Zongzi is a food that everyone is very familiar with, whether it is sweet or salty, the main raw material is rice. When making zongzi, how should we choose rice, round glutinous rice and long glutinous rice? Let's take a look.
Glutinous rice is usually used when making zongzi at home. But when buying glutinous rice in the supermarket, we often come across round glutinous rice and long glutinous rice. So what's the difference between them? Let's take a look.
First, glutinous rice, also known as pulp rice. According to the different shapes, it is mainly divided into long glutinous rice and round glutinous rice. The rice grains of long glutinous rice are slender, pinkish-white in color, opaque, and relatively sticky.
The round glutinous rice has shorter and round grains, the color is white, opaque, and the viscosity is slightly worse than that of long glutinous rice, but the taste is sweeter and greasy.
Second, in terms of taste, long glutinous rice has a strong stickiness after cooking, but the taste will be hard, and the rice flavor is relatively strong. However, it has a disadvantage that it can easily harden after cooking, so it is more suitable for making rice cakes, rice balls or wrapping zongzi.
The stickiness of round glutinous rice after cooking is slightly worse, the taste is softer and glutinous, the sweetness is more obvious, and it is not easy to harden, so it is suitable for wrapping zongzi, making wine-stuffed glutinous rice balls or glutinous rice.
Third, there is also a big difference in the price between long glutinous rice and round glutinous rice. In general, the price of long glutinous rice will be slightly cheaper.
In short, both long glutinous rice and round glutinous rice can be used to wrap zongzi, but the taste is different. If you like to eat zongzi with high stickiness, it is best to choose long glutinous rice. If you like to eat soft and sweet zongzi, it is best to choose round glutinous rice.
There are many kinds of glutinous rice sold on the market, and the price is also uneven, and the price difference of one pound of glutinous rice is two or three yuan, which is a very normal phenomenon.
So how should we choose? How can you buy good glutinous rice?
The first point is to look at the appearance, the appearance of high-quality glutinous rice is snow-white, opaque, and you should avoid buying it if the color is yellow and dark.
The second point is to see if there is a phenomenon of "bursting waist", old glutinous rice will have horizontal fine lines, while fresh glutinous rice will not.
The third point is to smell the smell, high-quality glutinous rice will have the aroma of rice, while glutinous rice with gelatin added will have a pungent smell. If you can't finish eating, you can put glutinous rice in a rice pot and add peppercorn packets.
Through these analyses of round glutinous rice and long glutinous rice, as well as purchase tips, I believe you have understood how to choose rice suitable for making zongzi.