Approaching the Dragon Boat Festival, are the rice dumplings in your home ready? Speaking of which, Zhejiang people have absolutely true love for Zongzi.
When "China on the Tip of the Tongue" introduces Jiaxing cuisine, there is a particularly classic caption: "Jiaxing people, known for their exquisite and delicate lifestyle in Jiangnan, have a day of steadfastness and confidence, but they start with a hot meat dumpling." ”
In addition to the famous Jiaxing meat dumplings in the country, the rice dumplings in many parts of Zhejiang also have a unique flavor. Two days ago, Hangzhou Foodie launched a solicitation activity on the hourly news client, inviting foodies to participate in the interaction and call for their hometown dumplings. As soon as the solicitation order came out, famous rice dumplings from all over the world came pouring in.
Wenzhou cat rice dumpling recommended person: @ qianduoduo
Many people will think that the name of cat dumplings is very special, is it a rice dumpling that cats also like to eat? In fact, it should be called "late rice dumplings", Wenzhou Pingyang and Ruian around the "cat" and "late rice" pronunciation is very similar, after a long time has been called a cute cat dumpling.
Many People in Pingyang believe that cat rice dumplings are a clear stream in the rice dumpling world, and what is special is that it is not made of glutinous rice, but made of late rice. The filling is relatively refreshing, although similar to the recipe in Zhejiang, pork belly and salted egg yolk are also used, but it will add green onions and shiitake mushrooms to enhance the flavor, and the fat meat is also less. Cat dumplings are easy to digest, and eating more will not feel braced.
Ningbo alkali water dumpling recommended person: @ Long live my emperor
White sugar "picking" rice dumplings is the correct way for Ningbo people to open the Dragon Boat Festival. The so-called lye water dumplings, that is, the ratio of lye water and white glutinous rice should be just right, so as to produce good viscoelasticity. The alkali used is generally made of ash that is dried and burned after straw and bean shells. In the process of cooking, you also have to keep adding alkali water, which is all based on experience, more colors are not good, less affects the taste.
When eating, use a chopstick from the end of the rice dumpling to insert it, roll in the plate containing white sugar, this stained with white sugar alkali dumplings, is the most familiar childhood taste in our memory, in Ningbo dialect is: "The taste is good." ”
Quzhou snow vegetable meat dumpling recommended by: @ Xiao Dan
"If you want to talk about zongzi, my hometown, almost every family in the Dragon Boat Festival, must pack dried meat dumplings with snow vegetables and bamboo shoots." Netizen Xiao Dan is a native of Quzhou Jiangshan, and she opened a small restaurant of Quzhou cuisine in Yuhang. Every year near the Dragon Boat Festival, she would invite her aunt from her hometown to Hangzhou to help wrap rice dumplings, "one or two hundred a day for one person."
What makes Jiangshan dumplings special is that they are wrapped in appetizing snow shoots. Snow vegetables are made with sun-dried nine-headed mustard. Quzhou people who love spicy food will even add spicy rice dumplings, in the process of adding dried bamboo shoots to stir-fry, be sure to add some spicy, when stir-fried, the salty aroma is in the air.
Cooked snow vegetable fresh meat dumplings, into the rice dumpling leaves of the silk fragrance, snow vegetables neutralize the meaty taste, but also let the taste of glutinous rice more refreshing, bite a bite, glutinous rice grains are clear, snow vegetables salty with a slightly spicy taste stimulates the taste buds, rich taste blooms on the tip of the tongue, people can't stop.
Huzhou pillow dumpling recommended person: @ pure fart
Huzhou's rice dumplings are not the Dragon Boat Festival to remember to eat, people will use it as breakfast, but also as a gift, is a very daily food. Huzhou dumplings are small and elegant, and the unique long strip shape resembles a pillow, so it is called "pillow dumplings". The taste of Huzhou rice dumplings is also more rich and delicate than that of ordinary Zhejiang dumplings, with sweet lard fine sand dumplings and salty and fresh meat salted dumplings.
But what I love the most is fresh meat dumplings, good big meat dumplings, selected leg meat cut into strips and evenly distributed, you can eat meat at the beginning and end, the taste is fresh and fragrant. After cooking, the pillow dumplings are steaming with a hot aroma, the tough and sticky glutinous rice wrapped in the salty aroma of the meat, the glutinous rice picked up and the brushing feeling, so that people can't stop taking one bite after another, and they will eat it in an instant.
Lishui Long Dumpling Recommended Person: @ Liangliang
As the name suggests, the length of the long rice dumpling is particularly long, ranging from tens of centimeters to one or two meters, at least more than twice that of ordinary rice dumplings. Long rice dumplings are very prominent among many rice dumplings, and they have made a deep impression at every agricultural fair.
Lishui Suichang Chang zong is also called "long love dumplings", the local folk have the custom of sending the Dragon Boat Festival, married daughters to take the dumplings back to their mother's home with their son-in-law. The longer the rice dumplings are brought, the better the daughter's life in the in-laws' home, the longer the husband and wife's feelings, and there is a beautiful meaning of "the longer the dumplings, the deeper the love".
The dumplings must be wrapped with local wild leaves, and they are used very much, and the general length of the rice dumplings should be used to about 10 pieces, and then tightly tied into eight to nine sections with dragon whisker grass. The leaf is one of the keys to the delicious taste of long rice dumplings, which not only has the effect of sealing and antibacterial, but also brings special aroma to long rice dumplings.
Liuzhou snail powder stinky tofu dumplings recommended by: @ Xiaojie
At the end of May, Hema Fresh joined hands with Wuling Automobile to launch a snail powder stinky tofu rice dumplings. This heavy taste brain hole, let netizens fry the pan: everything can be snail powder!
This jointly named zongzi two boxes cost 16 yuan, sour shoots, fried tofu bamboo, capers and other snail powder ingredients added to the glutinous rice, the soft glutinous rice dumplings and fresh and spicy combination, is indeed "unusual" zongzi. "This rice dumpling has a Liuzhou character, with a salty and spicy taste." Yin Xi, purchasing director of Hema 3R, said bluntly that it is more difficult to make snail powder rice dumplings than to make green dough. She said, "First of all, it is difficult to choose the combination of snail powder fillings, such as curd milk, cheese, stinky tofu, durian and so on. Finally, after the taste type matching, Changsha stinky tofu was selected, and the spiciness and layering were most matched with the snail powder. The fusion of snail powder and glutinous rice should also be made with the help of hand pilaf to make the rice and flour more compact. ”
At the same time, Wufangzhai, a century-old brand that has always loved to play, also launched a "topic zongzi gift box" this year, including spicy snail powder, durian and stinky tofu. Some foodies call it "smelly" and "these old three things are my dishes!" There are also netizens who have wavened their hands to escape, "There is a smell of 'live people do not come near'." ”
Is snail powder rice dumplings delicious? Hangzhou foodie Xiaojie frankly said that the first bite down, the sense of smell and taste have a wonderful collision, this taste is more "top". In terms of taste, Wufangzhai is "gentler" than the same zongzi of Hema and slightly less spicy. Xiao Jie also noticed that the snail powder was also attached with a "delicious combination" - milk tea, milk and juice.
Interactive activities you recommend hometown dumplings, I send you a big "lucky bag"
From now on, if you participate in the "Foodie Circle" community's interaction on the topic of hometown rice dumplings, you will have a chance to win the foodie "FuKubukuro".
(1) Scan the QR code on the left to download the hourly news client. (2) Click the "Gang" button in the menu bar below the home page or click "I want to post" in the floating window of the home page. (3) Select publish to the "Foodie Circle" group, the title indicates #Zongzi #, upload text + pictures (up to 9 pictures can be uploaded per post), and share your hometown delicacies.
All users who participate in the thread interaction are eligible to participate in our sweepstakes. After the Dragon Boat Festival, we will select lucky readers to send out foodie lucky bags.
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