You can use long rice or round rice to make eight-treasure rice. In addition, you can also use rice that you often eat in daily life. These can all be made into eight-treasure rice. The taste is different, so you can choose according to your personal preference.

Long glutinous rice is a kind of indica glutinous rice with slender grains, pinkish-white, opaque color and strong stickiness. Round glutinous rice belongs to Japonica glutinous rice. It is round and short in shape, white and opaque, has a sweet taste and is slightly less viscous than long glutinous rice. If you want to eat sticky rice, you can choose long glutinous rice. If you don't like to eat particularly sticky rice, you can choose round rice.

Making eight-treasure rice requires preparing many ingredients, such as rice, glutinous rice, barley rice, red dates, walnut meat, raisins, etc. Rice, glutinous rice, and barley rice should be washed and soaked in water for 2 to 3 hours to facilitate cooking. Put the soaked rice into the pot, then wash all other prepared ingredients and put them all together with the rice.

After all the ingredients are prepared, they can be cooked. If you are using a rice cooker, just turn on the rice cooker. Eight-treasure rice is a staple food with high nutritional value. Generally, eight-treasure rice is only made and eaten during the Laba Festival. However, if you want to eat it at ordinary times, you can also make some eight-treasure rice.