Bean Paste Zongzi
Glutinous rice (Thailand long grain) 1000g | 红小豆 250g |
Zongye 20 tablets | Malancao 15 roots |
White sugar 60g | Alkali 1g |
Honey 30ml |
Step 1
Wash the glutinous rice and soak it in water, add 10g of sugar and 1g of alkali, and soak for 5-6 hours. Soak red adzuki beans in water for 3 hoursStep 2
Soak rice dumpling leaves and malangrass in water to soften themStep 3
Put the red adzuki beans into the electric pressure cooker, add twice as much water as the red adzuki beans, and cook for 60 minutes.Step 4
Drain the boiled red beans and puree them with a blenderStep 5
Add 50g sugar and 30ml honey and mix wellStep 6
Mix wellStep 7
Start making rice dumplings, stack two rice dumpling leaves crosswise, with the smooth side facing up.Step 8
Bend your hands toward yourself into a conical funnel shapeStep 9
Add 1/3 of the glutinous rice and a spoonful of bean pasteStep 10
Cover with 1/3 of the glutinous riceStep 11
Fold the lower rice dumpling leaves up to cover the glutinous rice, and fold off the excess rice dumpling leaves.Step 12
Hold the rice dumpling leaves tightly, wrap the malan grass around the rice dumpling and tie it tightlyStep 13
In this way, the rice dumplings are wrapped. About 15 rice dumplings can be wrapped.Step 14
Put the rice dumplings into the electric pressure cooker, pour in water to cover the rice dumplings, and adjust the time to 60 minutes.Step 15
If you are not going to eat the cooked rice dumplings, you can cool them and freeze them in the freezer of the refrigerator to keep them fresh longer. Cooking tips for bean paste rice dumplings