So this fancy dish reminded me of a homemade, handed down recipe from my family. In the spirit of the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhong Zi, is made to celebrate this holiday. I altered this recipe a little to tie it a bit closer with the roots of RO2. This level 25 dish can be made using the wings of Izlude trancers and a few other... special mobs. ^^
Also as a level 50 chef, it is my duty to master this recipe because chef outfit is cute and like... yeah.. idk. <-- doesn't make sense.
This version is vegetarian friendly! ^^
So let's get started!
You will need the following:
1 or 2 bags - dried bamboo leaves (Trancer leaves~)
2 lbs. sticky rice
4-5 cups of shiitake mushrooms ("spore" meat! >
)
1/2 bag of dried shallots (our "grasshopper wings" lol)
soy sauce - to taste (salty sauce)
black pepper - to taste
1 tsp. sugar
vegetable oil
Prep. Time!
- Soak the bamboo leaves overnight in a big bowl or the sink. After that, rinse it off with some baking soda and water to clean off the dirt particles. Make sure to rinse thoroughly and pat/wipe them dry. Set that aside.
- Take a pot and soak your sticky rice in water for about 4 hours. Drain the rice.
- Next, soak the mushrooms until they're soft. Wash them and then cut some of the stubby edge part off. Lol. Then cut the mushroom into thin strips.
- Stir fry the rice, dried shallots, adding in the vegetable oil and soy sauce. Don't overdose on the soy sauce or else...it'll be way too salty. >__<
- In a separate pot, stir fry the mushrooms with the black pepper, vegetable oil, sugar, and 1 tsp. of soy sauce.
Wrap it up!
- Now take 2 leaves and overlap them leaving about 1in. gap on the edge.
- At the center of the leaves, fold one side over to line up with the other side of the leaves to form a pouch. I can't really explain this well enough lol, but there are images online if you look up "zhong zi wrapping."
- Now take a spoonful of rice as a bottom layer, make sure to lightly push down to create space/less air in the wrap. Then Add another spoonful of rice to cover the mushroom.
- Fold the leaves over the top of the rice mix to to form like a triangular shape. Tie it up with the string to secure the wrap.
- Steam the wraps for about 1 hour for the rice to cook.
Open it up and enjoy!
