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Glutinous Rice Dumpling with Yellow Millet, Tricolor Quinoa, and Chicken

Glutinous Rice Dumpling with Yellow Millet, Tricolor Quinoa, and Chicken

A lighter zongzi of golden yellow millet and tricolor quinoa wrapped around soy-marinated chicken, boiled until the grains turn glossy and tender with a subtle alkaline chew.

Instructions

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    Prepare a piece of chicken breast and clean it thoroughly.

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    Cut into small pieces.

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    Add salt, chicken bouillon, oyster sauce, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, cooking wine, five-spice powder, and pepper, mix well, and marinate for 2 hours.

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    Prepare three-colored quinoa.

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    Soak in advance for 2 hours.

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    Prepare the millet and wash it clean.

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    Drain the water from the colored quinoa and Chinese sorghum.

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    Mix well.

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    Add salt and a pinch of baking soda, and stir evenly.

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    Getting ready to make zongzi.

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    Clean the bamboo leaves thoroughly and trim off the edges at both ends.

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    Take two zong leaves and overlap their ends.

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    Stack into a funnel shape.

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    Add rice to the bottom.

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    Add the marinated chicken.

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    Cover with rice again, press slightly, and flatten.

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    Cover it with the zong leaves from above, then fold it again.

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    Tie it tightly with a rope.

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    Trim off the extra edges.

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    Wrap them all one by one.

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    Put it into the electric pressure cooker and cook for 3 hours.

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    Alright.

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    Scoop out.

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    Finished product image.

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    Give it a try, eating zongzi with a different flavor isn't bad either.

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Ingredients

Main Ingredients

  • Proso millet
    750 g
  • Tricolor quinoa
    250 g
  • Chicken breast
    500 g
  • Bamboo leaves for wrapping zongzi
    to taste
  • red string
    to taste
  • Edible alkali
    to taste

Seasonings

  • cooking wine
    to taste
  • Salt
    to taste
  • chicken essence
    to taste
  • Oyster sauce
    to taste
  • light soy sauce
    to taste
  • dark soy sauce
    to taste
  • Five-spice powder
    to taste
  • Black pepper
    to taste