Bamboo tube rice, as the name suggests, is a bamboo tube instead of a pot to cook rice. In the beginning, it was the ethnic minorities in the mountainous areas who went into the mountains to work, and for the sake of simplicity, never brought pots and pans and cooking utensils, but only took rice with them. Cooking on the spot, that is, cut down a section of bamboo tube, loaded with the right amount of rice and water, placed in the fire roasted, when the bamboo tube surface burnt, the tube immediately cooked up rice, which is the bamboo tube rice.
Bamboo rice, due to different regions, different customs, practices are different, therefore, there are many kinds of bamboo rice. Bamboo rice is mostly found in the south of China and Taiwan, that is to say, wherever bamboo is produced, bamboo rice can be found.
The use of bamboo cooking has a long history. The furthest written records in the Northern Wei Dynasty by Jia Si-feng "Qimin Yaojutsu - hot method of eighty" in the "tube hot" dishes, with the meat stuffing in the bamboo tube on the open fire baked and become.
Fan Chengda in the Song Dynasty in the "Guihai Yuheng Zhi - Zhiqi", there is a "bamboo kettle" article contained: "Yao people use. Cut off the large bamboo tube when the pan tripod, food cooked and bamboo does not flash, cover the physical self, not different."
The use of bamboo kettle custom, to the Qing Dynasty is still very prevalent. Chen Ding in the Qing Dynasty, "Dian travels" in the record: Teng Yue iron less, native to cut off the bamboo, solid rice which, blazing fire fear, bamboo charred and rice cooked, very fragrant, known as bamboo kettle.
The Qing Dynasty Zhu Yizun's "food constitutional Hong secret", there is "crab nine", is a crab ball into the bamboo tube cooked into.
We all know that bamboo has the effect of diuretic, liver, eyesight, Li Shizhen "Compendium of Materia Medica" wrote: bamboo beneficial gas can be eaten for a long time, the bowel under the gas, heat elimination phlegm.
To this day, Yunnan's various ethnic minorities still retain the bamboo tube cooking traditional dishes, which is "full of bamboo roots", bamboo inexhaustible, but also because of the bamboo tube dishes fragrant and elegant, so the circulation is not decreasing.
Bamboo rice unique flavor, there are a variety of flavors, and rice, as well as the same, with glutinous rice and bamboo cooked glutinous rice, verdant bamboo joints, soft and delicious, soft taste, glutinous rice aroma floating, melting Cuizhu fragrance in one, excellent taste ......
practice as follows round-grained rice soaking 20 minutes, soaking glutinous rice for 4 hours2. . sausage slices, mushrooms clean, cut grain
3. soaked round-grained polished rice, glutinous rice into the pot, add water, water boiled and then cook for 2 minutes
4. cooked rice out, poured into the pot, put corn, peas, carrots, sausage slices, sliced mushrooms, mix well, the bamboo tube washed, the mix of the rice into a bamboo tube on the pot to be steamed for 30 minutes can be eaten.
Cooking tips1, a variety of ingredients can be based on their own preferences with
2, steaming time according to the size of the bamboo tube to determine