What are some home-cooked recipes for eight-treasure rice?

A friend also asked about how to make eight-treasure rice. I simply gave you the detailed steps with pictures and text, and you can help yourself if you like it. Before going abroad, I would make a lot of bowls to give away every Chinese New Year, which is probably my reserve item.

Wash the glutinous rice, steam it, and mix the glutinous rice with sugar and lard (you can use unsalted butter instead). Stir-fry the cooked red bean paste with lard (unsalted butter) and white sugar and set aside. (You can also buy ready-made red bean paste packaged in bags without adding sugar or oil.) Chop walnut kernels, pitted red dates, and various preserved fruits into small pieces for later use.

Take a large bowl for serving vegetables, spread a thin layer of lard (butter) inside the bowl, and place them layer by layer starting from the bottom.

First put some walnut kernels, red dates and preserved fruits at the bottom of the bowl.

Put another layer of glutinous rice mixed with sugar and oil.

On the outer edge of the rice, place some walnut kernels, red dates, and preserved fruits in a circle close to the edge of the bowl.

Put on another layer of red bean paste, as much or as little as you like. At this time, it has been spread to the middle of the depth of the bowl.

Finally, spread the glutinous rice on the bean paste layer and level it with the mouth of the bowl.

Put the entire bowl filled with eight-treasure rice into a steamer to steam. The lard (butter) will melt and penetrate under the action of steam. After the rice, bean paste, preserved fruits and other ingredients are steamed through, the entire bowl will be steamed. Take out the steamer, place it upside down on a flat plate, and the beautiful and delicious rice pudding is ready to eat!

Another close-up.

Note: Because the steps are a bit cumbersome, you might as well make a few more bowls at a time and store them in the freezer of the refrigerator. It should be noted that the rice pudding to be stored should be turned upside down, wait for it to cool, wrap it in plastic wrap and store it in the freezer. When it is time to eat, take it out and put it back into a large bowl as it was when you cooked it. After steaming, put it back into a flat plate. Remember not to put it directly on the plate to steam, otherwise it will fall apart.