Five-coloured sticky rice is an important traditional dish of many ethnic minorities in the northern mountainous regions. People call the dish five- coloured sticky rice because it has five colours: red, yellow, green, purple and white. The things that create the colours are not chemicals but natural roots and leaves. The five colours of the dish represent five elements of life according to Vietnamese beliefs: yellow is earth, red is fire, green is plants, white is metal, and purple or black is water. People believe that these five elements create harmony between heaven and earth. Five-coloured sticky rice is usually made and enjoyed at Tet, in festivals and ceremonies, on special occasions, and whenever the family has guests.

Step 1: Preliminary processing
- Before cooking, you wash the sticky rice and soak with water to overnight for rice to expand.

- Wash all leaves and pineapple leaves.

- Fresh turmeric washed, peeled, retired Nguyen.

Step 2: Steps for coloring
- Fresh turmeric after pounding, add 1 liter of filtered water, filter out the yellow water and discard the residue.
- Broccoli leaves are cut and put into a pot, add 1 liter of 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 away.

- Pandan leaves put into a blender puree, pour in 1 liter of filtered water, squeeze the green juice through the sieve, remove the residue.

- Get a bowl of Gac, add a little white wine, use plastic gloves to squeeze carefully until the Gac meat part separates from the seeds, remove the seeds.Step 3: Five colored sticky rice
- Divide the part of sticky rice soaked overnight into 5 parts. For each soaked portion with a prepared colored water (marijuana leaf, pandan leaf juice, turmeric juice), add 1 tablespoon of coconut milk, 1 teaspoon of sugar and 1 teaspoon of salt. Soak in about 3 hours, we get 3 kinds of colors.

- And a part mixed well with gac meat add 1 teaspoon of salt mixed well, part preserved and also added salt.

- After soaking, put glutinous rice into a pot of sticky rice, turn on a high heat so that the glutinous rice seeds will cook evenly. After 30 minutes, use a chopstick to loosen it. If the sticky rice appears to be dry, you can pour a little more water on it. Steam until the sticky rice is soft, turn off the heat and turn the rice cooker down.

Note when making five colors sticky rice
- Depending on the size of the pot you can map 1 or more colors at a time. If you have a large pot of sticky rice, you can make all five types of sticky rice in one go.

- When the sticky rice is dry, you can sprinkle a little water, if you pour coconut milk, the better.

- When cooking sticky rice can not use coconut milk, but if soaked with coconut milk, sticky rice sticky plastic sticky sticky, very great taste.

How to make sticky rice with five colors of Tay people is not too difficult, is it? Just take a little hard to apply this simple sticky rice recipe to make the tray more attractive, the first day of the year is more exciting and full of flavors, bringing good luck to your family all year!