Eight-treasure rice for reunion

Overview

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, so make a rice pudding that the whole family can eat, and there are many ingredients that even a one-year-old child can eat. It is sweet and delicious, symbolizing reunion, wealth, and contentment. In fact, the method is not complicated. Just steam the glutinous rice flour and then add a layer of glutinous rice and a black sesame filling. Decorate the surface with some red dates and raisins! Come and give it a try! It’s also a great dessert to add to the New Year’s Eve dinner! Many people think that glutinous rice is difficult to digest. In fact, compared with rice, glutinous rice is easier to digest and absorb. The main components of glutinous rice and rice are starches, but glutinous rice contains less amylose and more amylopectin than rice. Generally, amylopectin is digested more efficiently than amylopectin, so glutinous rice is actually easier to digest and absorb

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• new year’s eve dinner
• spring festival
• black sesame powder
• butter
• cranberry
• glutinous rice
• raisins
• red dates
• sugar

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare the glutinous rice. The glutinous rice should be round like this. The glutinous rice is soft, glutinous and sweet, which is very suitable for making eight-treasure rice.

   

2. 2 Wash the glutinous rice and soak it in water. I soaked it for an hour.

   

3. 3 This is the state after one hour, usually about 4 hours of soaking.

   

4. 4 Prepare a steamer or put gauze under the steamer. If there is no gauze, you can also use a toothpick to poke many holes in the oil paper.

   

5. 5 Place the glutinous rice in the steamer and spread it flat.

   

6. 6 Put it on the pot and steam it for about 20 minutes, as long as it is cooked through.

   

7. 7 After steaming, it will be like this. It's very good.

   

8. 8 After the butter melts, add black sesame powder and powdered sugar and mix well. Set aside.

   

9. 9 Wash the raisins and red dates, remove the cores of the red dates and cut them into small pieces for later use.

   

10. 10 Prepare a bowl, grease it with a layer of oil, and arrange the red dates, raisins, and cranberries in any shape you like.

    

11. 11 Press the glutinous rice on top so that the red dates and raisins are fixed, and put a red date border around it.

    

12. 12 Use rice to press the edges of the dates into shape.

    

13. 13 Place a layer of black sesame filling and sprinkle raisins and cranberries next to it.

    

14. 14 Continue to press a layer of glutinous rice on top of the sesame filling.

    

15. 15 Add another layer of sesame filling and raisins.

    

16. 16 Finally, cover with glutinous rice and everything is ready.

    

17. 17 Just re-steam it when eating to let the flavors blend.