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= Sweet green rice ball = Sweet green rice ball is a kind of Chinese seasonal dessert in the south provinces of China. It is made of fresh wormwood or straw and glutinous rice flour. It is as green as jade, waxy, soft and fragrant. When people taste it, they will feel sweet and not greasy, not fat and not rich. It is really a natural green healthy dessert for people in the spring.

History
As the days of the tomb-sweeping day and the Cold Food Festival are close, gradually,the two special festivals become one. Even the Cold Food Festival has become a custom of the tomb-sweeping day. In the north, people only eat prepared cold food such as date cakes and wheat cakes. In the south, people mostly eat green and glutinous rice sugar lotus root. This custom is said to commemorate Jie Zitui, a wise minister who died from the mountain fire. In some places, people will knead the date puree into the shape of a swallow with flour and jujube. Then they will string them up with willows branches. Finally, they will stick them in the door, in order to call Jie’s soul to push the swallow. With time goes by, sweet green rice ball has become the tomb-sweeping day pastry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province now.

Ingredients
Now when the shops make sweet green rice ball, some shops use wheat straw, some use green wormwood juice. And some shops also use other green vegetable juice and glutinous rice flour mash made with bean paste as filling. The green clusters of wormwood, wild wormwood and wormwood powder taste different. The wormwood has the fragrance of wheat seedling. Especially, the wild wormwood is more fragrant and has the aroma of grass. Some shops are not used to it. But compared with the smell of wormwood powder, the wild wormwood is safer and more natural.

== Method of cooking ==

add special material and steam
put the tender wormwood, small acanthopanax etc into a large pot. Add lime to steam, rinse off the lime water. And then knead into the glutinous rice flour to make the green flour rice dough.

rolling and add filling
Take each approximately 75 grams of rice dough. Roll it up, and pack it into the filling such as bean paste filling.

knead round balls, steam again
Knead it and form a round ball, that is, sweet green rice ball. Cover the cage with a wet cloth and add sweet green rice ball. Steam in a pan for about 15 minutes until cooked.

Nutritional value
Artemisia argyi is the ingredient of sweet green rice ball. In terms of nutritional value, artemisia argyi has the functions of relieving asthma, benefiting gallbladder, extinguishing fire, antibacterial, driving out cold and dehumidifying. While the juice of wheat grass has the functions of removing oil, removing oil and satiating decrease internal heat, and also playing a role of beauty.

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