Before the New Year this year, the family prepared some glutinous rice and bean paste, ready to make traditional dim sum eight treasure rice, Ningbo New Year has the tradition of eating eight treasure rice, it is estimated that There are similar customs in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In the past, in addition to glutinous rice and bean paste, the ingredients of the eight treasure rice would also use lotus hearts, cinnamon balls, red dates and preserved fruits, and sometimes melon seeds, anyway, you have to make up eight kinds of things, and the New Year is auspicious. There are a few years I want to save my mind, will buy a few ready-made eight treasure rice in the supermarket to prepare at home, but buy back the cheap taste will be a little worse, the price of the taste is good, but not worth the price, this year I am ready to do it myself, do my own real materials, and soft, prepare a bag of glutinous rice, a bag of bean paste, can make a few eight treasure rice.
Eight treasures of rice is also a color head, now the ingredients are difficult to buy, only used at home ready-made, I counted, the traditional white glutinous rice replaced by Heijiang purple glutinous rice, bean paste, brown sugar, walnuts, goji berries, red dates, counting only six kinds, became six treasure rice, but in the special period, the family can eat such a delicious dessert heart is still very happy.
To make this eight treasure rice, the sugar added in the glutinous rice can be reduced a little, slightly sweet, walnuts, dates and goji berries are healthy foods, these days to ensure that the family eat well, but also to eat less to maintain the balance of energy consumption. The most important thing is to maintain inner health and optimism. Listening to a lot of people complaining about depression, it is really stuffy, in fact, everyone is almost the same, my family never watches TV, but also open every day, paid websites opened several times, the previous because of the need to pay to watch and did not watch the good movies have been watched over and over again, this is also another kind of harvest.
【Purple Rice Eight Treasure Rice】
Ingredients: 200 grams of black river purple rice, 150 grams of bean paste, 4 red dates, 6 walnut kernels, 1 handful of goji berries
Excipients: sugar 30 g
Directions: Step 1, Heijiang purple glutinous rice 200 grams, a little bit of bean paste stuffing bought a few years ago, and then with some dried fruits readily available at home, if there are raisins or whatever.
Step 2: Rinse the purple glutinous rice slightly and soak in water for 30 minutes
Step 3: Put it in a rice cooker, add water that is one centimeter deeper than rice, cover the lid, and press the cook button.
Step 4: Wait for the purple glutinous rice to cook and take it out and let it cool slightly
Step 5: Take a deep bowl and brush a thin layer of oil around the bowl with a brush, so that the eight treasure rice is not easy to stick to the bowl and is easy to buckle.
Step 6: While the rice is still hot, add some sugar to adjust the sweetness, brown sugar and white sugar can be
Step 7: Mix the glutinous rice and sugar well
Step 8: Pit the dates, cut them into four slices, arrange the walnut flesh in the bottom of the bowl, arrange them into a flower, and scatter some goji berries
Step 9: Scoop half of the purple glutinous rice in a bowl and smooth it with a spoon
Step 10: Put 2 tablespoons of bean paste in the middle and spread evenly
Step 11: Cover the remaining half of the purple glutinous rice with bean paste, which can be done in advance.
Step 12: Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and steam in a pan for half an hour. I usually steam the eight treasure rice before the meal at home, and when the dish is almost eaten, it is just right to turn off the heat and serve it.
Find a larger flat plate, cover the bowl of steamed eight treasure rice, and then buckle upside down on the plate, this eight treasure rice is completely buckled on the plate, very beautiful, but also very delicious, make your own is enough.