Zongzi for Chinese Dragon Boat Festival
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Zongzi, also known as sticky rice dumplings to westerners, is a traditional food for the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival.
It is mainly made of sticky rice with other fillings, wrapped in bamboo leaves and cooked for a few hours by steaming or boiling.
It is said that Zongzi, with a history of more than 2,000 years, was invented in the Spring and Autumn Period, which was used to worship the ancestors and divinities.
However, what made the food popular till present days was the Zongzi story attached to the Dragon Boat Festival in the Warring States Period to commemorate the patriotic poet, Qu Yuan.
Zongzi is a popular food nationwide in China, but the flavors, shapes, fillings and cooking methods vary a lot in different regions.
In general, northern ones have a sweet flavor with vegetables, dried fruits and nuts as fillings, while southern ones are likely fat and salted with different kinds of meat as fillings.
Here are the steps to make a Zongzi.
1.Prepare the ingredients: sticky rice, bamboo leaves, and some filings like red dates, meat and beans.
2.Wash the rice, and then soak the rice in water for 2 hours.
3.Wash the leaves, and soak them in boiling water for 5 mins, and then cool it in water.
4.Fold one or two leaves into a cone-shaped fossa, fill rice and other ingredients in it with a spoon, and then wrap and tie it with strings.
5. Put the Zongzi in the boiling pot and keep them fully submerged in water. After 2-3 hours' boiling, put them in water to cool for eating.