What is soft Hagi Poi? Is it good?

Soft Hagi Po is a flavorful snack in Lutian, Yingshan and Hong'an in Dabie Mountain, Hubei Province. It is the wild soft hagi (Qingming vegetable, sage) and glutinous rice flour sticky rice flour mix, add 60 ℃ warm boiling water kneaded into dough, black sesame and sugar mix, filling, made of round cake, small fire baked and become. The taste is good, very tasty.

Soft Hagi, alias:Ching Ming Vegetable, scientific name:Comfrey, is a kind of millet. Its adult plant is less than 1 foot long, and its leaves are soft with silk tears. After picking the soft glutinous rice, wash it with water and paste it well, pour the glutinous rice flour and soft glutinous rice into a basin, add some boiling water and stir it vigorously. Unlike glutinous rice flour and wheat flour, you must use boiling water, and you can't add too much water. The well-mixed soft dough is light green in color and soft in texture. Usually the filling is fried and mixed first. Adding filling to make glutinous rice is a meticulous technical work that ordinary people can't do. According to the evidence, Luotian County named soft rice straw, also known as snake grass. Because of its soft and fluffy leaves, Luotian used to call it soft rice straw. When it is kneaded together with glutinous rice, it is called soft rice straw. Herbs annual or biennial, 10-50 cm tall. Stems erect, fascicled, unbranched or few branched, densely white hairy. Leaves alternate, lower and middle leaves oblanceolate or spatulate, apex pointed, base conical, stipe extending downward, white long hairs on both sides. Flower heads numerous, umbellate at tip; involucral bracts globose-campanulate, involucral bracts 3-layered, golden yellow; tubular yellow flowers; female flowers around, bisexual flowers in center. Achenes oblong. blooms April-June, fruits ripen August-September.

How to make Soft Hagi Po

Making raw materials: 1 catty of wild vegetables, 2 catty of glutinous rice flour, 1 catty of sticky rice flour, 0.6 catty of black sesame seeds, 0.5 catty of brown sugar.

Method of production:

(1)Crush the soft currant and glutinous rice flour, add 60 ℃ warm boiled water, kneaded into a dough standby.

(2)Mix black sesame and sugar, make filling and set aside.

(3)Divide the kneaded dough into small pieces, then wrap the sesame filling with the dough and make round cakes.

(4)Put the prepared soft cakes into a pan and bake on a light flame.

Can pregnant women eat Soft Hagi Bread?

Pregnant women can eat Soft Hagi. Boiled vegetables contain lipids, volatile oils, a large amount of carotene and a small amount of B vitamins, rhamnetin, potassium nitrate, potassium chloride and so on, which has no effect on the fetus.