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Exclusive Zongzi

Exclusive Zongzi

A traditional savory pork zongzi: glutinous rice seasoned with a touch of alkali, soy and oyster sauce, wrapped around marinated pork belly and boiled until deeply fragrant and succulent.

Instructions

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    Wash the glutinous rice thoroughly and set it aside.

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    Clean the bamboo leaves thoroughly and soak them in sweat to disinfect.

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    Prepare the thick string for making zongzi later.

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    Cut the pork into pieces, marinate with cooking wine, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, soy sauce, salt, and thirteen-spice for half an hour, then set aside.

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    Add an appropriate amount of alkali, light soy sauce, and oyster sauce to the glutinous rice to adjust the color.

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    Then use two pieces of bamboo leaves to roll a small nest.

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    First, put the glutinous rice below.

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    Place the marinated minced meat in the middle.

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    Place another layer of glutinous rice on top.

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    Then pinch with two fingers of the right hand.

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    Use your left hand to fold down the leaf above to wrap it.

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    Once the glutinous rice is completely wrapped like this, it can be tied up with hemp rope.

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    Wrap each one like this and then tie it up.

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    All wrapped up.

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    Put it in a pressure cooker, fill with water, and bring to a boil over high heat.

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    After it comes to a boil, reduce to the lowest heat and cook for three hours. Be sure not to cook on high heat, as the glutinous rice will burst.

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    Take it out and drain the water.

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    Finished product picture with the bamboo leaves removed.

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    Fragrant and glutinous, very delicious.

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    Zongzi can be eaten on its own as a main meal, or it can be paired with breakfast.

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Ingredients

Main Ingredients

  • glutinous rice
    1500g
  • pork belly
    to taste
  • Bamboo leaves (used for wrapping zongzi)
    to taste
  • Rope
    to taste
  • alkali
    to taste
  • Thirteen Spices
    to taste

Seasonings

  • light soy sauce
    to taste
  • Oyster sauce
    to taste
  • table salt
    to taste
  • cooking wine
    to taste