Lard rice with rice pudding

Overview

Chinese New Year is coming soon, so prepare rice pudding in advance and reheat it to enjoy. Babao rice is the most traditional New Year’s Eve dessert for us Shanghainese. It consists of soft glutinous rice, sweet bean paste, and various preserved fruits, which symbolizes sweetness and happy reunion.

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• old man
• beijing cuisine
• rice
• gan cuisine
• fast food
• cooked lard
• dried cranberries
• glutinous rice
• green raisins
• pine nuts
• preserved fruit
• red bean paste
• red dates
• white sugar

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Cut all kinds of preserved fruits into strips, cut red dates into rounds, prepare cooked pine nuts, green raisins and dried cranberries

   

2. 2 Wash the glutinous rice and drain the water

   

3. 3 Pour the amount of water into the rice cooker to half of the first section of your index finger and press the cooking button

   

4. 4 When the time is up, take it out. The cooked glutinous rice should be soft and glutinous but not mushy

   

5. 5 While hot, add lard and mix quickly

   

6. 6 Then add sugar and mix well

   

7. 7 Mention and prepare red bean paste (sweet)

   

8. 8 Take a bowl and put some lard on it

   

9. 9 Add various preserved fruits to the bottom of the bowl

   

10. 10 First add the glutinous rice to the bottom of the bowl, then slowly push the glutinous rice towards the sides of the bowl until it is hollowed out

    

11. 11 Add bean paste into the center and press lightly

    

12. 12 Then add glutinous rice to cover the bean paste and press it tightly

    

13. 13 Steam in a pot with cold water over high heat for 20 minutes

    

14. 14 Immediately invert in a bowl and enjoy