Eight-Treasure Congee

Eight-Treasure Congee

　　Eight-Treasure Congee

　　Eight-Treasure Congee is primarily made with glutinous rice. It is paired with ingredients such as red dates, lotus seeds, lily bulbs, ginkgo nuts, longan flesh, and candied fruits, and can also include nuts like walnuts, hawthorn cake, raisins, peanuts, roses, cherries, and other fruits and vegetables. The basic preparation involves washing the glutinous rice, soaking it in water in a basin, steaming it, then mixing it with an appropriate amount of white sugar and cooked lard. Another method involves using a steaming bowl, greasing the bottom of the bowl, or

　　alternatively layering slices of fat pork at intervals. Various fruit and nut ingredients are arranged at the bottom of the bowl in a desired pattern, then the steamed glutinous rice is spooned in, smoothed out, and a few holes are poked with chopsticks before steaming again. Finally, the congee is inverted onto a serving plate and brought to the table.