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Meat Zongzi

Meat Zongzi

Five-spice marinated pork slices layered into soy-darkened alkaline rice for deeply savory zongzi, each leaf parcel boiled until the meat turns melting and aromatic.

Instructions

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    Cut the meat into thin slices and mix evenly with salt, oyster sauce, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sugar, and rice wine.

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    Cinnamon, star anise, and bay leaves are ground into powder, then mixed evenly with an appropriate amount of oil.

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    Marinate for 2 hours, and the meat will be ready.

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    Prepare the glutinous rice.

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    Wash it clean and drain the water.

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    Add half a spoon of light soy sauce, one spoon of dark soy sauce, an appropriate amount of salt, two spoons of cooking oil, and a tiny bit of baking soda, and mix well.

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    Take two pieces of bamboo leaves (clean the bamboo leaves in advance), overlap the ends, and fold them into a funnel.

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    Add rice.

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    Add meat.

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    Fill it with rice again.

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    Fold it.

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    Tie it tightly with the zongzi string.

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    Complete them all in order.

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    Trim off the excess edges and tidy it up.

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    Wrapped zongzi.

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    Put it into the pressure cooker, add enough water to cover the zongzi, bring it to a boil over high heat, then reduce to medium-low heat and cook for 3 to 4 hours.

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    Alright.

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    Finished product image.

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    Finished product image.

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    Full of meaty aroma.

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Ingredients

Main Ingredients

  • glutinous rice
    1500 g
  • pork belly
    800 g
  • Edible alkali
    a pinch
  • rice wine
    to taste

Seasonings

  • Star anise
    to taste
  • Bay leaf
    to taste
  • Cinnamon
    to taste
  • oil
    to taste
  • Salt
    to taste
  • Oyster sauce
    to taste
  • light soy sauce
    to taste
  • dark soy sauce
    to taste
  • Sugar
    a pinch