Umi Rice

Umi Rice

by Fresh water bamboo

4.7 (1)
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Difficulty

Hard

Time

24h

Serving

2

Eating black rice on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar is a folk custom in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. One of the folklore is that because Shakyamuni’s disciple Mulian, in order to allow his mother in hell to eat, he tried to use black rice leaves to smash the rice and dye the rice, and the hungry ghosts did not dare to eat it. That black rice. His mother was finally able to fill her stomach, and Jiangnan people ate black rice every year to commemorate Mulian's filial son.
According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", the black medicine rice leaf belongs to the Lauraceae family plant. It has mild nature, slightly bitter taste, fragrant leaves, and can be used as medicine. It regulates the vitality of the spleen and stomach, and lowers the Shaoyin and kidney meridian. Umi rice is a kind of purple-black glutinous rice. It is made by collecting the leaves of the wild plant Wufan tree, soaking the glutinous rice for half a day in the boiled soup, and then taking it out and steaming it in a wooden retort. Its flavor is delicate and delicious. , Make people's appetite suddenly increase. And people believe that eating wu rice on Lixia can expel wind and detoxification and prevent mosquito bites.
Umi rice can be made into two types, salty and sweet. The sweet one can be added with sugar, raisins, red dates, nuts, etc.; the salty one can be added with peas, bacon, bamboo shoots, etc. "

Ingredients

Umi Rice

1. Pick the old and tender suitable black rice leaves and wash them

Umi Rice recipe

2. Put it in a food processor, add water to make a juice, filter out the leaf residue

Umi Rice recipe

3. Wash glutinous rice twice

Umi Rice recipe

4. Soak in filtered leaf juice

Umi Rice recipe

5. Soak the glutinous rice for a day, pour out the water

Umi Rice recipe

6. Prepare raisins, red dates, melon seeds, etc., and chop red dates (as you like)

Umi Rice recipe

7. Steam on the pot for 40 minutes until cooked

Umi Rice recipe

8. I use a rice cooker to cook the remaining glutinous rice.

Umi Rice recipe

9. Sprinkle a small amount of sugar while it is hot, mix well with the udon rice and dried fruits

Umi Rice recipe

10. Use a mold to make a shape and sprinkle with sweet-scented osmanthus

Umi Rice recipe

11. The local Lixia custom, eat ud rice and tea eggs, and weigh yourself

Umi Rice recipe

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