Confucius' famous dish "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea as Arhats" was inspired by myths and legends. This is a kind of sea bowl soup, which contains a variety of rare dishes, including "chrysanthemum shark's fin", "Qin Huang turtle bone", "royal shrimp", "butterfly sea cucumber" and eight kinds of delicacies such as abalone, ham, asparagus and chicken, which are comparable to the "Eight Immortals".
Chop the chicken breast into chicken paste, put it at the bottom of the bowl to make arhat money, and then make arhat chicken in the middle of the bowl, supplemented by thick fresh soup. "Eight immortals crossing the sea to make arhats" is a dish with many treasures, including red, white, yellow, green and black. Bright, dazzling and luxurious, it has always been known as "this dish should only be available in the sky, and people can taste it several times".
It is regarded as the first course of Confucius' wedding banquet. As soon as this dish is served, the opera can begin and the feast is officially announced.
At that time, the two sides went to the opera house and tasted delicious food, which was really delicious.
Confucius' hometown is Qufu, Shandong. Confucius' original "Confucius Banquet" combines folk food and palace flavor. After summing up, improving and innovating by Confucius chefs in past dynasties, it finally forms a unique style of Confucius cuisine. Confucius studied knowledge all his life, and at the same time, he also had a unique opinion on diet, which is what people often say: "You are not tired of eating fine food, and you are not tired of eating fine food." Confucian cuisine focuses on strict selection of materials, meticulous production, but different styles. It is said that there are more than 200 kinds of Confucian dishes discovered and introduced today. Only the "Confucius Wedding Banquet" has four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn. Each dish has a completely different design and is as distinctive as possible to meet people's taste habits of various tastes.
From the beginning of the Han Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, emperors of all dynasties went to the "Feast Duke" mansion in Qufu to worship Confucius. It is no accident that Confucius is above the three fairs and enjoys high courtesy. In fact, it is considered from the ruler's own interests, among which Emperor Qianlong has been to Qufu seven times. Every time he came to King's Landing, Confucius made a lot of preparations for receiving him, and diet was the most important part. The chefs tried their best to come up with many new tricks. As for countless dignitaries and scholars, they are eager to visit Confucius, and they are eager to praise the food. The famous dishes of Confucius Banquet have spread all over China and become an important part of China cuisine.
The production method of "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea to Make Ocean Arhats" is as follows: main materials and auxiliary materials-
300g of chicken breast, shark's fin, sea cucumber, abalone, fish bones, fish maw, live shrimp, ham100g, 50g of asparagus, 250g of white fish, 50g of Shaoxing wine, proper amount of chicken soup, refined salt, ginger slices, monosodium glutamate, and a little green leaves and cooked lard.
Production skills—
1. Take chicken breast 150g, chop it into chicken paste, and put some at the bottom of the bowl to make arhat money. Cut the white fish into strips, cut them hard and clip them into fish bones.
2. Cut the remaining chicken breast into long strips. Fresh shrimps are made into shrimp rings. Make the shark's fin and the remaining chicken paste into the shape of chrysanthemum shark's fin. Sea cucumber is shaped like a butterfly. Sliced abalone. Slice the fish belly. Choose eight asparagus after it is released.
3. The above foods are seasoned with refined salt, monosodium glutamate and Shaoxing wine, steamed in a cage, taken out and placed in a magnetic jar, with Lohan chicken in the middle, sprinkled with ham slices, ginger slices and blanched green leaves, and topped with cooked chicken soup and a little lard.