Millet Red Date Dumpling

Name: Millet Red Date Dumpling
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 300g Fresh corn; 200g Red dates; 360g Millet; 40g Glutinous rice flour

by Meimeijia's Kitchen

4.9 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

1h

Serving

2

It's beginning of autumn, hurry up and eat this delicious, my family makes hundreds of them every year, they are delicious and sweet!

The weather is hot and I always don't sleep well at night. During this time, all my friends in the office have panda eyes, saying that they have insomnia at night.

In the hot summer weather, insomnia has become the norm, not only affecting the image, but also detrimental to health.

There are many reasons why you can’t sleep well or can’t fall asleep in summer, such as stuffiness, humidity, etc., in the final analysis, it is the same problem: brain nerve activity is unstable, feels dry, and cannot stabilize the mood well. This is the biggest insomnia in summer. The reason lies. Here I recommend a food that can relieve insomnia.
This food is actually very ordinary, that is-millet.

Why can Xiaomi relieve insomnia? Because millet contains a very important tryptophan, which is one of the eight essential amino acids in the human body. Tryptophan is an important raw material for the synthesis of serotonin in the body, and it is also a substance that stabilizes the nerves at night. If there is a lack of serotonin in the body, people may be very irritable and anxious. Friends who are troubled by insomnia can eat more millet to promote sleep. You can also eat more millet when you are upset or anxious. At the same time, millet can also nourish the stomach. For example, patients with gastritis, gastric ulcer, gastric mucosa, etc. will be advised to drink millet porridge. And nourishing the stomach itself has the effect of calming the nerves.

Therefore, eating more millet in summer can make people feel more stable when they sleep at night.

Millet nourishes the stomach, nourishes the yin and nourishes the blood, and has always been a delicacy used by women to nourish their bodies. The vitamin B contained in it can absorb melanin, make the skin white and tender, and reduce wrinkles. Therefore, women who often eat millet will not only have good health, but also have good skin.
In order to maintain health, Meimei has been thinking about eating coarse grains every day during this period, making the coarse grains a delicious breakfast snack, so that the children are happy to accept it.

This millet red jujube dumplings are made every summer in my family. They are sugar-free, oil-free and flour-free. Mom and Dad like them the most. They told their children that they had no appetite for eating, so they steamed a few for him. I like it very much. It's fun to eat three in a row! Such healthy snacks are much healthier than the refined snacks bought in the supermarket!

Ingredients

Millet Red Date Dumpling

1. Soak the red beans overnight, then put them in a rice cooker, and steam them over water for later use. Millet is harder, so it must be fully soaked to make it taste good when steamed.

2. Soak the red beans overnight, then put them in a rice cooker, and steam them over water for later use. Millet is harder, so it must be fully soaked to make it taste good when steamed.

3. Cut the jujube in half, remove the pit, clean it, and dry it with water.

4. The corn kernels are peeled off in rows.

5. Put the corn kernels into the food processor. After the lid is closed, press the button to immediately stir the corn kernels into fine particles.

6. Look, this state is just right. A little grainy taste is better, if you want to be more crumbly, just beat it for a few more minutes.

7. Red dates are also poured into the food processor.

8. The red dates are relatively large and soft, so they are not easy to play, so I used a lot of power.

9. Look, the red dates will be broken in a few seconds.

10. The three-dimensional four-leaf cutter head works together up and down, no matter how many ingredients you need to turn up and down, it is really worry-free and labor-saving to use.

11. Pour the red dates, millet and corn chopped into a pot, and add glutinous rice flour.

12. Use chopsticks to fully stir the glutinous rice flour evenly, so that each piece of miscellaneous grains is evenly coated with the glutinous rice flour.

13. The function of glutinous rice flour is to increase the stickiness, so that all the ingredients are stuck together. You don't need to put too much. After mixing, you can see a little white glutinous rice flour.

14. Grab a handful of mixed grains, press it together with your hands, rub a small hole in the bottom with your fingers. This way it will ripen faster.

15. Put all the millet dumplings on a greased plate and steam them in a steamer for 10 minutes. Eat it while it's hot, the thick brown sugar aroma, the soft and glutinous millet, and the fragrant and juicy corn grains are intertwined together. The taste is superb. No wonder the kids love it as they eat it.

Tips:
Red dates and corn do not need to be beaten too much, they are slightly grainy and taste better. If there is no cooking machine, it is possible to cut directly with a knife. It just takes a lot more time.

There must not be too much glutinous rice flour, as long as the ingredients can be solidified together. Of course, if you like the texture of glutinous rice, you can also put more glutinous rice flour, but it is not a taste. This dessert does not need sugar, the amount of red dates is large, this dessert tastes very sweet.

The millet must be soaked overnight in advance, otherwise it will be too hard to eat. It will have a harder texture after cooling, and it will soften after a few minutes of steaming again.