Why are the dumplings not sticky?

When making rice dumplings, most people like to use glutinous rice, while some people use rhubarb rice or glutinous rice. Rice dumplings are a must-eat food during the Dragon Boat Festival. But some people will find that the rice dumplings do not feel sticky at all after being wrapped and cooked. Non-sticky rice dumplings naturally have no taste, and no one likes to eat non-sticky rice dumplings. Let’s take a look at why the rice dumplings are not sticky.

1. Not good glutinous rice

2. Not enough heat

3. The pack is not tight and the soaking time is too long.

Both materials and packaging methods are very important!

Let’s take a look at the prepared ingredients: dried chestnuts, peeled.

Peel the mung beans and soak them the night before. After filtering out the water, mix with salt, peanut oil and a little baking soda.

Wash and soak the glutinous rice about an hour in advance. Then filter out the water, add salt, peanut oil and a little baking soda and mix well. You can taste it and make sure it is a little saltier than what you usually eat.

The meat should be pork belly, with a mixture of fat and lean meat. Marinate the night before. Add salt, sugar, five-spice powder and soy sauce.

Then there are the rice dumplings. The rice dumplings leaves should also be boiled the night before and then washed.

You didn't expect that the materials had to be prepared so carefully. Of course, making delicious rice dumplings is not that easy.

Start wrapping now, pay attention to the steps and techniques!

If the palm leaves are very small, stack two together to make them wide enough. First put a layer of glutinous rice, then a layer of mung beans, meat and chestnuts, and then cover with mung beans and glutinous rice.

Cover with glutinous rice. Preliminary completion of interior

1. Press from left to right and hold.

2. Press from right to left and then back.

3. Press down.

4. Also press from left to right.

Be sure to use some force with your hands when pressing, otherwise the rice dumplings will fall apart.

then

1. Press from left to right and then back.

2. Bend down.

3. Take a rope, wrap it around your hands a few times, and then pull it to the top.

4. First, tighten it a few times on the top, and do the same in the middle and the back.

Finally, tie a knot with the thread you just used!