Materials: 500 grams of northeastern glutinous rice, 200 grams of dried eight treasures beans, 200 g of purple rice, 200 g of jujubes, sugar, rice dumpling leaves, cotton thread and so on.

Purple rice eight treasure dumplings practice

1. Glutinous rice, purple rice, dry beans with clean water, soaked in cold water for more than 6 hours. Then mix all together and mix well adding a small amount of sugar for color.

2. Dry rice dumpling leaves with a small brush, also soaked in cold water for about 6 hours. The two leaves will be overlapped, first rolled up into a funnel shape.

3. The head of the leaves is on the outer layer, and the tail of the leaves is on the inner layer. With your right hand, pull the end of the leaf clockwise and then turn around, and the head of the rice dumpling leaves together. It becomes a pointed funnel shape.

4. First fill a small amount of glutinous rice eight-treasure filling, use chopsticks to gently feed the rice grains into the bottom of the pointed tip.

5. Put in one honey date.

6. Fill with another layer of glutinous rice, purple rice and eight treasures beans.

7. When the rice is filled to 80% of the dumpling leaf cup, use a small spoon to compact the filling. Use your thumb to cover the rice grains by folding both sides of the extra rice dumpling leaves inward.

8. Then fold the head and tail of the rice dumpling leaves together to the inside and back down to cover.

9. Just wrap the rice dumpling leaves tightly with cotton thread.