Ai Ba Ba

Ai Ba Ba

1. Prepare the banana leaves, cut them into squares and wash them for later use. (There is no tree pineapple leaf or others available.)

2. Put the peanuts in the oven and heat up and down at 160 degrees for about 10 minutes.

3. After baking, take out and rub some red clothes. Grab a handful of flowers together and rub your hands back and forth.

4. Just blow off the red clothes after rubbing.

5. Crush the peanuts.

6. Pour peanut oil into the pan to stir-fry the shredded coconut.

7. Saute the sesame seeds until fragrant.

8. Put all the fillings into the container and add white sugar.

9. Stir well.

10. Soak and wash the fresh wormwood, and drain the water.

11. Put an appropriate amount of water in the pot, add the wormwood to boil for 2-3 minutes after the water is boiled.

12. Take out the wormwood and pour it into a basin of clear water to remove the bitter water, wring it out (the wormwood picked before Qingming is not bitter, you don’t need to do this step.)

13. Chop and mince with a knife.

14. Or chop it and put it in a food processor.

15. Add 500ml of water to the pot, pour the crushed mugwort leaves and cook.

16. Prepare 2 catties of glutinous rice flour.

17. Pour the cooked wormwood into the glutinous rice flour and stir well.

18. And into dough.

19. Take a small dough and roll it into a round crust.

20. Add the fillings.

21. Close your mouth with a tiger's mouth.

22. Just round it. (It can also be rounded and put into a mold to form a shape.)

23. Add water to the steamer, arrange the banana leaves, and put in the cooked moxa. Cover the lid and bring to a boil. Turn to low heat and cook for 20 minutes. Cook with fingers that are not sticky, and just steam.

24. After steaming.

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29. Let's eat.

Tips:

1. The ratio of fresh wormwood to glutinous rice flour is 1:2 (one catty of wormwood matches two catties of glutinous rice flour)
2. The ratio of water to fresh wormwood is 1:1 (a pound of fresh wormwood is boiled with 500ml of water)
3. One catty of fresh wormwood plus two catties of glutinous rice flour can make about 30 (according to size)
4. The filling can be made salty or change to other tastes you like.
5. If you want to keep the mugwort leaves green, you can add alkali or baking soda when cooking mugwort leaves.