The Youth League has different names in different areas. Hakkas call it Ai Ai, Zhejiang and its nearby areas call it Qingming Cake, and others call it Amigo and Qingming Cake. Although the names and practices of green glutinous rice balls in different regions may be different, they are all green glutinous rice balls with various fillings. People will pick wormwood before Qingming, when the leaves of wormwood are green and dripping, creating a perfect green group. Blanch wormwood in a pot, take it out after cooking, mash wormwood and juice, and add wormwood residue and juice into the powder for kneading. The smell of wormwood will be stronger. If you don't want a heavy smell of wormwood, you can only add ground wormwood juice, so that the green skin is pure green.
Just like zongzi has a battle between sweetness and saltiness, moon cakes have a battle between the north and the south, and the Youth League also has a choice between sweetness and saltiness. The most traditional one should be the sweet red bean paste green ball. Rub the dough embryo of green dough into long strips, divide it into small doses of appropriate size and equal weight, and rub them into balls one by one. When wrapping, press a hole in the jiaozi with your thumb, scoop a spoonful of red bean paste into it, and then rub it into a round jiaozi. This is the sweet and soft red bean paste green jiaozi. Most of the moxa sticks made by Hakkas are filled with sesame and peanuts. The typical fillings of salty green balls are egg yolk pine stuffing, cabbage bamboo shoots stuffing and pickled fresh stuffing, and basically salted egg yolk or ham bacon is added to create a salty taste. Don't miss it for meat lovers!
With the diversification of people's needs, a variety of online celebrity-flavored youth groups have emerged. Time-honored cake shops in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have launched a variety of new flavors this year, such as the green group of shredded chicken and bacon in Shanghai Xinghualou, the green group of purple sweet potato with Q-heart milk flavor in Shanghai Xinya Cantonese Restaurant, the green group of matcha milk in Shen Dacheng ... others like quicksand explosion pearl green group and pickled fish green group. Although these tastes look "wonderful", they still attract many young people to buy them. Everyone is willing to wait in line just to taste these fresh tastes. Recently, the Youth League is definitely one of the hottest products in Taobao. It is precisely because of the development of e-commerce and the innovation of merchants that people all over the country can taste this kind of Qingming food with Jiangnan characteristics more easily than before this year.
Although it is easy to buy green balls of various flavors, there are still many food lovers who make their own green balls at home. Mash Artemisia argyi leaves, knead the dough and wrap the stuffing, then steam in a steamer for about 15 minutes, and steam for a long time if the meat is green. After steaming, the green ball is bright green, emitting the fragrance of wormwood. Take a bite, the soft cake is wrapped in hot stuffing, which is hard to give up and never forget. However, you can't eat too much green balls, especially for the elderly and children. After all, green balls are mainly glutinous rice, which is a kind of food that is difficult to digest. Eating too much will cause too much burden on the digestive system and may cause gastrointestinal discomfort.
"There are many rains during the Qingming period, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls." Even if the weather in Tomb-Sweeping Day makes people feel bad, don't forget that Qingming food represented by the Youth League can save this spring. Healing green is not limited to many flavors of fine red bean paste, fluffy egg yolk and cheese, and it will never disappoint people.