Tools/materials: round glutinous rice, purple glutinous rice, candied dates, red dates, bamboo tubes, washers, corks, spoons and chopsticks.
1. First, we need to wash purple glutinous rice and round glutinous rice separately and soak them in cold water for 12 hours until they can be crushed by hand. Purple glutinous rice also needs to be soaked to this extent.
2, processing red dates and candied dates, red dates and candied dates are cut into small squares together. Add more red dates if you like them, and less if you don't like them. You can also add some soaked red beans or something. This can be filled in according to personal preference.
3. Control the soaked glutinous rice to remove water and mix it with red dates and candied dates. Glutinous rice and candied dates need to be mixed with purple glutinous rice, because the viscosity of purple glutinous rice is not as good as that of white glutinous rice, and bamboo tube zongzi made by mixing some white glutinous rice will be softer and will not spread.
4. The bamboo tube needs to be boiled with light salt water in advance, so that the bamboo tube is clean and not easy to crack and can be reused. Wash it after use, dry it thoroughly and put it in a clean bag, so that the bamboo tube will not be moldy and cracked. Just soak it in hot water next time.
First of all, we put a gasket on the bottom of the bamboo tube, put in the mixed glutinous rice, press it with chopsticks and other tools while putting the glutinous rice, and compact the glutinous rice in the bamboo tube so that the boiled zongzi will not be loose.
6. Just fill it to eight points. Don't fill the rice too full. When cooking, the rice will swell, and it is easy to push out the plug. At that time, it was not a bamboo tube zongzi, but a pot of glutinous rice porridge.
7. Plug the cork tightly. Press it as tightly as possible to prevent the glutinous rice from expanding and popping out of the cork when cooking. After all the bamboo tubes are installed, you can start cooking.
8. Put the prepared bamboo tube jiaozi into a boiling pot, and add water to the bamboo tube jiaozi. Be sure not to eat zongzi, or it will be difficult to cook zongzi that leaks out of the water. It takes about two and a half hours to cook after the fire is boiled, and it can be eaten when it is cold.