The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, and rice dumplings and glutinous rice have become best-selling commodities in the market. Early on the morning of June 11, the reporter came to the Shagang Road vegetable market and saw many stalls with green rice dumpling leaves.
Zongzi leaves are divided into two types, one is fresh zongzi, which is unique to this season, and can be directly wrapped by washing with clean water; There is also a kind of dried rice dumpling leaves, which are relatively light in color, and should be soaked in clean water before wrapping. The stall owner said, "Fresh rice dumpling leaves are easy and quick to wrap, and although the steps of drying rice dumpling leaves to wrap rice dumplings are troublesome, the wrapped rice dumplings are really fragrant and will not break." Nowadays, young people love to buy ready-made rice dumplings, and many older aunts and uncles like to buy rice dumplings and go back to wrap them themselves. ”
The price of rice dumplings has not fluctuated much this year, but as the holiday approaches, the supply is becoming more and more tight. In addition to rice dumpling leaves, pork, glutinous rice, salted duck eggs and other products related to rice dumplings have also sold well in the market. The reporter saw that the glutinous rice had also been placed in a conspicuous position, and the grains were full.
The lady of the dry goods store introduced that glutinous rice is divided into two types: long glutinous rice and round glutinous rice: long glutinous rice has a slightly hard and chewy taste after cooking, which is more suitable for cooking, such as glutinous rice ribs, glutinous rice balls and so on; After heating, round glutinous rice is soft and sticky, the viscosity is better, the taste, sweetness and viscosity are higher than that of long glutinous rice, in addition to being suitable for wrapping rice dumplings, it can also be used to make eight treasure rice, glutinous rice root and other soft and sweet delicacies. Aunt Zhao, a citizen, said, "It's actually not difficult to wrap rice dumplings, whether it looks good or not is secondary, and it is very meaningful for a family to sit around and talk and laugh." ”
Right now, the Dragon Boat Festival is coming
Do you wrap rice dumplings with your own hands?
Text/Image: Feng Chenfei
Editor: Wu Baixin