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A bowl of eight treasure rice symbolizing reunion and sweetness, made with enough ingredients, the method is simple and necessary for the New Year table, tasting the taste of our good life, but also a kind of family inheritance.
Eight treasure rice finished picture
Babao rice has a long history. It is said that he traces back to the time of King Wu of Zhou, who overthrew the Yin Shang Dynasty with the help of eight sages. At the grand celebration, the imperial chef used eight kinds of treasures to make a gourmet "eight treasure rice" to reward the meritorious people. Later, it was regarded as a palace treasure and was enjoyed by the magnates of the past. Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was still exclusive to Empress Dowager Cixi, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, Cixi fled for his life, the imperial dining room was disbanded, and the method of making eight treasure rice was passed down to the people.
According to legend, folk Chinese New Year's Eve the night tasting of eight treasure rice is a picture of an auspicious wish, ask for an eight (hair) color head, why choose the night of Chinese New Year's Eve? Perhaps it is that the ancient working people were busy all year round, and usually did not have the opportunity to taste, take advantage of the Chinese New Year's Eve to taste this bowl of royal eight precious soups at night. After the spread of eight treasure rice in the folk, it is gradually made by using a high-quality glutinous rice, lotus seeds, red dates, cinnamon meat, kumquat cakes, dates, sugar, lard, red and green silk and other nutritional value, health-promoting preparation system.
The New Year is a traditional celebration for our Chinese, with customs on one side and water and soil marks on the other.
Finished product drawing
When I was a child, I looked forward to the New Year. Because there are new clothes to buy for the New Year, and the most important thing is that there are delicacies that you usually want to eat but are reluctant to eat, such as Eight Treasure Rice. Maybe today's young friends can't understand, such an ordinary and ordinary meal can be eaten as much as you want, so what is so difficult? As everyone knows, the economic conditions in our rural areas were limited at that time, and it was not a small expense just to buy glutinous rice, let alone put together a variety of ingredients such as red dates, guiyuan, and lotus seeds. Therefore, only in the New Year will the family have the luxury of buying a few bowls of ingredients. My mother would start preparing on the 29th of the waxing moon, and when she got up in the morning, she would first soak the glutinous rice with water, and then my sister and I would know that we were going to make eight treasure rice today. The two of us didn't run out to play anymore, and every once in a while we would ask my mother when she was going to start doing it. Glutinous rice should be soaked for at least one morning, so that it can fully absorb the water, so that it is steamed out more softly. When the steaming finally began in the afternoon, when the house was an old fire stove with a bellows for firewood, I volunteered to help my mother burn the fire, and my sister was on the side to add firewood. When steaming glutinous rice, my mother prepares other ingredients: take four or five deep bowls and spread some lard, and first place the red dates, lotus seeds, raisins, etc. at the bottom of the bowl, like a small flower. Wait for the glutinous rice to be steamed for half an hour and then take it out, scoop a spoonful of lard while it is hot, add some sugar and mix well, and then put it in a bowl with a layer of glutinous rice and a layer of bean paste, put red and green silk on the side, put it all compacted, and then put it back into the cauldron and steam for ten minutes. At this time, my sister and I could not wait to eat, and the sweet smell wafting from the crack of the pot lid was already hungry and we were swallowing. After taking it out, I quickly took a spoon and scooped it into my mouth, and poured it back and forth in my mouth while breathing the food, but I could still taste the soft and sweet taste.
Nowadays, the period of material scarcity has passed, and you can buy what you want to eat at any time and do it according to your own wishes. The materials for making Eight Treasure Rice are not limited to the fixed ones, and can be added as you like. Today's eight treasure rice is more homely, it is also very simple to make, in the Chinese New Year's Eve rice served out not only delicious and sweet, the meaning is also more gratifying, symbolizing our life is full and perfect, sweet and sweet.
Step-by-step diagram
【Mingjia Eight Treasures Glutinous Rice】Home-cooked recipes to share:
▲Required Materials:
Ingredients: glutinous rice, dates, raisins, cranberries, walnuts, chestnuts, honey beans, large almonds.
Accessories: lard, sugar (if you like a little sweeter, you can add it).
Required documents
▲Detailed method
1, first soak the appropriate amount of glutinous rice in water for one night (at least 4 hours or more), the longer the soaking time, the softer the glutinous;
Soak in clean water
2. After soaking, you can replace it with a new water pot and steam for half an hour;
3, after steaming, take out and add a spoonful of lard and mix well, if you like to eat very sweet, you can add some sugar and mix well;
After steaming, add a spoonful of lard and mix well
4, take a bowl, spread a layer of lard evenly on the inner wall of the bowl, and then first put the raisins, dates, cranberries in turn;
The bottom is laid out
5: Use a small spoon to scoop the mixed glutinous rice into a bowl and compact it;
Spread over a layer of sticky rice
6. After that, lay a layer of honey beans and raisins and cranberries, and arrange walnuts and almonds on all sides;
Add another layer of dried fruit
7: Finally, cover with glutinous rice and steam for about 15 minutes.
Glutinous rice compaction
8: After steaming, take it out, take a flat plate and cover it on the bowl, buckle the bowl upside down, and gently buckle out the eight treasure rice.
★ Mom's Warm Tips:
1, the inner wall of the bowl should be lubricated with a layer of lard, because the stickiness of glutinous rice is particularly large after steaming, and it is convenient to remove the glutinous rice after steaming;
2. The ingredients of Babao rice can be added at will according to their own preferences, and the shape is placed at will;
3, I use the golden silk jujube whole put, if it is a large date can be cut in half. Be careful when eating dates;
4, I did not add more sugar, the raisins, dates and honey beans these materials are very sweet. If you like to be sweeter, add some sugar appropriately;
5, if you can't finish eating, wrap it up in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator to freeze, and heat it when you eat.
This sticky rice dish is made up of eight ingredients, which are sweet and soft, and the color is more beautiful, of course, the main thing is quite simple to make. The steamed glutinous rice eight treasure rice is bone-bearing, upside down, standing firm on the plate, dotted with red date raisins and other ingredients tightly fitted together with the glutinous rice, symbolizing the whole family working together. It is served at the festive family banquet, adding flavor and more festive colors at the same time, implying a family reunion and a sweet and beautiful life.
The year is a kind of inheritance, a ritual of accumulating and condensing the family affection, and there is a heavy weight in everyone's heart. And the taste of the year is the kind of food that remains in the memory, the happiness of childhood, the feelings after growing up, and the most affectionate spiritual sustenance brought to us by the eight treasures of glutinous rice.
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