The "Almanac" said: "The bucket refers to the southeast, and the maintenance is Lixia, and all things have grown up here, so the name Lixiaye." "Tomorrow will officially enter the twenty-four solar terms of the "Lixia" solar term.
Today, many friends in the orange circle have cooked a pot of black black rice in advance.
As the old saying goes, "After eating black rice, mosquitoes will not bite", although it does not sound like any scientific reason, but life always has to be a little ritualistic. Eat a bowl of black rice, you can ask for a good head, how simple!
However, if you want to cook a pot of black rice this time, go to the vegetable market after work to buy some leaves - that is, the leaves of the black rice tree. It doesn't take too much, two or two is enough.
Wu Rice Leaf Photography Xia Yang
The black rice tree is also called the southern candle, the ancient name is dyed, and the rhododendron is a relative, belongs to the rhododendron family of bilberry plants, its dyeing ability is very strong, before the ancients will also use it to dye hair.
Many people are afraid of cooking black rice, is afraid of their own hands into black bone chicken - rubbing leaves with their hands is indeed easy to dye a hand black, but now, we can rely on the results of modern technology - juicer, less than 30 seconds, you can squeeze the leaves into slag, to ensure that your small hands are still white and clean.
Then you can use gauze or filter the filter of soy milk, filter it, generally twice, the basic impurities are gone, and there is a bowl of rice juice like matcha.
Although this soup looks green, soak the white glutinous rice in the juice and soak it overnight, and it will go black!
The scientific principle is that the leaves contain many polyphenols, and various polyphenols will form complex polymers from reddish brown to black after oxidation and interaction.
Soak overnight, and the next morning, the original white glutinous rice can be dyed into "Avatar".
Because the glutinous rice at this time has been soaked for one night, absorbing enough water, so when cooking black rice, the water must not be added more, plus more is easy to rot, generally add water to the rice flat on the good.
Steam in cold water for about 30 minutes, and the steaming black rice will be baked!
A bowl of qualified black rice, in fact, is not black, but dark blue, blue and black with a stream of oil, so the ancients also called it Qingjing rice, the poem Saint Du Fu wrote in the poem "Gift to Li Bai": "Is there no green essence rice, so that my color is good." ”
The ancients also loved to use black rice as a health food, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" quoted the Southern Song Dynasty's "Ancient and Modern Poetry" as saying: "Cold food picks its leaves, stains water to dye rice, color is blue and light, and can be yang qi." The "New Edition of Materia Medica" also says: "Yi Jing Qi, strong bones, clear eyes." ”
However, Li Xia eats a bowl of black rice, for many Hangzhou people, eating is more of a feeling. Sometimes, even one or two more pots are deliberately cooked, carefully wrapped in lunch boxes, and given to relatives and friends as gifts for the summer season.
In addition to black rice, in the summer season, Hangzhou people also like to eat a bowl of salted bean rice, glutinous rice with diced bamboo shoots, salted meat and peas cooked in a pot, the taste is not too good.
Orange friend "Autumn Rhyme" said that in fact, in addition to the above two choices, you can also eat five-color rice!
"Five colors is made of red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans (peas), mung beans, plus japonica rice together to make five-color rice, first of all, all kinds of beans are soaked soft steamed eight ripe, and then made into rice together with japonica rice. Especially green beans (peas) black beans, soybeans, especially fragrant, making the whole rice very fragrant! I feel that the five-color rice is really delicious! Eating five-colored summer rice represents the abundance of grains and also means good health all year round! Folk believe that children can prevent heat stroke after eating! ”
So, tomorrow in the summer, do you choose to eat black rice, salted bean rice or five-color rice? Welcome to the topic of #Weather Sisters and dry your summer meal!
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