What materials do you want for five colors of five-color glutinous rice?
Making five-color glutinous rice pays more attention to methods. Gray-black glutinous rice cake, that is, red maple leaves and the skin of tender stems are mashed in a mortar, slightly dried and then infiltrated into a certain amount of water. After soaking for a day and a night, the leaf residue is picked up and filtered to obtain the black dye solution. Black dye juice should be put into a pot and blanched to 50 or 60 degrees, and then fermented rice should be infiltrated into it.
Yellow dye can be obtained from the fruits and tubers of green plants such as safflower juice (Buddleja officinalis, called "Huamai" in Zhuang language), gardenia jasminoides Ellis, Huangqiang, etc. Boil the safflower juice, or mash the Gardenia jasminoides Ellis and soak it in water to obtain a yellow dye solution, or mash it with Huangqiang and rub it vigorously with the fermented rice to obtain light yellow fermented rice (which can be steamed immediately without soaking).
Red dye and purple dye are made from the same kind of red and blue grass (called gogyaemq in Zhuang language) by blanching. The leaves are slightly longer, the color tone is slightly darker, the boiled color tone is thicker, and the soaked rice becomes blue-purple; The leaves are round, the color tone is light, the boiled color tone is light, and the soaked rice becomes red.
After getting the four kinds of juice out, put different amounts of rice into it to soak, and then put it in a steamer for about an hour after coloring, so that the glutinous rice cake with five colors of black, red, yellow, purple and white (the primary color of fermented rice) can be steamed. The five-color glutinous rice made in that way is gorgeous, colorful, crystal clear and bright, and its nourishment is soft, delicious, mellow and calm, and slightly sweet, which makes people feel unsatisfied. The five-color glutinous rice dyed with pure plants is not only beautiful, generous and delicious, but also has certain effects and functions. The red bluegrass flower has the effect of promoting blood circulation. The Qing Dynasty's Argument on the Class of Lvshantang said: "Red flower red juice is abundant, which is a product for enriching blood and promoting blood circulation", and "red flower rice" or Gardenia jasminoides Ellis has the effect of clearing away heat and cooling blood. The refined rice cooked with red maple leaves can strengthen bones and tendons, benefit the gastrointestinal tract, be able to do it, tonify kidney and replenish essence.
How did the color of five-color glutinous rice come on?
In fact, this is not made of toxic pigments, but with the juice of some natural plants, and then put rice in it for a period of time, the rice will be dyed with this color, and then mixed with different colors of rice for cooking, which becomes "five-color glutinous rice." The color of this kind of rice is very beautiful, because it is made of glutinous rice, which tastes like glutinous rice and has a hint of plant fragrance.
This kind of rice is a characteristic of ethnic minorities. People in Buyi and Zhuang areas often eat it. It is also called "black rice". It has five colors: black, red, yellow, white and purple. In the eyes of Buyi and Zhuang people, it is a kind of food with a beautiful meaning and a meaning of good luck. Especially in some festivals, they will make such delicious food.
Cultural significance of five-color glutinous rice
Zhuang people regard five-color glutinous rice as a symbol of "good luck" and "bumper harvest of five grains", an excellent food for entertaining guests and one of the offerings for sweeping ancestors.
Taste of five-color glutinous rice
Five-color glutinous rice has five different colors to soak glutinous rice. The taste of glutinous rice when steamed is very strong. It is much more delicious than the rice cooked with ordinary needles.