Five-Spice Pork Zongzi
Pork belly 400g | Glutinous rice 1000 grams |
Fresh Ruo leaves Appropriate amount | Five-spice powder 10 grams |
Soy sauce 50 grams | Cooking wine 10 grams |
White sugar 20 grams |
Step 1
Clean the pork belly. Wash the Ruo leaves and boil them in hot water for 10 minutes.Step 2
Cut the pork belly into 2-3cm pieces, mix well with cooking wine, soy sauce, sugar and five-spice powder, and let stand for 4 hours.Step 3
Wash the glutinous rice and soak it in the remaining juice for more than 4 hours.Step 4
Cut off the hard top part of the leaves. Take a cut Ruo leaf and bend it into a funnel shape. Add a little glutinous rice first, then a piece or two of pork.Step 5
Then fill with glutinous rice.Step 6
Use the tiger's mouth of your left hand to pinch out a corner of the Ruo leaf, and bend the Ruo leaf to cover the "funnel" mouth.Step 7
Fold the excess Ruo leaves and wrap them into raw rice dumplings.Step 8
Tie tightly with horsetail.Step 9
Wrap all the rice dumplings in turn, put them in the pressure cooker, and add enough water to cover the rice dumplings.Step 10
Place a grate on the rice dumplings, and a large bowl filled with water on top of the grate. Add pot lid and high pressure valve. Bring to a boil over high heat, turn to low heat and simmer for 3 hours, then turn off the heat and simmer for 1 hour. Five spicesPork Zongzi Cooking Tips Glutinous rice is also soaked in juice, so that every grain of rice is full of flavor.
The zongzi must be tied firmly, otherwise the zongzi will loosen.