The name of Xiancao was first seen in the China Medicinal Plant Illustrated Book, and it was called Xiancao in the Occupational Prescription. Also known as field grass, grass washing, fairy grass jelly, fairy grass dry, fairy grass uncle
Nearly half of Mesona chinensis is carbohydrate, with cellulose content accounting for about 40%, protein and fat are not much, iron, calcium and manganese are high in minerals, and B vitamins are high in vitamins, in addition to polysaccharides, pigments (mainly anthocyanins), oleanolic acid, flavonoids and other components. After the grass is dried in the sun, the decocted water is mixed with the rice slurry and cooked, and after cooling, it becomes a black jelly, which is called "grass jelly".
Expansion: How to make delicious Xiancao milk tea by yourself?
Necessary equipment and materials: small measuring cups, large cups, stirring rods, milk tea companions (cold drinks), black tea, filtered water, ice cubes, tea juice maker.
Here, we take 800 ml of hot tea juice (introduce 45 grams of black tea into the filter bucket of the tea juice machine and add 1 liter of filtered water) into a large number of cups. Take 380 grams of milk tea partner, introduce it into a large number of cups, and stir thoroughly until all the milk tea melts. Then, take 1.5 liter of ice-water mixture (made of ice-water one-to-one) and introduce it into the stirred milk tea and fully stir until all the ice cubes are melted.
Make fairy grass
Ingredients: Xiancao frozen powder, cold water and boiled water.
Accessories: milk, black tea and sugar.
1, prepare a bag of milk and a bag of black tea.
2, 60 grams of cold water, 500 grams of boiling water for use.
3. Weigh 20g of Xiancao frozen powder.
4, pour the milk into a small pot, add the right amount of sugar and turn on a small fire.
5. Soak the black tea bag in the milk and continue to heat it.
6. Shake the small pot from time to time during heating, so that the taste of black tea can be fully integrated into the milk, and then pour it out for refrigeration after turning off the fire.
7. Take a bowl, pour in the Xiancao frozen powder weighed in advance, add 60 grams of cold water, and stir it with chopsticks until it is paste without particles.
8. Pour the evenly mixed Xiancao paste into a small pot, while adding boiling water, keep stirring and continue to heat until boiling.
9. After turning off the fire, quickly pour the Xiancao paste into a square fresh-keeping box and cool it until it solidifies.
10, thoroughly solidified Xiancao jelly, inverted on the chopping board, cut into small dices.
1 1, put in a glass teacup.
12. Pour the iced milk tea and drink it.
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