Rice dumpling making

 
 

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Time: June, 8th, 2007, p.m 2

Location: Wu Chang Elementary school, home economic classroom.

 There are quite some techniques involved in making a rice dumpling. You have to fry and stir to make some tasty fillings. And you have to wrap it tight, the rice would fall out if you tied it loosely.

 Procedure:

1.     Prepare all the ingredients. (as shown on the following photos)

A.Pre-fried glutinous rice.

B.Three layered pork. (some fat would make it greasy and tasty)

C.Shitake mushroom (dried mushroom) and salted egg yolk.

D.  Pre-washed bamboo leaves.

 2.Steps

A. Fold the bamboo leaves downward.

B.Reverse and cross the leaves, turn upward and make it into the shape of a funnel.

C.Fill in the glutinous rice, about half of the funnel.

D.Add three layered pork.

E.Add shitake mushroom and salted egg yolk

F.Fill up the other half part with glutinous rice

G.Fold the extra bamboo leaves back and tuck them in

H.ress the whole rice dumpling hard and tight.

I.Tie it up with strings and make it tight.

J.Make sure it’s securely tied.

 

3.Place the wrapped rice dumplings in rice cooker, steam them for 10-20 minutes, you can enjoy the delicious and chewy rice dumpling.

 See how we enjoy this.