Although the method of making five-color glutinous rice is simple, it has extremely strict requirements on ingredients, and requires high-quality glutinous rice, red and blue grass, yellow flowers and maple leaves.

Among them, red and blue grass is the most special. One has a slightly longer leaf, purple juice, and the other has a slightly round leaf, red juice. If you are accidentally confused, the color you get will not be pure.

Because the ingredients are difficult to find, many people later came up with alternatives and made countless replicas of five-color glutinous rice, such as cured flavor, seafood flavor, etc., full of modern flavors.

Although it tastes good, it is difficult to eat the most traditional flavor over time.

Chen Chong's first destination is naturally the vegetable market.

This kind of vegetable market looks a bit dirty and messy, but it is undeniable that the ingredients inside are indeed fresher than many large supermarkets.

Green seasonal vegetables, live chickens and ducks that are now slaughtered, as well as alternative fruits and melons that are carrying shoulder poles and original.

Although most of the pedestrians are of uncles, aunts, grandparents, Chen Chong likes this atmosphere very much.

Stay away from the downtown area and get in touch with the simplest and purest faces of labor.

When passing by several stalls selling chili, the vendors who were still shouting stopped their voices and took out their cell phones one by one, pressing them one by one, as if they didn't want to provoke Chen Chong.

Chen Chong pulled the corner of his mouth and left here with a dark face.

Last time I came to buy chili peppers, I chose them one by one, and I was more patient than those old men and women! In such a strong contrast, with his young appearance, it is hard not to remember them!

Oh no, maybe it's a grudge!

"If you continue for a long time, I am afraid I will become the public enemy of the vegetable market."

Chen Chong was also helpless about this. After obtaining the "food ingredient identification technique", he always had to make good use of it. Could it be...well... Is it possible to occupy the pit and not pull it?

Isn't that unhappy for yourself?

After walking around the vegetable market, I didn’t see any auxiliary materials, so I could only leave with a bag of glutinous rice of quality ‘7’.

This is the best glutinous rice in the vegetable market. If you want to be better, you can only buy it in small county towns or local farmers. Those are native glutinous rice that has not been processed.

Although the 'food identification technique' is magical, it is not without a replacement method. As long as you visit the vegetable market frequently, you will accumulate a lot of experience.

Take the glutinous rice in your hands as an example. Many young people who have no experience in purchasing cannot distinguish the pros and cons of glutinous rice.

First of all, the first step to select glutinous rice is to touch it by hand. High-quality glutinous rice is very dry, gently rub it, and has a little powder texture. However, if it is the kind of glutinous rice that feels smooth to the touch and has a viscosity after holding it for a long time, it is inferior, it has been processed in the post-processing and may even be toxic.

Secondly, high-quality glutinous rice will not break when it is gentle, while inferior or stored for a long time will easily break;

If both of the above methods are still difficult to distinguish, then you can use the last rough method to break the glutinous rice apart. After breaking the high-quality glutinous rice, it has a glass texture, while the inferior ones will appear powdery, which is a gap that cannot be concealed by processing.

Of course, these experiences ultimately require the accumulation of time and social experience. They are not as perverted as "Skillful Hands (Remaining)" and directly act in memory and gain results.

But Chen Chong also understood that memory rewards are memory after all, and it is just a collection of experiences that contain various skills and success or failure. If left unused for a long time, it will always be gradually worn out over time.

Therefore, after buying glutinous rice, he also bought many cheap radishes to practice knife skills in his spare time to avoid feeling unfamiliar.

The so-called "who can make perfect" is not something that can happen overnight.

Leaving the vegetable market, Chen Chong rode a shared bicycle to find various auxiliary materials. He searched for many Chinese medicine shops on his mobile phone map and searched one by one.

Red and blue grass, yellow flowers and maple leaves have medical value. Therefore, the five-color glutinous rice made with them is of great benefit to health, so Chinese medicine shops are the first choice.

Unfortunately, ideals are full and reality is skinny.

I went to more than a dozen stores in a row but had no gains. Just when he was about to give up, the old Chinese medicine doctor in the Chinese medicine shop gave him an idea, saying that he could go to the Chinese medicine wholesale market, where there were many kinds, and maybe he would gain.

Chen Chong is a decisive person. Since he has clues, set off immediately!

Take the subway to the transportation hub bus stop, and then transfer to the bus directly to the Chinese medicine wholesale market. It took more than an hour to arrive at the destination.

At this time, the sun had already set, and the golden afterglow dyed the white clouds floating in the sky.

The breeze cannot dispel fatigue.

Fortunately, hard work pays off. Chen Chong, who was covered in sweat on his neck, found red and blue grass, yellow flowers and maple leaves inside. The only regret is that the quality of these auxiliary materials is not high, and the highest yellow flowers and plants only meet the '5' standard.

"It's better to have it than not. At least you can try the taste first." Chen Chong casually wiped the sweat from his forehead. If the five-color glutinous rice is really good, then he doesn't mind going to the origin of these auxiliary materials to buy more quality products.

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When Chen Chong returned to the restaurant, it was almost seven o'clock. According to common sense, this time point was almost the middle and late stages of the golden time of the catering industry.

However, because the food street is located near many universities and business districts, the normal golden time has been postponed a lot, and the dining peak will be reached after about 8 o'clock.

Place the blackboard at the door, turn on the lighting on the signboard, and enter the kitchen with great enthusiasm.

"Five-color glutinous rice is an extremely traditional delicacy. It is completely made of pure natural plants as dyes. Green maple leaves can dye black. Two red and blue grass can dye purple and red. Yellow flowers and plants are used to dye yellow. Add the white of the glutinous rice itself, which is exactly five colors."

Just thinking of the colorful colors, Chen Chong couldn't help swallowing. He quickly took out the red and blue grass and sorted it carefully so that the dyes made later would not become variegated.

As mentioned in the memory recipe, although the five-color glutinous rice is simple, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to perfectly refine various dyes.

Moreover, some processes also require chemical knowledge!

Take maple leaves for example. Maple leaves are rich in "tannins". At high temperatures, tannins and iron will react chemically to produce blue-black ferrous sulfate. The "black dye" made in this way will be extremely authentic!

It took Chen Chong more than ten minutes to sort and wash all the materials, but he was not tired, but was excited.

Take out the garlic mortar from under the table. This thing was originally used to mash garlic and other tools, but now it is used by him as a means of mashing maple leaves.

Dongdongdongdongdong...

Although it is very simple to crush things, when the forearm continues to exert force, the forearm muscles will gradually become sore and become more and more intense.

Mash the maple leaves thoroughly, pour them into a clean iron basin prepared in advance, and add an appropriate amount of water to start to invade the soaking.

This process is very long, and you will have to wait until tomorrow morning to achieve satisfactory results.

Chen Chong searched in the kitchen for a long time, and finally looked at a long-destroyed rusty iron kitchen knife.

He originally planned to find an opportunity to throw away the kitchen knife so that he would not stay in the kitchen to take up space, but unexpectedly it would have a wonderful use at this time.

Clean the kitchen knife and throw it directly into the iron basin that invades the maple leaves. This is the preparation for the subsequent "chemical reaction".
Chapter completed!