Pork belly Appropriate amount Glutinous rice 500g
Zongye One dozen Cotton thread a string
Light soy sauce Appropriate amount Cooking wine Appropriate amount
Five-spice powder Appropriate amount Salt Appropriate amount
Edible alkali 1g Sesame Sesame Oil A little
Chicken Essence A little
How to make meat rice dumplings Illustration of how to make meat rice dumplings 1

Step 1

Soak the glutinous rice in cold water for two hours in advance. The longer the time, the glutinous the glutinous rice will be and the better the taste. Then add appropriate amount of salt, light soy sauce and edible alkali, mix well and set aside. Illustration of how to make meat rice dumplings 2

Step 2

Wash the rice dumpling leaves, soak them for one hour in advance, and finally boil them in boiling water for five minutes to sterilize and set aside.Illustration of how to make meat rice dumplings 3

Step 3

Cut the pork belly into pieces, add light soy sauce, cooking wine, five-spice powder, chicken essence, salt and other seasonings and marinate for a while, then put it in the refrigerator for one to two hours and set aside. The longer it lasts, the more flavorful it becomes. You can add seasonings according to your preference. Illustration of how to make meat rice dumplings 4

Step 4

Once the items are ready, you can start packing. The two rice dumpling leaves are facing each other back to back, fix the leaf head, rotate the leaf tail, and the leaf head and tail overlap. Here we can find that rotate 90 degrees to overlap. First put a little rice, use chopsticks to poke it firmly, and then add the meat. Finally add the rice. The rice dumpling leaves should not exceed the height of the rice dumpling leaves. After loading the rice, just cover the leaves and tie them up without leakage. There is a process for this specific step online. I also learned from other people’s various packages and adapted a relatively simple method with a high success rate. These are wrapped rice dumplings. Illustration of how to make meat rice dumplings 5

Step 5

Put the rice dumplings into the rice cooker and add cold water so that the water is just above the rice dumplings. I cooked it for two hours. As soon as my rice cooker set the cooking time, it jumped to the soup mode, so I cooked it for two hours. When the time is up, take out the rice dumplings, they taste super fragrant. Illustration of how to make meat rice dumplings 6

Step 6

Super delicious. I don’t have dark soy sauce at home, so the coloring isn’t that good. But I personally prefer refreshing rice dumplings. You can decide whether to add dark soy sauce to the glutinous rice according to your own preferences. It tastes great! Meat Zongzi cooking tips

You can add an appropriate amount of dark soy sauce to the glutinous rice, so that the steamed color will be more beautiful. I personally think that the black rice dumplings are not necessarily good-looking, so it depends on what you like.