The soul of babao rice is the juice of babao rice. If you want to make a delicious eight-treasure rice, you must first adjust the juice of the eight-treasure rice. So how to make the juice of babao rice?

Wash glutinous rice with clear water first, then dice the candied dates and hawthorn cakes, as well as the pulp of plums and longan, and then wash raisins, melon seeds and walnuts. After processing, take a bowl, add glutinous rice and appropriate amount of water, steam it in a cage, and take it out to cool.

After that, the glutinous rice needs to be stirred evenly with white sugar and lard, then a bowl is taken, cooked lard is smeared on the bottom, various ingredients are covered, and a layer of glutinous rice is smeared until the ingredients are flush with the mouth of the bowl. Then steam in a steamer for about 10 minute.

The amount of water added to the glutinous rice should be moderate, and the bottom of the bowl must be oiled, otherwise the glutinous rice will stick to the bowl.

Then take out the steamed rice and put it on the plate. In addition, there is a clean wok. Add a proper amount of water, sugar and sweet-scented osmanthus sauce, then cook it over medium heat until it melts, thicken it with wet starch, and pour in cooked lard.

How to cook eight-treasure rice

Raw materials to be prepared: glutinous rice, coix seed, gordon euryales, melon strips, lily candied dates, orange cakes, honey cherries and raisins. Both rock candy and sugar need to be prepared. Cooked lard and raw flour.

Specific steps: firstly, wash Coicis Semen, Lily and Euryale Semen with clear water. Then divide into three small bowls, add a little water, then steam for about 25 minutes and take it out. Cut melon strips, orange cakes and candied dates into cubes. Cut the cherry in half and dry clean the grapes.

Wash the glutinous rice with clear water, put it in a large bowl, add a little water, and steam it into a cage. Add sugar and cooked lard immediately after taking out.

Then put the coix seed, lily, Gordon Euryale seed, all kinds of candied fruit, raisins and honey cherries in a steaming bowl, then put the prepared glutinous rice on it, press it by hand, steam it for about half an hour, and then take it out and put it upside down in a big round dish. Such an eight-treasure rice is ready.

Nutritional value of eight-treasure rice

Babao rice is a famous Laba Festival food in Ningbo. It is mainly made of various ingredients. There are glutinous rice, red bean paste and jujube paste, as well as candied fruit and lotus seed soup, rice kernels, longan, white sugar and pig fat.

Glutinous rice can help people to replenish qi, which is of great benefit to human health. Lotus plumule has a heart-strengthening effect. Millet kernel has the function of invigorating spleen and lung, and longan helps to tonify the middle energizer and replenish qi.

Glutinous rice is rich in protein, fat and sugar, as well as trace elements, such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamins, nicotinic acid, starch, etc., which are all foods that can help keep fit; For some patients with spleen and stomach deficiency or loss of appetite, abdominal distension and diarrhea, eating these will have a certain relief effect, and glutinous rice also has a convergence effect, which is a good diet food for people with frequent urination and night sweats.