The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese custom to eat rice dumplings, every Dragon Boat Festival many people will be busy wrapping rice dumplings, many novices will be very worried, the rice dumplings to run for how long to taste the best?
How long to soak rice for zongzi
When wrapping zongzi, glutinous rice should be soaked to taste more fragrant, but how long to soak vary, as a novice can try to see which method of wrapping out the zongzi more delicious.
Theory one
Glutinous rice is more viscous and is usually used when wrapping rice dumplings. Generally, glutinous rice needs to be drained for half an hour and soaked for 40 minutes, with the ratio of water to rice controlled at 2:1 and the temperature of soaking controlled at about 30 degrees. After soaking in this way, the glutinous rice made dumplings have a charming aroma and a smoother taste, and the rice is moderately soft and refined but not rotten.
Saying two
The more glutinous rice soaked will be more sticky, the more delicious the dumplings wrapped. In other words, as long as the method of soaking rice is correct, the longer you soak the rice for wrapping rice dumplings, the better, at least for about 3 hours. The correct way is to submerge the glutinous rice with water, change the water 2 to 3 times a day, soak for a few days and then wrap the dumplings, as the cells absorb water to swell the cell walls, the sticky ingredients released, can make the dumplings unusually sticky soft. As long as you insist on changing water every day, glutinous rice will not deteriorate, but the amount of water should be sufficient, otherwise the rice will be chalked when exposed to the air after absorbing enough water.
How to pack colored dumplings
1, black glutinous rice, is the use of maple leaves and its young stem of the bark, put in the mortar pounded, slightly air-dried and immersed in a certain amount of water, soaked a day and night, the leaf residue out of the filter, that is, to obtain the black dye solution. Black dye juice should be put into a pot and cooked to 50 to 60 degrees Celsius, and then the glutinous rice can be dipped into it to get black glutinous rice.
2, yellow glutinous rice, available yellow flowers or yellow gardenia, yellow qiang and other plant fruits, tubers extract. Boil the yellow flower, or put the yellow gardenia crushed into the water to soak, that is to get the yellow-orange dye liquid. Also available yellow qiang hollow rotten with glutinous rice after mixing evenly and rubbing hard, can get yellow glutinous rice.
3, purple glutinous rice is with the same species but different leaf shape of red orchid grass by boiling and become. The leaves are slightly longer and darker, and the color is stronger when cooked, so the rice is purple.
4、Red glutinous rice, made from a cross between rice and sorghum, is tested by the Quality Supervision and Testing Center for Rice and Products of the Ministry of Agriculture, and its calcium, zinc, magnesium, iron and other beneficial minerals are 9 to 14 times more than ordinary rice.
5, multi-colored glutinous rice wrapped out of the dumplings colorful, colorful, crystal clear, plus its moist and soft, mellow and calm, the taste is rich in plant fragrance, eaten endlessly tasty, and has a certain medicinal value. Red orchid grass has the role of blood production, gardenia has the role of clearing heat and cooling blood, with maple leaves cooked into the green japonica rice, people can eat it to strengthen tendons and bones, benefit the stomach and intestines, marrow.
Warm Tips
Zongzi is made of glutinous rice, eat too much is difficult to digest, Dragon Boat Festival should not eat more than 2 zongzi at one time, the elderly, children and pregnant women should not exceed 1 at one time, remember not to gluttony Oh!
