Green dumplings are a popular specialty food in the spring, it's tasty, sticky and delicious, rich in nutrients, it contains a lot of fillings, the value and taste are very good, many people will often eat green dumplings. Generally, the green dumplings we eat are green and green, and rarely see other colors of green dumplings. So can you make green dumplings in other colors? Let's look at it below!

In the traditional practice, the green dumplings are usually made with green ingredients such as mugwort or Qingmingcai, with their juice and noodles, so the green dumplings are green, mainly because of the natural green pigmentation in the ingredients, just because the dumplings are green, so they are called green dumplings. As the practice of green dumplings continue to innovate, the taste is also becoming more and more rich, mainly divided into two flavors, one is sweet, the other is salty, both are very popular. Green dumplings in addition to changes in taste, it is also possible to change the color of the exterior, this year, Shanghai Apricot House launched a three-color green dumplings, which are not only green, but also purple and pink green dumplings, not only the value of super-high, the taste is very tasty to the burst, the introduction of the Shanghai network has become a red cake, a lot of people go to the Apricot House to buy the three-color green dumplings. So, green dumplings not only have green, but also can be made in a variety of other colors, mainly depends on the individual practice.

Green dumplings can be made in pink, yellow, purple, and white, etc. Many colors can be made, and they can be made with different ingredients.

The other colors are very similar to the traditional ones, which are made of glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour, and chenggong flour, and then wrapped with some fillings, and then steamed and eaten. The color of the green dumplings is mainly in the process of flour, depending on what color of juice and flour, if you use mugwort or bok choy juice and flour, the final out of the dough is green, if you use pumpkin or purple sweet potato juice, then do out of the dough is the other color, so the final good green dumplings is not green, it may be yellow, purple, and so on.

The green dumplings are eaten on the Qingming Festival

The green dumplings are usually eaten on the Qingming Festival.

According to traditional customs, in the Qingming Festival, people in many places will eat green dumplings, especially in the Zhejiang region, which is the traditional food culture, so green dumplings are generally eaten during the Qingming Festival, but with the green dumplings more and more rich in flavors, many people will be green dumplings as a kind of pastry snack, not only only limited to the Qingming Festival to eat, but also at other times can be eaten.