In daily life, there are actually many leaves that can be used to make zongzi. For example, lotus leaf, then how to wrap jiaozi with lotus leaf? Let's see how to wrap zongzi with lotus leaves in Bian Xiao. I hope it is useful to everyone!
Can lotus leaves wrap zongzi?
Lotus leaves can wrap zongzi. Lotus leaf is very common as a material for wrapping food, but it seems that lotus leaf zongzi has never been seen before, only written records. Is the lotus leaf 6? Harvest in September, remove the petiole, dry it to 70% to 80%, fold it into a quadrangle, and dry it. Fresh leaves or tender leaves (lotus money) are also used in summer.
The leaves are like this:
Zongzi usually looks like this:
How to wrap zongzi with lotus leaves?
Main ingredients:
Glutinous rice 1000g, pork leg 600g.
Seasoning: 50 grams of soy sauce, 27 grams of sugar, 25 grams of salt, 5 grams of white wine, monosodium glutamate 1 gram.
The characteristics of zongzi are: beautiful and unique appearance, fragrant and delicious, crisp and tender meat, fat but not greasy.
1, choose 7? Lotus leaves with a width of 10 cm are boiled in a boiling water pot for 3? 5 minutes, soften, scoop up, wash with clear water and drain.
2. Put the glutinous rice into a basket, rinse it with clear water, let it stand for about 15 minutes, drain the water, pour the rice into a wooden basin, add 20g of sugar,15g of salt and 50g of soy sauce and mix well.
3. Peel the pork leg, cut it into rectangular small pieces (each piece weighs about 20g) according to the transverse fibers, put it in a big pot, add 7 grams of sugar, salt 10g, monosodium glutamate and white wine, rub it repeatedly, and use ingredients to penetrate into the meat until it bubbles.
4. Take two lotus leaves in your left hand, with the hairy side facing down and the overlapping width of 65,438+0/5, and another lotus leaf with 65,438+0 in your right hand, with the smooth side facing up. About 65,438+0/3 of the lotus leaves are overlapped at the tail of the left-hand lotus leaf, folded at 2/5 of the total length, and the two sides overlap about 3 cm, forming a funnel shape.
5. Hold the lotus leaf in your left hand and 40 grams of glutinous rice in your right hand. Put 3 small pieces of meat (two thin and one fat) horizontally on the rice in the order of thin, fat and thin, then cover 60 grams of glutinous rice, spread it, turn it into leaves, cover the rice, wrap it into a rectangular pillow shape with short corners, and wrap it with a rope to make it 80% tight. Wrap them one by one according to this method.
6. Boil the water in the pot, and then put the wrapped zongzi in the pot. The water level is about 3? 5 cm, put bamboo frame and stones on zongzi for compaction, cook for 2 hours on high fire, and then cook with low fire 1 hour.
Efficacy and function of lotus leaf
Lotus leaves have a fragrance and are very fragile. Lotus leaves not only grow on lotus flowers for people to watch, but also have medicinal value. Lotus leaf contains alkaloids such as nuciferine, vitamin C and liensinine. Let's take a look at the efficacy and function of lotus leaves.
Lotus leaf contains many alkaloids such as brucine, imperatorin, nuciferine and vitamin C, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Dietotherapy effect of lotus leaf;
Lotus leaf tastes bitter, bitter and cool, and enters the heart, liver and spleen meridians;
The fragrance rises and falls; Has the effects of dispelling summer heat, promoting diuresis, invigorating spleen, strengthening yang, removing blood stasis, and stopping bleeding.
Indications are summer heat, polydipsia, headache, dizziness, edema, anorexia, abdominal distension, diarrhea, leucorrhea, proctoptosis, hematemesis, epistaxis, hemoptysis, hematochezia, metrorrhagia, postpartum lochia and blood stasis. China has regarded lotus leaf as a slimming medicine since ancient times. Because the root, (lotus root) and leaves of lotus have the functions of simple diuresis and laxative.
The medicinal properties of lotus leaf are the leaves of perennial aquatic herb lotus. Its chemical components mainly include nuciferine, citric acid, malic acid, gluconic acid, oxalic acid, succinic acid and other anti-mitotic alkaline components. Pharmacological research shows that lotus leaf has antipyretic, antibacterial and spasmolytic effects. The processed lotus leaf tastes bitter, slightly salty and pungent, and has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting diuresis and activating yang, removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, and has certain curative effects on various diseases.