The Chinese medicinal herb "Da Chao Cai" is a perennial herb that is 40-100 cm tall. It prefers warm and cool weather and has strong resistance to cold. It contains rich protein, vitamins, and various trace elements such as potassium, calcium, and scales. So how to make black rice wild vegetable dumplings?
【Name】
Black Rice Wild Vegetable Dumplings
【Ingredients】
Da Chao Cai 300g, salt, chicken essence, spring onion, ginger, soy sauce, starch, sweet bean sauce, blended oil, and flour as needed.
【Instructions】
1. Take the Da Chao Cai, remove the tender leaves, cut off the old stems, soak them in water, clean them thoroughly. Add a little black rice flour to white flour, add water to make dough. The proportion of black rice flour should not be too high, maximum 30%, and the ratio of water to flour should be around 1:1.8.
2. Cut the pork into small cubes, add sweet bean sauce, white pepper powder, ginger, salt, chicken essence, and oil, mix well, marinate for 1-2 hours. Chop the spring onion into small pieces. Bring a pot of water to boil, blanch the Da Chao Cai, remove and immediately cool it down, squeeze out the water, and cut into large pieces.
3. Put the wild vegetables into the pork filling, mix well to make dumpling filling. Let the dough ferment, knead it into a smooth dough, pinch small dough balls, roll them into dumpling skins, fill with dumpling filling, and wrap the dumplings.
4. Heat a frying pan, add a little oil, place the dumplings in the pan, fry them for a moment, mix starch with water to make a starch paste, pour it into the pan, cover with a lid, simmer until the sauce dries up and the bottom of the dumplings turns golden yellow, then turn off the heat.
【Benefits and Functions of Da Chao Cai】
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Da Chao Cai has the effects of nourishing the kidneys, promoting diuresis, stopping bleeding, and relieving cough. It is often used for kidney deficiency with lower back pain, spermatorrhea, jaundice, edema, malaria, nosebleeds, palpitations, cough with excessive phlegm, irregular menstruation, and swollen ulcers.
1. "Ben Cao Shi Yi": "Regulates the middle burner, promotes the function of the small and large intestines."
2. "Hai Yao Ben Cao": "Mainly promotes the water channels, reduces edema, and moisturizes the large intestine."
3. "Pin Hui Jing Yao": "Beneficial for Qi, nourishing the skin, clearing the mind, and strengthening the willpower."
