Ever since making this eight-treasure rice, it hasn't been monotonous even after eating for 4 days, the children constantly ask for it, and a bag of rice is finished quickly.
Since making this eight-treasure rice, it hasn't been monotonous even after eating for 4 days, the children keep asking for it, and a bag of rice is finished quickly. Before the Chinese New Year, I bought 3 bags of rice, and my mom said at that time, 'Why buy so much rice? It takes up so much space, and it's better to buy more after it's finished.' I didn't expect that after I learned to make eight-treasure rice, a bag of rice was finished in a few days, and then after the Spring Festival, it was difficult to go out to buy rice because of the special period. At that time, we were very glad that we had bought a lot of rice. Eight-treasure rice is very suitable for children because it contains red dates, raisins, and other sweet ingredients. The children cry and ask for it if they don't eat it for a day. It's a great food for both adults and children. Everyone is learning it!
Eight-Treasure Rice
By Tian Shan Ke Ke
Ingredients:
Glutinous rice 600g, various dried fruits as needed, white sugar as needed
Cooking steps:
1. Glutinous rice, red dates, goji berries, raisins, white sugar, red beans, peanuts, cantaloupe slices
2. Wash the glutinous rice and soak it for 12 hours
3. Wash the red dates, red beans and peanuts and soak them for more than 2 hours
4. Wash the goji berries, raisins and cantaloupe slices and soak them until soft
5. Then wrap these ingredients in muslin and tie them tightly
6. Put it on a high-pressure cooker and steam it for 10 minutes.
7. Add water to the steamer and cover it with muslin
8. Add the soaked glutinous rice and steam it over high heat
9. Take out the steamed glutinous rice and mix it with white sugar while it's still hot
10. In a small bowl, line it with a layer of food-grade film, and pack half of the mixed rice into the small bowl
11. Place the steamed red date, red bean, and other ingredients at the bottom of the bowl, then pack the glutinous rice on top and press it firmly
12. Place it in a dish, and it becomes a beautiful eight-treasure rice.
Cooking tips:
1. A traditional famous snack from Ningbo, a food for the Laba Festival. It is made with glutinous rice, red bean paste, date puree, candied fruit, lotus seed, rice kernel, lychee, white sugar, and lard. Glutinous rice nourishes the body and strengthens the spleen and lungs; red beans are known as 'kidney beans' for their kidney-tonifying properties; date puree has the function of harmonizing hundreds of medicines and is very beneficial for people's health and longevity; lotus seed has a heart-nourishing effect, rice kernel has the function of strengthening the spleen and replenishing the lungs, and lychee is a well-known food with the effect of nourishing the middle and strengthening the qi. 2. Eight-treasure rice is a traditional famous snack, belonging to the Beijing cuisine. It is a festive food custom for the Laba Festival. It tastes sweet and mellow, and it is a good food for festivals and entertaining guests. After steaming the glutinous rice, mix it with white sugar, lard, and hot water. When placing the candied dates, lychees, etc. in a bowl, arrange them in a pattern, with red bean paste and lychee in the middle, and then cover with glutinous rice, flatten it, and steam it in a basket for one hour. The recipes in different regions are basically the same, basically glutinous rice, sugar, oil, lychee flower, red dates, mung beans, lotus seed, lychee, etc.
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