How to make dried locust flower buns

Dried Sophora japonica flowers are a food ingredient with relatively high nutritional value. There are many ways to eat dried Sophora japonica flowers. They can be used to make dumplings, which are quite delicious and have good nutritional effects. First, you need to clean the dried Sophora japonica flowers, then soak them in warm water, cut them into minced pieces after soaking, and then wrap them in the buns. Eating some dried Sophora japonica flowers properly can replenish qi and blood. It is also a blood-cooling medicine, which has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying.

How to make dried locust flower buns

Method 1: 1. First, remove impurities from the Sophora japonica flowers, wash them with clean water, drain the water, cut them into small pieces, and set aside.

2. Wash the pork in clean water and chop it into fine pieces with a knife. 3. Put the minced meat into a bowl and add soy sauce in 3 times, making sure to mix well after each addition. Add glutinous rice flour, mix well and pour in 700 ml of bone soup, add chopped locust flowers, chopped green onions, sesame oil, stir well to make stuffing, and set aside. 4. After the dough has been fermented, add in the alkali, knead evenly, and let it rest for a while. 5. Slowly roll the dough into long strips about 2 cm thick, pinch it into 30 g pieces, roll it into round skins that are slightly thicker in the middle and thinner at the edges, wrap it with about 25 g of stuffing, pinch out 16-18 folds with your hands, and put it directly into the small tray after pinching. 6. After the steamer starts to boil, put the small steamer in and steam over high heat for 15-20 minutes before serving.

Method 2: 1. Collect fresh locust flowers from the mountain. After washing, blanch them and at the same time, make dough of corresponding size. 2. After blanching the Sophora japonica flowers in boiling water, soak them in cold water for one hour. Then drain the water and add leeks, dried shrimps, pork belly and stuffing. 3. The buns are out of the pot, the dough is soft, the filling is slightly fragrant, and they are delicious.

The effects and functions of dried Sophora japonica flowers: Dried Sophora japonica flowers have been regarded as "important medicine for cooling blood" by doctors of all dynasties. They are bitter and cool in nature, non-toxic, and enter the liver and large intestine meridians. They have the effects of clearing away heat and purging fire, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It is mainly used to treat intestinal wind, bloody stool, hemorrhoidal blood, bloody dysentery, hematuria, hematuria, metrorrhagia, hematemesis, epistaxis, liver fire headache, red and swollen eyes, throat numbness, aphonia, carbuncles and ulcers. For treating hematemesis and epistaxis, it is often used together with Imperata root. It is also commonly used in modern clinical practice for patients with hypertension due to excessive liver fire, and has the effect of clearing the liver, improving eyesight and lowering blood pressure. The decoction can be used alone as a substitute for tea, or used together with selfheal, chrysanthemum, etc.

From the perspective of Western medicine, dried Sophora japonica flowers contain rutin (i.e. rutin, Rytub), quercetin, tannins, sophoradiol, vitamin A and other substances. Rutin can improve the function of capillaries, maintain normal resistance of capillaries, and prevent bleeding, hypertension, and diabetes caused by excessive fragility and high permeability of capillaries. Taking it can prevent bleeding. The dried Sophora japonica flowers contain rutin, Sophora japonica diol, glucose, glucuronic acid and tannin, which have anti-inflammatory effects and also have inhibitory effects on viruses and skin fungi.