Approaching the Dragon Boat Festival, the first thing that reminds me is Zongzi.
Just because the glutinous rice dumplings are a bit monotonous, there are various flavors that follow: red bean dumplings, peanut dumplings, fresh meat dumplings, salted egg yolk dumplings...
Not only the difference in taste, but also the difference in appearance.
Triangle dumplings, tall dumplings, conical dumplings, four-corner dumplings, etc., various flavors, various styles, for you to choose ~
I have always paid attention to the original ecology, took out the only bag of Umi left at home, and used Umi instead of white glutinous rice, which should taste good.
Umi has introduced to you before, from the neighboring city, Liyang specialty of Umi, is glutinous rice using the south candle leaf juice soaked, the color is black, there is kidney tonic eyesight, black hair rejuvenation, stomach, anti-aging and other effects.
Although the Dragon Boat Festival has not arrived, it is still arranged to arrange the Umi rice dumplings first, and this kind of sticky thing really can't resist!
Before making rice dumplings, we must first prepare reed leaves, and when it comes to this, we really want to exaggerate our big golden altar, which is really a treasure land. Changdang Lake, also known as Tao Lake, is one of the ancient Taihu Lake differentiation lakes. Beautiful scenery, perfect water quality and crystal clear.
Near the edge of Changdang Lake, there are many reeds growing, the breeze strikes, the reeds sway with the sound of "whistling", and the fragrance of the plants echoes on the tip of the nose, and the heart is relaxed.
We all drove to find a suitable place, to be honest, I was still a little afraid in my heart, I was afraid of stepping on which piece of silt, and it would be embarrassing if I couldn't pull it up...
Not for the sake of the Umi rice dumplings, I still spelled it and went in to pick it up. Here is an extra spit, the mosquitoes in the reeds are particularly poisonous, each of them is the kind of mosquito with flower legs, and the bites into the skin are like needles, too powerful! In order to stutter, I was really very difficult, silently shed two lines of clear tears...
On the way back after picking, everyone discussed coming and going, so they went to lean on the nearby Grapefruit Mountain, which is located in Rulin Town, the shore of Changdang Lake in the southeast of Jintan City, which is a typical watery village with less water.
Yuzu Mountain has really developed well in recent years, small bridges flowing water, authentic Jiangnan water town feeling, want to experience the scenery of Jiangnan friends do not miss.
When we went, there were exquisite sightseeing boats, sitting on the boats, drifting along the various homes, watching the scenery and enjoying tea, not too comfortable~
Back home, handicapped party I am not able to eat alone, enjoy the blessed life, hey... Can only trouble dear Ma Ma to wrap up.
Prepare a few things before wrapping the rice dumplings: soaked umi, the glutinous rice that has been soaked overnight, the grains are transparent and full, and they are all leaning on each other at this time, lazy and heavy.
There are also water basins: for soaking rice dumpling leaves, woolen thread: for finally tying rice dumplings, scissors: cutting leaf roots (some rice dumpling leaves need to be trimmed smooth, convenient to wrap), shearing yarn.
Jintan fashion high foot wrapping method, the technique is somewhat complicated, but also the reason why I have not been able to learn, the wrapped rice dumplings into a trapezoidal shape, commonly known as high foot dumplings. When the children in each family want to take the college entrance examination, they will wrap high-foot dumplings, taking the meaning of the harmonic high school.
Wrapped zongzi water spirit, as if eating it now!
Put in a pressure cooker and cook for an appropriate amount of time, and finally simmer for a while. Take it out, the scent of the rice dumpling leaves plus umi combined in one place, floating to every corner of the home, can only say a word, very fragrant!
After peeling, the full body of the rice dumplings is fat and rolling, very cute, even without dipping in white sugar, eat directly, soft glutinous sweet and fragrant, delicious! Umi sticky twitter really threw white sticky rice ten streets.
Umi rice dumplings, wrapped in dark fillings in verdant leaves, are not greasy or sweet, primitive, pure, but have a unique sweetness, which makes me deeply fascinated.