【Mugwort in drinks, in food and in balm 】千萬別小看艾草！好吃又好用！清明時節的艾草太“香”了！| Summer Kitchen•夏廚陳二十【357】

Mugwort is just like any other grass...or is it? Humans have stumbled upon many uses for mugwort along the way. It's herbal medicine and food among others.

The difference between mugwort and any other grass is that humans haven't found uses for other grass...yet. We developed such a powerful and effective way of interacting with everything around us.

Covid might rob you of some of the opportunities to go out with friends and party and stuff. Our inherent ability to engage with everything around us is still intact. While you moan about missing out on things, don't forget to live your life. Focus on your immediate surroundings and start living.

And we start living this Qingming Festival on mugwort.

院子裡野生了一些艾草🌿🌿
饞的我想起了關於艾草的美食：青團
青團往年清明節常做
今年想做點不一樣的，那就結合廣式經典甜品：薄撐
有鹹甜兩種口味哦，這次甜鹹黨都翻牌啦😎
清明是吃艾草的最好時節，在我們這兒隨手一摘就有，基本是沒有人種的
艾草可食用可藥用，除了薄撐，果凍還可以做香膏
查了一下資料，固體香膏還可以護髮、護手，甚至潤唇都可以的喔
🌸夏天就要來啦，快抓住春天的小尾巴，嚐嚐春天的味道吧

✅Cantonese sweet pancake:
1. Blanch mugwort for 1 min. (Baking soda)
2. Put in ice bath.
3. Squeeze out water.
4. Pour in water twice as much then juice it.
5. Knead the dough: Glutinous rice flour; mugwort juice.
6. Panfry it: eatable oil; sear both sides
7. Prepare the fillings: peanut; sesame; granulated sugar.

✅Cantonese savory pancake:
Everything is the same with making sweet pancakes except...
1. Add a lot more mugwort juice
2. Fillings: Cantonese sausage; dried shrimp; groud peanut (or whatever you like)
3. Add: Shaoxing wine; scallions dices; salt; oyster oil and stir it
4. Pour in paste.

✅Mugwort mojito:
1. Pound lemon & mint
2. Add syrup and ice chips
3. Pouring in sparkling water.
4. Pour in plum wine.

✅Jasmine & mugwort jelly:
1. Pour mugwort juice into jasmine tea.
2. Heat it up before adding white bean jelly powder.
3. Add granulated sugar.
4. Pour it into a mold with a steady hand. Put it in fresh food compartment until it’s solid.
5. Decorate with gold leaf and osmanthus honey.

✅Mugwort balm:
1. Mugwort: mint 1:1 and mix them up.
2. Add jojoba oil or olive oil.
3. Soak it for two days.
4. Water heat it for 2 hours.
5. Filter out oil into a jar
5. Melt the beeswax and add some coconut oil.
6. Pour it in sterilized containers.
7. Add essential oils.
8. Decorate with gold leaf.

🌸廣式薄撐：
甜薄撐：
小蘇打放入水中，加入艾草，焯水一分鐘
過冷河 擠乾水分 加兩倍的水打成汁
糯米粉+艾草汁
揉成柔軟的麵團

鍋中加入食用油，
放入麵團，煎脆後翻面

炒香花生和芝麻
加入白砂糖磨碎
鋪灑在麵餅上
捲起來切成段就OK啦

咸薄撐：
就是要加多點艾草汁和成漿
配料：
廣式臘腸 蝦米 花生碎（咸薄撐喜歡加什麼都可以）
加入：花雕酒 蔥花 鹽 蠔油翻炒，
淋上麵糊
煎脆就好啦~

🌸茉莉艾草凍：
茉莉花茶+艾草汁煮熱後再加 白涼粉，白砂糖
倒入模具（手要穩哦~） 放入冰箱冷藏凝固
成型之後 淋上桂花蜜
再點綴金箔~

🌸梅子莫吉托：
檸檬 十 薄荷 搗出味道
加入糖漿 碎冰 氣泡水

🌸艾草香膏：（固體香膏楊貴妃就在用了）
艾草：薄荷 1 ：1 攪碎
加入荷荷巴油（或橄欖油）
浸泡兩天
再煮兩個小時
隔水加熱2小時
過濾艾草薄荷油
艾草薄荷油先融化蜂蠟
融化後再加椰子油
倒入消過毒的容器中
加入自己喜歡的精油（我滴的是檸檬）
點綴金箔
等到完全凝固，漂亮的艾草香膏就做好啦~

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