Pumpkin cup rice with eight treasures is a delicious traditional dish, which belongs to Cantonese cuisine. Simple production, delicious taste, good wishes for reunion, longevity, harmonious marriage, early birth, auspiciousness, sweetness, safety and disaster-free, encouraging enterprising and all the best. Pumpkin cup eight-treasure rice has a unique taste and is loved by many friends who love sweets.
How to steam pumpkin rice?
The eight-treasure rice we usually eat is put in a bowl, while the pumpkin eight-treasure rice is another way, using hollow pumpkins instead of porcelain bowls. This makes the eight-treasure rice full of pumpkin fragrance, and even after eating the eight-treasure rice, you can eat pumpkins as bowls together, saving the pain of washing dishes. It is convenient and delicious. Here are some common practices of pumpkin eight-treasure rice:
Exercise 1
Ingredients: round pumpkin, glutinous rice, black rice, lotus seeds, peanuts, red beans, raisins, pine nuts, pumpkin seeds, red bean paste, sugar and oil.
Exercise:
(1) Soak red beans, peanuts and lotus seeds overnight. Soak glutinous rice for 3-4 hours, and then steam it over high fire. Pay attention to less water when steaming than when cooking, and steam for about 30 minutes on high fire. You can put some oil in steamed rice water.
(2) Take out the glutinous rice after steaming, and mix in sugar while it is hot. You can choose how much sugar to put according to your taste.
(3) Wash the pumpkin, cut it from 1/4, dig out the pulp, clean it and fill it with a layer of steamed glutinous rice, then spread raisins, pine nuts, melon seeds, lotus seeds, longan, red dates and other ingredients on the rice, and then spread a layer of glutinous rice.
(4) Steaming in a steamer for 30 minutes, and then taking out the steamed pumpkin eight-treasure rice to eat.
Exercise 2
Raw materials: pumpkin, glutinous rice, pork fat, white sugar, red beans, brown sugar, longan pulp, candied dates, lotus seeds, preserved fruits, melon seeds and rum.
Exercise:
(1) The candied fruit is soaked in rum or warm water 1 hour, the lotus seeds are taken out and boiled in water and crystal sugar 15 minutes, and the glutinous rice is soaked for 4 hours.
(2) Put the glutinous rice on the steamer cloth, spread it out in the steamer and steam it for half an hour, then take it out and stir it evenly with a little lard and white sugar while it is hot.
(3) Cut off the top of the raw pumpkin, dig out the pulp, make it into the shape of a bowl, put a layer of glutinous rice in the pumpkin bowl, put the bean paste in the middle, put another layer of glutinous rice on the bean paste, and finally put the processed candied fruit and other ingredients.
(4) Put the pumpkin on a steamer and steam it for about 25-30 minutes. You can eat it when it is cooked.