Green dumplings are high in calories. Qing Tuan is a kind of food steamed in a bamboo cage with mugwort juice and glutinous rice, about the size of a child's fist, and it is also stuffed with bean paste. It is usually eaten the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day. 100 grams of green balls have 220 calories, twice as much as white rice, and it is best to eat only one a day.

What is the heat of a green ball? Green dumplings per100g is equal to 222 calories. Qingtuanzi is a traditional famous spot in Shanghai and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Founded in the Song Dynasty, it is one of the best cold food spots in Tomb-Sweeping Day. At that time, it was collectively called "Fentuan", which prevailed in Shanghai and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Because its color is green and green, it is named "Youth League". Features of the Youth League: green color, delicate and sweet! ?

Green dumplings are made by mashing a wild plant called "Pulp Wheat Straw" and squeezing out juice, then mixing this juice with dried pure glutinous rice flour, and then making dumplings. The stuffing of dumplings is made of delicate sugar bean paste, and a small piece of sugar lard is added when filling.

After the dumplings are made, put them into a cage and steam them. When they come out of the cage, brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of the dumplings with a brush, and you're done. The green dumplings are as green as jade, sticky and soft, fragrant, sweet but not greasy, fat but not full. Green dumplings are also essential food for people in Jiangnan area to sacrifice their ancestors. Because of this, green dumplings are particularly important in folk food customs in Jiangnan area.