What kind of plant leaves are zongzi leaves? How much is the wholesale price per jin? What about the fresh rice dumplings?

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival. Eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom of the Chinese people. Zongye is one of the essential materials for the food "zongzi" eaten on the Dragon Boat Festival. What kind of plant are those zongye leaves? How much is the wholesale price per jin? What about the fresh rice dumplings?

Zongye generally has a large number of beneficial to the human body chlorophyll and a variety of amino acids and other ingredients, its special antiseptic effect is also one of the reasons why zongzi is easy to preserve, the smell is fragrant, such as the feeling of returning to nature. A wide variety of rice dumplings are generally made of Reed leaves, ruaria leaves, etc., which are essential materials for the production of zongzi, Ruo leaves in the south, Reed leaves in the north, and other zongzi leaves, such as cinnamon bamboo leaves, moon peach leaves, banana leaves, lotus leaves, zongba leaves and bamboo shoot shells.

Reed leaves (Reed, also known as Reed, perennial herb, born in shallow water. Hollow stem, can make paper, weave mat and so on. The rhizome can be used as medicine), generally growing in water

Gramineae grows in vast mountains with developed roots and strong vitality. it is not only a good vegetation for soil and water protection, but also an inexhaustible wealth and a "green bank" for the people in mountainous areas. Ruo leaf belongs to Liliaceae, spider egg-holding genus, its underground part has thick rhizome, petiole grows directly from underground stem, one stalk, one leaf, with straight slender petiole of a piece of green leaves rise from the ground, hence the name Yilan, because its fruit is very similar to spider eggs, also known as spider eggs, evergreen all the year round, beautiful leaves, robust growth, is an ideal indoor greening plant.

How much is the wholesale price of zongye per jin?

According to the statistics of zongye price network, the price of Jiangsu zongye on May 15, 2018 is as follows:

Tianhui supermarket-zongye price: 5.80 yuan / kg (flat)

How to deal with the leaves before wrapping zongzi?

1. Routine treatment of fresh zongye

The treatment process of zongye generally includes: washing, boiling, washing, soaking, cutting. Zongye after these processes, will become more resilient, so that when wrapping zongzi, zongye will not break. In addition, zongye is easier to infiltrate its own flavor into zongzi, so that it will have the fragrance of zongzi.

1. Wash:

Whether you buy it or the fresh leaves you just picked are dirty, you should rinse them one by one.

2. Cook:

Put the washed zongzi leaves in a cauldron to add water and boil them in a cauldron for a while, the color should become light yellow, so that the zongzi leaves become soft and more resilient. Steam time 10 minutes, at the same time add a few spoonfuls of salt, salt can play a role in sterilization and color fixation.

3. Wash:

Pour out the salt water from the boiled zongzi leaves and rinse with hot water. In order to be clean, it is recommended to wash it again. Of course, this step can be omitted if you find it troublesome.

4. Bubble:

Soak the rice dumplings in clean water for about 3 minutes. The leaves will be softer and make the water permeate easily, so that the rice dumplings will be cooked more easily.

5. Cut:

Unqualified zongzi leaves are detected and simply recuperated with scissors. Cut off the stalks and sharp parts of the leaves, so that the dumplings look good, and the leaves are not too thick and neatly wrapped.

Tips: step 5 can also be done at the same time as the first step of cleaning. It depends on your personal choice.

Second, the treatment of fresh zongye without boiling

1. Wash the fresh zongye, the surface is stained with water, do not wipe dry.

2. Find a bigger bag, put the leaves together and circle them in a circle. The leaves are tough. Don't use hard to break the tendons.

3. Tighten the bag, then put the bag with zongye into the refrigerator storeroom, pay attention to the frozen one.

4. Take out the bag overnight, take out the zongye, and put it in the basin to dissolve automatically.

5, hydration on the line, this method does not take time to cook rice dumplings, but also can make rice dumplings flexible, and the fragrance of rice dumplings is much better than cooked, boiled zongzi is more delicious.

How to choose zongye

Nowadays, food safety is very important. When buying rice dumplings, do not buy "returning to green zongye". "returning to green zongye" means that some illegal businesses take chemical dyeing means to make the zongye that has lost its primary color turn green, so that its surface is bright and bright green. Long-term use of these leaves to wrap zongzi is easy to be poisoned.

1. Look at the appearance, the color of "returning to green zongye" is green and looks very beautiful, while the normal zongye will turn dark and yellowish after high temperature cooking in the production process.

2. Smell the smell. The cooked dumplings made of "returning to Green leaves" have a slight sulphur smell instead of strong aroma.

3. Look at the water of boiled zongzi. The boiled water of "returning to green zongye" turns green, and the boiled water of normal zongzi leaves is light yellow.

How to preserve zongye

The remaining leaves of zongzi can be preserved and will be used in the coming year. The old man's experience is to freeze them in the refrigerator, take them out and boil them with hot water when needed, and taste as fragrant as they were when they were just bought. And the boiled leaves are not easy to crack when wrapping zongzi. The method of sun-drying and preservation can easily cause the loss of aroma and the decrease of toughness of zongye.