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Simple method of youth league

1. First, clean the fresh wormwood, put it in a pot and add water to boil it until it is fragile. Take it out, chop it or stir it until it becomes thin. Add a little sugar to adjust the taste, because wormwood belongs to Chinese herbal medicine and will have a slightly bitter taste. If you don't like wormwood, you can filter the green juice with gauze, or you can buy the green juice made in the supermarket directly. )

2. Put glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour into a container, pour in green juice and stir, and add a little cooking oil to make the taste smoother. Stir well.

3. Knead into a round cake. Put a proper amount of red bean paste in the middle of the green ball cake, then wrap it in green balls and knead it into a ball.

4, after it is made, it is the shape of a green group! The amount of wormwood juice determines the color depth of the green ball. Pad the zongzi leaves into the bottom of the steamer, and then put the green balls on the zongzi leaves, not too close apart, so as not to stick together after evaporation. It will be better to use Zongye as the base!

5. Put it in a steamer and steam it in cold water 15 minutes or more, and then take it out. The fragrant wormwood green ball is ready. If you like other flavors such as pork floss and salted egg yolk, you can replace the red bean paste and make it yourself.

6. If you want to store the dough, you can put it in a warm plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator after the dough is steamed. In this case, the dough will still be soft and waxy in 2-3 days. If it's a little hard, you can steam it for 10 minutes, and the microwave oven will taste better for half a minute.