Material: 1 root lotus root, 8 red dates.

Accessories: 50 grams of rock sugar, appropriate amount of brown sugar and a little osmanthus.

1. Wash the glutinous rice in advance and soak it for more than 1 hour. Wash the bought lotus roots and remove the skin. Generally, lotus root is cut at one end, which can be cut slightly obliquely to facilitate the glutinous rice stuffing at the back. My lotus root is too big to put in the pot, so I have to cut it in half.

2. Fill the soaked glutinous rice into the small hole of lotus root practice and rub it tightly with chopsticks, but not too tightly, because the glutinous rice will expand after heating. If one end is cut, fix the other end with a toothpick. I have no choice but to open it and cook it.

3, put the lotus root into the rice cooker, add the right amount of water, it is best to drown the lotus root with water, and add a few red dates.

4. Add the right amount of rock sugar and brown sugar, and choose the soup making program. The default time is 2 hours. Time is up, pour the cooked lotus root soup back into the wok, heat it to thick sugar water, cool the lotus root until it is not hot, cut it into thin slices, pour it into sugar water, and pour it into osmanthus.

Introduction of lotus root

Also known as lotus, lotus. Its underground stem is lotus root and its fruit is lotus seed. It grows in lakes and ponds. Stems and leaves grow after Qingming Festival and bloom in June and July. These flowers are red, white and pink.

The flower heart has a yellow beard, and the flower heart is more than an inch long. There are lotus seeds in the beard. After the flowers wither, the lotus awn becomes a lotus seed. Lotus, also called lotus root, is native to China.

In the pre-Qin period, China cultivated extensively. The poems about "Lotus" in The Book of Songs are as follows: Zheng Fengshan has Fu Su, the mountain has Fu Su, and Ji Youhua. If you don't see your son, you will see madness. ""Chen Fengze North ""There are two evils: Pu and He. If there is a beautiful person, what injury is it? "

At present, lotus root is cultivated in all provinces of China, and there are two varieties of lotus root: seven-hole lotus root and nine-hole lotus root. Nine-hole lotus root is widely cultivated in Shandong, Hebei, Henan and other places. This variety is excellent in texture, stout in rhizome, tender in meat, crisp and sweet, white and flawless, and people like it.

Different parts of the lotus have different names and can be used as medicine. Lotus stems are called lotus stems, and leaves are called lotus leaves and lotus leaf stalks. Lotus root is called lotus root, and the shell is called lotus leaf; The fruit is lotus meat or lotus seed, in which the embryo is called lotus heart and the rhizome of lotus is called lotus root.