The Qingming Festival is coming soon. Eating dumplings during the Qingming Festival is a custom in many places and a traditional delicacy in Jiangnan.

Generally speaking, mugwort is the most common green juice used to make green dumplings.

How to make traditional green dumplings

Choose fresh mugwort, remove the stems and leave the leaves, wash them

Blanch them, pick them up, pour the mugwort in cold water, and strain. moxa juice

Mix moxa leaves and glutinous rice flour, add moxa juice

Knead the dough, cut into equal small balls with a knife

Put one into fine bean paste and knead it Shape into a round shape

Put it in the steamer and cook it in 20 minutes

Tips:

1. Use baking soda to cook moxa, a small spoonful , 2.5-5 grams

2. Turn off the heat when the mugwort leaves are cooked, which can prevent excessive oxidation and discoloration of the mugwort leaves

3. There is no need to chop the mugwort leaves specially when kneading the dough. During the dough process, mugwort leaves will slowly break into the dough

4. You can buy ready-made fine bean paste

There are also people who are not suitable for Qingtuan.

Qingtuan is Made from glutinous rice flour, people usually eat it cold. The sticky glutinous rice becomes hard when cold and is difficult to digest (if it is eaten with high-fat foods, it will be more difficult to digest). Therefore, people with poor digestive function must control the amount when eating. Relevant people should not eat more than 50 grams of green dumplings at a time, and they should be eaten warm to facilitate digestion and absorption.

1. You can go to a place with a lot of weeds in April and May. The picture above is the mugwort I found in the wild. If you are worried about eating it by mistake, you can also go there around the Dragon Boat Festival. Market purchase.

2. After bringing it back, remove the branches and leaves and wash them. If they were picked in the wild, remember to wash them several times

3. After washing, pick them up and set them aside for later use. Add water to the pot, add baking soda and bring to a boil, then pour in the washed mugwort leaves and cook for five minutes

4. Take the mugwort leaves out of the pot, pour them over the water, and wash away the residue of the baking soda

5. Knead it into a ball, cut it finely with a knife, and put it in a small bowl

6. Add a small amount of water to the small bowl, stir it up with chopsticks, and you will get a bowl of pure moxa moxa. Grass juice.

It’s so easy to make Qingtuan juice! First of all, there must be wheatgrass or vegetable juice. Use the above two juices to soften the glutinous rice flour. Be sure to heat the soft glutinous rice flour. How to make the dumplings depends on whether you know how to make them. I can only teach you here; the most important thing is whether the dumplings are delicious or not. It takes about 40 minutes to soften the flour, then place it in a device with a certain temperature to rest for 20 minutes, and then you can make green dough.