The process of cooking five-color sticky rice of the Thai people

Five-color sticky rice is a traditional dish of the Thai people, symbolizing abundance and fullness. Below is the process of cooking five-color sticky rice:

Ingredient

• Golden flower sticky rice
• Pandan leaves, purple leaves, turmeric, ripe gac fruit, ginger leaves (for color)
• Coconut milk
• Salt

Making

1. Prepare ingredients:
   • Wash sticky rice, soak with coconut milk for about 4-6 hours.
   • Wash pandan leaves, purple leaves, turmeric, ripe gac fruit, and ginger leaves.
   • Boil pandan leaves and purple leaves to get water.
   • Crushed turmeric, ripe gac fruit, remove seeds and mix with salt.
2. Coloring rice:
   • Divide the rice into 5 parts.
   • Soak each portion of rice with pandan leaf water, purple leaf water, turmeric water, ripe gac fruit and ginger leaf water for 30 minutes.
3. Steamed sticky rice:
   • Put all the colored rice into the sticky rice steamer and steam until cooked.
   • Cooked sticky rice, fluff, add a little salt and enjoy.