Black rice, also called black rice, is a snack south of the Yangtze River. Because I like glutinous rice, I have eaten a lot since I was a child. I only remember that when I was a child, every time I hatched a silkworm baby, I had black rice to eat. You can see farmers selling black rice with burdens on their shoulders in the street. Black rice is bright and fragrant, lined with mulberry leaves, so attractive. Sprinkle a spoonful of sugar when you buy it, and then the soft glutinous rice is full of happiness. Little fellow, I don't know when eating black rice became a custom. I only know that black rice can be eaten in the season with silkworms. Black rice is wrapped in mulberry leaves, so I once thought it was dyed with mulberry juice. Later, I learned that there were black rice leaves specially made for black rice.

In Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui and other places, people still have the ancient custom of eating black rice in April, and some places still eat black rice at the Cold Food Festival. She people in Fujian and southern Zhejiang eat black rice on March 3rd. Boiling black rice is simply to soak glutinous rice in the broken juice of "black rice leaves" and then cook it thoroughly, usually dipped in brown sugar and white sugar. In some places, lean meat and mushrooms are used to make salty black rice. And what exactly is "black rice leaf"? Its scientific name is "Southern Candle", which was called "Ji Ran" in ancient times. It mainly grows in the hilly and mountainous areas south of the Yangtze River. The rice used to make black rice is usually glutinous rice, and some japonica rice can also be added, which is particularly fragrant and delicious after cooking.

Sapium sebiferum leaves and maple leaves are also used to make black rice, but the common black rice leaves, namely southern candles, are shrubs with young red leaves and old dark green leaves, especially like Hollyleaf, which are also shrubs. Sun Simiao once wrote in the prescription: "Southern candle soup is beneficial, that is, noodles, warming and nourishing, and treating various wind diseases. Long-term service is light and clear, and black hair stays on the face. " It can be seen that black rice is not only delicious, but also beneficial to human body. The main ingredient is 250g of glutinous rice, and the auxiliary ingredients are 300ml of sugar and water. Black rice method steps: wash glutinous rice and soak it in black rice juice overnight. (12 hour) The next day, the glutinous rice turned black and purple, and the black rice juice was absorbed by the rice grains, so there was no running water.

Rinse the soaked glutinous rice with clear water again, and you can find that the washed rice is still light black. Put the washed black rice into the rice cooker, add 1. 1- 1.2 times of water, and press the "cook" button. Take a flat plate, rinse it with cold boiled water, scoop the cooked black rice on the flat plate while it is hot, and flatten the black rice with a spoon dipped in water. After the black rice is shaped and cooled, it is transferred to the leaves and sprinkled with white sugar before eating. Tip: black rice should be cooked. If the rice cooker doesn't have a "cook" button, it will cook in the normal way. If steamed in a drawer, it will be very dry, sticky and not easy to agglomerate. Soaked black rice should be washed before cooking. The color will become lighter after washing, but it will become deep purple after cooking.