Ai Lixiang During The Qingming Festival

Name: Ai Lixiang During The Qingming Festival
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 150g Fresh wormwood leaves; 250g Water mill glutinous rice flour; 125g Sticky rice; 280g Red bean paste; 18g Caster sugar; 245g water

by The Rhyme of the Sea Food

4.7 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

15m

Serving

4

Ai 糍 is also called wormwood green group, Qingming fruit, and wormwood 糍粑. It is a traditional specialty snack and is generally eaten during the Qingming Festival. With the arrival of spring, clumps of fresh green wormwood will grow in the fields in the outskirts, which are fragrant and pleasant in color. Wormwood is a kind of herbal medicine. It has the effects of stopping bleeding and sterilizing, anti-allergic, sleeping well and enhancing resistance. It can warm menstruation, stop bleeding, dispel cold and relieve pain for women. Pick off the young leaves of the wormwood, squeeze the juice and knead it with glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour. The elegant green grass aroma and sweet homemade red bean filling are sweet but not greasy.
The following fresh wormwood leaves are the weighed weight after picking the young wormwood leaves. It does not matter if it is more or less. It doesn’t need to be too precise. If you like the wormwood smell, you can add more. The wormwood flavor of my portion is not too strong, because children don't like the strong wormwood flavor, this portion is just right. The moxa leaf plus water is made into a paste with a food processor, and additional water needs to be added according to the softness and hardness of the dough. I added about 55 grams of water here.

Ingredients

Ai Lixiang During The Qingming Festival

1. Buy fresh wormwood and wash it several times, leaving the tender leaves to remove the stems

Ai Lixiang During The Qingming Festival recipe

2. After the water in the pot is boiled, put the mugwort leaves, boil them for 2 minutes, pick them up, and soak them in cold water for 3 minutes.

3. Pick up the boiled mugwort leaves and wring out the water, add 190 grams of water, put it in a food processor, and make a mugwort paste. You don't need to filter out the mugwort juice, just use it directly

4. Put glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour and sugar in the basin and mix it

5. Pour the mugwort paste

6. Then add a small amount of about 55 grams of warm water according to the softness and hardness of the dough to form a dough that is moderately soft and hard, not dry, not wet, not sticky, and cover with plastic wrap

7. Divide the red bean paste into 14 pieces, each with 20 grams, and make rounds. Divide the wormwood dough into 50 grams each, knead it round and press it into a bowl with your thumb, and add the bean paste filling

8. Closed, rounded, emerald green, lovable

9. Put it in a greased steamer

10. Steam in a pot on boiling water for about 15-20 minutes

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