Every year, the Dragon Boat Festival is fragrant to every household, and whenever the Dragon Boat Festival comes, there will always be a sweet and salty dispute over the dumplings
But Yunnan people will never be painfully entangled because of this...... Everyone wrapped all the ingredients they could think of into the rice dumplings
Colorful dumplings, Hani four-cornered dumplings, cloud leg dumplings, flower dumplings......
(I can't help but drool.)
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In Yunnan, in addition to the diverse scenery and beautiful scenery, even zongzi are varied
Today
Let's find out
What flavors of zongzi do you have in Yunnan~
Wild mushroom dumplings. Source: China News Weekly
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With the advent of the Dragon Boat Festival, in Jiangchuan District, Yuxi City, the original ecological colored zongzi rushed to the market, becoming the latest hot-selling product, and it was highly favored.
"This yellow color is dyed by dense flowers, and when made sweet, it can better reflect the taste of flowers; The purple is dyed with fragrant glutinous comfrey, which can be made into sweet or salty, but the salty one can better reflect the glutinous fragrance. Li Xue of Zhuangke Village, Jiangcheng Hot Spring Village Committee, introduced that the dense flowers and fragrant glutinous comfrey in his hometown are wild plants, which are more ecological, after boiling water, the soup will turn yellow and purple, and after soaking the white glutinous rice overnight, it will become yellow and purple glutinous rice.
After steaming these colored glutinous rice, either add roses, rose sauce and white sugar to the yellow glutinous rice, or put pineapple, jujube and white sugar in the purple glutinous rice to mix into a sweet filling, or in the purple glutinous rice, add lard, sesame oil, salt and chopped ham grains to mix out the salty filling, and finally wrap it out with the zongzi leaves and techniques picked from the hometown, and the taste of the colored zongzi is the most authentic.
Dendrobium flower dumplings
Dendrobium flower dumplings are made of dried strips of dendrobium and dried flowers of drumsticks. Clean the branches of Dendrobium officinalis, cut them into small pieces of about one centimeter to beat the juice, pour them into the glutinous rice, add the cleaned Dendrobium flowers, and stir well to form Dendrobium flower dumplings. The boiled zongzi leaves are flexible and fragrant, and the zongzi material that is full of gelatin and has a burst of dendrobium flower fragrance is already fragrant before it is put into the pot.
The wrapped rice dumplings are tightly tied with twine, put into a pot, and simmer in cold water. The boiled dendrobium flower dumplings are fragrant and pleasant, the glutinous rice absorbs the soup, and the Q bomb is chewy.
Dendrobium officinale has the effect of nourishing the stomach and nourishing yin and clearing heat, and the drumstick dendrobium flower has a variety of effects such as beauty, calming the nerves, brightening the eyes, etc., therefore, the moderate consumption of Dendrobium flower dumplings has the effect of nourishing the stomach and nourishing yin, stopping sweating and replenishing deficiency.
Flower bean paste dumplings are selected from fresh rose petals and high-quality red beans, the perfect combination of soft and glutinous fragrance, mellow and sweet taste, soft and delicate taste, through the rich floral fragrance, permeate the mouth, sweet layers rippling, the taste is wonderful.
Grey water dumplings
Cai Huafen, a villager in Minle Village, Meizi Township, said that the locals will use plant ash, dyed rice flowers, sweet bamboo leaves, guava leaves and calamus to boil gray water, and after standing and filtering, pour it into glutinous rice to soak, and then wrap the rice dumplings after dyeing the color.
The traditional gray water dumplings in Ning'er County have several flavors of bacon, bean paste, peanuts and pure glutinous rice. The cooked zongzi are soft and sweet in the mouth, smooth but not greasy.
Wild fungus gruel
Wild mushrooms are the most wonderful and wonderful rare delicacies of mountains and forests given by Yunnan to the majority of diners, wild mushrooms + zongzi let the ingredients return to their natural flavors, and they are all delicious feasts on the tip of the tongue.
Hill North Gosai Porridge
Zhuang compatriots love glutinous food very much, and every festival will make glutinous rice into various colors through plants to make food, and this colorful memory has also been upgraded to the current "colorful brown" in the Dragon Boat Festival.
Quang Nam black dumplings
Guangnan black dumplings are made by grinding crispy straw and stir-fried grass fruits into powder, and then rubbing them with glutinous rice stir-fried with a little oil and salt to make the rice light and black. Then wrap the leaves with natural wild hoops, and put the pork belly marinated in grass fruit powder and the soaked mung beans according to the taste and preferences of each family.
Xinping fruit dumplings are in Modao Village, Jiasa Town, Xinping County, Yuxi City, and all kinds of lychees and mangoes have been hung on the branches. In this season, fruit is not only a delicacy in midsummer, but also a rare ingredient for making zongzi.
Mango dumplings, mango is a local three-year-old mango, must be made with ripe mango, if not ripe, this taste can not be cooked, very undelicious. The flavor of glutinous rice and mango blends together, and the taste of the two is still very special, sweet and sweet.
Lychee dumplings, select the best lychees to make dried lychees, and add soaked glutinous rice as fillings to make them.
After boiling for half an hour, the fragrant and delicious lychee dumplings and mango dumplings can be served.
Fire thigh gruel
There are many rice dumpling leaves on the slopes of Baoshan Shidian land, and they will stretch wantonly and be full of greenery when it rains. In this season, the dumpling leaves are suitable for old and tender, with their own fragrant fragrance. Fresh dumpling leaves and Shidian's unique ham, who can resist such a deliciousness?
Yuanjiang Herb Zongzi Yuxi Yuanjiang, there are many ethnic minorities, and each ethnic group here has its own characteristics of zongzi.
For example, the vanilla rice dumplings wrapped by the Dai family. The soft glutinous rice is wrapped in the spices grown by the Dai family themselves - sirloin and herbs, and then fried meat and grass fruits. With the dumpling leaves planted under the mango tree, after their skillful hands, the fragrant and soft Dai herb zongzi will ensure that you are full! Mouth! Stay! Fragrant!
Ganzhuang, the famous hometown of overseas Chinese in Yuanjiang, is inhabited by overseas Chinese who have returned from Vietnam, Indonesia and other countries, and naturally local specialties are also brought by them.
Each Vietnamese zongzi needs to use about 20 zongzi leaves, which are laid layer by layer, glutinous rice, third-line meat and mung beans are put in, and then through the skillful hands of the elderly, the Vietnamese zongzi is wrapped.
Colorful rice dumplings
In Kaiyuan City, Honghe Prefecture, there is a kind of zongzi called colorful zongzi, and the practice of this zongzi is very particular. First of all, the colorful leaves and fragrant glutinous rice are soaked together, and then the colorful leaves are cut into small sections, broken into juice and filtered, and stirred evenly with glutinous rice, and finally put into the colorful leaves to wrap up.
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Is your saliva almost gone?
Of course! The taste of zongzi in Yunnan is not only these
Recently
Yunnan zongzi market "different from zongzi"
Innovative in taste and packaging
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New flavors of zongzi have been put on the shelves Photo by Zhou Ningzi
In addition to the traditional flavors of "original zongzi", "eight treasure zongzi", "fresh meat zongzi", etc., "self-heating zongzi", "hot pot zongzi", "ice zongzi" and other diversified zongzi appear in the market. Kunming's zongzi market also innovatively added many new zongzi full of Yunnan's characteristic flavors, including "old milk artichoke dumplings", "porcini mushroom dumplings in soup", "flower dumplings" and so on. "Young people prefer new flavors of zongzi such as 'old milk potato dumplings' and 'black truffle beef dumplings'." Kunming Guan Supermarket Zongzi counter sales said that the store's "old milk potato dumplings" have long been sold out, while the elderly group is more inclined to the traditional slightly innovative "Golden Cinnamon Oatmeal Dumplings" and so on.
In the Zhuxin Farmers' Market, "Wild Mushroom Dumplings" and "Banna Flower Rice Dumplings" also appeared in the "C position" of the store. It is understood that the market price of these special flavored zongzi is higher than the price of ordinary zongzi. The price of ordinary clear water dumplings ranges from 10-20 yuan per kilogram, while the price of zongzi with Yunnan characteristics such as "Banna flower rice dumplings" and "mountain bamboo shoot dumplings" is about 35-45 yuan per kilogram. "Yunnan wild mushroom dumplings" are more expensive due to factors such as high manual cost and difficult collection of wild mushrooms.
Banna flower rice dumplings are very distinctive Photo by Zhou Ningzi
In addition to finished rice dumplings, all kinds of "handmade rice dumplings" are also highly sought after by consumers. Many merchants said that the handmade rice dumplings wrapped on the spot made customers feel at ease when eating. Hand-wrapped zongzi, glutinous rice tastes more chewy and has a more homely taste.
Of course, in addition to making great efforts in taste innovation, this year's zongzi also reveals a strong traditional cultural meaning in product packaging and marketing.
In some small supermarkets, merchants have launched zongzi promotions in combination with the traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. For example, after buying zongzi, you will be given a DIY colorful rope to wish your child safety and health.
Traditional flavor zongzi photo by Zhou Ningzi
At present, there are many kinds of packaging of zongzi on the market. On the packaging, there are not only dragon boat races, colorful ropes and other patterns, but also some local time-honored brands have also played cross-border co-branding. A variety of co-branded Dragon Boat Festival gift boxes will carry out the national tide to the end.
All kinds of zongzi gift boxes Photo by Zhou Ningzi
Eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival has become a custom
Nowadays, people's living standards have improved
The types of rice dumplings have also become rich and diverse
Although the fancy zongzi taste different
But people's vision of a better life is the same
The small rice dumplings not only continue the traditional deliciousness
It has become a kind of emotional sustenance and cultural inheritance
So many unique rice dumplings
Which one do you prefer?
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Source: Xinhuanet, People's Daily, Yunnan.com
New Media Editor: Na Ruixin
First instance: Zhang Lina Second instance: Zhu Yunrun Third instance: Li Xingwei