The green juice for green dumplings is made by pounding a wild plant called wheatgrass, and the green dumplings are made by mixing this juice with dried, water-ground pure glutinous rice flour. Nowadays, there are a lot of green juice used to make green dumplings, and in some areas, green wormwood juice and green leafy vegetable juice are also used, which can be used by adding it to the glutinous rice flour, sugar, and clarified noodle water and mixing it well.

What materials are used to make the green juice of the green dumplings

Many places will eat green dumplings at the time of the Qingming Festival, and some people will do it themselves at home, the reason why the green dumplings are green, mainly because of the use of the green juice, that is, with a wild plant named pulp wheat grass pounded and squeezed out of the juice, and then this juice and dry water milled pure glutinous rice flour, mix well, and you can start to make the dumplings. Then you can start making the dumplings.

The juice method of making green dumplings is relatively simple, clean the pulp wheat grass, put it into a juicer to extract the juice, then stir the glutinous rice flour, the sugar and pulp wheat grass juice into it, and mix it together until there are no particles, and then pour the clarified noodle water into it, and continue to mix it until there are no particles.

Then add corn oil, the glutinous rice dough evenly divided into equal parts, and then add salted egg yolk or bean paste into the skin, kneaded into a ball, and then wrapped into the inside of the green dough, and then put into the pot to steam can be.

What else can be used to make green dumplings

Nowadays, green dumplings are made with a lot of green juice, some regions use wheat grass, some regions use green wormwood juice, and some are made with green leafy vegetable juice. In the early days of the green dumplings are specifically used in the Qingming Festival ritual use, but now its ritual function is increasingly diluted, and gradually turned into the Spring Festival spring tour of the special snacks.