The eight treasures in the eight-treasure rice ingredients are not only eight kinds of ingredients, but "eight treasures" is just a way to express the richness of ingredients, such as "multicolored", "seven colors" and "assorted", all of which are meant to express the richness of ingredients. In the choice of ingredients, sweet preserved fruits, all kinds of beans and dried fruits can be added, which tastes better ~!
The characteristics of eight-treasure rice are soft, glutinous, fragrant, sweet and soft. If you want to make eight-treasure rice well, you must fully reflect these characteristics. So, how can we make the rice with soft, waxy, fragrant, sweet and soft characteristics? Ah Qian will come for you one by one:
The main material for selecting eight-treasure rice is glutinous rice, and the new rice of that year is the best choice for glutinous rice. New rice has high moisture content, beige and white color, and good taste. There are two kinds of common glutinous rice, one is slender long glutinous rice, and the other is round glutinous rice. When we cook eight-treasure rice, Auntie suggested choosing round glutinous rice as the best. Although the viscosity of long glutinous rice is relatively high, its taste is hard, and it is easy to regrow. If the secondary heating time is insufficient, it is easy to produce the feeling of being sandwiched.
The choice of beans should also choose the new beans in the season, which are easy to soak, easy to boil and delicate in taste.
In the choice of jujube, Zizyphus jujuba is soft in taste and high in sweetness. If you choose candied jujube, it has both characteristics and high viscosity, which is a good choice.
Soak glutinous rice and beans in advance in order to cook them soft and thoroughly. The best time for brewing glutinous rice is more than 4 hours, and glutinous rice can fully absorb water. Change the water frequently when brewing in summer to prevent the glutinous rice from becoming sour for a long time.
The soaking time of beans should not be too short, so as to prevent the beans from being caught during steaming.
When steaming eight-treasure rice, the glutinous rice and beans will become soft and glutinous after steaming for more than 40 minutes. In addition, it should be noted that in the process of steaming eight-treasure rice, do not open the lid all the way to prevent the formation of raw rice.
Let's talk about the specific steps of the eight-treasure rice ~! Jiasha glutinous rice eight-treasure rice
The practice of eight-treasure rice is relatively simple, which is divided into several steps: brewing-first steaming-mixing-placing-second steaming. The specific method is as follows:
raw material
Round glutinous rice 200g red dates 3, 4 lard 15g red bean paste 50g white sugar 20g raisin 10g walnut kernel 10g peanut 10g?
method of work
1, glutinous rice soaked in cold water for more than 4 hours, peanuts soaked soft.
2. Drain the soaked glutinous rice and steam it on a steamer for 20 minutes.
3. Add lard and sugar to the steamed glutinous rice while it is hot and mix well.
4. Put red dates, walnuts, peanuts and raisins in a small bowl.
5. Put the well-mixed glutinous rice into a bowl, leaving a little space in the middle and filling it with bean paste.
6. Put the placed glutinous rice into a steamer and steam it for 40 minutes. After steaming, buckle it on the plate.
Tips
1, the choice of ingredients can be adjusted at will, as long as it does not affect the overall flavor and taste.
2, adding bean paste is to make "eight treasures rice with sand", the taste will be more unique, if you don't want to add bean paste, you can also directly add soft red beans.
3, if you want to look good, you can add a little red dried cranberries, green dried kiwis, yellow dried bananas, or other preserved fruits, or you can add some green and red silk.
4. Steaming glutinous rice for the first time should not take too long to prevent sticky rice from sticking too much, which is not convenient for later mixing.
5, beans need to be brewed in advance, so it is easy to steam.
The key step is to solve the puzzle-why should glutinous rice be steamed twice? -----
A: The purpose of steaming glutinous rice twice is to ripen glutinous rice for the first time, to make it soft, to facilitate the melting of lard and sugar, and to facilitate the placement. Steaming glutinous rice for the second time is to completely mature and become glutinous, and the taste becomes soft. The first steaming time of glutinous rice should not be too long, the steaming time is too long, it is too soft and sticky, and it is not easy to mix the ingredients evenly in the later stage.
-Why should the glutinous rice be drained when it is steamed for the first time? -----
A: After a long period of soaking, the glutinous rice absorbs enough water, and then adding water will make the steamed glutinous rice too soft, rotten and sticky, which will affect the taste. As long as the glutinous rice is soaked for enough time, it will be soft and glutinous after steaming.
-What is the purpose of adding lard? -----
Answer: The purpose of adding lard is, first, to add flavor to the rice; Second, adding lard, the taste of eight-treasure rice will be softer; Third, it can prevent sticky rice from sticking to the bowl and facilitate pouring out. If you don't want to add lard, then when placing glutinous rice, you can brush a little oil on the bottom of the bowl, and the eight-treasure rice can be easily buckled to the plate after steaming.
Because of the diversity of materials, everyone uses different materials, so we can choose whatever materials we have at home and add them according to our own conditions and preferences.
Finally, a few more words, babao rice wants to do well, these points need to be noted:
The brewing time of the ingredients should be sufficient, and the water should be fully absorbed, so that the ingredients can be softened when making. When the glutinous rice is steamed, we should grasp the time of steaming twice, the first time does not take too long, and when the second time is enough to steam, we can't lift the lid to prevent the steamed eight-treasure rice from being caught. We choose round glutinous rice here because if we cook too much at one time, it will not come back to life after reheating, and long glutinous rice will easily come back to life. If the weight is relatively small, eat and cook now, you can choose long glutinous rice, which will be more sticky.