There are less than 10 days to go to the Spring Festival, and friends in the north eat dumplings during the Spring Festival, and friends in the south make rice dumplings.
Everyone must think that zongzi is a delicacy that can only be eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival, why is it also available during the Spring Festival?
That's because the shape of zongzi resembles an ingot, and in the south there is also a custom of Spring Festival sacrifices.
Therefore, wrapping rice dumplings during the Spring Festival and sacrificing ancestors is also a gratitude for the ancestors' care for their families during a period of time last year.
At the same time, pray for abundant grains and abundant wealth in the new year.
So in the north, every New Year, every family will start to prepare rice dumplings and raise pigs for a year.
After slaughtering, the best quality pork belly is marinated for a period of time, then wrapped in a layer of mung beans and put into glutinous rice, wrapped into large rice dumplings.
After putting it in the pot, it will be cooked for 5~6 hours with wood fire, then it will be a fresh and delicious meat dumpling.
Generally, in the south, among relatives and friends, there is also the meaning of sending zongzi is also a blessing, and zongzi should be doubled and not single.
When visiting relatives and friends, every family will carry two rice dumplings in their hands, just to send relatives for the New Year.
It's just that some friends will find that the rice dumplings they wrap are obviously the same, boiled for hours, but the rice dumplings will still regenerate after they are cooled out of the pot.
Uncooked zongzi, giving to relatives and friends is actually very humiliating, and in the eyes of relatives and friends, they will also feel that this person's poor cooking skills will lead to uncooked zongzi, and they have to give them to others.
Then when we wrap rice dumplings, the choice of glutinous rice, and the time of soaking are two very key factors.
Only when the glutinous rice is processed, whether it is cooked in a pressure cooker or with firewood, will it not regenerate.
Today I will tell you about the selection of glutinous rice and the time of soaking, so that when you wrap rice dumplings during the Spring Festival, you don't have to worry that your rice dumplings will regenerate.
First, the choice of glutinous rice
In the market, we will find two kinds of glutinous rice, one is round glutinous rice and the other is long glutinous rice. The taste of the two types of glutinous rice is not the same.
If you want to use glutinous rice to wrap rice dumplings or make rice balls, then you should choose round glutinous rice, because the taste of round glutinous rice is more delicate and soft, and it is not easy to regenerate after cooking.
And if it is used to make colorful sticky rice or steamed sticky rice, choose long glutinous rice.
Because long glutinous rice is more glutinous and harder, it will become harder after cooking, so long glutinous rice is not suitable for making dumplings or making rice balls.
Second, the time of soaking glutinous rice
Before wrapping rice dumplings, glutinous rice must be soaked first, so that the glutinous rice can fully absorb the moisture.
Subsequent cooking of glutinous rice will be more likely to become soft and rotten, and the glutinous rice will absorb enough water, and it will taste more delicate and soft.
Then when we soak glutinous rice, we need to clean all the glutinous rice a day in advance, and then put it in enough water to soak the glutinous rice.
The best time to soak glutinous rice is 7~8 hours, and you can also put glutinous rice in your hands when soaking glutinous rice.
Pinch with your fingernails, if the glutinous rice can be easily pinched in half, it means that this glutinous rice has been soaked.
If you want to shorten the soaking time of glutinous rice, you can also use warm water to soak glutinous rice, then the time can be shortened to 5~6 hours.
So everyone learned the choice of glutinous rice and the trick of soaking time? Everyone sends rice dumplings during the Spring Festival to send their hearts, but don't choose the wrong raw materials, resulting in the rice dumplings they cooked are not delicious, and it is easy to affect the feelings between relatives when they are sent.
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