Colored sticky rice -You Are Foodie

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Colored sticky rice

As a child of a strong family, there is a kind of food that will be eaten in the misty and rainy spring. That is "five color glutinous rice".Whether it is the song fair on March 3 or the ancestor worship in the Qingming Festival, with the memories of our childhood, this colorful food will never be absent from the dinner table. The five color glutinous rice dyed with natural plants is not only beautiful and delicious, but also has certain medicinal value.Red orchid has the function of generating blood. The Qing Dynasty's "Lushan hall debate" said: "the red flowers are red and juicy, which can generate blood and circulate blood";"Huanghua rice" has the functions of clearing away heat and cooling blood;In the compendium of Materia Medica, lishizhen said that maple leaves "stop bleeding and benefit sleep, strengthen tendons and strength, and take long time to lighten the body". She also said that the green rice cooked with maple leaves can "strengthen the muscles and bones, benefit the intestines and stomach, be able to move, and replenish the marrow".Renrendui www.renrendui comSince you are so powerful, do you also want to know how these magical plants become a delicacy? So today I'm going to teach you how to make the magic five color glutinous rice.

Main Ingredients

Auxiliary Ingredients

Red orchid 1
maple leaves 2

The best soaking time for raw glutinous rice is one day and one night

Step 1 . First of all, you need to prepare four plants, maple leaf, yellow flower, red orchid and purple orchid

Step 2 . Black glutinous rice with fresh maple leaves

Step 3 . Mash it in a mortar, dry it slightly, and immerse it in a certain amount of water

Step 4 . After soaking for a period of time, if you see the water turning black, you can take out the leaf residue and filter it, that is, you can get the black dye solution

Step 5 . Put the black dye liquid into the pot of Chinese water and boil it to 50 or 60 degrees, and then immerse the glutinous rice in it

Step 6 . Yellow glutinous rice, yellow flowers because of the flowering season once a year, so we use dried yellow flowers

Step 7 . Soak the fruits and tubers of yellow flower plants in water and boil them to get yellow plant juice. Filter out the garbage and let it cool, and then pour it into glutinous rice to soak

Step 8 . Red and purple glutinous rice, dye: red and blue grass (red orchid, purple orchid) is the same variety of red and blue grass with different leaves

Step 9 . Red orchid has round leaves and light colors

Step 10 . The boiled rice is light in color, and the soaked rice turns bright red

Step 11 . The leaves are slightly longer and the color is slightly darker, which is purple orchid

Step 12 . The boiled rice is thick in color, and the soaked rice turns purple

Step 13 . After extracting four kinds of juices, soak different amounts of raw glutinous rice in them

Step 14 . After it is evenly colored, put it into a steamer and steam for about an hour

Step 15 . The glutinous rice with five colors of black, red, yellow, purple and white (glutinous rice natural color) can be steamed

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