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What kind of dye is used in rice? Is there a market for it?

Rice can be steamed or fried. Specifically, a day or two before March 3, people went to the mountains to collect tender maple leaves, red and blue grass, plus collected dyed rice flowers, and began to make five-color glutinous rice dyes.

Every year in March and April of the lunar calendar, Buyi people go to the mountains to collect wild plants such as maple leaves, lilacs, yellow seeds, etc., extract the pigment and dye the good glutinous rice into different colors to make rice, which is used to entertain guests.

The main raw materials of five-color glutinous rice are glutinous rice and pure natural plant dyes collected from the mountains (it is worth mentioning here that the Buyi people have great respect for nature, and the dyes usually used to color food or fabrics are taken from nature).

When picking, it is necessary to pay attention to the choice of maple leaves that are not old and not tender on the more ventilated loess slope, and yellow dyed rice flowers with yellow stamens, so that the color and taste of rice is good.

What is the color of colorful glutinous rice dyed with?

1. The black glutinous rice dye comes from the bark of maple leaf and its tender stem. Yellow glutinous rice dye is extracted from the fruits and tubers of plants such as yellow flower juice, yellow gardenia, turmeric and so on. Red and purple glutinous rice dyes are obtained by boiling red and blue grass. The white glutinous rice is the color of the glutinous rice itself.

2. The black five-color glutinous rice dye comes from the bark of maple leaf and its tender stem. Yellow dyes are extracted from fruits and tubers of plants such as yellow flower juice, yellow gardenia, turmeric and so on. Red and purple dyes are obtained by boiling red and blue grass. White glutinous rice is the color of glutinous rice itself.

3. Black glutinous rice is mashed in mortar with the bark of maple leaf and its tender stem, slightly dried and immersed in a certain amount of water. After soaking for one day, the leaf residue is removed and filtered out to obtain black dye solution. Yellow dye can be extracted from fruits and tubers of plants such as yellow flower juice.

4. the plants dyed with five-color glutinous rice are yellow gardenia, locust rice, Polygonum cuspidatum and so on. Yellow Gardenia jasminoides, also known as Gardenia jasminoides, Gardenia jasminoides, Fructus Gardeniae, is the mature fruit of Gardenia jasminoides, which contains terpenoid saffron and flavonoid gardenia yellow pigment.

5. Colored glutinous rice is dyed with purple vines, yellow flowers, maple leaves, red and blue (red silk thread). Five-color glutinous rice is a traditional snack in Buyi and Zhuang areas. Because glutinous rice is generally black, red, yellow, white and purple, it is also called "black rice".

The kind of things that people use to color glutinous rice when making glutinous rice, red, yellow and green.

1. Using five-color glutinous rice with purple vines, yellow flowers, maple leaves, red and blue (red silk thread), commonly known as five-color rice, also known as black rice, green rice or rice, named because glutinous rice is black, gray, yellow, purple and white, it is a traditional food used by the Zhuang family to entertain guests.

2. Prepare the materials: first, prepare the glutinous rice, and then divide the glutinous rice into five parts. Dye with five different natural plants, such as red with brown sugar water or red vegetable juice, yellow with turmeric powder, green with mung bean powder or spinach juice, black with black rice or black sesame, and white with primary color.

3. Various plants dyed with glutinous rice include red-blue grass, purple-blue grass, yellow gardenia or Mimeng flowers, and maple leaves. Five-color glutinous rice is made up of white, black, purple, yellow and red.

4. Prepare the dye. Cook sweet potato leaves, mung bean leaves and black rice respectively, mash and take juice; yellow gardenia is ground into powder, add water to boil, filter and extract juice; cuttlefish juice is used directly. Divide the glutinous rice into five parts, add different dye juice to each part, stir well, and color the glutinous rice evenly. Pay attention to the moderate amount of dye, so as not to affect the taste.

How to change the color of rice

Red: red glutinous rice is usually dyed with red and blue grass. The stems and leaves are crushed and boiled in water, which will change color after boiling, while soaking the rice in it will turn bright red. Purple: purple blue grass can be used for dyeing, it and red and blue grass is the same variety, but the leaves are a little different.

The third trick: wash with water. True black rice will appear purplish red when immersed in water, and the higher the water temperature is, the darker it will be; in general, true green rice will not have color. Dyed black rice after immersion, generally appear ink color, easy to rot; dyed green rice will also appear green leaching in water.

The vegetable juice can be squeezed into juice, and then the vegetable juice can be boiled with rice so that the noodle can be colored. \ x0d\ x0a vegetable juice is green and environmentally friendly and has no harm.

When the water temperature in the basin drops to about 50 ℃, pour the washed glutinous rice into the basin and stir and soak. After 5 hours, all kinds of bright colors have been deeply soaked into the rice, and the color of the rice has changed.

A complete collection of the practice of flower rice

Buyi flower rice steps to get the dyed plants and glutinous rice ready. Cut the stained plants into a pot and boil them with water for half an hour. Drain the water and cool it for a while. Put the washed glutinous rice in it and soak it for 6 hours or 7 hours. Steam it in a steamer. Steam for 1 hour and start the pot.

200g rice, 2 eggs, 200g cucumber, 5g purple potato powder, 3 fried noodles and proper amount of corn starch. Operation: prepare the ingredients. Separate egg white and yolk, mix corn starch with a little water. Corn starch water is added to egg white and yolk respectively.

The following is a detailed introduction to the practice of five-color flower rice. Preparation materials: first, you need to prepare glutinous rice, and then divide the glutinous rice into five parts.