The main ingredients of the rice bag are glutinous rice, honey and rock sugar. What kind and how much other fruits are used can be DIY according to your own tastes and preferences. For example, this eight-treasure rice uses five Hami dried apricots, 1 red dates, five hawthorn creams, and 15 raisins. Production method: first steam the glutinous rice, add boiling water with crystal sugar dissolved and stir evenly. The amount of rock sugar depends on personal taste. Spread a layer of plastic wrap on the bottom of the big bowl, put dates, dried apricots, raisins and hawthorn sauce into the bowl and arrange them in a pattern. After the dried fruit is shaped, cover it with mixed glutinous rice and flatten the surface. Buckle the glutinous rice in the big bowl on the plate (protect it with plastic wrap so that it won't stick to the bowl). Finally, put the dish of eight-treasure rice into a steamer and steam it for 30 minutes.

Practice and ingredients of eight-treasure rice

Traditional eight-treasure rice

Ingredients: purple potato, walnut, lotus seed, raisin, jujube and glutinous rice.

Exercise:

1, the purple sweet potato is cooked and broken in a blender for later use.

2. Boil the soaked glutinous rice with purple potato for six hours, soak lotus seeds for six hours, soak dates and raisins for one hour, steam the soaked glutinous rice and mix with sugar for later use.

3. Soak walnuts for 20 minutes, crush them with a knife, put the crushed walnuts into an oily pot, stir-fry them with low fire like peanuts, and pour in the broken purple potatoes when cooked to make purple potato walnut paste.

4. Put the steamed glutinous rice and soaked materials into a bowl, put purple potato and walnut paste on it, steam in a cage for 30 minutes, turn the bowl upside down and put it on a plate.

Eight treasures rice symbolizing reunion

Ingredients: red dates, peanuts, red beans, black beans, raisins, melon seeds, bacon, lotus seeds and glutinous rice.

Exercise:

1, peanuts, lotus seeds, red beans and black beans are washed first and soaked in the refrigerator for two hours; Then wrap it in gauze and tie it tightly, and steam it in a pressure cooker for 10 minutes.

2. Soak the glutinous rice in the refrigerator for one night, drain and steam it for later use.

3. Peel the bacon, cut it into dices, and mix well with steamed glutinous rice.

4. Use a bowl of the right size, put a layer of plastic wrap inside, put the mixed glutinous rice into the bowl, compact it and then buckle it out.

5. Put the steamed decorative materials at the bottom of the bowl, put them into a certain shape, and then put the glutinous rice in for compaction. When you eat it, steam it again and put it on a plate, and it will become a beautiful eight-treasure rice.

6. It is more authentic to pour a thin layer of bran pulp when eating.