Colorful sticky rice with sausage

Overview

Today is the eighth day of the fourth lunar month. It is a traditional festival in the Zhuang area to worship the Ox God - the Ox King Festival. On that day, the farmers gave the cattle a day off, and each household renovated the cattle pens. The village elders commented highly on the cattle in the village and warned each family to take good care of the cattle. Every family steams five-color glutinous rice, wraps it in loquat leaves and feeds it to the cows. In some places, offerings of wine, meat, melons and fruits are placed in the main room. The parents lead an old cow and walk around the offerings, singing as they walk, to praise and reward the cow's merits. Since the 1970s, the color of worshiping the cow god in the Ox King Festival has gradually faded, but the custom of worshiping and protecting cows still exists. People are still used to making five-color (colored) glutinous rice on that day and sharing it with family, relatives and friends, which means a good harvest, happiness and health.

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• children
• afternoon tea
• rice
• children's day
• chicken essence
• dried radish
• fresh mushrooms
• glutinous rice
• oyster sauce
• red blue grass
• sausage
• salt
• vegetable oil

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare ingredients. Cut sausage, dried radish, and mushrooms into cubes.

   

2. 2 Wash and chop the red blue grass, put it into a pot filled with water and boil it to extract the red dye juice.

   

3. 3 Pour out the red dye juice and set aside.

   

4. 4 Put 500 grams of glutinous rice into a bowl filled with water, put 500 grams of glutinous rice into a bowl with dye juice, and soak in the refrigerator overnight (about 10 hours).

   

5. 5 Put the soaked glutinous rice into the steaming tray, put an appropriate amount of water into the pot, put the steaming tray in, cover it, and steam the steamer for about 30 minutes until the glutinous rice is soft and glutinous.

   

6. 6 Heat oil in a pan, add sausage and mushrooms and stir-fry until cooked.

   

7. 7 Add dried radish, salt, oyster sauce and chicken essence, stir-fry and mix well.

   

8. 8 Finally add glutinous rice and stir-fry evenly.

   

9. 9 Appreciate the finished product picture.

   

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