Youth League is a traditional snack in the south of the Yangtze River. Usually eat fresh wormwood to make green juice, and then mix it with glutinous rice flour. The taste is not sweet or greasy, and the taste is light, so it is deeply loved and welcomed by people.

However, with the continuous development of youth league, there are more and more methods to make youth league, such as wheat straw and green wormwood juice. Sometimes people use green vegetable juice instead. Now people have weakened the concept of taking the Youth League as a sacrificial function and ate it as a snack.

There are several kinds of grass that can be used to make green grass, also called cotton vegetables. It is a common wild vegetable in life. Although the color of green grass made of red grass is wormwood green, flowers can be added, and the surface of green grass is yellow-green, which makes the green grass taste good.

Caotoucao is alfalfa, which is often cultivated as a vegetable in Jiangnan. It can also be used to make green balls. After washing, use a blender to make slurry and knead it in glutinous rice flour. Fragrant taste, light green color and high nutritional value.

Wheat straw pulp wheat straw is the most common material to replace wormwood as green ball. Its advantage is that the color of wheat straw pulp is relatively green, which is closest to wormwood, and it is very appetizing after being made.

Is wormwood the same as wormwood? Yes

Artemisia argyi, a perennial herb of Artemisia, is a medicinal material with the same origin of medicine and food. It is pungent and mild, and has certain effects of warming meridians, removing dampness, dispelling cold, stopping bleeding and diminishing inflammation. They are used when making wormwood. They are the same.

Only the wormwood used for making green meatballs is generally fresh wormwood, while the wormwood used for Chinese medicine is generally dry old wormwood or its dry roots.

4 fresh wormwood green group materials: fresh wormwood, glutinous rice flour, corn flour, sugar, lard, salad dressing, salted egg yolk, dried pork floss, bean paste and baking soda.

Exercise:

1. Wash the wormwood first.

2. Boil a pot of boiling water, add 1 teaspoon baking soda powder, blanch the washed wormwood in boiling water, and then take a bath.

3. Then put it into a cooking machine, add cold boiled water paste, and filter out the juice.

4. When it's done, put it in an enlarged bowl of 60g and heat the wormwood juice until it boils.

5. After that, take 80g of wormwood juice and pour it into the ground powder while stirring until there is no dry powder.

6. Put the glutinous rice flour into the pot, add sugar and lard, and cool the remaining wormwood juice to warm. Take 1 10g, pour it into glutinous rice flour and stir well.

7. Knead the stirred glutinous rice flour into a ball, grease the plate, spread the dough flat on the open plate, and cover it with plastic wrap to dry.

8. During the filling, the dough is divided into 12 portions, and made into balls and green balls.

9. finally steam and eat.