What should I do if I find out that I added too much alkali after the rice dumplings are cooked?

Zongzi is a must-have for our traditional festival, the Dragon Boat Festival. There are many ways to make zongzi with different flavors, but many people don’t know that alkali is needed in making zongzi, especially alkaline water zongzi. Alkali is needed to help the zongzi ferment better. However, many people don’t know the amount of alkali to add. If you add too much, how to adjust it? Don’t worry, you can add some edible vinegar and then cook it for about 15 minutes, so that the alkali and acid will react.

Do you need to add alkali when making rice dumplings?

uncertain. It depends on what kind of rice dumplings you are making. If it is alkaline rice dumplings, of course you should add an appropriate amount of alkali, but if it is not alkaline rice dumplings, it is not necessary. Adding edible alkali to rice dumplings is a method of making alkaline water rice dumplings. Ordinary rice dumplings do not require the addition of edible alkali.

Why do we add alkali when making rice dumplings?

Adding edible alkali can increase the viscosity and make it taste sticky. The purpose of adding alkali is to shorten the steaming time of rice dumplings, making the glutinous rice softer and smoother and the color more golden. However, soaking the glutinous rice for a period of time first, and soaking it for a longer time can also achieve the above-mentioned effect. Therefore, if you are not making alkaline water dumplings but just want to shorten the time, there is no need to do this. Of course, since the ingredients of glutinous rice dumplings are sour, adding alkaline ingredients can keep the dumplings taste fresher.

What is alkaline rice dumpling

Alkali rice dumplings are a type of rice dumplings. It gets its name from the alkaline water in the food. Alkali rice dumplings contain potassium carbonate, which adds color and flavor to the dumplings. Soak the glutinous rice in alkaline water overnight until it turns slightly yellow. Drain the water and then wrap it in rice dumplings. After the rice dumplings are cooked, peel off the bamboo leaves and eat them, revealing a golden yellow color. When you unwrap the rice dumplings, you can smell their unique fragrance and they are easy to digest. It tastes better than ordinary sweet rice dumplings. Some people prefer to eat this flavor of rice dumplings. But not everyone can eat delicious rice dumplings, especially saltwater rice dumplings. The elderly and children should never eat too much of this kind of saltwater rice dumplings.

How much alkali should be put in alkaline water dumplings?

How much alkali should be added to one pound of glutinous rice when making rice dumplings? The ratio should be controlled at 600:38, that is, if you use 600 grams of glutinous rice, you should use 38 grams of alkaline water.

How to make alkaline rice dumplings

Ingredients: 750g glutinous rice, 1 spoon of edible alkali, 10g oil, 10g salt, appropriate amount of bamboo leaves

practice:

1. Soak the rice dumplings leaves in boiling water the day before and cut off the two ends for later use.

2. Wash the glutinous rice and add a spoonful of edible alkali.

3.Mix glutinous rice and alkali evenly.

4. Overlap two pieces of rice dumplings leaves and fold them into a triangle at the bottom.

5. Add half of the glutinous rice and poke it a few times with chopsticks to make the rice grains firm.

6.Fill the triangle with glutinous rice and press it down.

7. Cover the upper part with rice leaves.

8.Pinch the 2 sides.

9.Fold the remaining leaves to one side.

10.Wrap it several times with cotton yarn.

11. Tie it up.

12. Put the wrapped rice dumplings into the rice cooker.

13. Add enough cold water at one time to cover the rice dumplings and cook for 60 minutes.

14. After the cooked rice dumplings have cooled naturally, drain them.