The invention discloses five-color rice dumpling and a making method. The making method comprises the following steps: taking special white sticky rice as a
raw material, and coloring with butterflybush flowers,
vaccinium bracteatum leaves, purple cabbage and
polygonum cuspidatum roots, and
steaming, thereby obtaining the five-color rice dumpling, namely
mashing 5-50g of butterflybush flowers dried in air and fresh
vaccinium bracteatum leaves, purple cabbage and
polygonum cuspidatum roots respectively, putting into water respectively, heating to boil for 5 minutes, cooling, filtering, putting respective
plant dyes into 2-20kg of special sticky rice, soaking to color the sticky rice, blending rice dumpling,
mashing fresh Chinese prickly ash, wrapping with gauze, kneading in water, pouring Chinese prickly ash water, edible salt and edible aginomoto into the sticky rice of five colors, stirring, washing
indocalamus leaves, coiling into the shape of rice dumpling, putting the sticky rice of five colors into the leaves in sequence, bundling with lines, putting into a pot, wrapping a proper amount of sticky
rice straw ash with gauze, putting into the pot, adding water, salt and aginomoto, cooking with fire, cooling, sterilizing by using a
pasteurization method, and packaging in vacuum, wherein the five colors include white, black, yellow, purple and red.