Black rice is a kind of purple-black glutinous rice, which is made by collecting the leaves of wild plant Vaccinium bracteatum, boiling the glutinous rice in the boiled soup for a long time, then taking it out and steaming it in a wooden steamer. Black rice is oily and fragrant, and it is cooked by soaking glutinous rice in black leaves for a few hours.

Eating black rice can dispel wind and detoxify, and prevent mosquitoes and insects from biting, and people believe that eating black rice in long summer will protect people's safety and happiness.

What leaves does black rice use?

Vaccinium bracteatum

Vaccinium bracteatum, also known as Southern Candle, was called Dye. It is an evergreen shrub of Ericaceae. Most of them are distributed in the south of China, and they are named after people steamed black rice with their leaves on the third day of March in the lunar calendar every year. It is light-loving, drought-tolerant, cold-resistant and barren-tolerant, and has a wide range of adaptability, which can be planted in most areas of China. It is a rare excellent material for making bonsai and potted plants. Propagation is mainly based on cutting and sowing.

The practice of black rice

Ingredients: 500g glutinous rice, 200g ebony leaves, proper amount of water, bacon, corn, diced bamboo shoots, carrots and peas.

Practice:

1, prepare ebony leaves.

2. Add a proper amount of water to the ebony leaves and break them with a blender. After standing for half an hour, filter out the ebony leaves juice.

3. Pour in glutinous rice and soak for one night.

4. After soaking, the glutinous rice is not very black, it doesn't matter, it will be black and shiny after cooking.

5, steamer pad gauze steam for 25 minutes. There is no steamer to put in the rice cooker for cooking. Pay attention to the fact that the water is only slightly over the rice, and it is not delicious if it is too soft and rotten.

6, to eat salty mouth, you can add diced bacon, diced bamboo shoots, diced carrots, peas, corn and other ingredients to stir fry.

7. If you want to eat something sweet, just mix some sugar and you can eat it.