopectin, and the starch in rice is amylose. Different starch will show different colors when encountering iodine solution, so as to identify the rice mixed in glutinous rice. Take 10 rice samples, wash the surface with water, drizzle dry, put them in a white porcelain plate, drip iodine solution, mix well, if the rice is brown, it is glutinous rice, if the rice is dark blue, it is rice. This method can measure and calculate the amount of rice.