Zongzi, which will be sold in large quantities around the Dragon Boat Festival, will be very easy to buy around this time, although it will be somewhat difficult to buy zongzi at other times.This time if you know how to make zongzi and have learned some zongzi practices, it will come in handy to make zongzi raw materials to buy and make some on your own.

How to make bamboo dumplings

1. take a larger rice dumpling leaf, fold it in half, fold the lower edge of the double layer upwards and compact it with your hands.
2. open the rice dumpling leaf and fill it with glutinous rice, trying to fill it into a long strip shape.
3. fold over the part of the dumpling leaf without the rice, and forthwith pinch down the sides of the leaf with your hands, after which the tip of the leaf is folded to one side.
4. Just tie the dumplings firmly with a string.

Meat dumpling practice

Ingredients Prepare glutinous rice.Dried red dates.Peanuts.Honey dates.Red beans.Dried cranberries.Raisins.Sesame oil.Dumpling leaves.Lotus grass.Bamboo tubes.Cotton thread.
Clean the bamboo tube, dry it and set aside, soak the dried rice dumpling leaves and lotus grass in water overnight, soak the glutinous rice.Red beans.Wash the peanuts and dried red dates and soak them in water for a day and a night, the dates.Dried cranberries and raisins cleaned and set aside.
2. appropriate amount of soaked glutinous rice and red beans .Mix peanuts with red beans to make red bean peanut dumplings, mix glutinous rice with red dates to make small date dumplings, mix glutinous rice with dates to make honey date dumplings, mix glutinous rice with dried cranberries.Mix with raisins to make assorted dumplings.
Brush a layer of sesame oil inside the bamboo tube, use lotus grass to tie the outside of the bamboo tube, fill the four kinds of rice dumpling ingredients into the bamboo tube, seal it with rice dumpling leaves and tie it with cotton thread.
4. Fire for one hour in the pressure cooker, turn off the heat and simmer for one morning.
Tip: Brush sesame oil inside the bamboo tube, so that after opening the bamboo tube, the dumplings do not stick to the bamboo tube and are more complete when removed.