Five-color Glutinous Rice

Name: Five-color Glutinous Rice
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2000g Glutinous rice; 2 small handfuls yellow flower; 1 piece Purple blue grass; 2 Maple leaf; 1 piece Red Bluegrass

by gexiaozanyuan

4.6 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

1h

Serving

2

As a child of a strong family, there is a kind of food that will definitely be eaten in the rainy spring, that is, "five-colored glutinous rice."
Whether it is the song fair on March 3 or the ancestor worship in the Qingming Festival, along with the memories of our childhood, this colorful dish will always be on 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 Lancao has the effect of promoting blood. The Qing Dynasty "Lv Shantang Leibian" said: "The red flower is red and juicy, and it is a product that produces blood and promotes blood";
"Huanghuafan" has the functions of clearing heat and cooling blood;
Li Shizhen said in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that maple leaves "stops diarrhea, benefits sleep, strengthens muscles and vitality, long-term service and light body for many years." Line, replenish the marrow".
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Since it is so powerful, do you also want to know how these magical plants turn into a delicacy? So today I will teach you how to make magical five-color glutinous rice. "

Ingredients

2000g Glutinous Rice
2 small handfuls Yellow Flower
1 piece Purple Blue Grass
2 Maple Leaf
1 piece Red Bluegrass

Five-color Glutinous Rice

1. First you have to prepare four plants, maple leaf, yellow flower, red blue grass, purple blue grass

2. Black glutinous rice, using fresh maple leaves

3. Put it in a mortar, smash it, let it air dry, and immerse it in a certain amount of water

4. After soaking for a period of time, if you see that the water turns black, you can remove the leaf residue and filter it out to obtain the black dye solution.

5. The black dye solution should be boiled in a pot of Chinese water to 50 or 60 degrees, and then the glutinous rice should be immersed in it

6. Yellow glutinous rice, yellow flowers are in season once a year, so we use dried yellow flowers

7. Soak the yellow flower plant fruits and tubers in water and boil, you can get the yellow and orange plant juice. After filtering out the residue and letting cool, you can pour the glutinous rice to soak