Eight Treasure Rice

Name: Eight Treasure Rice
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 600g Glutinous rice; Some Various dried fruits; Some Sugar

by Tianshan Cocoa

4.9 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

2h

Serving

4

There is an eight-treasure meal on the New Year’s Eve dinner table every year, which symbolizes family reunion. Every few days before the New Year, my daughter will ask if there is an eight-treasure rice for the New Year’s Eve dinner. This is the meal she cares about the most, because she likes to eat the eight-treasure rice I made. I added ingredients such as raisins and red dates. The eight-treasure rice made is very affordable. Very authentic Xinjiang flavor. It is much more affordable than the eight-treasure rice sold there. There are few ingredients for the eight-treasure rice. A small plate costs ten yuan, and it feels very unhygienic. Although it is covered with plastic wrap, I don’t know how long it will last and there is no shelf life. In fact, making this eight-treasure rice is very simple, that is, steaming. It is simple and affordable to make a plate of eight-treasure rice for the family during the Chinese New Year, which means reunion and reunion.

Ingredients

Eight Treasure Rice

1. Glutinous rice, red dates, wolfberry, raisins, white sugar, red beans, peanuts, cantaloupe

2. Wash the glutinous rice and soak for 12 hours

3. Wash red dates, red beans and peanuts for more than 2 hours

4. Wash and soak the wolfberry, raisins and cantaloupe

5. Then wrap these ingredients with gauze and tie them tightly

6. Let the pressure cooker steam and steam for 10 minutes.

7. Add water to the steamer and spread gauze

8. Add the soaked glutinous rice, steam the glutinous rice over high fire

9. Take out the steamed glutinous rice, add sugar while it's hot, mix well

10. Use a small bowl with a layer of plastic wrap inside, and put half of the mixed glutinous rice into the small bowl

11. Put the steamed red dates, red beans, etc. on the bottom of the bowl, then put the glutinous rice in, and it will be compacted.

12. Buckled on the plate, it becomes a beautiful eight-treasure rice.

Tips:
The glutinous rice should be soaked thoroughly. When steaming, try not to bring water so that it can be formed, otherwise it is too soft and easy to collapse. Red beans, raisins, red dates, wolfberries should be soaked first and steamed. When steaming, wrap them with gauze and they will not bloom. Round