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First release of sauce-flavored cured meat and dried vegetable rice dumplings

First release of sauce-flavored cured meat and dried vegetable rice dumplings

Robust zongzi filled with rehydrated dried mustard greens, diced cured pork belly, and broad bean paste for deeply savory, smoky, sauce-perfumed rice.

Instructions

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    Ingredients: 55g dried vegetables, 140g cooked cured meat, 15g bean paste, 5g sweet flour paste, appropriate amount of salt, a little sugar, a little minced ginger and garlic, a few Sichuan peppercorns, 300g glutinous rice, 14 bamboo leaves.

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    Soak the dried vegetables in water until they rehydrate.

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    Wash and chop.

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    Separate the bacon into skin, lean meat, and fat, and cut each into cubes, set aside.

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    Heat the wok, add the fatty part of the cured pork, and stir-fry to render the oil.

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    Move the sautéed fat to one side, add the minced ginger and garlic to stir-fry until fragrant. Then stir everything together.

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    Pour in the dried vegetables and stir-fry them together with the pork fat until fragrant.

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    Add Doubanjiang and sweet bean sauce, and stir-fry evenly.

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    Then add the lean meat and diced cured pork skin, and stir-fry evenly.

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    Finally, add salt, sugar, and seasonings.

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    Stir-fry evenly, then turn off the heat.

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    Remove from the pot and let cool for later use.

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    Soak the glutinous rice in clean water for several hours.

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    After rising, pour into a sieve and drain the water.

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    Pour the stir-fried cured meat into the glutinous rice.

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    Mix thoroughly until even.

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    Put the bamboo leaves into the pool, scrub them clean, and drain the water.

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    Take a leaf and roll it one and a half times, forming a long, thin cone.

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    Put in the filling and press it firmly.

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    Fold the leaf above downward to cover the filling.

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    Fold to one side again into a triangular pyramid shape.

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    Tie a cord from the top to the waist.

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    All wrapped up.

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    Trim off the grown leaf stalks.

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    Put it in the pot, add enough water to cover the zongzi, bring it to a boil over high heat, then turn to medium-low heat and cook for about 2 hours.

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    When the rice dumplings become soft and fully cooked, turn off the heat. Remove from the pot and drain the water.

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    Remove the bamboo leaves before eating.

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Ingredients

Main Ingredients

  • dried vegetables
    55 g
  • Cooked cured meat
    140 g
  • glutinous rice
    300 g
  • Bamboo leaves (used for wrapping zongzi)
    14 pieces

Seasonings

  • Doubanjiang
    15 g
  • Sweet bean sauce
    5 g
  • Salt
    to taste
  • Sugar
    a pinch
  • Sichuan pepper
    a few pieces

Auxiliary Ingredients

  • minced ginger and garlic
    a pinch