Xiancao jelly
Everyone knows fairy grass honey and roasted fairy grass, but they don't necessarily know fairy grass. Xiancao is also known as Liangfen Cao and Xiancao. It has the effects of clearing summer heat, quenching thirst, cooling blood and relieving summer heat, and diuretic. It is not only a common raw material for making jelly and herbal tea in Guangdong, but also one of the main ingredients of many brand products such as "Wanglaoji herbal tea","Twenty-Four Flavoured herbal tea","Guangdong herbal tea","Xiancao Shuang herbal tea","Shiweixihuangcao Granules" and other herbal tea. It has the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, relieving summer heat, promoting digestion, and promoting saliva and quenching thirst. It is used for colds, fever,(bone) joint pain, Food stagnation and fullness, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, headache and fatigue, discomfort in limbs, etc.
Recipe Recommendations
- immortal grass appropriate amount
- rice soup appropriate amount
- water appropriate amount
Steps for Xiancao jelly
1
This is fairy grass! It is a good thing to cook fairy grass jelly! There may not be many things you buy in shops that sell herbal medicines, so they don't all sell them. I bought it in Bashi when I was in Xiamen. There was still the last of the immortal grass left at home, but I was afraid that it would go bad next year. It just happened that it was hot these days, so I cooked it. It's pure natural and has no additives. After eating this, you don't want to eat the fairy grass sold on the street anymore.
2
Wash the immortal grass and prepare rice soup. Fairy grass has color when it comes to water. No matter how you wash it, it will have color. If you want to wash it, the water will be clear, you will be exhausted and you won't be able to cook it. Rub it several times and wash it until there is no sand. This is very important, otherwise there will be sand in the fairy grass jelly. Wash and soak for half an hour. When cooking porridge, add some thick rice soup. Add it to the boiled soup and it will easily freeze.
3
Put the pot and cook it. I cooked it in an electric rice cooker, so I don't have to look at the heat and water. It's convenient. Put more water in it and cook it for an hour or two to produce more pulp. Some people say that it will freeze easily if you pound it first and then cook it. I haven't tried it because I don't have tools. But thinking about it, it will definitely be easier to produce pulp this way.
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When the water is almost ready, take out the immortal grass.
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Add the concentrated rice soup to the pan.
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Continue to evaporate water. At this time, if you cover the lid of the pot, it will overflow, so there is no need to cover it.
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Use a spoon to scoop a little and let it cool to see if it will freeze. If it does not freeze, continue to evaporate the water. (Let it cool down before it freezes! Remember)
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Cover the basin with gauze.
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Pour in the evaporated Xiancao soup.
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Let it cool and it becomes immortal grass jelly.
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When eating, cut it into small pieces with a spoon and add some sugar or honey. It tastes delicious! Put it in the refrigerator and eat it for a while in summer to make it cooler.Xiancao jelly Make Tips
Quantity: Use 2.5-3 liang of grass jelly herb each time, add 3.5-4 liters of water, boil down to 1.5 liters, add 0.5 liters of rice water, and evaporate until about 0.8 liters remain. These are all approximate amounts. If you find making rice water troublesome, just throw in a handful of rice to boil; since it needs to be filtered anyway, it makes no difference! It is very likely to end up as soup the first time you make it, so just keep evaporating! If it is too hard, heat it up, mix in some water, and let it set again.