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Chaoshan zongzi

I like to eat zongzi, and it's always almost meaningless to buy, so make it yourself

Chaoshan zongzi

Ingredients

Glutinousrice 1500 g
Shiitakemushroom 20 pieces
driedshrimp 100 g
Peanuts 200 g
Garlic 3 heads
Sausage 4
Saltedeggyolk 30
five-spicepowder 2 packs
chestnut 30 pieces
Porkbelly 2 catties
Soysauce Appropriateamount
Salt 4 spoons
Zongye 100 pieces
Redbeans 200 grams

Cooking Instructions

  1. Soak the glutinous rice overnight in advance so that it won't get pinched

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  2. Rinse and drain and set aside

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  3. Soak the red beans one night in advance and blanch them for later use

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  4. Soak the peanuts one night in advance and blanch them for later use

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  5. Stir the peanuts, red beans and glutinous rice well and add salt to taste

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  6. Soak mushrooms (shiitake mushrooms are also available)

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  7. Wash the duck eggs in the earthen kiln (vacuum-packed salted egg yolk does not have this kind of oil)

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  8. Remove the egg yolks

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  9. Cut the mushrooms into strips and stir-fry until fragrant, and add soy sauce

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  10. Peel the chestnuts and blanch them and set aside

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  11. Blanch the pork belly, remove the blood, cut into pieces, add a packet of five-spice powder, soy sauce and stir-fry until fragrant

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  12. Cut the sausage, open the garlic and don't crush it, and all the ingredients are ready and in place

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  13. Soak dried zongzi leaves in water five minutes in advance, wash them and cook them for five minutes to sterilize

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  14. Take out two dumpling leaves of basically the same size, cross and concave the funnel, and put in the glutinous rice

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  15. Then put the fillings in turn

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  16. It is also possible to use the four-corner brown bag method

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  17. Triangle dumplings are a common wrapping method in Chaoshan, and here I use the four-corner brown wrapping method.

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  18. Simmer in a pot under cold water over medium-low heat for 60 minutes

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  19. Open one to see

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  20. Glutinous

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