Brown sugar, red dates, glutinous rice and lotus root

Overview

There is always a taste that lingers in the memory! When I went to the supermarket to buy food, I saw a load of wet lotus roots in the cart, and I immediately thought of the sweet and glutinous glutinous rice lotus roots. When I was a kid, when I went to visit my elders during the New Year holidays, as long as there were children around, there would always be a dish of glutinous rice lotus roots on the dinner table. The lotus roots are soft and tender, not the crisp, sweet and glutinous ones we usually eat. Adding some candied osmanthus would be even better! So at that time, I always liked to follow my mother to visit relatives, and I was greedy for eating delicious food. And this glutinous rice lotus root was also one of my favorites at that time. Later, when I grew up, I learned to cook by myself. During festivals, I became the chef and cooked for visiting relatives and friends. If relatives came with their children, I would naturally make a glutinous rice and lotus root dish to entertain them. (Actually, I want to eat it myself!) Making glutinous rice and lotus root is not difficult, and the ingredients are very simple, but putting the glutinous rice into the lotus root joints is a task that tests your patience. If you want it to be delicious and beautiful, you can only be careful and patient, and pour the glutinous rice into it bit by bit. There is no need to soak the rice, just wash it and pack it directly. My daughter Duoduo looked at me and asked, why don’t you pretend to be faster? I answered her: If you want to eat delicious food, you have to be patient! The daughter asked again: Mom, how did you know this was done? I answered her: Because my mother loves to learn, I can learn it! No one is born knowing everything. Only by continuous learning can we accumulate more knowledge! Five-year-old Duoduo seemed to understand, but she said: Just like I study in kindergarten, mom, you study online! Yes, thanks to the Internet, I have learned a lot of knowledge and delicious food, allowing me to cook a variety of foods in the kitchen and offer them to my family!

Tags

• snacks
• cold dishes
• home cooking
• children
• winter recipes
• banquet dishes
• lunch
• brown sugar
• clear water
• glutinous rice
• lotus root
• red dates

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash the glutinous rice;

   

2. 2 Wash and peel the lotus root, cut off a piece of lotus root about 1CM thick from both ends and set aside;

   

3. 3 Put the glutinous rice into the holes of the lotus root joints little by little. You can use chopsticks to push it in little by little. Be careful and don't use force. You don't need to soak the glutinous rice in advance. Just put it directly. You don't need to make it particularly solid. It will swell when it is cooked. After putting the rice, put the lotus root slices that you cut before. You can stagger it a little so that the glutinous rice does not come out when it is cooked. Fix it with toothpicks;

   

4. 4 Prepare brown sugar and red dates;

   

5. 5 Put the lotus root into the electric pressure cooker, then add brown sugar, red dates, and water; the water should cover the lotus root;

   

6. 6 Press the pressure cooker for 30 minutes; you don’t need to open the lid after that, just simmer for a few hours. I made it at night, simmered it overnight, and opened the lid the next morning;

   

7. 7 Open the lid and the glutinous rice lotus root is ready;

   

8. 8 Take it out, remove both ends, slice it and put it on a plate. If you have sugar osmanthus, you can sprinkle some sugar osmanthus on top;

   

9. 9 Slice and serve on a plate, pour a little brown sugar juice over it, and sprinkle some sugar osmanthus flowers if available. This is a simple and delicious banquet dish that is very popular and easy to serve.