{"id":18701,"date":"2020-01-02T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/how-to-cook-eight-precious-pudding-ba-zhen-gao\/"},"modified":"2020-01-02T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T09:59:00","slug":"how-to-cook-eight-precious-pudding-ba-zhen-gao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/how-to-cook-eight-precious-pudding-ba-zhen-gao\/","title":{"rendered":"How to cook Eight Precious Pudding\u516b\u73cd\u7cd5"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>  \tEight Precious Pudding in Chinese we say bazhenggao\u516b\u73cd\u7cd5. This is a famous traditional banquet dessert. Usually it contains eight kinds of dried candied fruits that represent eight precious stones.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  \t1 ounce lotus seeds<br \/>  \t2 cups cold water<br \/>  \t2 ounces Chinese red dates<br \/>  \t2 cups glutinous rice<br \/>  \t1\/4 cup sugar<br \/>  \t3 tablespoons oil<br \/>  \t1 red maraschino cherry, stemless<br \/>  \t1 cup any candied fruits<br \/>  \t1 cup red bean paste<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Preparation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  \tAdd lotus seeds to cold water in saucepan. Bring to boil. Simmer on low heat 20 minutes. Drain and cool. Split into halves. Set aside.<\/p>\n<p>  \tPut red dates in bowl on rack in pot or in steamer. Steam covered over boiling water 30 minutes. Set aside.<\/p>\n<p>  \tPut rice in pot with water level 3\/4 inch above rice. Bring to boil. Simmer 20 minutes. Stir in sugar and remaining 2 tablespoons oil. Mix well. Set aside.<\/p>\n<p>  \tGrease medium-sized bowl heavily with oil. Place cherry in center. Arrange lotus seeds, red dates, and candied fruits in circles around bottom and up to edge of bowl, glazed side down.<\/p>\n<p>  \tSpread a layer of rice mixture over fruits carefully so as not to spoil the design. Spoon a layer of red bean paste over the rice. Cover with another layer of rice. Pack tight.<\/p>\n<p>  \tPlace bowl on rack in pot or in steamer. Cover. Steam over boiling water 1 hour. Remove pudding carefully by running flexible spatula around edge. Put serving plate over bowl and invert bowl.<\/p>\n<p>  \tServe pudding with Sweet Almond Sauce &#8211; Boil 3 tablespoons sugar in 1 cup water, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Stir in 1 teaspoon almond extract. Thicken with 1 tablespoon cornstarch dissolved in 2 tablespoons water.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3448210442\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight Precious Pudding in Chinese we say bazhenggao\u516b\u73cd\u7cd5. This is a famous traditional banquet dessert. Usually it contains eight kinds of dried candied fruits that represent eight precious stones.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2859],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-food"],"views":151,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}