Qingmingguo leaves called rat koji, commonly known as Qingming grass, from the appearance of the whole plant has white woolly, leaves like chrysanthemum leaves and small, flocculent small yellow flowers, annual green flowering herbs. The scientific name does not exist rat bow (jū) grass, based on the local name will be called rat yeast (qū) grass is called rat bow grass.
What are the edible methods of rat koji grass
1, boiled water to drink
As the rat koji grass has certain health effects, some people in some areas will be washed and decocted to drink.
2, steamed
The tender Aspergillus oryzae chopped, mixed with white flour and cornmeal mixed together, plus salt on the steamer on high heat for 15 minutes, and then with a mixture of vinegar and garlic to pour on, you can eat it.
3, the production of Qingming fruit
The harvest of Aspergillus oryzae, wash the sand, finely chopped, mixed into glutinous rice flour and water into a dough. After waking up, or rolled into a smooth dough, or pressed into a cake, or on the cage drawer steamed, or into the frying pan fried, natural fragrance.
Origin of Qingming FruitLegend has it that one year during the Qingming Festival, Chen Taiping, the powerful general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Li Xiu Cheng, was pursued by the Qing soldiers, and a farmer who ploughed the fields nearby came forward to help, disguised Chen Taiping as a farmer and ploughed the fields together with himself. When Chen Taiping was not captured, the Qing soldiers did not let up, so they set up additional guards in the village, and every person who left the village was inspected to prevent them from bringing food to Chen Taiping. After returning home, the farmer was thinking about what to bring to Chen Taiping to eat, a foot stepped on a clump of mugwort, slipped and fell, and when he climbed up, he saw that his hands and knees were stained with a green color. He immediately thought, and quickly picked some mugwort home, washed and boiled to squeeze the juice, kneaded into the glutinous rice flour, made a rice ball. Then he put the green dumplings in the grass, and mixed with the sentries at the entrance of the village. Chen Taiping ate the green dumplings and found them fragrant, sticky and non-sticky. After dark, he bypassed the Qing sentries and returned safely to the base camp. Later, Li Xiu Cheng ordered the Taiping army to learn how to make green dumplings to protect themselves from the enemy. The custom of eating green dumplings was then spread.
Why eat Qingming fruit on Qingming Festival
1, dietary traditions
Qingming Festival, also known as the Cold Food Festival, in the past, the Qingming Festival when the families do not open fire, and the Qingming fruit can be directly eaten after steaming, so the Qingming Festival to eat Qingming fruit is based on the reality of the need.
2, food in season
Qingming fruit is only available in the spring, so, Qingming Festival to eat Qingming fruit is also a diet in season. Qingming fruit is a kind of wild food named pulp wheat grass after pounding to take the juice and water grinding glutinous rice flour after mixing well made.
How to make Qingming GuoIngredients:
Mushroom grass (Qingming grass), bamboo shoots, dried tofu, fat meat, glutinous rice flour, sauerkraut (or snow peas)
Directions:
1, bamboo shoots, dried tofu, fat meat are cut into small dices.
2, hot frying pan, under the fat meat slowly stir fry oil.
3, such as fat meat diced into the dregs can be reduced, this time the fat meat diced oil are forced out. The dregs do not have to fish out, together with fried in the filling is very fragrant.
4, put the spring bamboo shoots go down to stir-fry until cooked.
5, put the dried tofu dices and snow peas into the pot stir fry through, add moderate salt and chicken seasoning. (Snow is salty, the amount of salt control, according to the taste of our family, the salt in the snow will be enough to the whole filling of salty, so here did not add salt only a small amount of chicken essence).
6, out of the pot to be cooled and wrapped into the glutinous rice dough into the salty Qingming dumplings.
7, the mouse bow grass (Qingming grass) with clean water, pot of water boiling, add a spoonful of salt, the mouse bow grass (Qingming grass) into the blanching. Blanching good water rat bow grass (Qingming grass) immediately fished out, rinse with cold water to cool.
8, blanched mouse bow grass (Qingming grass) with a little cold water, put into a blender and beat into a paste.
9, 500g of glutinous rice flour, 100g of rice flour mix, with a measuring cup to pocket up half a cup on the side (so as not to wait for the water to add too much, you can remedy).
10, the rat bow grass (Qingming grass) paste added to the powder, heating water, while adding and stirring, the flour into a block, kneaded by hand into a smooth dough. Knead the dough into the microwave oven ding one minute, remove (see the reason behind the cooking tips).
11: Divide the dough into small pieces, take a piece and flatten it, wrap it in the filling, and close the mouth and roll it.
12, wrapped up the dumplings underneath the pad brown leaves, on the pot on high heat steaming for 15 minutes.