【Lanzhou】Millet-flavored purple rice eight-treasure rice

Overview

The early Eight-treasure Rice was made by mixing steamed glutinous rice with sugar and lard, adding lotus seeds, red dates, preserved kumquats, longan meat, honey cherries, honey winter melon, barley rice, melon seeds and other fruit ingredients, and sprinkled with red and green plum shreds. The color, fragrance and beauty also have meanings: lotus seeds are derived from the harmony in the Eight Treasures Diagram, symbolizing marriage harmony; longan symbolizes reunion; kumquats symbolize good luck; red dates symbolize early birth of a child; honey cherries and honey winter melons symbolize sweetness; barley kernels Transformed from a crane, it symbolizes longevity, elegance, and purity; melon seed kernels are a variant of the drum board, symbolizing a regular life, safe and without disasters; red plum silk is the same color as the dragon gate, which means encouraging progress and blessing success; green plum silk symbolizes longevity. Later, the ingredients of the eight-treasure rice were gradually simplified, and various preserved fruits were used instead of kumquat preserves, honey cherries, honey winter melon, and red and green plum shreds. Later, spices such as osmanthus were added, which means that the hall is filled with gold (the osmanthus used must be golden osmanthus) and jade (the glutinous rice is jade-white).

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• rice
• ginkgo
• glutinous rice
• honey
• lard
• purple glutinous rice
• raisins
• red bean paste
• red dates
• ripe millet kernels
• sugar
• walnut kernels
• water starch
• wolfberry

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Mix purple rice and glutinous rice and soak them for more than 4 hours in advance, then steam them in a steamer.

   

2. 2 Peel and wash the corn kernels, raisins, ginkgo nuts, walnut kernels, and red dates and set aside.

   

3. 3 Mix the steamed purple rice with lard and 80 grams of white sugar while it's still hot and stir evenly.

   

4. 4 Spread a layer of lard on the inner wall of a bowl, and spread the dried fruits on the bottom of the bowl according to your favorite pattern.

   

5. 5 Fill half of the purple rice, press it down with a spoon, leaving some depression in the middle, and add the red bean paste filling.

   

6. 6 Continue to cover with the remaining purple rice and tamp down with a spoon. Steam in a steamer over high heat for about ten minutes.

   

7. 7 Take out and let cool slightly. Invert onto a plate.

   

8. 8 Pour half a bowl of water into the pot, add the remaining 20 grams of sugar and 2 tablespoons of honey. After boiling, pour in water starch to thicken the rice, and pour it over the rice.