Why is wormwood green ball bitter? Because wormwood itself will have a slight bitter taste. If you don't put alkali, the bitterness is hard to eliminate and it will taste a little bitter.
Wormwood is the mainstream of green juice extraction now, because it smells sweet, and it grows most luxuriantly in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Although the steps of treating wormwood are not difficult, they are very complicated. Need to boil, add alkaline powder and supercooled water to remove the bitter taste of wormwood.
As the saying goes, a good medicine tastes bitter and is good for the disease. Artemisia argyi was originally used as a medicinal material, which has the effects of stopping bleeding, dispelling cold, relieving pain and killing insects. At the same time, many people also use wormwood to soak their feet, which can reduce fire, eliminate dampness and promote blood circulation.
Actually, it's because we were missing something when we were doing the Youth League. This kind of thing is edible alkali. When making a youth league, this is absolutely indispensable, otherwise the color of the youth league we make will not be green, but bitter.
What if you get bitter? When I use edible alkali to make wormwood green balls, edible alkali is essential, because with the addition of edible alkali, wormwood will not be bitter. Next time you make wormwood green balls, be sure to add some edible alkali. As for the stuffing in the green ball, it can be decided according to my personal preference. General meat stuffing, bean paste stuffing, and even jam stuffing can be used.
The green ball boiled with lime is dark green, giving off a bitter absinthe flavor. Some people think that the green balls made of wormwood will be a little bitter, so you can add a little lime water in the process of boiling wormwood to remove the bitterness.
Neutralize the bitterness with stuffing. In late spring and early summer, April and May are the best time to pick fresh wormwood. Bacon floss and duck egg yolk mingle with the faint bitterness of wormwood, take a bite, and recall those years and those sweet days.
There are many fillings in the green ball. As long as you want, nothing can't be undone. Green balls are sweet and salty. Common fillings are red bean paste, green tea, sesame, peanuts, taro, pork, egg yolk, pork floss and so on.
Among them, green balls stuffed with bean paste are the most common. The green skin is soft, not sweet or greasy, with a faint but long fragrance of grass, a little sticky, but not sticky, plus the sweet bean paste, it melts in the mouth and can hardly stop.
Matters needing attention in making green balls 1. To make Ai Yeqing meatballs, glutinous rice flour should be made first. If you like sticky food, you can put more glutinous rice flour.
2. Boiled Folium Artemisiae Argyi should not be chopped with a knife. It is best to crush it with flour to avoid destroying the original fiber of the plant and affecting the taste.
3. Don't use the water for boiling mugwort leaves, and don't mix it with flour to knead jiaozi, because the water for boiling mugwort leaves is very astringent, which affects the taste.