How to make delicious steamed lotus leaf vegetarian rice for Vu Lan holiday

Prepare
15 Minutes Processing
30 Minutes For
3-4 people

What could be more wonderful than when on Vu Lan’s holiday, you can make your parents a delicious and attractive bowl of vegetarian steamed rice with lotus leaves? Let’s go to the kitchen with Tnhelearning.edu.vn and learn how to make this meaningful dish.

Ingredients for steamed rice with lotus leaves

• 3 cups of cooked rice
• 100g each (lotus seeds, peas, shiitake, carrots)
• 1 lotus leaf
• Purple onion
• Seasoning: Sugar, cooking oil, salt

Good tip
– Delicious dried lotus seeds are milky white, slightly yellowish, evenly colored. Lotus seeds are hard, crispy, the center of the lotus is not cracked much and has a characteristic aroma. Should not buy lotus seeds with green mold, black and chipped.
– Peas you should choose seeds that have a glossy, crunchy outer shell that is not lumpy and has a bright green color.
– Dried shiitake mushrooms should be selected with a light brown mushroom cap, not broken. Do not choose mushrooms that have a strange smell or appear white mold spots.
Choose carrots that are straight, have smooth skin, and are bright in color. Do not choose soft, distorted or wilted fruit. Carrots that are too large are often low in vitamins and are not as sweet as small ones.
– Fresh lotus leaves, you should choose leaves that are not too old, intact, wide, not deep or yellowed.
– You can buy the above ingredients at reputable markets, food stores or supermarkets to ensure quality.

Ingredients for steamed rice with lotus leaves

How to make steamed vegetarian rice with lotus leaves

Step 1Process materials

Peas and lotus seeds after the season comes, you wash them with water and then dry them.

Buy dried shiitake mushrooms, soak them in warm water ( 60 – 80 degrees Celsius) for about 7-10 minutes, then take them out, squeeze out the water and cut into small pieces to eat.

Onions you peel, slice. Peel the carrots and cut them into cubes.

Process materials

Step 2Boil peas and lotus seeds

Put about 300ml of water in a pot, bring to a boil. When the water boils, you put the peas in and boil for 5 minutes, when the beans are cooked, take them out.

Add 1 teaspoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt to the bean broth, then boil the lotus seeds, then take them out.

Boil peas and lotus seeds

Step 3Stir fried rice

Put 1 tbsp cooking oil in a pan, bring to a boil. When the oil is hot, add the sliced red onion and sauté until fragrant. Next, you add peas, carrots, and shiitake mushrooms to stir-fry together.

Add 1 teaspoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt, then add lotus seeds and white rice to the island, mix the rice and ingredients together, stir-fry for 5 minutes, then turn off the heat.

Stir fried rice

Step 4Steamed rice

Put the fried rice in the lotus leaf, wrap it well and steam it for about 7 minutes.

Steamed rice

Hot Tip: If you don’t have a steamer, you can use a rice cooker instead.

Finished product

Delicious and attractive steamed vegetarian rice with lotus leaves

The steamed lotus leaf vegetarian rice dish is simple and easy to make, isn’t it? The rice is wrapped in lotus leaves, so it has a faint aroma combined with the sweet taste of nuts and fruits that will surely make your parents have to compliment it.

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