It is better to eat dumplings stuffed with celery and beef, and dumplings stuffed with radish and mutton at the beginning of winter.

1. Celery and Beef Stuffing

Recipe: celery, beef, ginger, pepper water, salt, five-spice powder, oyster sauce, light soy sauce, cooking oil.

1. Beat the beef into a puree, chop the ginger, mix the two, then pour the pepper water into it, and stir thoroughly.

2. Next, add salt, five-spice powder, oyster sauce, and light soy sauce to the beef filling. Stir evenly and set aside for later use. Next, remove the celery leaves, clean them, and chop them Pump it to dry up the water, then mix it into the beef filling, finally heat some hot oil and let it cool, pour it into the beef filling, mix it thoroughly, and you can make dumplings.

2. Carrot and mutton stuffing

Recipe: mutton, carrot, green onion and ginger, pepper water, salt, white pepper, allspice, light soy sauce, pepper oil/edible oil.

1. Cut the mutton into small pieces, grind it into meat filling in a meat grinder, mince the onion and ginger, grate the carrot, and chop it into pieces for later use.

2. Mix mutton and minced onion and ginger, add pepper water, stir thoroughly, and beat vigorously. Then add an appropriate amount of salt, white pepper, five-spice powder, and light soy sauce into it. After mixing evenly, pour the carrots into it, and finally add some peppercorn oil or cooking oil, and mix well.

About the folk culture of dumplings

The history of making dumplings a holiday food during the winter solstice was first not on New Year's Eve, but on the winter solstice.

Jin Yingzhi of the Song Dynasty's "Drunkard's Talk·Volume 4·November": "The capital has three major festivals: Cold Food, Winter Solstice, and New Year's Day. From Cold Food to Winter Solstice, there are no festivals, so there are many folk festivals Asking for leftovers. There is a saying that people eat more wontons during the winter solstice, or they don’t have enough money. As the saying goes, the new year has passed, and the soles of leather shoes are broken.

This is the explanation for eating wontons during the Winter Solstice recorded in the literature. Later, because dumplings and wontons were often confused, some areas changed wontons to dumplings. There is a saying in the saying that if you don't serve dumpling bowls during the Winter Solstice, your ears will freeze off and no one will care. The legend of Zhang Zhongjing is also related to the custom of eating wontons during the Winter Solstice, but this legend cannot be verified in the literature.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Dumplings