Sweet osmanthus and glutinous rice lotus root in honey sauce

Bamboo branches, without them, the honey lotus roots will fall apart and turn into honey soup. Of course, you can't find this kind of bamboo children's shoes to be replaced with toothpicks or bamboo sticks.

The ingredients are very simple ~ Two thick and short lotus roots (mine is not thick enough, the thicker the hole will be bigger), and of course there are glutinous rice hidden inside the lotus roots (this glutinous rice was bought by my mother, not so good, it is mixed with rice. Everyone should take a good look when buying glutinous rice ~) In fact, only half of the glutinous rice was used. By the way, just wash the glutinous rice and dry it, you don't have to soak it.

You don't need to peel the lotus root clean. Places like the lotus root joints are potholes and are not easy to wash, but you can brush it clean with a toothbrush.

Some lotus roots have small holes in the bottom ~ Everyone may be worried that glutinous rice will leak out ~ So what should I do? In fact, the solution is very simple. The first secret is to grab the lotus root with your hand and pound it vertically on the table, so that the small hole at the bottom will be blocked by the mashed lotus root paste, and the glutinous rice will not leak out. (Attention! Don't use too hard, otherwise it won't be the bottom of the lotus root turning into mud to block the small hole. I guess a boy with strong hands can break the entire lotus root)

Cut the top of the lotus root obliquely to make it easier to fill glutinous rice immediately. Don't cut it too far or the hole on the other side will become smaller.

The other one is also chamfered.

Then I found a cup where I could put the lotus root in and put the lotus root in it upright. I took the beer cup that my father used to drink tea.

Mix glutinous rice, add sugar to the glutinous rice according to the sweetness you like, and then mix well. You can mix less first, and then mix it when it is not enough, so it will not be easy to leave. There is also a great use of dried glutinous rice without sugar under it.

My secret weapon ~ Secret 3: Decoration bag! It is very convenient to use this to fill glutinous rice, and the method to use it is also very simple. First, reduce one opening from the decoration bag. This opening cannot be big or small. If it is big, the small hole cannot be stuffed in. If it is small, it will be too difficult to plug the large hole. The specific size should be determined based on the size of your lotus root hole, and you can take an average value. Then insert a chopstick in the decoration bag, place the decoration nozzle in the lotus root hole, and use the chopsticks to poke it in so that the glutinous rice can easily enter.

There is also pressure while poking, so that the glutinous rice inside will be solid when cooked. (Because the living room was so hot, I moved to the bedroom, which has air conditioning)

Three: When stuffing glutinous rice into such small holes, you can use chopsticks to poke the hole big first, so that it will be more convenient to stuff immediately. By the way, because sugar is put in the glutinous rice, the dried glutinous rice becomes sticky again. It is very inconvenient to plug the small holes. At this time, the dried glutinous rice that was left without sugar plays a big role! Because the glutinous rice is dried in advance, the glutinous rice can easily slide into the hole.

Fill the lotus root cover you just cut with glutinous rice.

Finally, I inserted the washed bamboo poles in and fixed them. I inserted three in.

I treated this bamboo pole in advance, first brushing it with a toothbrush, then soaking it in salt water and finally boiling it with boiling water, so it is very clean. Remember ~ The tail section where you insert the lotus root must be sharpened so that it will be convenient when you poke it at the end.

Don't cut the last handle, so that the bamboo stems won't come out when cooking.

Both of them are done. The one on the left is mom's and the one on the right is mine. Obviously mom is greedy.

Put the lotus root filled with glutinous rice into the pot and pour water into it. The water fills the lotus root.

Cover and bring to a boil over high heat. (You are right, this is the inner liner of the electric rice cooker. Because the electric rice cooker is broken, I only use the inner liner and usually use it to cook porridge.)

After boiling, pour it into this purple sand soup pot with water lotus roots. Because the power of our pot is low and not as high as the power of the electric rice cooker, it is very suitable for braising things.

Put osmanthus sugar. Put 4 spoons on this spoon. This spoon is not very deep or shallow, just the kind you usually use for eating.

4 spoonfuls of rock sugar.

I started cooking at high temperature for 6 hours.

Later, the water dried and water was added. The water exceeded the lotus root. Finally, the automatic gear was adjusted and the cooking lasted for another 5 hours. It lasted for 11 hours from 8:30 last night to 6:30 this morning. Although it takes a long time, you just need to add water once halfway. I suggest everyone cook this after 9 p.m., because the electricity bill from 9 p.m. to 8 p.m. the next day is half price. Of course, if you use gas to cook, you don't have to wait until after 9 o'clock. If you think the cooking time is too long, you can use a pressure cooker to cook, which will only take 30 to 40 minutes to cook. However, our family never touches "heavy weapons" like pressure cookers, so I'd better play with my "light weapons" honestly.

Dang Dang ~ It's cooked ~ The color is red.

Slice it after it cools ~ Show off my knife.