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The traditional snacks in Jiangnan are blue. Glutinous rice flour mixed with wormwood juice, covered with bean paste or lotus paste. The taste is not sweet or greasy, and the faint smell of wormwood lingers in the mouth for a long time.
In ancient times, the Youth League was sacrificed by Tomb-Sweeping Day, so eating the Youth League has been a custom since ancient times. Now, the function of sacrifice has gradually faded, and many people regard it as a spring outing snack. Qing Tuan is made of mugwort leaves, which should have been picked before Tomb-Sweeping Day. It is fresh and tender. Squeeze out the blue juice of mugwort leaves and add white glutinous rice flour. The green ball is bright and green, and looks delicious.
Anyone who has made spinach noodles has encountered the situation that spinach juice will become weak after heating, and so does mugwort juice. In order to ensure the blue color of the green ball, today I will teach you a skill. You can make all kinds of colorful pasta at home without any vegetable juice changing color.
Nowadays, most of the green balls sold outside are colored with dyes and processed by machines, which are completely inferior to the traditional hand-made green balls.
It is not difficult to be a youth league Committee by yourself. Today, I will teach you a method of zero failure. It tastes soft and sweet, Q-bomb is not greasy, and it is still so messy when it is cold. Better than what you bought. Here's how to do it.
Prepare a bag of fresh Folium Artemisiae Argyi, a bowl of glutinous rice flour, a bowl of refined flour, a bowl of fine sugar, a spoonful of edible alkali, a spoonful of lard, a bowl of boiled water, bean paste stuffing or other fillings. You can pick some mugwort leaves when you go hiking in the wild on weekends. The white on the back of the leaves has a stronger aroma and less bitterness. Remember to pick the tender leaves, the old ones are not delicious.
Folium Artemisiae Argyi can repel insects, so insects can't crawl. You don't need to soak in light salt water. Rinse with water, blanch with boiling water for half a minute, take out after softening, and cool in cold water to keep the color green.
Chop the mugwort leaves, put them into a wall-breaking machine, add water to make a fine mugwort paste, and the mugwort paste will be greener with less water.
Adding a spoonful of edible alkali to wormwood mud and stirring evenly can further prevent discoloration. The prepared green balls will turn black without adding edible alkali, but they can still be eaten. I still use bean paste, ready-made You can make lotus paste stuffing, meat stuffing and so on according to your personal taste.
Pour 100g boiling water into 100g flour mill, scald the flour mill, and stir it into large noodles. Add a proper amount of sugar and a spoonful of lard to glutinous rice flour, stir well, then add wormwood paste, and stir into large flour wadding.
Pour the flour wadding and mugwort wadding together and knead into a smooth and even dough, which is not white and sticky.
▲ Mix the ground flour, glutinous rice flour and mugwort juice into a smooth dough.
Divide the dough of Artemisia argyi into many dough pieces, knead one dough piece into a round shape, flatten it and knead it into a bowl shape, put stuffing in the middle, push the edge to the middle, wrap the stuffing, close it, and knead it into a round and smooth shape by hand, and the green embryo is ready.
Brush the steamer with oil, or put a piece of oil paper or anti-sticking pad so that it won't stick. Put the green ball embryo into the steamer. Pour enough water into the pot, put it in a steamer, and steam for 15 minutes after the fire boils, and the green balls will be steamed. The freshly steamed green ball is the greenest. Open the lid immediately. If you put it in a pot for a while, it will change color, and the steam will not change color after evaporation.
Because it is made of glutinous rice flour, it will be sticky when it is just out of the pot. Anyone who has eaten snowballs knows that it will become slippery after cooling. Brush a layer of oil on the green ball while it is hot, and let it cool thoroughly.
After the green pellets are cooled, they are put into a fresh-keeping box or plastic wrap and stored at room temperature. You don't need to put it in the refrigerator, it's soft to eat at any time.
The traditional food Tomb-Sweeping Day must eat, Qing Tuan, is made of wormwood juice, which tends to turn black when heated. Adding an appropriate amount of edible alkali after mashing can prevent the discoloration of Artemisia argyi leaves.
The green balls sold outside generally don't change color, because many of them are made of wheat straw or even dyes, which look good but not delicious, and even bad for the health. I picked 5 Jin of wormwood all morning and was smashed into mud at once. There is still some left, so just freeze it in the refrigerator. It can be preserved for a long time, and it can be cooked directly after thawing next time, which is very convenient.
Tomb-Sweeping Day will be here soon. Let's make this soft and sweet green ball.
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