Qingtuan is a common food in life. It is a popular food during the Qingming Festival. It has many recipes and rich taste. Many people make Qingtuan at home.

Qingtuan can be made with wild vegetables, and there are many choices, such as sage grass, grass and wheat straw, etc., which can be used to make Qingtuan.

What is the name of the wild vegetable used to make green dumplings? 1. Buckthorn is a kind of wild vegetable, also known as cotton vegetable.

This is common in the wild.

It appears in early spring.

Seedlings that do not bloom can be picked and taken home as wild vegetables.

The color of the green ball made of rattan grass is not as green as mugwort.

Due to the addition of flowers, the surface of the green ball is yellow and green, but the taste is also very fragrant.

House mouse has good medicinal functions, and its utilization rate is second only to mugwort.

2. Grass head In fact, alfalfa was originally a feed for cattle and sheep, but it is often grown as a vegetable in the Jiangnan area.

Caotou is a common delicacy in major restaurants in Shanghai (Caotou Circle).

Digging wild vegetables in the city is inconvenient.

You can also buy grass heads at the vegetable market.

After washing the grass heads, beat them into a pulp with a blender, pour into the glutinous rice flour and knead evenly.

It tastes delicious and is light green in color.

3. Wheat straw pulp: The biggest advantage of wheat straw pulp is that the green balls made from it are particularly green.

It will look green when coated with cooking oil.

Looks very appetizing.

However, it is easy to confuse roadside wheat straw with wild ryegrass.

Pay attention to it when looking for it.

4. Mustard greens: The tender seedlings of mustard greens look like shepherd's purse, but their taste is a bit bitter, so people generally do not dig them out and eat them.

Peony is actually a kind of medicinal material.

The whole plant can be used medicinally.

Its main function is to clear away heat and reduce swelling.

More suitable for making green ball juice.

However, the green dumplings made with mustard had a bitter taste.

The elderly like to eat it and think it can reduce fire, but now few people use it to make green dumplings.

5. Echinacea It is also a wild thistle.

There are some jagged spines on the edges of its leaves.

The color is dark green, which is very suitable for extracting juice into green pellets.

Zanthoxylum bungeanum and cabbage are bitter and sweet, and have the effect of cooling blood.

It is also a wild vegetable loved by the elderly.

The method of making green balls is similar to mustard puree.

6. Young leaves of ramie: There is a tradition of growing ramie in the Jiangnan region.

The young leaves of ramie can be eaten as a cold wild vegetable and have the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, and diuresis.

Can be used to make green dumplings.

The leaves can be chopped and kneaded into glutinous rice flour.

Of course, before kneading, it should be boiled first, add some lime water to eliminate the sour taste, or use baking soda instead of lime.

In short, it neutralizes the acidic substances in ramie.

Ramie green balls are light in color.

It smells like wild vegetable cake and tastes great too.

The months of the Youth League are from mid and late March to mid-April.

Qingtuan is mainly eaten around the Spring Festival.

Around Qingming Festival, many wild vegetables grow.

There are enough materials to make Qingtuan.

Another reason is that around the Qingming Festival, many people will go outing and pay homage.

In southern China, Qingtuan is mainly eaten as a spring outing snack, so Qingtuan is usually most popular from mid-to-late March to mid-April every year.

What is the meaning of eating Qingtuan? It has the meaning of sacrifice and reunion.

Qingtuan is a special snack in Jiangnan.

It is mainly made from mugwort juice mixed with glutinous rice flour.

Of course, some fillers can be added.

Generally speaking, people in Jiangnan will do Qingtuan Festival every year during Qingming Festival.

In ancient times, Qingtuan was mainly used as a sacrifice.

But now, the Youth League culture as a sacrifice has gradually weakened.

It is not only used for sacrifices, but also eaten as snacks, which has a certain meaning of reunion.