This spring, we have not yet felt it well, and we are about to wave goodbye to us, but the short spring has brought a lot of country delicacies! Yu qian steamed buns, tree vegetable toon buds, seasonal green dough, alfalfa vegetables, stubble and stubble leek king, and many other fresh and unworldly small wild vegetables, and a kind of small family jasper feeling! Today let me walk into the Fairy Tofu in April – guess what it has beans? Guess right there are surprises!
The green pulp is condensed into a crispy fat, and the mung beans are cut into nephrite
What is fairy tofu! The fairy spirit of this name flutters, and it may feel that I am from where and where I am going! In fact, its raw materials are mainly made from the immortal trees in the mountains.
Immortal leaf, scientific name (tofu chai, rotten, stinky yellow wattle). Also known as Guanyin leaf. Legend has it that in a certain disaster year, many people were going to starve to death, and Guanyin Realized the Suffering and spread poplar branches and nectar all over the place, so that magical leaves grew in the mountains. Villagers can go to the mountain to pick this kind of leaves, and then add grass and wood ash, you can make tofu, the victims do the same, this tofu let the victims have the hope of life, but also cured a lot of diseases, in order to thank the red commemoration of the immortals, it is called the fairy leaves. Although this is a legend, in the era of material scarcity, it is indeed the way for mountain people to support themselves. Take the hot leaves to get rich gum. This green leaf tofu is not only detoxifying and detoxifying, but also has a smooth Q bullet.
According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Shennong Materia Medica", "Dictionary of Chinese Medicine" and other pharmacopoeias, the roots, stems and leaves of the immortal leaves can be medicated, which have the effects of clearing heat and detoxification, moisturizing the intestines and laxatives, relieving alcohol and protecting the liver, curing hemorrhoidal fistula and bleeding, lowering three heights, and beautifying the face. Fairy leaves are rich in pectin, which can be used for pectin extraction and can also be used as a raw material for green food. It also meets the requirements of current green food.
In Xianju, Taizhou, Jiangnan, almost every restaurant has it, so it has become a local seasonal delicacy! Its production process is still a traditional method, and it does not require a gorgeous and cumbersome process.
First of all, in this season, the local villagers will go into the deep mountains of nature and pick the gifts given by nature, the leaves of the gods. Then come back to the treatment, wash the green leaves with clean water, and this kung fu alone gives the green leaves spirituality. The washed green leaves are blanched with boiling water, then slowly rubbed in the hands, and finally squeezed into a cloth to filter out the juice.
One of the magic of "Fairy Tofu" is that compared to traditional tofu making, most of the "coagulant" required is gypsum water. And it only needs to sprinkle some grass ash or ash alkali water, and then give it to time, sit and wait to become "fairy" tofu. This ash ash is made of bean straw, non-toxic and harmless. Then add water for filtration.
After a period of cooling, a pot of turquoise moist, crystal clear fairy tofu is ready, and then cut into pieces, can be mixed with sugar, spicy, vinegar cooking, cold drinks... Paired with different ingredients, it presents a variety of flavors. Melting in the mouth, smooth and cool, it is an indispensable "artifact" for cooling down the home since the ambush. For the next hot weather, you can take the lead in advance.
"The amorous old man recommends wild vegetables, and there are no food in the city." Coincidentally, villages in the mountains in the Guanzhong area once had a kind of "fairy tofu", and it was also made of leaves. However, this was born during the famine years, the victims collected leaves, made into cold powder to fill the hunger, because through this food to save their lives, it is called "fairy tofu". It is conceivable that perhaps behind the birth of Wushan emerald tofu, there is also an unknown bitter process. Those years will never be repeated, but we will never forget them.
The amorous townspeople recommend wild vegetables, and there are no food in the city.
The unique feature of Wushan Emerald Cool Powder is that it does not require the participation of starch, but is completely made of stinky yellow wattle leaves mashed and boiled. Stinky yellow wattle is a shrub that grows in the southwest and central and southern regions, especially in the Wuxia section of the Yangtze River. April to July is the most lush season for stinky yellow wattle leaves, and it is also the best time to make emerald cool powder. So don't worry about eating it will be fat! It is the best choice for fairies to lose fat.
Similar to fairy grass, stinky yellow wattle is rich in gum, but the leaves of stinky yellow wattle have a higher gum content. Take the leaves and add water to twist out the juice, and by adding alkaline cypress leaf ash, it can be directly condensed into freezing. After the finished product is cut into pieces, seasoned with chili peppers and other condiments, the color is emerald green and the taste is fragrant.
Because the stinky yellow wattle has a stinky smell, this cool powder is also called stinky salt vegetable cold powder by the locals, and later because the name is really not good, it is taken from its turquoise color and named emerald cool powder.
Locals believe that the cold powder made of pure plants does not go on fire after eating, and has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification. For them living in the mountains on both sides of the Yangtze River, they can survive the bitter summer, all by virtue of the jade powder, which is hanging from the fairy breath, so it was once called "immortal tofu". That's exactly what the name suggests! There is indeed some fairy fog, a little intoxicated with the feeling of self!
Nature has always been selfless and generous to the people of this land, and human beings have learned to be grateful and coexist with nature on this lovely earth. May we all be able to cherish and truly guard the land under our feet, and do and cherish! Be a happy and casual person! I also hope that everyone can live every day freely and happily!
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