Eight-treasure Rice

Overview

Eight-treasure rice is an indispensable part of the Spring Festival dinner table. In the past, eating a cup of eight-treasure rice was a very happy thing. What I liked most was digging out the small piece of bean paste inside. Now I can also make eight-treasure rice. Of course, it must be filled with plenty of ingredients, and it must be full of bean paste. Use glutinous rice that is so sticky that it sticks to your lips to entertain your relatives and friends.

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• maternity
• children
• old man
• festival customs
• new year’s eve dinner
• beijing cuisine
• meters
• rice
• dahan
• glutinous rice
• lard
• pine nuts
• pumpkin seeds
• raisins
• red bean paste
• red dates
• sugar
• wolfberry

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Soak the glutinous rice in water overnight.

   

2. 2 The next day, steam the glutinous rice over water. If you poke it with chopsticks and it feels soft, it means it is cooked.

   

3. 3 Scoop 2 tablespoons of lard, sprinkle with sugar, and mix the rice evenly.

   

4. 4 Arrange red dates, raisins, pine nuts, melon seeds, wolfberry and other nuts in the bowl according to the shapes

   

5. 5 First put a layer of glutinous rice in the bowl, then squeeze in the red bean paste. Try to squeeze the red bean paste into the middle to prevent it from leaking out of the rice. After squeezing the bean paste, use glutinous rice flour to build it up little by little, cover the bean paste, and compact it tightly.

   

6. 6 Finally, turn it upside down on a plate, shake the bowl, and the eight-treasure rice will fall off. It can be refrigerated and frozen for storage. When you eat it, steam it and you can serve it to guests.