The ingredients of the eight-treasure rice should be steamed separately, and the main ingredient glutinous rice can be replaced. Every New Year's Eve is indispensable, because Babao rice not only has the meaning of family reunion, but also has various auspicious meanings such as peace, longevity and happiness. Eight-treasure rice is not only eight kinds, but also more or less. We should pay attention to the practice of eight-treasure rice. Pay attention to the small fire when melting the syrup. Don't overcook the syrup, or it will be bitter. Assorted dishes usually use salted ham and bacon. These foods are usually dry. Soak them in water before eating to avoid dryness and hardness. In addition, if you use salty items, such as sausages, remember not to put oil, because sausages contain a lot of oil.

Prepare glutinous rice, sugar, hawthorn cake, candied dates, ginkgo and raisins. Then soak the glutinous rice for more than 4 hours, and then drain the water. Then soak the steamer cloth, wring out the water, spread the glutinous rice on the steamer cloth, and steam for 20 minutes on high fire. Take out the steamed glutinous rice after steaming, add sugar and mix well. Then take a big bowl and put out the prepared dried fruits. Then spread glutinous rice, then spread a layer of dried fruit, then spread the remaining glutinous rice into a bowl and flatten it. Put it in a steamer and steam for about 30 minutes on high fire. Take out the bowl and pour it upside down on the plate while it is hot. Put ginkgo around, put a wok on the fire, thicken it with water, put some sugar and pour it on the eight-treasure rice.

The purpose of heating glutinous rice twice is to make the cooked eight-treasure rice taste softer and glutinous. Cooking in an electric cooker for the first time aims to make the glutinous rice better heated evenly, thus shortening the subsequent cooking time of cooked glutinous rice. The second heating is steaming with the ingredients, so that the sweetness of the ingredients can be better mixed with the glutinous rice, and the glutinous rice can better absorb the taste, so that the glutinous rice tastes more fragrant and sweeter, so these two processes are indispensable.

The main reason why the eight-treasure rice tastes too sweet is that the amount of sugar is not well controlled. The ingredients added in the eight-treasure rice are also sweet, and the cooked glutinous rice should be stirred with white sugar and finally poured with sugar juice, which will increase the sweetness of the eight-treasure rice. So when adding sugar, be sure to add sugar juice evenly. If the sweetness is too high, the subsequent sugar juice can be omitted to avoid being too sweet.