Pan-fried yinchen cake

Overview

Around the Qingming Festival when the wormwood is at its tenderest, picking the stems and leaves of the wormwood and frying it into small cakes is a rare spring delicacy.

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• cake
• egg
• five spice powder
• flour
• peanut oil
• yinchen
• salt
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Remove roots and yellow leaves from freshly picked wormwood

   

2. 2 Soak for a while, then rinse and drain

   

3. 3 Cut into small pieces

   

4. 4 Place in a large bowl and add eggs, salt and allspice

   

5. 5 Pour in flour, mix well, add water

   

6. 6 Mix well to form a thick batter

   

7. 7 Pour oil into the pan, pour the batter, spread it out as thin as possible

   

8. 8 Fry over low heat until one side is golden, then flip and fry the other side until golden

   

9. 9 Take out the pieces and put them on a plate