Eight-treasure rice is a traditional dessert in Shanghai. Place the 8 kinds of food inside at the bottom of the bowl, mix the glutinous rice with lard and fudge according to your taste, then lightly stick it on the bottom of the bowl to shape it, and then add the red beans. It is eaten with glutinous rice. When eating, steam it over fire to allow the sesame oil to escape. It is the most delicious because it can be enjoyed by the whole family as a symbol of togetherness and togetherness. This dessert can almost always be served at family gatherings. How to make rice pudding is actually quite simple, with just one trick. The key is to work hard and allow it to taste natural.

One of the keys to Babao Rice: the glutinous rice used is round glutinous rice. Glutinous rice is divided into long glutinous rice and round glutinous rice. Long glutinous rice is In glutinous rice. The rice grains are long and thin, white, opaque and sticky. Round glutinous rice belongs to japonica rice, which is short in shape, white and opaque, sweet, greasy, and slightly less sticky than long glutinous rice. On the contrary, long glutinous rice is more suitable for making seeds, fermented rice, dumplings, rice, etc. In some areas of Shanghai, round glutinous rice and long glutinous rice are half and half, so they cook better. The second key to rice pudding: lard. When the pork is slowly boiled with water, the oil will naturally come out after the water dries. After boiling, add some white radish and chives to make the lard more fragrant.

Lard is mainly used to mix the glutinous rice in the pot, and in order to prevent the glutinous rice from sticking to the bowl, a layer is added to the bowl to create mold. The third key to eight-treasure rice: bean paste. To make red bean paste, choose thinned red beans, wash them, put them in a pressure cooker, mash them, strain them, and fry them in an iron pot. Because it requires too much effort. When it boils you won't be able to stop stirring it and when it boils it will immediately stick to the pan and be thrown away completely. You need to add a little lard to the bean paste, it should be homemade lard, to give it that grilled miso flavor. The white sugar in bean paste should be white sugar, not soft white sugar. Add lard and sugar to the bean paste and bring to a slow boil. Cooked parbo rice is delicious only with fried bean paste. Choose white sugar as the soft white sugar to mix with the glutinous rice.

The eight preserved fruits are red dates, peanuts, longan, lotus seeds, melon seeds, candied dates, honeydew melon, raisins, red plums and green plums.

The so-called eight treasures have their own meaning. Red dates and peanuts symbolize the premature birth of a precious child, longan symbolizes reunion, lotus symbolizes harmony and harmony in marriage, melon seeds symbolize life, disasters and the regularity of disasters, candied winter melon symbolizes sweetness and honey, and raisins symbolize Sweet and honey. symbol. Various fruits and happy love, the red plum line and the gantry have the same color to encourage progress and blessing success, while the green plum blossom symbolizes the pine tree, which symbolizes longevity.

Ingredients:

A bowl of glutinous rice, the right amount of lard, the right amount of miso, the right amount of red dates, the right amount of peanuts, the right amount of yonggan, the right amount of lotus seeds, the right amount of Melon seeds, appropriate amount of candied dates, appropriate amount of honey winter melon, appropriate amount of raisins, appropriate amount of red plums, appropriate amount of soft white sugar and appropriate amount of water.

Steps:

1. Round the glutinous rice and soak it in water overnight. After soaking, when part of the glutinous rice grows out, add an appropriate amount of water and squeeze it with a pressure cooker. After soaking overnight, there may be less water than usual because the glutinous rice absorbs the water. 2. The round-headed glutinous rice is white, fat and tastes very good. Take out the glutinous rice while it is hot and put it into a large bowl. Add an appropriate amount of lard, then add an appropriate amount of soft white sugar, hold it with your hands, and place it evenly for later use. The glutinous rice should be mixed evenly when hot so that the lard and fudge can be easily absorbed by mixing the hot glutinous rice. If the glutinous rice is not added to the lard, it will easily evaporate and evaporate, and it will not become sticky even if it is eaten.

3. Take a large porcelain bowl with a Babao rice mold, put an appropriate amount of lard on the bottom of the bowl, and then spread it evenly throughout the bowl. The bowl of the eight-treasure rice mold should be evenly coated with lard. You can apply more. This prevents it from sticking to the bowl, and the eight-treasure rice turned over after steaming is easily sold out.

4. Take a date with candied fruit from the flower core of rice pudding. Spread the peanut and raisin rings evenly next to the flower core. Sprinkle with lotus seeds and red dates. Spread another kind of permanently dried meat.

Then sprinkle the strips with melon seeds and honeyed winter melon. Sprinkle red and green plums among the honey winter squash and melon seeds. The shape of the bottom of the bowl is ready.

5. Take an appropriate amount of glutinous rice, lightly sprinkle it on the bottom of the bowl, and cover the packaged fruit shape. Gently compress the glutinous rice so that the glutinous rice and dried fruits are pressed tightly against the bottom of the bowl. A groove is formed in the center of the bowl.

6. Sprinkle an appropriate amount of miso evenly into the groove at the bottom of the bowl and spread it over the entire bowl. You can add more if you want hummus.

7. Take an appropriate amount of glutinous rice and cover it with bean paste. Spread the glutinous rice evenly on the bowl to cover the entire bean paste. Compressed glutinous rice. Lay the entire bowl flat and level.

8. Cover the semi-finished product with an amount of eight precious rice and cover it with the lid or package for 30 minutes. Eight Baomi may take longer so the contents of the bowl are completely soft and condensed into one body.

9. Eight precious rice peeled off the entire bowl. If the glutinous rice at the bottom of the bowl is completely dry and has reduced moisture, it's easy to take a knife and dig it along the edge of the bowl. Because the glutinous rice on the side of the bowl is dryer, it stays firmly in the bowl.

10. Wait, then fall on the market. Eight precious rice fell on him.

11. Steam the eight treasure rice with some diluted cancer sugar juice or sweetness. You can use sweetness and sweetness.