Red Date and Red Bean Glutinous Rice Dumpling

Name: Red Date and Red Bean Glutinous Rice Dumpling
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Snacks
Ingredients: 500 g glutinous rice; 120 g Red bean; to taste red date; to taste Dried bamboo leaves for zongzi; to taste Cotton thread

A homely sweet zongzi alternating plump red dates, red beans and glutinous rice in bamboo leaves, boiled until the rice turns sticky, fragrant and naturally date-sweet.

0 minNewEasy Snacks Boil Sweet & Fragrant

Instructions

1
Glutinous rice and red beans are ready.
2
Soak in clean water for 6 hours, and wash the red dates thoroughly for later use.
3
Place the dry bamboo leaves into boiling water and cook for a few minutes, then turn off the heat and soak until they become soft.
4
Take a bamboo leaf and fold it into a cup shape at one-third of its length.
5
Add the soaked red dates, red beans, and glutinous rice.
6
Add red dates according to your own taste, alternating as you go.
7
Fold down the remaining bamboo leaves to cover the exposed surface, and pinch the middle part.
8
Fold the zongzi leaf at the pinched spot to both sides, and naturally fold out a corner.
9
Tie it in the middle with a cotton string, and a zongzi is completed.
10
Wrap them one by one.
11
Place in a pressure cooker, add water and cook until done, simmering for 1-2 hours makes it even more delicious.
12
Taste.