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Spring Festival Dessert ~ Brown Sugar, Red Dates, and Chinese Yam

Spring Festival Dessert ~ Brown Sugar, Red Dates, and Chinese Yam

A gentle Spring Festival dessert of Chinese yam and red dates simmered with brown sugar in a rice cooker, yielding a soft, starchy-sweet, warming tonic often enjoyed in winter.

Instructions

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    Prepare the ingredients.

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    Dampen the red dates with water, add a little flour and salt inside, rub the red dates a few times, and rinse them clean with water.

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    Remove the pit from the jujube.

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    Wash the Chinese yam clean, cut it into water chestnut shapes, place them in a bowl, add salt, and soak for two minutes.

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    Put the brown sugar, red dates, and Chinese yam into the rice cooker.

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    Add boiling water that doesn’t fully cover the ingredients, and use chopsticks to dissolve the brown sugar.

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    Cover and press the steam cook button for one hour.

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    Time's up, and the whole room is filled with a sweet aroma.

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    Sprinkle with a little white sesame, fragrant, sweet, and soft, especially delicious.

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Ingredients

Main Ingredients

  • red date
    10 piece
  • Chinese yam
    2 pieces
  • Flour
    a pinch
  • boiling water
    to taste

Seasonings

  • brown sugar
    3 piece
  • Salt
    a pinch

Auxiliary Ingredients

  • white sesame
    a pinch