Brown sugar eight-treasure rice

Brown sugar eight-treasure rice

Overview

During the Chinese New Year, many places will cook rice with eight treasures. The rice pudding is usually white, but ours is red. In fact, this brown sugar sweet babao is transformed from sweet shaobai. Sweet Shao Bai is a traditional New Year dish, made with red bean paste sandwiched between pork belly and steamed together with glutinous rice fried with brown sugar. In the past, this was a must-have New Year dish every year, but the glutinous rice and red bean paste was always eaten up within two days, while the oily and greasy pork belly had to be eaten naked for several days. Later, the unpopular pork belly was abandoned, and the brown sugar glutinous rice remained in the form of eight-treasure rice.

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  1. Prepare materials

    Brown sugar eight-treasure rice step 1

  2. Wash the glutinous rice and soak it in water overnight

    Brown sugar eight-treasure rice step 2

  3. When the rice grains are swollen, pour out the excess water, leaving only the water slightly below the surface of the rice grains

    Brown sugar eight-treasure rice step 3

  4. Place in a saucepan and steam over high heat for 2-4 hours

    Brown sugar eight-treasure rice step 4

  5. The rice grains are cooked and taken out of the pot

    Brown sugar eight-treasure rice step 5

  6. Add brown sugar while hot

    Brown sugar eight-treasure rice step 6

  7. Mix well and let cool

    Brown sugar eight-treasure rice step 7

  8. Cut donkey-hide gelatin dates and winter melon sugar into slices about 1 cm thick

    Brown sugar eight-treasure rice step 8

  9. Take a large bowl, put plastic wrap on the bottom of the bowl, and use preserved fruits to make flower shapes on the bottom

    Brown sugar eight-treasure rice step 9

  10. Pour in half of the glutinous rice, smooth the surface, and arrange a circle with donkey-hide gelatin dates and winter melon sugar

    Brown sugar eight-treasure rice step 10

  11. Add red bean paste and smooth the surface

    Brown sugar eight-treasure rice step 11

  12. Pour in the remaining glutinous rice and smooth the surface

    Brown sugar eight-treasure rice step 12

  13. Place the remaining preserved fruits

    Brown sugar eight-treasure rice step 13

  14. Wrap in plastic wrap

    Brown sugar eight-treasure rice step 14

  15. Cover the lid and steam again

    Brown sugar eight-treasure rice step 15

  16. Take it out, peel off the plastic wrap, and it’s ready to eat

    Brown sugar eight-treasure rice step 16