Delicious and Soft Rice Balls with Full Ingredients – Surprisingly Simple and Easy to Learn
Everyone is staying home during this Spring Festival, and the most important thing is food. The little girls in our office have already cancelled their plane tickets, and they said they didn't buy new clothes for the New Year. They saved a lot on makeup because they wore masks. It's a way to save money. We're all staying home and focusing our energy on eating. We see a lot of people posting about complex foods they used to dislike but now have time to make, like liangpi (cold skin noodles), electric rice cooker yogurt cake, and homemade tea. I saw Hong Huang spend an afternoon baking an apple pie – it looked great, and she probably wouldn't have time to do this during normal times. But there's also a part of the population who this Spring Festival is incredibly busy and exhausting, almost without a day's rest, constantly working and studying, exceeding their physical and mental energy. This is a significant test of one's willpower and psychological endurance.
As a foodie who loves making food, I work during the day and just eat ready-made meals when I get home. I occasionally cook a few different dishes in the evening because the family is bored at home. Before the New Year, we bought ingredients, and the family was bored at home, so changing the dishes was necessary.
Today I made glutinous rice eight-treasure rice for my family. My husband knows I don't have time to make sweet bean paste, so he prepared the sweet bean paste in advance, and I took care of making the eight-treasure rice. It's not difficult to make, everyone can learn it. Many people like sweet rice with bean paste, and it's best to make the sweet bean paste yourself, but if you don't have time, you can buy it.
Many stores haven't opened yet, and there's no delivery of cakes, bread, liangpi, or noodles. Let's practice our hands, we don't have to worry about anything.
Today I saw a very inspirational photographer Chen Man's words: 'I never believe in laziness and freedom. I yearn for freedom that is achieved through diligence and effort, that is a broader life. That kind of freedom is precious and valuable. I believe in the 'one thousand hours law,' I never believe in getting lucky by waiting.' If you like it too, check out what the 'one thousand hours law' is. I hope it helps you too.
Glutinous Rice Eight-Treasure Rice
Main Ingredients: 200g glutinous rice, 130g homemade sweet bean paste
Accessories: 6 walnut kernels, 4 red dates, 10+ grains of coix seeds, 30g white sugar
Instructions: Step 1, make sweet bean paste at home, although it is not as fine as bought, but it's not so sweet, and there are no additives
Step 2, add water to the glutinous rice and soak it for 20 minutes will make the rice softer
Step 3, wash the soaked glutinous rice and put it in a rice cooker, add an amount of water similar to that used to cook rice, and press the rice cooker button to cook.
Step 4, after the glutinous rice is cooked, take it out
Step 5, add 30g of white sugar and add it to the cooked glutinous rice while it's still hot
Step 6, stir it quickly and let it cool slightly
Step 7, then divide the walnut kernels in half, cut the red dates into four pieces, and prepare them
Step 8, find a bowl with a certain depth, brush a thin layer of oil on the bottom and sides of the bowl to prevent sticking
Step 9, put the red dates, walnut kernels, and coix seeds in the bottom of the bowl, pay attention to putting the red color down
Step 10, put half of the mixed glutinous rice into the bowl and spread it evenly
Step 11, then put the sweet bean paste in the middle and spread it evenly
Step 12, cover the remaining half of the glutinous rice on top of the sweet bean paste and spread it evenly
Step 13, cover the bowl with plastic wrap, put it in the steamer for 20-30 minutes
Step 14, after steaming, take it out, remove the plastic wrap
Step 16, cover the bowl with a flat plate
Step 17, invert the bowl
Take it out, and you have a delicious and authentic glutinous rice eight-treasure rice!
