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How to Make a Full And Detailed Five-Color Sticky Rice For Moms

Learn about five-color sticky rice of the Tay people

The Tay people in our country are widely distributed throughout the country and live in most of the high mountains. They have a long cultural tradition, have their own script and have more developed economic conditions than other ethnic groups. The cultural features of the Tay people are not only reflected in village festivals, folk songs and songs, but also in the rich culinary culture. And five-color sticky rice is one of their standout products.

Called five-color sticky rice because this sticky rice is made up of 5 different colors: white, red, blue, purple, yellow, representing the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. The Tay people often make five-color sticky rice on anniversaries, weddings, new homes, and on the 5th of May and the full moon of July every year… with the hope that the family will have a lot of luck and the owner will do well.

Ingredients for making five-color sticky rice include: sticky rice that is fragrant and flexible, evenly mixed with forest leaves for coloring. Depending on the type of leaf and preparation method to create 5 different colors, creating sticky rice is not only unique in appearance but also has a delicious and attractive taste.

The meaning of five-color sticky rice

The ancients believed that five-color sticky rice symbolizes the five elements: white is the color of metal, green is the color of wood, black is the color of water, red is the color of fire, and yellow is the color of earth. It is believed that the existence of the five elements makes up the goodness of Heaven – Earth – Human. For the Tay, the habit of eating five-colored sticky rice on holidays and Tet will help them meet many good luck and good things. heal.

Besides, five-color sticky rice is the pride of Tay women because it shows their ingenuity and courage. Five-color sticky rice is made from ingredients derived from nature, so it is delicious and nutritious.

Decorate with five-color sticky rice

On holidays and Tet, Tay ethnic people often prepare five-color sticky rice to decorate the tray more attractive. To have fragrant sticky sticky rice, the cook will choose fragrant sticky rice with even grain. The color of sticky rice depends on the coloring materials, usually from forest leaves.

When cooked, five-color sticky rice is arranged by the mothers and sisters into a plate of five-color sticky rice: white, blue, yellow, red, purple, and looks like a five-petaled flower blooming. Five-color sticky rice has a characteristic aroma of herbs, not mixed with any other sticky rice dishes. There is also the notion that the person who can make five-color sticky rice with beautiful standard colors is considered a skillful person, the family will do well.

How to make five-color sticky rice

Ingredients for making five-color sticky rice for 4 people

  • 1.5kg of glutinous rice
  • 1 bunch of rosemary leaves
  • 1 bunch of pandan leaves
  • 1/2 gac fruit
  • 100g fresh turmeric
  • 5 teaspoons salt
  • White wine
  • 3 teaspoons of sugar
  • 3 tablespoons coconut milk

How to make detailed and complete five-color sticky rice

Step 1: Prepare ingredients

Before cooking, wash the sticky rice and soak it in water overnight for the rice to expand.

– Wash all kinds of leaves, pandan leaves.

– Fresh turmeric is washed, peeled, and pounded.

Step 2: Steps to create color

– Fresh turmeric, after pounding, add 1 liter of filtered water, filter the yellow water and discard the residue.

– Leaves are cut into pieces and then put in a pot, add 1 liter of filtered water and boil for about 10 minutes. At this time, the water will dye the purple color of the leaves, filter the remaining purple water and discard the leaves.

– Put pandan leaves in a blender and grind until smooth, pour in 1 liter of filtered water, squeeze the green juice through a sieve, discard the residue.

– Take a bowl of gac fruit, add a little white wine, squeeze it with your hand with a plastic bag until the flesh of the gac fruit is separated from the seeds, remove the seeds.

Step 3: Five-color sticky rice

– Divide the overnight soaked glutinous rice into 5 parts. For each portion of the soak with a prepared color water (Malaria leaf juice, pandan juice, turmeric juice), add 1 tablespoon coconut milk, 1 teaspoon sugar and 1 teaspoon salt. Soak for about 3 hours, we get 3 kinds of colors.

– Another part mix well with Gac meat, add 1 teaspoon of salt, mix well, keep the same part and also add salt.

– After soaking, put the sticky rice into the pot of sticky rice, turn on high heat so that the glutinous rice grains are cooked evenly. After 30 minutes, use chopsticks to stir up, if the sticky rice seems dry, you can sprinkle a little more water on top. Steam until the sticky rice is soft, then turn off the heat and put the pot of sticky rice down.

Note when making five-color sticky rice

Depending on the size of the pot, you can paint 1 or more colors at a time. If you have a large pot of sticky rice, you can cook all 5 types of sticky rice at once.

– When you see that the sticky rice is dry, you can sprinkle some water on it, if you drizzle with coconut milk, the better it will be.

– When cooking sticky rice, you can not use coconut milk, but if you soak the rice with coconut milk, the sticky rice will be soft and the taste is great.

It’s not too difficult to make five-color sticky rice of the Tay people, isn’t it? Just take a little effort to apply this simple sticky rice recipe to make the tray more attractive, the first day of the year more exciting with full of flavors, bringing good luck for the whole year to your family!

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