Eight Treasure Rice

Name: Eight Treasure Rice
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 300g Glutinous rice; 30g raisin; 20g Red dates; 25g Sugar; 15g lard

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4.9 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

15m

Serving

4

The traditional "Eight Treasures" refer to 8 types of glutinous rice, red bean paste, red dates, lotus seeds, raisins, walnuts, melon seeds and medlar. Nowadays, eight-treasure rice is available all over the country, and the ingredients used will vary. But glutinous rice and red bean paste are essential ingredients. Cooking eight-treasure rice may seem simple, but to make it well, you still need to spend some effort.
Every Chinese New Year, the New Year’s Eve dinner table will definitely not miss this finale dessert. An exquisite glutinous and soft dessert with surprises inside, full of a sense of New Year's ritual! I took a big bite warmly. It was sweet, soft and full of ingredients. I couldn't eat enough. The simple version of the eight-treasure rice I shared with you today is also very good. You can try it!

Ingredients

300g Glutinous Rice
30g Raisin
20g Red Dates
25g Sugar
15g Lard

Eight Treasure Rice

1. Clean 300 grams of glutinous rice and soak it in water for 2 hours. Long-term soaking can make the starch in the glutinous rice gradually expand and split. When steaming, it is easier to gelatinize and decompose. It is easy to steam and is more conducive to human digestion and absorption. .

2. The soaked glutinous rice is boiled in a pot, because the glutinous rice has been soaked in advance, the amount of water added is slightly less than the usual amount of water for cooking rice

3. Prepare your favorite dried fruits, whatever you want

4. Cooked glutinous rice 8 is mature, and the surface of the rice grains is moist, which can make the rice softer and more uniform

5. While hot, add 25 grams of white sugar and 15 grams of lard and mix well. If you don’t have pork, you can change to vegetable oil or butter

6. Take a large bowl, spread a layer of lard on the wall of the bowl, put the dried fruit in the middle, and put a circle of red dates around

7. Then put the white glutinous rice flattened by hand, then put a layer of bean paste, and finally spread the glutinous rice flattened

8. After the water is boiled, put the glutinous rice in a pot and steam for 20 minutes. After steaming, pour it on the plate. If there is osmanthus honey at home, you can also pour a little on it.

Tips:
1. The difficulty of eight-treasure rice is to cook glutinous rice, it will become porridge when the water is too much, so special attention is needed.
2. The glutinous rice must be soaked for 3-4 hours in advance, and the bowl should be smeared with lard to prevent it from sticking, otherwise it will not be easy to buckle out. If you don’t like lard or have contraindications, you can replace it with vegetable oil or butter
3. If you are not in a hurry to eat, you can put a layer of plastic wrap in the bowl, and after steaming, let it cool and store in the refrigerator.
4. The decoration on the eight-treasure rice is random, add whatever you like
5. If you don't know the amount of water when cooking glutinous rice, you can put it in the steamer directly, but you need to pour some clean water to prevent it from being too dry during cooking.
6. If it needs to be preserved, wrap it in plastic wrap and put it in the freezer. When it needs to be eaten, put the bowl into the steamer and steam for about 30 minutes, then buckle it upside down on the plate.
7. After placing the shape, be careful not to touch the shape when placing the glutinous rice, and pay attention not to reverse the order of the front and back when placing the ingredients.
8. Sometimes the mold is not demoulded because the glutinous rice on the edge of the bowl is stuck to the bowl, so take the tip of a small knife and gently draw a circle along the edge of the bowl to separate the rice stuck to the bowl from the bowl, and it will flow down and demold immediately. Up.