500g, 500g honeyed winter melon strips, 250g honeyed cherry, 250g longan meat

g, 50g melon seeds, sugar, lard, wet starch and soda ash

Amount.

Production

1. Place the wok on a high fire with a bamboo skip inside the pot, add 150

0 grams of water to boil, add lotus seeds and 35 grams of soda ash, and stir continuously with a bamboo brush

Peel them (about 15 minutes), take them out, and pour out the pot of water. The second time

Use the same method, add 1500 grams of water and 15 grams of soda ash and continue stirring in the pot

until the lotus skin is removed (about 5 minutes) and take it out. , then rinse with

warm water, use a thin bamboo skewer to poke out the lotus core, put it into a cage on a high fire

Steam for half an hour until it is cooked and take it out;

2. Wash the barley rice and put it into a bowl, add 100 grams of water to soak it,

Steam over high heat for about half an hour until it blooms, then rinse with water and drain after taking it out of the cage

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3． Wash the glutinous rice, put it into a porcelain bowl, add 500 grams of white sugar

and 1000 grams of water, mix thoroughly, put it in a cage and steam it over high heat for half an hour until it is cooked

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4． Wash and remove the core of the red dates, cut them into 0.3 cm square pieces along with the honeyed winter melon strips and longan meat;

5. Take ten bowls, put lotus seeds, red dates, barley rice, honeyed winter melon strips, longan meat, and melon seeds into the bottom of the bowl in sequence, and then put the cooked glutinous rice in them. On top, put it into a cage and steam it over high heat for half an hour and take it out;

6. Put the wok on a high fire, add 2000 grams of water and 1000 grams of white

sugar, add the steamed eight-treasure rice to the pot, stir together and bring to a boil, then add

lard 75 grams, dilute with wet starch to thicken, put into pot and divide into ten bowls, divide them

Don’t sprinkle with candied cherries and serve

Eight-treasure rice with bean paste (a traditional Ningbo snack)

Eight-treasure rice with bean paste is made from glutinous rice, bean paste, jujube paste, preserved fruit, lotus seeds, rice kernels, longan, white sugar, pork suet and other raw materials. Glutinous rice nourishes the heart and replenishes qi, cowpea is known as the "kidney-tonifying bean"; jujube paste has the effect of harmonizing hundreds of medicines, which is very beneficial to human health and longevity; lotus heart has the effect of strengthening the heart, rice kernel has the effect of strengthening the spleen and lungs, and longan has the effect of strengthening the spleen and lungs. It is known to have the effect of tonifying the middle and replenishing qi. Composed of 8 kinds of raw materials, it is not only rich in nutrients and can prolong life, but also has a mellow, sweet and unique flavor.

The process of making rice with bean paste and eight-treasure rice is very particular. First, clean the cowheads, cook and mash them, remove the bean skins, add lard and white sugar, fry until the water is almost dry and set aside; wash the glutinous rice and cook until it is moderately soft and hard, and mix it with lard and sugar while it is hot. sugar. The bowl containing the eight-treasure rice should first be smeared with a layer of condensed lard to prevent it from sticking to the bowl, then put in various patterns, add bean paste in the middle, and then cover it with glutinous rice. In this way, rice with bean paste and rice pudding is ready. It can be kept in the refrigerator for several days without going bad.

Before eating, rice with bean paste and eight-treasure rice must be steamed and placed in a large basin before eating. Its characteristics are that it is colorful, waxy and oily, with eight treasures, sweet and delicious. Babao rice also contains a variety of vitamins, fats, sugars, inorganic salts and other nutrients, making it a very popular snack.