Rice Dumplings with Rhubarb and Red Dates

3 Jan 2025Rice Dumplings

Introduction

Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon, go to the market to buy food when I saw the sale of rice dumpling leaves and Malan grass, and will start wrapping rice dumplings. Most of the package dumplings use glutinous rice, this time I used rhubarb rice instead of glutinous rice. This time, I used rhubarb rice instead of glutinous rice. Rhubarb rice is slightly larger than small yellow rice, and its color is yellowish, and it is very glutinous like glutinous rice. The filling is made of red beans, green beans and red dates. The texture of the dumplings is very sticky after cooking, and the yellow rhubarb rice is embedded with green green beans, red beans and red dates, which is very tasty.

Ingredients

Yellow rice: 500g, red dates: 150g, red beans: 150g, green beans: 100g, rice dumpling leaves: 30, marjoram: appropriate amount of

Steps

Step 1, first of all, we have to prepare to make this [rhubarb rice and red dates dumplings] need to use all the ingredients: first of all, the rhubarb rice, red beans and mung beans washed, and then soaked in water for one night. The next day the soaked rhubarb rice, red beans and green beans and rinse again and then dry water, red dates washed spare. Then put the rhubarb rice, red beans and mung beans into the pot and mix well, red dates because the size is a little big, do not need to mix into the rice, and so on when the package rice dumplings can be added.

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Step 2: Put the leaves and grass in a pot and add water, boil over high heat, then soak through and wash well, so that the leaves will become very soft, and will be better to use when wrapping.

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Step 3: Trim the ends of the leaves with scissors before wrapping the rice dumplings, then pick up a leaf and fold it into a funnel shape from the center.

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Step 4: Put in 1 red date, then put in a spoonful of mixed stuffing, then put in 2 red dates, and finally fill with rice and press the stuffing inside.

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Step 5: Fold down the top rice dumpling leaves towards each side, wrap the bottom part of the funnel, and you have a triangular rice dumpling.

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Step 6, and then take a Malan grass bundle can be tied tightly, the packaged rice dumplings into the pot, add submerged rice dumplings of water, cover the lid with a strong fire to boil the water, and then switch to slow cooking for about 2 hours can be removed. When cooled, the dumplings are dipped in sugar and eaten, with a particularly soft and refreshing flavor.

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Tips

1, rhubarb rice, red beans and mung beans should be soaked in advance, so that when cooking rice dumplings will save fire, rice and beans in advance to absorb enough water after the taste will be more soft.

2, wrapped rice dumplings when the leaves should be tied firmly to avoid leakage of rice, but also can not be tied too tight, to give the rice grain to leave enough space for expansion.