The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching the Yellow Lake, and the amber rice dumplings are fragrant
Yuhang Morning NewsXun Huanghu Town’s amber rice dumplings are a well-known local traditional Dragon Boat food, named following the crystal clear and amber-like color. Near the Dragon Boat Festival, the villagers gathered together and made amber rice dumplings. Taste delicious food, chat regarding family, and the glutinous fragrance of zongzi fills the mountains and villages.
Amber dumplings have a long history. In Qingbo Village, Huanghu Town, almost every family makes amber dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival. The ash made from straw is repeatedly filtered with boiling water for half an hour to extract the natural alkaline water to soak the glutinous rice, then arch the leaves of the mugwort into the small tip, and put in the appropriate amount of glutinous rice and sauce meat by hand, twist a bundle and a package, with a delicate shape The zongzi is completed in the wrapping action of flowing clouds and flowing water. After 7 hours of slow cooking, the crystal clear amber rice dumplings can be eaten.
The cooked rice dumplings are brownish-yellow and bright in color, just like crystal and full amber. “Zongzi soaked in straw ash soup has a long storage time and has a unique fragrance.” Villager Wang Yinfeng said.
Today, amber rice dumplings have become the signature delicacy of Qingbo Village, and many tourists come here. This year, the village has received orders for 200,000 amber rice dumplings.
“The production process of amber rice dumplings is relatively complicated, and each person can only pack up to 200 pieces a day. We check the raw materials and production steps at every level to ensure product quality, and then pursue production on this basis.” The local enterprise Hangzhou Wangyue Agricultural Products Professional Cooperative Xu Lingfen, the person in charge, said.
Source: Yuhang Morning News Author: reporter Yu Manqi Zhu Chenhao Huanghu Micro Finance Media Center Yao Lingling Editor: Zheng Haiyun
