来临的端午节, homemade with love!
Homemade zongzi (rice dumplings) wrapped in bamboo leaves for the Dragon Boat Festival, made with love.
The Dragon Boat Festival (端午节) is coming, and nothing beats homemade zongzi, made with love. 💚😋
What we had:
- A whole bag of homemade zongzi (rice dumplings), wrapped in bamboo leaves
Every year around 端午节, the best part is the homemade zongzi, and this bag was packed full of them, pyramid-shaped bundles wrapped in bamboo leaves and tied up with string, ready to be steamed. There is something so comforting about a whole batch made at home rather than bought.
Unwrap one while it is still warm and the bamboo leaf releases that lovely fragrance into the glutinous rice, which has steamed for hours until soft and sticky and soaked through with savoury flavour. Each one is parcelled with its filling tucked inside, the rice carrying all the seasoning from the long cook.
Homemade ones always taste better, partly because of the recipe and partly because of the effort, the soaking and wrapping and hours of steaming that go into them. It is the kind of festival food that means more because someone made it by hand. A proper taste of the season.
Overall: 4.9 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Fragrant, bamboo-wrapped homemade zongzi, the best kind, made with love for Duan Wu Jie. Always a treat.
