Midday!

The two families gathered at Zhang Feng's house to make zongzi together to prepare for tomorrow's Dragon Boat Festival.

"Xiaofeng, you come to live, I'll fry glutinous rice!" The old man was ready to do it himself.

"Okay!" Zhang Feng nodded with a smile, he was not very familiar with making zongzi, he had only seen his mother do it before, but he had not done it himself.

There is a big difference between the rice dumplings in Aoyama and the rice dumplings outside.

Aoyama's rice dumplings are called gray rice dumplings, and they need to be made from plant ashes together, and the rice dumplings made in this way seem to have a unique fragrance that only those who have eaten it know how delicious they are.

The practice of Qingshan gray dumplings is also more exquisite.

The first is to wash the Hiiragi leaves

Zhang Feng's zongzi leaves are selected from the local Hiiragi (zhong sound) leaves, which were just harvested from Uncle Erniu's field a few days ago, and they are still relatively fresh.

Yes, there are also two kinds of rice dumpling leaves: fresh and dried, like the recent period when Hiiragi leaves are flourishing, and they are all fresh Hiiragi leaves. In autumn and winter, fresh Hiiragi leaves need to be dried.

When the weather is good, the local people in Qingshan will pick more leaves for at home, and the dried Hiiragi leaves will not only not affect the taste and fragrance of the zongzi, but will save time and effort when wrapping the zongzi.

After that, it's time to make grass ash

Wash the leaves and dry them, and start preparing to burn the ashes, the ash used to make zongzi is also the local glutinous grain grass, and the ash burning seems to be a simple technical work, but in fact, it also contains the Tao, and the mastery of the fire is very important.

The old man told Zhang Feng that when burning grass and wood ashes, he should pay attention to the ashes, the ashes will turn into white ash if they are burned for too long, and they cannot be used, and the zongzi cannot be dyed. The burning time is short, and it can't be used if it can't be burned thoroughly.

Zhang Feng understood at once, because he had seen others do it before, so he understood the truth as soon as he heard it, many things are like this, only by doing it himself, can he understand the trick, otherwise it is like listening to the book of heaven, it seems to understand whether he understands or not, it seems to understand, but when he does it himself, he has no way to start.

After the ash is burned, all the ash must be rubbed finely, and at the same time, some glutinous grain stalks that have not been burned through must be sieved out and thrown away.

The reason why Qingshan's zongzi are delicious is that the glutinous grass ash used by everyone has always been burned by their own hands in an iron pot.

We met a lot of friends who asked: Can ash be eaten? I will definitely tell you responsibly, it can be eaten! Not only can it be eaten, but it also helps glutinous food digestion! Pregnant women, the elderly and children can eat it!

Then there is fried rice

Heat with good lard, put in the seasoning that has been prepared with grass fruit powder and salt, fry until fragrant, put in glutinous grain ash and keep stirring, and then pour in glutinous rice and fry it all the time, but you can't let the glutinous rice be fried, you need to make every glutinous rice coated with lard.

Wrap rice dumplings

The leaves of the rice dumplings must be stretched and undamaged completely, so that the wrapped rice dumplings will not leak air and water during the cooking process and affect the taste.

First scoop a spoonful of fried gray glutinous rice, put two large lumps of pork ribs, or fresh meat, and then scoop a spoonful of gray glutinous rice to wrap the pork ribs or fresh meat, and then put chestnuts.

When wrapping zongzi, there are egg yolk filling, pork ribs and chestnut filling, and fresh meat chestnut filling. The chestnuts are made from local small chestnuts, which are boiled for half a lifetime and then peeled and refrigerated, and the small chestnuts have a better and richer flavor.

"Xiaofeng, okay, don't burn the fire, you quickly help me cut the pork belly. The old man stir-fried the glutinous rice while instructing Zhang Feng.

"Okay, I know the old man!" Zhang Feng immediately stood up, washed his hands, took out the fresh meat from the refrigerator, and began to cut it.

The meat of the dumplings is also a little particular, the size should be appropriate, it is best to have as many fingers, and it is best to be longer, so as to penetrate the inside of the zongzi and make the taste of the zongzi better.

"Well, it's so fragrant!, is Grandpa ready?" At this moment, Yiyi walked in and asked Grandpa with a smile.

"Hehe, it's going to be good right away! You and Grandma have peeled all the chestnuts?" the old man smiled and asked his precious granddaughter.

"We've already peeled it, we're waiting for you!" Yiyi nodded with a smile, walked into the kitchen, and glanced around to see how Grandpa and Zhang Feng were doing.

Zhang Feng's speed was fast, the knife was like a shadow, and he quickly cut a piece of pork belly of more than two catties into strips.

Just when Zhang Feng finished finishing work, the old man finally put out the fragrant glutinous rice, put it in a clean basin, and brought it to the outside of the courtyard.

Everyone carried their things and came to the shore of the lake at the gate, where they were blowing a cool breeze, making zongzi happily together, and enjoying the joy of the festival together.

"Hehe, I haven't wrapped zongzi yet!" Zhang Feng said with some apprehension.

"It's okay, it's very simple to make zongzi, you look at us wrapping, it will definitely be in a while!" the old man said with a smile.

At this moment, the eldest sister and Li Jun also came over with stools.

"Brother Jun is coming together!" finally came someone who didn't know how to do the same as himself, Zhang Feng smiled and invited.

"Don't, I'm clumsy, I can't learn it all the time! you guys, I'll just watch from the side!" Li Jun smiled bitterly and waved his hand again and again.

"Hehe, in fact, I won't, I'm learning from Yiyi!" Zhang Feng smiled embarrassedly.

"Yo, Xiaofeng, you are so lively here, everyone is making zongzi??" At this moment, the second uncle and aunt came over, saw everyone making zongzi on the side of the road, and said with a smile.

"Yes, the second uncle and aunt come and sit!" Zhang Feng and the eldest sister hurriedly gave up their stools, stood up and said.

"Okay, I'll pack a few too!" The second aunt smiled and came over to help, as for the second uncle, he definitely wouldn't, so he sat on the side and chatted with the old man.

Zhang Feng smiled, hurriedly entered the house, and moved two more stools out.

This time the army of zongzi is even more lively, in addition to Yiyi and grandparents, there are also mothers, eldest sisters and second aunts, and finally Zhang Feng is such a substitute, who is sitting next to Yiyi and starting to study.

"Hee-hee, madman, I didn't expect you to even know how to make zongzi!!" Yiyi looked at Zhang Feng and said with a smile, as if she was very happy and proud to see that Zhang Feng would not.

"I'm not an all-round master, I can do anything!!" Zhang Feng shook his head with a wry smile.

"It's easy to make zongzi, in the past, every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, I made zongzi with my grandparents. Yiyi raised her head and was quite proud of this, and said while skillfully wrapping the zongzi.

In fact, Zhang Feng has seen it many times, and he knows all the steps of making zongzi very well, but he has not done it himself.

Therefore, Zhang Feng saw that everyone had wrapped it twice, and then took two dumpling leaves and began to wrap them slowly step by step.