Eat crabs in Mid-Autumn Festival.
Hairy crabs are deeply loved by the public and taste delicious. They are essential dishes for Mid-Autumn Festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. One for each person, served with ginger vinegar, is the best way to kill time. However, hairy crabs are cold. Warm your stomach with some yellow wine when eating, and drink a cup of ginger tea after meals, which is good for your health, but you can't overeat.
Recommended food-steamed hairy crabs
Materials: Prepare four hairy crabs, chives 1 segment, ginger 1 block, sesame oil 1 teaspoon, 2 teaspoons of soy sauce, balsamic vinegar 1 teaspoon, and sugar 1 teaspoon.
Practice: first tie the crab claws and feet firmly with a string; Wash onion and ginger and cut into powder; Mix chopped green onion, Jiang Mo, balsamic vinegar, white sugar, soy sauce and sesame oil into dipping sauce, and take it out; Steam the hairy crabs in a steamer (it takes about 15 ~ 18 minutes to steam the hairy crabs), untie the skewers and put them on a plate for eating.
The most traditional Mid-Autumn delicious snail.
Snails are also a good food for Mid-Autumn Festival. There is a record in the "Shunde County Records" in Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty: "Looking at the sun in August, eating snails is still fragrant." People believe that snails can improve their eyesight in the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to analysis, snail meat is rich in nutrition, and vitamin A is an important substance of eye visual pigment. Eating snails can improve your eyesight, which makes sense. But why must the Mid-Autumn Festival be particularly keen on food? Before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the snail was empty, but there was no snail in the belly. Therefore, the meat is particularly fat, which is the best time to eat snails. Nowadays, in Guangzhou, many families have the habit of frying snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Recommended food-fried snails
Ingredients: prepare a catty of snail, Chili sauce 1 tablespoon, half a teaspoon of salt, 4 slices of fresh perilla leaves (cut into filaments for later use), half a teaspoon of sugar, a little pepper, oil 1 tablespoon, and a little garlic.
Practice: wash the snail first, then remove the snail's tail with pliers, and then wash it; Heat a wok, add a little oil, saute garlic and pepper until fragrant, put down the snail and fry together, then add Chili sauce, salt, perilla leaves and sugar, add a little water and fry until cooked, and pour a little juice to serve.
Mid-Autumn Food glutinous rice lotus root
Eating lotus root in Mid-Autumn Festival means reunion. Fill lotus root with glutinous rice, and then pour osmanthus honey. Rice fragrance, lotus root fragrance and osmanthus fragrance make the reunion dinner start from sweetness.
Recommended food-glutinous rice lotus root
Ingredients: lotus root 1 knot, osmanthus sauce, glutinous rice, rock sugar.
Practice: lotus root peeled and washed; Cut off one end of the lotus root, put it into the washed glutinous rice, cover it with the small end of the lotus root just cut off, and fix it with a toothpick; Add rock sugar and steam for 2 hours until cooked; Slice and plate, pour osmanthus juice.