"Foodie Dictionary" Eight Treasure Rice

Beijing, October 14 news of the Central Broadcasting Network There is a saying that the eight treasure rice is derived from the folk eight treasure map, and the eight dried fruits used represent hehe, jade fish, drum board, rock, dragon gate, ganoderma lucidum, pine and crane, which means happy reunion and harmony auspicious. Perhaps it is precisely because of the long history that the Eight Treasure Rice is almost all over The People's Homes of All Parts of China.

Although the taste is sweet and powerful, the raw materials are much the same. Almost all of them are mixed with sugar and lard from semi-steamed sticky rice, and a thick layer of red bean paste. There are no rules for the fruit that is put, and there are often more than eight kinds.

Usually, white lotus seeds, vermilion dates, tender yellow white fruits, bright red hawthorn, turquoise plums, as well as kumquats, cinnamon meat, melon seeds, etc. are usually used to pose beautiful patterns, which are placed in oiled bowls and steamed thoroughly, and upside down on the plate to form a colorful small flower bud. The soft sticky and smooth Eight Treasure Rice symbolizes the family's fullness and sweetness, bringing joy to the warm family banquet.

The Eight Treasure Rice in Shaanxi is as mellow as honey, sprinkled with brown sugar when served, and then poured with white wine to ignite, the flames rise, representing the days of red fire, which is the finale of various reunion family banquets or wedding banquets.

Shandong folk eight treasure rice material is relatively simple, steamed glutinous rice is dotted with red dates, melon seeds, walnuts, cooked lotus seeds and other ordinary fruits, eat sweet and refreshing, soft and not sticky, known as "earth eight treasures".

Nanning's eight treasure rice with mung beans, lilies, lotus seeds, white fruits, dates, mountain yellow peel, when eating poured with refreshing sugar juice, crystal smooth, sweet and smooth, the locals regard it as an ordinary bowl of rice for breakfast or supper, can be plain, can also be colorful, just in line with the colorful life.