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The ingredients needed to make Homemade Zongzi～Rice Dumplings:
- You need ※ the Main ingredients ↓
- Prepare 3000 g Glutinous rice (short grain)
- Use 1500 g Pork shoulder roast
- Provide 150 g Red onion
- Prepare 130 g Dried shrimps
- Use 30 pieces Dried mushrooms
- Provide 52 pieces Salted egg yolk
- Prepare 600 g peanuts
- Take ※ Seasoning materials ↓
- Prepare 2 tablespoon Sugar
- Take Salt or chicken powder (to taste)
- Get 1 cup Soy sauce
- Use Pepper powder (to taste)
- Take 5 spice powder 1 tablespoon
- Prepare Sesame oil
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- Use bamboo leaves 104 pieces
- Use 3 (1 bunch) twine (each bunch for 20 pieces)
Steps to make Homemade Zongzi～Rice Dumplings:
- Dried leaves are unable to be used, they are needed to rehydrate in water before using them for wrapping. - - The easiest way to prepare the leaves for wrapping is to boil them for 30 minutes or to soak them in water overnight. - - Place a heavy bowl on top of the leaves to stop them from floating on the water. - - the leaves will become dark green color when they are fully rehydrated next day. - - Wash the leaves under running water, and keep the leaves in water until you want to wrap the zongzi.
- The glutinous rice! It is the only type of rice suitable for making rice dumplings. - - there are two kind of glutinous rice, the short grain and long one (see the picture) - - If you use the long glutinous rice, then needs to soak it in water at least 4 hours. - - the short one doesn't need to soak in water. - - Wash the glutinous rice a few times until the water is clear. - - Drain the water away, and set aside for wrapping the zongzi.
- 【 the filling 1 】 - - Cut the pork into 3cm squares. - - Put the pork in a stew pot and add soy sauce + 5 spice powder + white pepper + sugar - - Bring the pot to boil, then simmer for 30 minutes, the meat won't so tender after 30 minutes, and that is ok as it needed to cook again later. - - Take out of the meat from the pot, only leaves the gravy in it, the meat is for wrapping the zongzi, and the gravy is for stir-frying the rice. set them aside for using later.
- 【 the filling 2 】 - - Soak the dry shiitake mushrooms in water until fully rehydrated. - - Remove the stems. cut into 2 or in the size you like ~ - - Stir-fry them with some oil for a few minutes until gets their flavor, then aside for wrapping the zongzi.
- 【 the filling 3 】 - - Salted duck egg yolk - - Taiwanese zongzi often includes the salted egg yolk for its unique flavor. - - Try to get it at the Asian grocery shop. if you couldn't find it, then simply use stewed eggs instead that would be ok too.
- 【 the filling 4 】 - - Dried shrimps are one of the indispensable ingredients, it brings a deep savory flavor to the rice dumplings. - - Soak them for at least one hour, then clean and remove impurities. - - Stir-fry with some oil for 2~3 minutes to gets their savory flavor, then set aside for frying rice later.
- 【 the filling 5 】 - - Wash peanuts, put them in pot covered with water and add a little salt, bring to boil and then cook over a medium heat for 20 minutes. then set aside for using later.
- Put oil in a large wok and add chopped red onion in, stir-fry with gentle heat, be careful don't over fried and let it goes bitter. - - Put the rice in the wok when the red onion started turning into the golden color. - - then add ↓ - - 2 bowls of gravy - the step 3 - stir-fried shrimps - the step 6 - cooked peanuts - the step 7 - - Mixture well, stir-fry with gentle heat and make sure the rice coating with gravy nicely, keeps to stir-fry until the gravy reduce, then turn off the heat.
- Wrapping the zongzi - - take two leaves and crossing each other. Fold up the bottom to create a cone. (see the picture)
- Find a place to hook a bunch of twine - - Holding the cone leaves with left hand, the add the fillings - - firstly some mixed rice, then meat + mushroom + egg yolk and then put some mixed rice on top to covered the fillings…. - - Use one hand to hold the zongzi and the other to then to fold and wrap, and then to tie it tightly with a knot. - - ★★★ It is very important, Please Make sure to tie the zongzi tightly, so that it doesn't fall apart. (as it is still raw rice.)
- There are 2 ways to cook the zongzi (Rice Dumplings) - - in boiling water or to steam - - the tastes are totally different.
- It tastes very softly when cooked in the water, but its aromatic flavor would be less a bit. the good part is lower calories. - - you would feel amazing when you cook zongzi by steam, smell so good, fabulous taste, it was the way that I took. - - anyway, if you cook it in the boiling water, needs at least 40 minutes, it takes about 1 hour by steaming. Both ways might be needed to take longer in cooking, it is judging by the taste of our own.
- Serving hot or cold are all great!
- Enjoy! ^_^
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