Youth League is a traditional snack of Hakka people in Fujian, Taiwan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The green ball is like jade, tender and fragrant. Every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, every household steamed dumplings. In ancient times, the Youth League was mainly for the purpose of offering sacrifices. Tomb-Sweeping Day's snacks carried during grave-sweeping have become weaker and weaker in sacrificial function, so they are eaten as seasonal snacks in spring.

The green ball is green because it is made of wormwood juice mixed with glutinous rice flour. In addition to wormwood, wheat seedlings, sage or other green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, can also be used for skin. These are grass in early spring, so they are seasonal snacks in spring.

What are the green ball fillings?

The stuffing of the youth league has developed from the most traditional sesame bean paste stuffing to today, and there is nothing that can't be wrapped, only what you can't think of.

Sweet ones are: bean paste stuffing, lotus seed stuffing, peanut sesame stuffing, pumpkin stuffing, sweet potato stuffing, purple potato stuffing, taro stuffing, chocolate stuffing, fruit stuffing, bird's nest stuffing and even ice cream stuffing, which have become desserts after western food.

Salty stuffing includes salted egg yolk pine, Buddha jumping wall, salty, shepherd's purse pork, fresh diced bamboo shoots, Jinhua ham, abalone in chicken soup, pickles, dried bean curd and assorted vegetables.

Red bean paste youth league production

Ingredients: glutinous rice flour160g, sticky rice flour 30g, frozen spinach 30g, honey15g, oil15g, clear water170g, and red bean paste 280g.

Remarks: Mix a small amount of sticky rice flour, or corn starch, corn starch and cassava flour into glutinous rice flour to avoid being too sticky and increase the taste of Q-bomb.

Making:

1. Add 150g water to the frozen spinach, boil it, and then use conditioner to make juice.

2. Pour160g glutinous rice flour, 30g sticky rice flour,15g honey and15g oil into a wok and stir well. Pour the spinach juice while it's hot, and stir it with chopsticks into a floccule.

According to the actual needs, add water to the cooking machine barrel and shake it evenly, add it to the dough, and knead it into dough with appropriate hardness.

3. Grab a piece of dough, about 30 grams, press a nest, put about 20 grams of 1 red bean paste balls, and wrap them up with the method of gathering the tiger's mouth.

4. Do everything in turn, put a small piece of oiled paper under each green group and arrange it in a steamer, leaving a gap in the middle.

Put cold water on the pot, boil water over high fire, and steam over medium fire when the water boils 10 minute (the steamed glutinous rice is not delicious because of the high fire).