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What is the best food for the Mid Autumn Festival? Sweet gift of glutinous rice and lotus root

In the mid autumn festival such a special day, I believe that many people have special expectations for food, so a glutinous rice lotus root does not let you a lot of heart?

it's also the Mid Autumn Festival. Glutinous rice lotus root is also a special dish of the Mid Autumn Festival. Lotus root means' Lian 'and' even ', implying a pair of reunion and harmony. In Chinese culture, the meaning of this dish far exceeds the taste of the dish itself. It is a Chinese etiquette dish. Fill lotus root with glutinous rice, soft glutinous and sweet, so that the family reunion dinner begins.

Production process:

1. Prepared materials: lotus root, glutinous rice, red koji rice, rock sugar, white granulated sugar,

2. Put the glutinous rice in a bowl and soak in water for 2 hours,

3. Remove the skin from the lotus root,

4. Cut it 3 or 4 cm away from the node and rinse the holes in the lotus root,

5. Pour the soaked glutinous rice into the lotus root's hole. Fill the lotus root with 7% glutinous rice,

6. Cover the cut part and insert the two parts with a toothpick to ensure that the glutinous rice will not come out,

7. Put the prepared glutinous rice lotus root into the pressure cooker, put water on it, and make sure it is no better than lotus root,

8. Put the prepared sugar,

9. Prepare the rock sugar and cook for 20 minutes,

10. Put the red koji rice in the basket, soak it in water to help color it, then cover it and cook it for about half an hour. Nutritional value: lotus root is an ideal food for vegetarians. It contains a lot of starch, protein, vitamin B, vitamin C, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals. The meat is tender, white and round, sweet and crisp, and can be comparable with pear raw food. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that raw lotus root can cool blood and disperse stasis, cooked food can nourish the heart and kidney, has the effect of nourishing yin and blood, can fill the deficiency of five viscera, strengthen muscles and bones, and nourish blood and blood. Lotus root is a kind of health food for men, women, old and young in summer and autumn.