Leaves Wrapped Ginger beef dumpling

Leaves Wrapped Ginger beef dumpling (15 copies)

A Materials:

(1) 750 g of glutinous rice, Sticky rice.
(2) 1 kg of lean beef
(3) 15 large and long bamboo leaves

(4) 15 strips of two feet and a half long rope for dumplings

B Ginger Beef Marinade:
(1) 1 tablespoon of ginger clay
(2) 3 tablespoons of soy sauce
(3) 1 tablespoon of Shaoxing rice wine
(4) 2 tsp of pure sesame oil
(5) half teaspoon of black pepper
(6)1 teaspoon of sugar or Mirin

How to do it?

1. wash Glutinous nice and clean and then soak it in a two-inch deep water overwhelmed for 3 hours.
2. wash beef and Wipe off water from surface, cut it into 15 long pieces and then put beef in a bowl mixed with B Ginger beef marinade.
3. Cover and mixed beef and marinate it overnight in refrigerator.
4. wash Bamboo leave nice and clean, if you use dry bamboo leaves then you must soak the dry leaves with hot water until it's soft before using.
5. cut off the leaf tip, the hard part of  leave pedicle.
6. wet dumplings strings with water.
7. let's get the rice ready, get rice off socking water, mix rice with marinated beef pieces well.
8. bind the leaves, Take a bamboo leaves and hold the bamboo leaves at the end, bend and converted into a third of the hollow triangular bucket.
9. start with the bottom of the triangular bucket, put  1 tablespoon of mixed rice in the bucket and lay a piece of pickled Good beef on the rice.
10. Cover the beef with rice continually until the top is covered, depending on the length of the pieces, folded over the leaves and make the bucket into the shape of an ax, and have the extra long leaves folded  back.
11. wrap dumplings with dumplings warping strings, fastened for two round warps with slipknot.
12. Make as many as you want with rest of leaves and materials.
13. Take an appropriate high-pot, fill with boil water and put wrapped ready dumpling into the boiling water, adding more water until the water over dumplings for about 2 inches, cover it with medium heat simmer for 1 hour.
14. After 1 hour, open cover, and have the warped dumplings rearranged shift up and down, place the bottom of the dumplings to the top and so on, turn the small fire continued to simmer for about 40-45 minutes.
15. After 40-45 minutes, turn off fire but do not open cover yet, let the dumplings stew in the boiling cauldrons  for about 20 minutes.
16. After that, you are ready to serve your family with dumplings, you can eat dumpling with the sauce for different taste.

Done! I wish I can film it so you can see the video for warping process!