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1½ cups glutinous rice
½ cup sweet red bean paste
4 pieces red dates
1 candied orange, dried longan pulp,
green and red candied papaya
shreds, or any kind
of candied fruit
2 tablespoons shortening or lard
Seasonings:
3 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon cornstarch paste
½ teaspoon gui-hua jam
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Method:
Rinse the rice until clean, place in a
rice cooker with 1 cup of water, cook until done. Mix evenly
with 1 tablespoon of lard and 2 tablespoons of sugar while the rice is
hot. Soak red dates to soften, cut off pulp. Slice candied
orange. Also cut all large ingredients to smaller size.
Using a mold or 6" bowl, brush the bottom with lard or shortening, lay
all of the ingredients on very attractively in rows or other designs.
Place ⅔ of mixed rice in the bowl
carefully to cover the fruit and nuts, then put the sweet red bean
paste in center. Cover the bean paste with remaining rice.
Flatten the surface. Steam the pudding for at least 2 hours.
Reverse it on a serving plate. Boil ½ cup of water with 1
tablespoon of sugar, thicken with cornstarch paste, pour it over the
rice pudding. You may choose any kind of dried fruit or nuts you
like. For those dried ingredients, it should be soaked in water
to soften it and for those large ingredients, it must be cut into
smaller pieces.
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