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Seafood Pillow Zongzi

Seafood Pillow Zongzi

Luxurious pillow-shaped zongzi hiding scored abalone, shrimp, salted egg yolk, and spiced pork belly amid seasoned rice for an indulgent, umami-packed festival treat.

Instructions

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    Prepare abalone, shrimp (peeled in advance), salted egg yolks, and pork belly.

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    Clean the abalone.

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    Score the meat.

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    Marinate the abalone and shrimp with cooking wine and ginger slices.

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    Cut the pork into large pieces.

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    Add salt, oyster sauce, sugar, light soy sauce, and dark soy sauce, and mix well.

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    Grind cinnamon, star anise, bay leaves, and fennel into powder, and add them to the mixed meat.

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    Add an appropriate amount of oil and rice wine, and mix well.

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    Marinate for 2 hours and set aside.

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    Put the pot on the stove and boil water.

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    Blanch abalone and shrimp, quickly remove them and rinse with cold water, cleaning off the foam thoroughly.

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    Add a little light soy sauce to marinate the base flavor.

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    Rinse the glutinous rice clean and drain the water.

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    Add half a little soy sauce, one tablespoon of dark soy sauce, and one tablespoon of oil, and mix well.

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    Glutinous rice will do.

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    Prepare bamboo leaves and red strings.

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    Take two pieces and overlap the ends.

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    Fold out a funnel.

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    Place the glutinous rice flat.

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    Add salted egg yolk and pork belly.

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    Add abalone and shrimp.

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    Cover it with glutinous rice again.

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    Fold.

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    One end of the red string is placed on the bamboo leaf.

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    Wrap a good rope around the other end a few times, tie it tightly, and complete all of them in sequence.

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    Put it into the pressure cooker, add water until it covers the zongzi, bring it to a boil over high heat, then turn to medium-low heat and cook under pressure for 3 hours.

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    Alright.

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    Finished product photo, the flavor is super rich, you can see how delicious it is 😁

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Ingredients

Main Ingredients

  • glutinous rice
    1000 g
  • pork belly
    400 g
  • Salted egg yolk
    12 piece
  • Shrimp
    to taste
  • Abalone
    12 piece
  • Bamboo leaves (used for wrapping zongzi)
    to taste
  • red string
    to taste
  • Fennel
    to taste
  • rice wine
    to taste

Seasonings

  • Star anise
    to taste
  • Bay leaf
    to taste
  • Cinnamon
    to taste
  • cooking wine
    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

Auxiliary Ingredients

  • Ginger
    to taste