How to make black rice and steps 1. Remove the stems and old leaves from the leaves of black rice, clean them, pour them into a blender, add 500ML water, stir at high speed for a few minutes, filter out the juice and set aside; 2. Pour the juice into the glutinous rice, 2 cups

Add 1.5 cups of juice to the glutinous rice, stir evenly, and soak for 3 hours; put the soaked glutinous rice into the steamer with the bowl and steam over high heat for 30 minutes, then simmer for another 5 minutes before the pot is ready.

3. After steaming, take out the rice and mash it with chopsticks while it is still hot. After the rice is basically cool, pour in chopped nuts and chopped red dates, and sprinkle in an appropriate amount of white sugar; mix well and wear disposable gloves.

, put an appropriate amount of mixed rice into the palm of your hand, and shape it into a rice ball. If you are going to give it away, you can wrap it in plastic wrap for easy portability.

4. Tips: 1. Black rice is generally sweet and is mainly steamed. The steamed rice can be eaten with brown sugar or white sugar to feel the fragrance of black rice; 2. It can also be eaten boiled.

Just like how you usually cook rice; 3. There is a trend of new varieties. You can put some sweet-scented osmanthus, raisins, etc. to make sweet pastries. You can also add bacon, peas, broad beans, bamboo shoots and other Beginning of Summer ingredients to make

Salty black rice.

4. The traditional method is to mash the glutinous rice leaves with your hands to extract the juice, soak the glutinous rice in the juice for more than half a day, and then steam or cook it. With the advancement of modern technology, you can use a blender to add water and stir it into a slurry to filter out the juice. Use something like this

Soak the juice for 2-3 hours, and the black rice can be completely soaked; 5. Steaming has less water than boiling. Generally, the ratio of rice to water is about 1:1 for rice cooking, and about 1:0.7 for steaming.

With less water, it will be more precise when steamed.

5. I am not from Hangzhou, but I have become a new Hangzhou native. I have lived in Hangzhou for more than 10 years. In recent years, I have discovered that every time during the Beginning of Summer, people eat a kind of black and blue rice called Wu.

Rice, I remember very clearly, on the day of Beginning of Summer last year, my neighbor Auntie Xiaobai brought us a bowl of glutinous rice and said: "Give it to the children. If you eat this black rice in Beginning of Summer, you will not be bitten by mosquitoes! 6. Early April of the lunar calendar

Eighth, it is the "Wu Fan Festival" of Liyang people. According to folklore, in order to get rice, Mulian, a disciple of Sakyamuni, found a way to dye the rice with the juice of Wu Yao leaves, cooked it and sent it to the hungry ghosts.

They did not dare to eat the black rice. The mother was finally full, and the people of Liyang ate black rice every year to commemorate the filial son Mulian. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", the leaves of the black medicine belong to the Lauraceae family, with a mild nature and a pleasant taste.

Slightly bitter, the leaves are fragrant, and can be used as medicine to regulate spleen and stomach vitality, and to open the Shaoyin and Kidney meridian.