Youth League

Youth League

Introduction:

"The Youth League is a traditional festival food of the Han nationality. Eating the Youth League is mainly popular in the Qingming Festival, cold food festival and other festivals in Jiangnan. It is a kind of green pastry made of straw juice. The method is to put tender wormwood and small Jimu grass into a large pot, add lime to steam them, float off the lime water, and knead them into glutinous rice flour to make a turquoise green pastry. There are generally three kinds of wild vegetables for the Green League: kohlrabi, Artemisia argyi and Kojima

Production steps:

Step 1: glutinous rice flour, glutinous rice flour and Chengfen are mixed together. The proportion of glutinous rice flour and glutinous rice flour can be adjusted. Glutinous rice flour is soft and sticky, and glutinous rice flour is elastic

Step 2: glutinous rice flour, glutinous rice flour and Chengfen are mixed together. The proportion of glutinous rice flour and glutinous rice flour is adjustable. Glutinous rice flour tastes soft and sticky, and glutinous rice flour is elastic

Step 3: put wormwood powder in a bowl, pour in hot water, about 60 degrees, a little hot, stir evenly

Step 4: pour in sugar, add or reduce sugar according to your preference, stir to dissolve

Step 5: while the water is still hot, pour the water into the mixed glutinous rice flour and mix well with a scraper

Step 6: after mixing to no dry powder, knead it into a smooth dough by hand. During kneading, if you have lard at home or friends who like to eat lard, you can add a little lard to the dough, which will be more fragrant. If you don't have lard, you don't need to add it

Step 7: divide the dough into small balls of moderate size, and divide the bean paste into small balls smaller than the glutinous rice ball to make the filling. Flatten the glutinous rice ball, put the bean paste ball in the middle of the glutinous rice ball, and slowly push the glutinous rice ball upward while wrapping until the bean paste ball is completely wrapped

Step 8: when eating, pad the bottom of the dumpling with oil paper, rice dumpling leaves, or a small plate brushed with edible oil, put it into a hot steamer, steam it for about 15 minutes, and then eat

Materials required:

Glutinous rice flour: 200g

Red bean paste: 100g

Water: 210g

Sticky rice noodles: 30g

Chengfen: 30g

Wormwood powder: 10g

Sugar: 30g

Lard: right amount

Precautions: 1. After leaving the cage, brush a layer of edible oil on the surface of the dumpling to keep the color and anti sticking; 2. Preservation method: brush a thin layer of oil on the bottom and inner wall of the container, put the dumpling in, tear off the oil paper by the way, and steam it before eating; 3. Preservation method: after brushing the oil, tear off the oil paper, wrap it with fresh-keeping film, and steam it when eating.

Production difficulty: ordinary

Process: steaming

Production time: several hours

Taste: Original