The traditional steamed rice in Hongtong County has become a beautiful landscape on people's dining table. In Hongdong, sweet and delicious steamed rice is indispensable for family banquets, wedding banquets and birthday banquets. Steamed rice is a kind of culture, and the highlight of steamed rice culture is "cohesion, harmony and unity", which inherits and develops the crystallization of ancient civilization in China.
According to legend, during the migration of Sophora japonica at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang visited Hongtong County incognito and was very happy to see the golden crops and a bumper harvest in the field. After asking the people, I realized that it is the main local crop-millet, which tastes soft and sweet. After the local officials paid tribute to this rice, Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy after eating it and lamented the delicious food on earth.
Because tribute is paid to the emperor every year, the local people renamed Xiaomi yellow rice, which is homophonic with imperial rice. Using local millet and red dates in Hongdong, steamed rice with jujube, a special product of Hongdong, was made to continue the memory of future generations of Hongdong on the immigration incident.
Hongdong steamed rice is sweet and delicious, suitable for all ages, and is an essential staple food for banquets and other major events. Its sweetness, its waxy taste and its fragrance can always make people deeply like it when they taste it, with endless aftertaste. Holiday families must have special craft ingredients, so that travelers from afar can taste the taste of home. But it has long been more than just ingredients, but synonymous with hometown.
Making? Method:
● The main ingredient millet (or glutinous rice) is screened and washed, soaked in cold water for one night, and then fished into special steamer such as iron tripod and tile tripod with a colander.
Sprinkle a layer of red dates on the rice. Some areas also have the habit of adding "golden beans". Fill it out and cover it with steam.
● When it is half cooked, pour in boiling water, and then continue to steam until it is cooked.
● Then pour in sugar water and stir with a rolling pin to make the dates, rice and beans uniform.
● When eating, shovel it into the bowl with a small shovel.