How to make Taiwanese Zong Zi for Dragon Boat Festival 粽子 @ 愛薇塔樂學英文

How to make Taiwanese Zong Zi for Dragon Boat Festival 粽子

by JJ.LYMM on Jun 3, 2011 • 3:46 pm1 Comment

How to make Taiwanese Zong Zi 粽子- bamboo leaves filled with sticky rice, meat and vegetables then steamed/boiled. This is a traditional food especially around 6th June – Dragon Boat Festival. They are also popular at other times, these little green triangles of food are quite filling for their size, so one or two is enough for most people with some other dishes on the side. When it’s cooked, don’t worry, you unwrap the Zong Zi 粽子 and just eat the contents of the folded leaf, not the leaf!

Zong Zi 粽子, after cooking

The ingredients 食材, to make 40 Zong Zi 粽子;

5 Chinese bowls of uncooked ‘Sticky Rice’
5 bowls of water
one Chinese bowl of dried onions
one Chinese bowl of dried shrimps
one Chinese bowl of dried mushrooms
one Chinese bowl of dried octopus
one Chinese bowl of beef
one Chinese bowl of pork
half a bowl of chopped bamboo
80 bamboo leaves
20 grass strings (will be folded in 2 to make 40 strands)

Zong Zi 粽子, out of the pan

The method 作法;

1. soak the rice in the water for about half a day
2. marinate the pork and beef in soy sauce for a couple of hours
3. soak the mushrooms, octopus and shrimp in water for a couple of hours
4. fry the ingredients together starting with the uncooked meats, adding everything else part by part except for the dried onions
5. take about 80% of the food out of the frying pan and set aside
6. to the remaining 20% add in the wet rice, octopus water, mushroom water and boil it up to get rid of any excess water, add the dried onions last and mix it all together.
7. fold 2 bamboo leaves into a pouch and add some rice, then some of the meaty ingredients, then level over with more rice
8. fold the leaf closed and hang it using the grass string. Repeat this 40 times!
9. add the uncooked Zong Zi top a pan of boiling water (just and so covering them), simmer for about 30 minutes
10. the Zong Zi are now ready to eat
11. they can be refrigerated or frozen for warming up later, they are good warmed up in a microwave, no problem!

As usual Joanne has recorded a cooking video so you can follow the exact recipe and method step by step, as she prepares, cooks and presents the Zong Zi 粽子. It might be a good idea to watch her fold the little triangular parcels, then you can see an expert do it!

如何讓台灣總字端午節粽子

如何讓台灣總字粽子-竹葉裝滿糯米，肉和蔬菜，然後蒸/煮。這是一個傳統的食品特別是在6月6日- 端午節。他們也很受歡迎，在其他時間，這些綠色的小三角形的食物都相當填補他們的大小，所以一個或兩個是足以讓大多數人就在身邊的一些其他的菜。當它熟了，不用擔心，你解開了總字粽子，只是吃折疊葉的內容，而不是葉子！