Speaking of pumpkins, I remember when I was a child, every house in the village or the roadside and field corner at the end of the village were very common, which can be described as "on the east fence of the beans, leisurely see the pumpkin", hahaha...
At that time, there was a shortage of materials, and my family often ate sweet potatoes as rice. Cook a pot of sweet potatoes, top with old pumpkin cut into chunks, and steam a bowl of rice with soup in the middle. Rice is naturally left for the father to eat, because the father is the largest labor force in the family, and he has to have physical strength to go up the mountain and go down the field. And the old pumpkin's guati was always left to me, because the remaining pumpkin vine was the most suitable for me to hold in my hand. My favorite is the pumpkin boiled long cowpea (similar to red beans), that taste, that kind of sweetness, sigh, unforgettable!
"On april eight, I came to see the green seedlings, carrying black rice on my back; the spring wind blew open the gourd cover, and the ten acres of the field were fragrant." On the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, it is the "Black Rice Festival" of the Dong family, and the Dong and Miao families living in the adjacent areas of the three provinces (districts) of Xiangqian and Guizhou must make fragrant glutinous rice and black rice, take out the sour fish and sour meat from the altar, take the golden bacon from the fire hall, and prepare home-brewed glutinous rice wine to celebrate this traditional festival. This mountain song tells the scene of the Dong family using a gourd rice bowl to serve glutinous rice and cured fish and cured meat in the field.
This sticky rice steamed pumpkin is a dish that we often have in restaurants here, and the pumpkin and black (purple) sticky rice are well combined, and I fell in love with it the first time I ate it, so I thought about making it at home. As for whether the sticky rice inside is put raw or cooked and then put in, I have made a bet with my colleagues, and the result is of course that I won, haha.
Here's how I did it:
1. Prepare a slice of pumpkin. Choose the bottom section, about 20 to 30 cm, remove the pumpkin, if you feel that the pumpkin meat is a little thick, you can use a spoon to take a little off.
2. Take purple glutinous rice and white glutinous rice 1:1 according to the size of the pumpkin. Purple glutinous rice is best soaked for more than half an hour beforehand, otherwise it may have a little hard teeth. At the same time, you can add some red beans and chopped dates, so that the nutrition and taste will be better.
3. Add brown sugar (to ensure sufficient sweetness) and if there is pumpkin meat dug out, add it as well. Cook the rice button to cook.
4. Put the rice inside the pumpkin and compact it. Rice can be cooked a little harder, mine is a little softer, and more water is added.
5. Buckle the pumpkin upside down on a baking sheet with holes as shown in the picture, with a foil in the middle.
6. Put it in the steaming oven and steam for 40 minutes (I steamed for 30 minutes and felt like the pumpkin wasn't soft enough).
If there is no steaming oven, it is the same for steaming on the plate and steaming in the steamer (be careful that the plate is as shallow as possible to avoid too much water on the plate).
If the oven at home does not have the function of steaming, then baking can also be, if it is baked, you must wrap the whole pumpkin tightly with tin foil to prevent the pumpkin from cracking, choose the lower tube 180 to 190 degrees, the upper tube 220 to 230 degrees (if the upper and lower tubes are consistent, then 200 to 210 degrees or so) bake for one hour.
7. Remove, while hot, cut 8 to 10 knives on the pumpkin peel from top to bottom.
8. Peel off the pumpkin skin and enjoy the sweet and soft glutinous food with a spoon!
Popular science: The calcium content of purple glutinous rice is still relatively high, so purple glutinous rice can have the effect of tonifying bones and teeth. This is good for us to promote bone health, and it can also effectively help us promote good gastrointestinal health, so the health effect of purple glutinous rice is very good, especially for children to eat such food is very suitable.
There is also for pregnant women to eat purple glutinous rice is very suitable, purple glutinous rice is a coarse grain, nutritional value is also very rich, and the dietary fiber is also very good, so eating purple glutinous rice can help pregnant women promote gastrointestinal health, to prevent constipation, is good.
Pumpkin is rich in zinc, which is involved in the synthesis of human core acids and proteins, is an inherent component of adrenocortical hormones, and is an important substance for human growth and development. Secondly, pumpkin is rich in cobalt, cobalt can activate the body's metabolism, promote hematopoietic function, and participate in the synthesis of vitamin B12 in the human body, which is an essential trace element for human islet cells, and has a special effect on the prevention and treatment of diabetes and lower blood sugar.
Therefore, this is a good dish suitable for old, young and pregnant, friends hurry up and do it!