When making eight-treasure rice, you can also add longan, red dates, medlar, lotus seeds, green and red silk and other ingredients according to your taste.
The bean and rice ingredients for making eight-treasure rice need to be cleaned and soaked in clear water for more than two hours, respectively, so that the steamed eight-treasure rice will taste softer and more glutinous.
Eight-treasure rice is a kind of food for Han people. It is a dessert steamed with glutinous rice and bean paste, lard, white sugar, longan, red dates, lotus seeds and other accessories. The added materials vary from place to place and are popular all over the country, especially in Jiangnan. Steamed glutinous rice, mixed with sugar, lard and sweet-scented osmanthus, poured into a container filled with fruit materials such as red dates, coix seed, lotus seeds and longan pulp, steamed and then poured with sugar marinade. It tastes sweet and is a good holiday and hospitality.