The raw materials of vegetarian dishes mainly include vegetable oil, gluten, bean products, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, ears, algae, vegetables, wild vegetables, dried fruits and fresh fruits. Compared with animal raw materials, these raw materials have no fishy smell. On the contrary, because of its high water content, fresh and tender taste, chefs can mobilize various seasoning means and methods to give vegetarian dishes a variety of flavors.

2, the raw materials are diverse, and the four seasons are different

There are many kinds of raw materials for vegetarian dishes, such as leaf stems, roots, melon beans, onions and garlic, aquatic species, fungi and algae, flowers and trees, wild vegetables and so on. According to incomplete statistics, there are thousands of raw materials for making vegetarian dishes. In a corner of Yangzhou, there are different kinds of vegetables in different seasons. Even the same variety, such as green vegetables (called Chinese cabbage in the north), eats cabbage in spring; Eat chicken hair vegetables (also called mocai) in summer and autumn; Eat vegetables and stones in winter.

3, bright colors, not rendering

Vegetarian raw materials, especially vegetables, are naturally beautiful, including red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. Dishes made from vegetable raw materials are as green as jade and as red as flame, and do not need food coloring, which is especially suitable for fancy cold cuts and food carving. The exquisite works of famous chefs are inseparable from the collocation, edging and embellishment of vegetable raw materials.

4, unique production, pay attention to seasoning

Generally speaking, vegetarian dishes are different from meat dishes. The raw materials of meat dishes can be taken directly and processed into the required shape with a knife for cooking, while vegetarian dishes need to be made into the required shape first, then processed as needed, and then cooked. For example, fried fat sausage, meat dishes are directly taken from the pig's large intestine and can be cut after preliminary processing and initial cooking, while vegetarian dishes are made of raw gluten through special processing and can be cut.

There are three ways to make vegetarian dishes: one is natural vegetarian dishes, that is, to maintain the inherent quality and basic taste of raw materials; One is vegetarian dishes that imitate meat, such as vegetarian mandarin fish, crispy eel, vegetarian roast duck, vegetarian sea cucumber and vegetarian shark's fin. The third kind is vegetarian meat. Except for the third case, the raw materials for making vegetarian dishes are light in taste, so it is necessary to choose some raw materials to make vegetarian soup. Vegetarian soup is generally boiled with bamboo shoots, mushrooms and soybean sprouts, and can also be boiled with winter vegetables and ginger. Soak the buds with old broad beans and cook, and the soup will be fresh. There is also the production of bamboo shoot oil, which is mixed with various vegetables, and the flavor is irreplaceable.

5. Vegetarian food simulation, confusing the real with the fake.

Imitation vegetarian dishes have always had the tradition of "meat dishes are the same, so are vegetarian dishes", such as vegetarian roast duck, vegetarian ham, vegetarian assorted dishes, vegetarian pigeon eggs and so on. Ordinary vegetarian dishes were cooked by a vegetarian master, turned ordinary into magic, and made colorful vegetarian dishes. Its production skills are exquisite and delicate, no less than meat dishes.

6, vegetarian benefits, health care.

Vegetables are a treasure house of vitamins, even the only source of some vitamins, and are indispensable nutrients for human body. Cereal raw materials contain B vitamins and VE. Fruits contain organic acids, which usually combine with inorganic salts in fruits to form acid salts, which play an important role in human metabolism. Walnuts, red dates, etc. It has the function of dietotherapy and health care, and vegetarian diet plays an important role in reducing blood lipid, high cholesterol and hypertension, and preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases.

Because vegetarian dishes have many advantages, even at the family banquet, vegetarian dishes can adjust the taste and give people a fresh and refreshing texture. Therefore, the cold dishes of meat banquet pay attention to the collocation of vegetarian dishes, and the ingredients of hot dishes need mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots and vegetarian dishes to adjust. China people take vegetarianism as their nutritional pillar, and simple meals are still the main body of China's diet structure. In recent years, foreign nutritionists have pointed out that "vegetarian food is good", which is superior to the western diet structure with meat as the main component.