Youth League is one of the common delicacies in Jiangnan. Can I do it at home?

At the beginning of April every year, fields and rivers are tender, and green wormwood looks like a green carpet, which is very beautiful. When you get close, you can smell the faint fragrance of wormwood leaves, which is refreshing. People like to use this time to cut wormwood and make wormwood poop. The process of making wormwood poop (green ball) is also very simple, but wormwood should be added in moderation. If you add less, it will turn white, and there is no green tone. The fragrance of mugwort leaves is not so strong. Qingtuan is a kind of annular special food made of wormwood juice, glutinous rice flour and flour. Youth League is the food for Ningbo people to pay homage to their ancestors and their predecessors in Tomb-Sweeping Day. A small dessert used to receive guests at other times.

Most of them are natural and can be identified by smell. There are their shadows everywhere, and there are their shadows. In small groups, they are talking and laughing, and they are very leisurely. Youth League is a traditional delicacy in Ningbo. It is turquoise, mixed with wormwood juice into sticky rice flour, and then wrapped into bean paste or lotus paste stuffing. It is not sweet or greasy, and contains a faint but long fragrance of flowers and plants. Qingtuan is a special food in Tomb-Sweeping Day, which is made of mugwort leaves, sticky rice noodles, favorite fillings and steamed food. Soft and sweet, with the unique fragrance of wormwood, it is a refreshing food. In some places in southern China, during Tomb-Sweeping Day, reunion dinner was one of the famous foods in Meng Lanjie.

Because it uses green grass juice as the epidermis, its color is emerald green, so it is called green group. At the beginning, green balls had only two flavors, sweet and salty, one was jujube paste and red bean paste, and the other was raw pork bamboo shoots. Now there are many kinds of green balls, including all kinds of flavors and fillings, green balls with chocolate flavor, green balls with fruit flavor, green balls with salted egg yolk stuffing and green balls with ice cream stuffing. In fact, the green ball is a glutinous rice cake made of wormwood leaves. It is often called green meatballs because the glutinous rice cake made by mugwort leaves is green and round, which means that green meatballs are completely satisfactory in raw materials and appearance, but different regions have different opinions.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the effects of promoting qi circulation, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, and is a dual-purpose commodity of medicine and food. I remember picking mugwort leaves with my grandmother when I was a child. At that time, the health machine was not broken. In order to pick the tender tip of Artemisia argyi, stems will appear when picking old leaves, which will endanger the taste of glutinous rice. Wash the Folium Artemisiae Argyi, put it in an electric pressure cooker, add water and a few pieces of dried ginger, and press it with the pressure cooker to turn all the Folium Artemisiae Argyi into water. Pour water into sticky rice flour while it is hot, stir and knead, and the wormwood leaves and glutinous rice flour are completely blended, and the glutinous rice balls are moderately soft and hard. Start rubbing a small ball of moxa into a circle with your hand, and then press the thumb of one hand in the middle of the ball. When the thumb is pressed, the ball will be turned with both hands. Press it gently twice, and the ball is like a bowl, ready to be loaded.