Highland barley can cook with rice. Both highland barley and rice are staple foods and can be eaten together, but highland barley is not easy to cook. It takes 2 hours to cook alone, and then steamed with rice.

Highland barley can be used not only as rice, but also as food in steamed dumplings.

Steamed dumplings with purple sweet potato and highland barley:

Wash buckwheat, highland barley, oat kernels and glutinous rice, put them in a big bowl, then soak them overnight in advance, drain the water, pour them on the cloth of a steamer, smooth them, and then steam them with strong fire for 10- 15 minutes until they are half cooked for use; Pour jiaozi powder into a basin, add water and knead into dough for later use.

Clean the purple potato, then steam it in a steamer, peel the purple potato, mash it into mud, add the purple potato mud into the dough and knead it evenly to make it into lavender dough, and the dough will be proofed 1 hour.

Wash carrots and onions, dice carrots, diced bacon and chopped green onion, pour a proper amount of oil into the pot, stir-fry diced carrots, chopped green onion and diced bacon after the oil is heated, then pour steamed miscellaneous grains into the pot and stir-fry, add a small amount of salt, soy sauce and oyster sauce, stir well, and plate for later use.

Now roll the dough, divide the dough into small balls, flatten it, roll it into dough, add stuffing to the dough, then wrap the skirt, and steam the steamed dumplings on the steamer 15-20 minutes.