Babao rice is a happy and auspicious year's snack. It has beautiful color, sweet taste and auspicious meaning. So it is very popular at the feast of the Chinese new year, especially for children. -
Step1:Soak glutinous rice, black rice and lotus seeds overnight.
Step2:Steam the black glutinous rice in a steamer for more than 30 minutes.
Step3:Red date, raisin, medlar, rose, soak in water. Cut the red date in half and remove the date core.
Step4:Take out the steamed black glutinous rice and put them into two containers respectively. Take a tablespoon of glutinous rice and add it into the black rice. Add sugar and oil into the two containers respectively. Wear disposable gloves and knead well.
Step5:Take a deep bowl. Put vegetable oil on the bottom and walls of the bowl. Use all kinds of dried fruits to put out the shape you like.
Step6:Fill the wall of the bowl with glutinous rice and black rice respectively. Flatten the surface and steam in a steamer for 30 minutes. Take out the rice and turn it upside down.
Step7:Beautiful shape, sweet and soft taste, rich nutrition.
Step8:Finished drawings.
Step9:Finished drawings.
Cooking tips:Black rice is more difficult to cook. It can be soaked earlier than glutinous rice or steamed for 30 minutes more than glutinous rice before it is soft and rotten. Traditional Babao rice is more fragrant with lard. If you don't like too much greasy, you can use tasteless vegetable oil. If you like, you can use a variety of dried fruits in the pose type. The rest of the dried fruits can be used to cook porridge. There are skills in making delicious dishes.