Xiancao jelly

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Everyone knows about Xiancao honey and Shaoxiancao, but they may not necessarily know Xiancao. Xiancao, also known as Liangfen Cao or Xianren Cao, has the effects of clearing heat and thirst, cooling blood and relieving heat, and diuresis. It is not only a commonly used raw material for making liangfen and liangcha in Guangdong, but also one of the main ingredients of many branded products such as "Wanglaoji Liangcha", "Twenty Four Flavors Liangcha", "Guangdong Liangcha", "Xiancao Shuangliang Liangcha", "Ten Flavors Xihuangcao Granules" and other liangcha. It has the effects of dispelling wind and heat, relieving summer heat and reducing food intake, generating fluids and quenching thirst. It is used for cold and fever, joint pain, food stagnation and fullness, abdominal pain and diarrhea, headache and fatigue, limb discomfort, etc.

Details of ingredients

Technique

difficultybeginner
workmanshipcook
tasteOriginal flavor
timeThree hours

Steps to make Xiancao jelly

This is the fairy grass! What a great thing to cook fairy grass jelly! I may not buy many herbs from shops that sell them, and not everyone sells them. I bought it in Ba Shi when I was in Xiamen. There was only one last bit of fairy grass left at home, and I was afraid it would spoil next year. It happened to be hot these past few days, so I boiled it. Pure natural, without any additives. After eating this, I no longer want to eat the fairy grass sold on the street.
2. Clean the fairy grass and prepare rice soup. Fairy grass will have color when it goes into the water, no matter how you wash it, it will still have color. If you want to wash it until the water is clear, you will be exhausted and unable to cook it into a paste. Rub it a few times and wash it until there is no sand left. This is very important, otherwise there will be sand in the fairy jelly later. Wash and soak for half an hour. When cooking porridge, pour out some thick rice soup and add it to the finished soup to make it easier to freeze.
3. Boil in the pot. I cooked it in an electric rice cooker without looking at the heat or water, which is convenient. Add more water and boil for one or two hours to produce more paste. Some people say that pounding before cooking makes it easier to freeze, but I haven't tried because I don't have the tools. But considering this, it will definitely make it easier to produce pulp.
4. The water is almost cooked, take out the fairy grass.
5. Add thick rice soup to the pot.
6. Continue to evaporate water. At this point, if you cover the pot, it will overflow, so there is no need to cover it.
7. Scoop a little with a spoon and let it cool to see if it freezes. If it doesn't freeze, continue evaporating the water. (Let it cool before it freezes! Remember)
8. Cover the basin with gauze.
9. Pour in the evaporated Xiancao soup.
10. Let it cool to become Xiancao jelly.
When eating, use a spoon to cut it into small pieces, add some sugar or honey, it tastes great! In summer, it's cooler to put it in the fridge for a while before eating.