Chinese New Year's Eve night tasting eight treasure rice is an indispensable food for family reunions, and it is also an auspicious and auspicious one. Think about it: a round table, a bowl of round Eight Treasure Rice in the middle, a family reunion, tasting soft and sweet Eight Treasure Rice, heralding the New Year, peace and security, sweet honey, full of gold and jade, and a wide source of wealth.
Eight treasure rice was first from the Western Zhou Dynasty, it is said that King Wu of Zhou defeated the King of Shang with the help of eight sages, the imperial kitchen used eight kinds of treasures to make a gourmet "Eight Treasure Rice", rewarding eight meritorious ministers, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the eight treasure rice method was spread to the people.
The main ingredients of Babao rice are glutinous rice, bean paste filling, red dates, peanuts, lotus seeds, walnut kernels, raisins, goji berries, kiwi fruit, hawthorn rolls, sugar, lard (or butter or corn oil) and so on. Friends who like salty bites can replace desserts with salted egg yolks, bacon, sausages, bacon, meat floss, etc.
Eight treasure rice home cooking:
1, glutinous rice soaked in water for about 10 hours, so that each grain of rice is full of water, hand twist on the degree of crushing, rice cooker water just over the rice, normal smouldering.
2. Boiled lotus seeds and peanuts, fried walnuts, washed and dried dates, raisins and goji berries;
3. Steamed glutinous rice while hot, add an appropriate amount of oil and sugar and mix well;
4, deep medium round bowl, smear a circle of lard, bowl bottom, around, with dried fruits, preserves on the favorite pattern;
5, take a large spoonful of glutinous rice and gently press on the pattern, do not move so as not to affect the pattern, compact hard, the middle concave around the convex;
6. Put the red bean paste into the bowl, smooth it, and then enlarge the spoonful of sticky rice and flatten it;
7. Steam for about 10 minutes, pour the plate while it is hot,
8、 Boil water with a little sugar, add a little starch to boil, pour in the eight treasure rice, surrounded by oranges or cucumber slices, enjoy!
You can make more bowls at a time, cool through the shape, add film and directly freeze it, and eat it and steam it for 20 minutes.
The nutritional value of Babao rice is very high: glutinous rice is sweet and warm in nature, which has a good effect on tonifying the qi, because it is difficult to digest, so the elderly, children and patients are not suitable for eating too much. Lotus seeds are flat and sweet, contain high protein, have a cardiotonic effect, and are conducive to eliminating fatigue. Red dates contain high protein, sugars, jujube acid, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamins A, B2, C, P, in addition to blood replenishment, peace of mind, but also help to enhance the potency of appetite. Raisins contain some ingredients that can lower cholesterol, and their fiber and tartaric acid can also make food pass through the rectum quickly, reducing the time that carcinogens stay in the intestine and improving rectal health.
Red bean paste method: after soaking the red beans, cook them, crush them in a blender, add oil and fry them dry
Lard boiling method: buy fresh plate oil, cut into small pieces, fry the oil on the pan, simmer over low heat, and boil the plate oil
Happy New Year!