Steamed Three Treasures in Honey Sauce

Name: Steamed Three Treasures in Honey Sauce
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 100g Lotus seed; 100g Red dates; 1 piece pumpkin; Some Sugar; Some Sugar Osmanthus

by Scarlett WH

4.9 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

1h

Serving

2

On the New Year’s Eve dinner table, in addition to the sumptuous dishes, a dessert is a must. The traditional eight-treasure rice is the choice of many families. The eight-treasure rice tastes sweet and symbolizes reunion and sweet life. The eight-treasure rice made with glutinous rice is not easy to digest if you eat too much. Today, you don’t need glutinous rice to make a mellow and delicious dessert.

"Honey Sauce Steamed Three Treasures", the main ingredients are red dates, lotus seeds and pumpkin. Red dates nourishes yin and blood, lotus seeds nourishes the mind and eyesight, pumpkin prevents cancer and laxative; each has a very healthy and sweet taste, and it also means "happy reunion, sweetness", and finally with sugar osmanthus, it also means "golden jade full house" "; And eating steamed vegetables is more representative of the prosperity of the coming year.

This dessert is sweet in taste, rich in nutrition, and symbolizes a good life in the coming year. It is a necessary auspicious dish for the New Year’s Eve dinner table. Every bite is happy and sweet in your mouth~~

Ingredients

100g Lotus Seed
100g Red Dates
1 piece Pumpkin
Some Sugar
Some Sugar Osmanthus

Steamed Three Treasures in Honey Sauce

1. Soak the lotus seeds for a few hours in advance, then add the sugar together with the water and cook them in the pot until the lotus seeds are cooked;

Steamed Three Treasures in Honey Sauce recipe

2. The red dates are cut in half from the middle; the two halves of the dates are twisted in opposite directions to separate;

3. Then use chopsticks to pass through the bottom of the pitted jujube, so that the pit is taken out;

4. In the same way, take out all the date seeds, and cook the lotus seeds for later use;

5. Put the cooked lotus rice in the middle of the red dates;

6. Then put the red dates with lotus rice face down and put them in the bowl one by one.

7. Fill up with diced pumpkin in the middle;

8. Cover it with a plate and steam it in a pot;

9. Put the steamed three treasures upside down on the prepared plate;

10. After uncovering the bowl, pour sweet osmanthus on the surface;

11. Such a sweet "Honey Sauce Steamed Three Treasures" is complete.

Tips:
1. The lotus seeds are not easy to be cooked. Soaking in advance can shorten the cooking time; add appropriate amount of sugar when cooking, so that the cooked lotus seeds will have a sweet taste;
2. The method of pitting red dates: first cut them in half, and then twist them in opposite directions with both hands. After separation, the pits are in the half of the red dates, and then use chopsticks to pass through the bottom of the red dates, so that the date pits will be Popped out
3. Embed the boiled lotus seeds in the red dates, put the lotus seeds and red dates face down in a bowl, fill the vacant place with pumpkin pieces, put it in the pot and steam, pay attention to cover with a plate to avoid excessive moisture ingress ；
4. Put the steamed sambo upside down on the prepared plate, and top with sweet-scented osmanthus; if not, you can thicken it with sugar water and add some honey.