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Hong Kong yearly there is Dragon Boat race day what is the traditional dish cooked in leaves? Reciepe?

Ba Chang!
A rice dumpling with many different fillings, and steamed in bamboo leaves.
I’m going to tell you how I get it done; I do not have exact proportions, I just go by gut. But I hope this gives you an idea how to do your own version.

3 Parts to it: Leaves, Rice, Filling.
For the filling, it’s better to marinate your stuff for a while, even 1 day for the meat, so do plan in advance.
And if you get dry ingredients, you will have to soak them too.

Leaves:
Boil the Bamboo leaves until soft, you’ll need 3 per dumpling. pat them dry before use.

Rice:
You need Glutinous Rice for this.
You can simply boil it with some water and some oil and salt, until soft and sticky.
For more flavour you can add some chicken stock, pepper.
Most of the flavour will come from the filling.

Filling:
Let’s go with a Pork Belly, Mushroom and Chestnut Filling:
Simple:
Get pork belly, cut into chunks, marinate for a while in a mixture of soy sauce, sesame oil and salt.
Get some mushrooms and remove the stalks. Cut into chunks.
If you can get your hands on some dried water chestnut, soak them in some warm water until they swell, that would take 1 hour or so,
Mix the filling with some egg to bind it together.

Preparing the Dumpling:
Lay the 3 leaves side by side with generous overlap.
Put a splotch of glutinous rice at one end,
put the filling on top,
then another splotch of rice.
Press the rice such that the filling is all covered.

Lift the end of the bamboo leaves such that you have made a triangle that you can then flip and flip until you have a little triangle pyramid. That takes quite a bit of practice.

Tie it up.

If it doesn’t work, you can always make it into a cuboid, then lotus leaves could be better, and they also give a nice fragrance too, although you’d be departing from the traditional form.

Steam for a few hours.
Steam is better than dumping them into water because unless your wrapping is water tight, little disasters can heppen.

Et Voila.

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