The Qingming Festival in the north does not seem to have much to do with eating, but in the past two years, the Youth League has become the Internet celebrity food of the Qingming Festival. "Qingtuan" is one of the traditional snacks that must be eaten before and after the Qingming Dynasty in Jiangnan, also known as Ai Tuan. It is made by mixing wormwood juice with glutinous rice flour into a dough, and then wrapped in salted egg yolk, bean paste, lotus paste and other fillings, which are not sweet or greasy to eat, and have a faint grassy aroma, full of spring atmosphere.
The first time to taste the youth group is the first two days to Shanghai travel, at that time also listened to the friends around the side, go to Shanghai must try the authentic green group, after tasting found that the taste is really good, after returning to plan to do it, unfortunately can not buy fresh wormwood, so has not been done. Recently to see friends have been hands-on green dough, I also joined in the fun from the Internet to buy some wormwood powder to do a few green dough to relieve hunger, although the formula is not authentic, the taste is absolutely nothing to say, like friends can also try it, the method is very simple, as long as you follow this operation method, the success rate is 100%. Not only is it delicious but it also costs less than half of what you sell outside.
Ingredients to prepare:
Dough: 260g glutinous rice flour, 65g crystal powder, 18g wormwood powder, 252g boiling water
Filling: 60g of pork floss, 10 salted egg yolks (about 230g), a little sesame oil
Preparation Method:
1, prepare the ingredients to weigh well, salted egg yolk in advance put in cooking oil soaked for about half an hour, if there is enough time, it is recommended to soak longer for a longer time, eat more sandy taste;
2, put the salted egg yolk in the plate into the steamer on high heat for about 15 minutes, there is no steamer at home can also be baked at low temperature in the oven;
3: Use the steamed salted egg yolks in the steamer to start preparing the dough, and mix the glutinous rice flour, crystal powder and wormwood powder in a large clean bowl and mix well. The amount of wormwood powder is recommended not to be added at one time, and then added as appropriate according to the state of your favorite color after kneading the dough;
4: Quickly add boiling water to the flour bowl, stir with chopsticks during the process of adding boiling water, stir until there is no dry flour noodles and no hot hands, and then knead into a smooth dough by hand. The amount of boiling water is recommended to reserve about 20g first, and add it according to the dry and wet state of the dough during kneading. The water absorption of different powders will be slightly different, so when kneading the dough, you should flexibly grasp the amount of boiling water;
5、 Remove the steamed salted egg yolk from the steamer;
6: Mash the salted egg yolk with a spoon;
7: Add the prepared pork floss and a little sesame oil. Meat floss is homemade by buying tenderloin by yourself, and friends who can't make pork floss can also buy it from the supermarket or online;
8. Mix the pork floss with the salted egg yolk and stir well;
9, prepare the salted egg yolk meat floss with an average ingredient of 14 equal parts, respectively, knead the circle and knead tightly;
10. After the filling is prepared, divide the kneaded dough into 14 equal parts and roll them rounded separately;
11. Take one of the small doughs, flatten them with the palm of your hand or roll out a rounded cake with a rolling pin, and then put a filling in the middle;
12, the salted egg yolk meat loose to the bun method wrapped in the middle, the mouth of the pinch down, and then roll round;
13: Make all the remaining dough into a green dough blank according to the above method, put the oil paper on the bottom and put it on the steaming baking sheet of the steaming oven. If there is no oil paper at home, put it directly on the steaming baking sheet, and brush a little cooking oil on the steaming baking tray before putting it in to prevent the green dough from sticking to the steaming baking sheet;
14. After the green dough blank is ready, it is placed in the steaming oven that has been preheated in advance and steamed for 15 minutes;
15. When the time comes, take out the steamed baking pan and eat;
16. Finished product drawing;
Tips:
1, wormwood powder can use fresh and beautiful wormwood juice or pulp wheat grass juice, I in order to be lazy directly from the Internet to purchase wormwood powder;
2, the addition of crystal powder is mainly to make the green dough have a sense of transparency, there is no home can be replaced with powder;
3, the degree of dryness and wetness of the dough is better than not cracking, too much moisture, steamed green dough is easy to deform, so the specific amount of liquid should be adjusted according to the water absorption of the flour;
4, after the green dough blank is ready, put in the steaming oven steaming for about 15 minutes to take out, should not be steamed for too long, easy to collapse, no steaming oven can use steamer steaming, to open the water pot steaming, the time is also about 15 minutes;
5, steamed green dough should be eaten while hot, cold will be hard, once not eaten, the next time can be reheated and then eaten;