Chinese delicacies on your tongue ~ Artemisia cake

Overview

The second season of "A Bite of China" actually features mugwort daddy from my hometown! The saliva was salivated again. Artemisia seed cake, salty and crispy, will satisfy hunger. It is said that on the Ghost Festival, the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, people eat mugwort cakes and put their shoes with the soles up at night so that their souls will not be taken away by ghosts. I remember one night on March 3rd, my mother asked me to button up my shoes. I buttoned up my shoes, and my soul didn't escape the next morning. I thought I was lucky! Every year around the Spring Festival, my mother always makes mugwort cake several times, eating it while it's hot, and eating it until I can't stop the car. In fact, grandma makes it even better and more delicious. Every year when I go to pay New Year's greetings to my grandma, my grandma will take a few mugwort cakes and bake them on the charcoal fire until both sides are browned and the oil is sizzling. When I pick them up, I keep switching my left and right hands when they are hot. They are salty and crispy! ~~Stop all the regular New Year snacks! Studying in a different place, marrying far away from home, you can’t always have delicious food. My mother made a lot of them and brought them to me and kept them frozen in the refrigerator. When I’m homesick, I feel like I’m back when I was a kid, in that beautiful place...

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• breakfast
• artemisia
• bacon
• green garlic
• rice noodles
• ginger
• salt
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Family photo (with absence)

   

2. 2 Cut the bacon into small cubes and separate the fat and lean meat. A fat-to-thin ratio of 3:2 is better. The size of the meatballs depends on personal preference, fatter ones should be larger than leaner ones. The fat meat cubes made in rural areas are about one centimeter square. I recommend that they be twice as small because the meat is salty, so as not to taste salty in one bite and bland in the other.

   

3. 3 Boil the water, blanch the mugwort seeds in it, take them out when they change color, and immerse them in cold water.

   

4. 4 Squeeze out excess water.

   

5. 5 Stir-fried diced pork. Put a little oil on the pan, heat the pan, add the fat meat and stir-fry. When the meat becomes transparent and the edges turn yellow, add the lean meat and ginger. Continue to stir-fry until the meat changes color.

   

6. 6 Add 100 grams of cold water and bring to a boil. At this time, you can cut the mugwort and green garlic into small sections of about 1 cm. The mugwort is difficult to cut, so you can cut it into longer pieces. The green garlic stalk should be cut in the middle before cutting. After the water boils, add rice noodles, mix evenly, turn off the heat, add 100 grams of cold water, and mix evenly. Add artemisia green garlic salt and mix evenly. The meeting was fine.

   

7. 7 The face of reconciliation.

   

8. 8 Put the pan on low heat. Prepare a small basin of cold water, wet your hands and scoop out the dough so it doesn't stick to your hands. Shape the dough into a round shape, place it on one side of the pot, and press the dough with the back of your fingers until it is about 5 mm thick. If you like to eat crispy rice, you can press it into a flatter shape. You can also make cakes directly by hand and put them into the pot.

   

9. 9 My pan can only make four, please ignore the irregular shape. You can also make an electric cake stall, but I have never done it. Cover and simmer over low heat for 12 minutes. Do not lift the lid halfway. After it is stuffed, look at the color of the bottom. If it is burnt yellow, it is a good product. Of course, if you like it softer, you can boil it in ten minutes.

   

10. 10 Front view

    

11. 11 Reverse view. I like this crispy shell best! Bang bang, one word, fragrant! If you like clay pot rice rice dumplings, then you will definitely like crispy mugwort cakes!