【Guangdong】Reunion Eight-treasure Rice

Overview

Northerners like to eat dumplings during the New Year, and southerners like to eat glutinous rice balls. Both northerners and southerners like to eat eight-treasure rice. It means good luck and peace! The eight kinds of ingredients represent eight kinds of blessings: glutinous rice symbolizes advancement, red beans symbolizes a prosperous life, longan symbolizes reunion, lotus seeds symbolizes a hundred years of good marriage, and candied dates symbolize sweetness. Putting so many blessings on one plate is like a cornucopia gathering wealth from all directions. This dessert is simple to make and has a profound meaning.

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• chinese banquet
• candied dates
• edible oil
• glutinous rice
• longan
• pumpkin sticks
• raisins
• red bean paste
• red beans
• strawberry syrup
• walnut
• wolfberry
• lotus seeds

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare the ingredients, soak the glutinous rice overnight, cook the lotus seeds and red beans, and prepare the red bean filling in advance;

   

2. 2 Bake walnuts in the oven for 5 minutes, wash raisins, longans and candied dates;

   

3. 3 Add 120 grams of red bean boiling water to the glutinous rice and pressure cooker for 40 minutes;

   

4. 4 After steaming, take it out and add a small spoonful of cooked cooking oil while it's still hot. I didn't add sugar. If you like sweetness, feel free to add some;

   

5. 5 Cut a few pumpkin strips for decoration;

   

6. 6 Grease a large bowl with oil and arrange it with your favorite pattern;

   

7. 7 Cover with a layer of glutinous rice and press it tightly; arrange four pumpkin strips and 4 lotus seeds;

   

8. 8 Spread a layer of red bean paste, then a layer of glutinous rice, and place longan, lotus seeds, and pumpkin strips;

   

9. 9 Cover with a layer of tin foil to prevent water droplets from entering; steam in a pot for about 15 minutes.

   

10. 10 Invert it onto a plate and pour some strawberry syrup over it.

    

11. 11 Happy New Year to my friends! All blessings are on the plate!