Meizhou Hakkas have three meals a day, and the staple food is rice. In the past, in the morning, I cooked rice in a pot, picked it up with a strainer and cooked it in a "rice cooker" for a day. Followed by taro, cassava, millet and so on. Generally speaking, people usually focus on vegetables. Vegetables like fat and salty, and tofu is best "fat and salty". Every household in the countryside has pickled vegetables. Pickles are made by drying mustard, rubbing with salt, and sealing the jar with leaves. This kind of pickles is a common dish on the farm table. Cooking food pays attention to color, aroma and taste, and seasoning with salt and soy sauce. Ginger, fermented grains, onion, garlic, pepper, vinegar, sugar, pepper, monosodium glutamate, potato powder, etc. Hakka people like to eat braised dog meat. There are many dog meat stalls in county towns and rural small market towns. There are rural proverbs such as "dogs eat all the mountains in summer" and "sheep in winter and dogs in summer". In the old days, there was a saying that "dog meat is not served on the table", which meant that dog meat could not be served in banquet dishes. This custom has long been broken. The popular "dog hot pot" is a delicacy at the banquet. Brine chicken, stuffed tofu, braised pork, meatballs, etc. They are all traditional foods with long-standing reputation and unique Hakka flavor, which have been widely circulated so far. Among them, salted chicken is tender, delicious and nourishing, and it is a famous dish commonly used in Hakka banquets. According to legend, the story of the evolution of the origin of chickens in the Salt Bureau, Fu Jiaomin sacrificed his life and threw fresh fish in the mud and roasted them in the fire. It is also said that hundreds of years ago, a businessman in Changle (now Wuhua County) bought a fat chicken from other places and prepared to take it home for the New Year. However, it is not easy to carry live chickens because of the long journey, so he wrapped them in salt. Halfway through the trip, I couldn't find anything to eat in the middle of nowhere, so I had to learn from the beggar in my hometown, wrap the chicken in paper, paste it with mud and cook it in the fire. Unexpectedly, the chicken made in this way tastes very good! Later, this kind of food was continuously improved and became a traditional Hakka dish. The production method is: a raw material fat chicken (weighing about 2 kg). 2 yuan with ginger slices, 2 yuan with onion strips, 5 yuan with parsley, 2.5 yuan with refined salt, monosodium glutamate 1.5 yuan, 5 yuan with star anise powder, 2 yuan with sesame oil, 5 yuan with ginger powder, 2.5 yuan of cooked lard, 3 yuan of peanut oil and 2 pieces of gauze paper. Method 1. Heat the wok with high fire, add 8 minutes of refined salt, put it into Jiang Mo after heating, mix well, take it out, and divide it into 3 small plates, each plate of 3 yuan lard. Mix two halves of lard 1, refined salt 1, sesame oil and monosodium glutamate into a sauce. Use peanut oil brush 1 gauze paper for later use. 2. Heat the wok with high fire. When the coarse salt is fried to a high temperature (the salt is slightly red), take out the 1/4 salt and put the chicken on the salt. Then cover the remaining 3/4 salt on the chicken noodles, add the pot cover, and simmer for about 20 minutes until cooked. Take the chicken out, remove the gauze, peel off the chicken skin, tear the meat into pieces, break the bones, add seasoning and mix well, put it on a plate to form the shape of the chicken, and put coriander on both sides of the chicken. Season with ginger oil and salt. The salted chicken made by this method has crisp skin and smooth meat, rich bone flavor and good palatability. Tofu is made of fresh tofu, lean meat, a small amount of sea black salted fish or eggs, or stewed or boiled, and some tofu is fried into semi-red, which is called braised tofu. The materials used to brew tofu are rich and frugal, but the production skills are exquisite. Tofu should be gypsum tofu with tender and elastic plastids. Ingredients: Pork belly, salted fish with big black skin, dried shrimps, roasted fish, mushrooms, lard, soy sauce, potato flour, pepper, salt, chopped green onion and coriander. Firstly, the above ingredients are mashed, evenly mixed and seasoned to make meat stuffing, then the meat stuffing is brewed into long square (or cut into triangular pieces) tofu, and finally the cooked tofu is put into a hot oil pan and cooked with slow fire until it is half cooked, and then a proper amount of soup is added to cook it until it is cooked thoroughly. When eating, use potato flour seasoning as the base and sprinkle with chopped green onion, coriander and pepper. When eating fermented bean curd, be sure to eat it while it is hot, and wrap it with fresh oily vegetables (lettuce), which will not only taste interesting, but also really taste the fermented bean curd. Mushroom Tofu, in Renju Town, Pingyuan County, Meizhou City, has a unique local traditional food "Mushroom Tofu". This kind of red-eared tofu is made of bean curd residue after making tofu. Tofu residue is spread on a bamboo basket and placed in the shade. A few days later, a layer of dark red bacteria grew on the bean curd residue. It is very delicious to cook soup with this kind of red mushroom tofu and lean pork liver, which is indispensable for local people to celebrate festivals and entertain relatives and friends. It is said that only the soil, water and air in Lianzhu can cultivate this kind of red tofu. Braised pork: after three layers of lean meat are cooked, mix in soy sauce, fry in a boiling oil pan, which is called "braised pork with ring skin", then cut into cubes and put in a bowl, cover with plum vegetables (or dried pickles) and put in the pot, and steam with slow fire, which is delicious. Chop the meatballs with fresh meat, add potato powder, pepper and other seasonings, squeeze them into meatballs, and cook them with pork soup, which is tender, smooth and crisp. Fried chicken wine, also known as ginger wine chicken, is a nutritional supplement that pregnant women must eat during the second month. From the first meal after delivery to 30 days after the full moon, pregnant women must take ginger wine chicken as their staple food. Fried chicken wine is made from fried ginger of castrated chicken and glutinous rice wine, which is rich in nutrition and has the effect of expelling wind and promoting blood circulation. The newborn son will send ginger wine to his family, which is called "sending ginger wine". Seeking pregnancy-related information, commonly known as "Does ginger smell good?" The old gentleman in Chen Baisha has a poem called "The Wind Blows Ginger Wine", which refers to this custom. Fried chicken wine has strict requirements on materials, simple production method and extraordinary effect on parturient. A big capon (rooster must use it on the first day after delivery), three catties of old ginger, one or two old reds, four or two peanut oils, three catties of cooked glutinous rice wine, brown sugar 1 catty, and a little refined salt. Method 1. Slaughter the chicken and cut it into pieces for later use. 2. Mash the old ginger, put it in a wok and fry until brown, then add a little peanut oil and fry the ginger until fragrant. 3. Stir-fry the chicken pieces in an oil pan until they are dry red, add ginger, red rice, glutinous rice wine, Redmi sugar, a proper amount of salt and water, boil them, put them in a casserole, and stew them with slow fire until they are cooked. The ginger chicken made by this method is sweet and mellow, and has the effects of stimulating appetite, promoting fluid production, eliminating cold and dampness, dredging channels and collaterals, harmonizing five internal organs, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, nourishing yin and tonifying kidney. Therefore, Hakka women are physically strong after postpartum tonic. Dipping duck is delicious in summer. When the ducklings (tender ducks) come into the market from May to July, they are slaughtered, eviscerated, washed and scalded, smeared with fresh lard, cut into rectangular pieces, and then dipped in ginger oil, gold and garlic vinegar, which has a unique flavor. Food. The food varies with the seasons. Such as: common eating board mouse board, board skin and so on. , all year round; During the Chinese New Year, every household makes sweet dishes and fried dishes. In the spring and autumn rice harvest season, it is common to use new rice as fermentation plate (lard plate); A unique fairy board in summer. Although "fairy board" is called "board", it is a kind of food similar to jelly. It is made of a kind of "Xiancao" which is abundant in the mountainous area of eastern Guangdong. Because only a small amount of "Xiancao" can be used to make a board ten times the weight of "Xiancao", which is magical. Therefore, people call this kind of food made of "Xiancao" "Xianban". The made "fairy board" is a black gel, which can be put in a bowl, crushed with a knife and mixed with honey (or sugar) when eating. It can not only quench thirst, but also has many functions, such as clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, helping digestion, reducing blood lipid and treating diabetes. "Qingming board" is a kind of medicine board and one of the special holiday foods in Hakka area. According to a local folk proverb, "All kinds of herbs are easy to be used as medicine in Qingming Festival", on the eve of Tomb-Sweeping Day, every household should collect all kinds of edible herbs from the wild to make a picture of the riverside in Qingming Festival. Commonly used herbs are wormwood, hemp leaves, paederia scandens, Chinese cabbage (Pulsatilla chinensis), Chinese cabbage, Lycium barbarum leaves and so on. Cleaning the medicinal materials, removing stalks, cooking, mixing with pre-soaked and filtered glutinous rice (adding appropriate amount of rice), making into rice balls in a wok, adding brown sugar, rubbing evenly, making into blocks, and steaming. Qingming board has its own flavor because of different medicinal materials. It is edible but not greasy, and has both medicinal functions. Can be used as snacks, but also as gifts for relatives and friends, especially children's favorite holiday food. In addition, there are also special varieties in various places, such as the pot governor board and yellow board in Jiaoling, bamboo shoot board and memory board in Tai Po, etc. Jiexi Leicha River Slope where Hakka people live in Jiexi County likes to drink Leicha. Whenever a guest comes home, the housewife must give him a bowl of tea or give him popcorn to eat; Every neighbor, friend, and in-laws' girl receives a packet of wedding candy before getting married, and she is invited to drink a bowl of fragrant tea to show her congratulations. All family members should also cook "broken tea" after recovery. Please invite those neighbors and friends who have cared about their health and helped them to enjoy the reward, as well as for good luck. On the fifteenth day of the first month, there is no Xiao Festival, and every household cooks "fifteen dishes and fifteen teas". Young women and girls are most interested in this vegetable tea. They went to the garden early to pick 15 kinds of vegetables, among which there must be onions (it is said that eating them will be "smart"), garlic (it is said that eating them will be "calculating") and buckwheat (it is said that eating them will have "tricks"). In the evening, after they swim for a few hours, they will make tea. In summer and autumn, farmers have tea for lunch. When the climate is hot, people often don't want to eat or drink after work. It is very attractive to put a bowl of tea on the table. They drank fragrant tea, served with cooked sweet potatoes and taro chips, and their throats were smooth and full of souls, which not only filled their stomachs, but also refreshed and motivated. The main tools for smashing tea are wooden sticks and threaded pottery bowls. Most of the sticks are camellia oleifera, mud tree (hawthorn tree) or winter melon pulp tree, which is tough and can be used as medicine. Leicha is very rich in ingredients. The production is not complicated. First, put peanuts, sesame oil, tea, garden incense, gold or bitter thorn seeds into a clay pot, grind them into powder with a wooden stick, and soak them in boiling water. Then put the fried vegetables such as dried radish, kale, garlic, shallots, soybeans, Chinese cabbage, buckwheat heads, shrimps, etc. into the pot, stir well, and put some salty peanuts into the bowl to drink. If you want to be full, add white rice or popcorn (? Rice tastes salty, fragrant, bitter, spicy, sweet and sour, which is not only delicious and appetizing, but also has a unique flavor. Haifeng Leixian Tea Haifeng County has different ways to eat tea, including green tea, salty tea, oil hemp tea, bitter thorn tea, and even tea rice and vegetable tea. The way to eat tea is different, and the way to make tea is different, each with its own characteristics. The most famous is "playing salty tea". "Making salty tea" is to grab a handful of daily tea leaves and put them in a special pottery bowl, add some salt, pound them into powder with a wooden stick, pour in pre-fried sesame seeds, and then pour them into boiling water to make a cup of fragrant salty tea. At this time, put tea in a bowl, sprinkle with fried peanuts and fried rice, and the mouth-watering "salty tea" Haifeng people are warm and hospitable. Ordinary neighbors, relatives and friends visit, offer a cup of green tea and occasionally smash salty tea; If a relative has been away from home for several years before coming back, he will probably play salty tea and invite his neighbors. If it's a rare visitor, or an elder who hasn't seen each other for a long time, it's necessary to make salt. The more distinguished the guests, the more exquisite the quality of tea, sesame seeds and fried rice. Peanuts are sprinkled more and more. You can't talk too much when you eat three bowls and four bowls. Some people can eat a dozen or twenty bowls at a time. To eat salty tea, you must prepare two bowls, one for eating and the other for adding salty tea. Everyone eats his bowl and never gets confused. Being so clear shows respect for people. There is Haifeng, salty tea is not only used to entertain guests, but also used for recreation and fatigue relief, especially for women. Women are tired from work, or angry with their husbands, or bored, so they get together to make salty tea. Huidong salty tea Hakka area in Huidong county likes to entertain guests with salty tea. Anyone who has eaten salty tea will feel cordial, and those who taste salty tea for the first time will be amazed at its unique flavor. This salty tea can be used as both tea and rice substitute. Its origin is unknown, and its production takes a lot of time. Let's talk about materials first. The main raw material of salty tea is fried rice (fried with rice or fried with rice explosion machine), and the ingredients are red beans, soybeans, black beans, peanuts, sesame oil, MC Davi and taro. Beans can be more or less, and other beans can also be used instead. Such as broad beans and peas. Peanut, sesame oil and coriander are essential. In addition, when cooking tea, first cook the fried rice and beans, then add peanut powder, sesame oil and coriander, and add a little pepper and camellia oleifera abel. to adjust the taste. In this way, salty tea is ready. In addition, there is another method called making tea, which is to put fried rice, peanut powder, sesame oil and coriander into a bowl at the same time and brew with boiling water. Slightly hectares, after the taste can be eaten. According to the custom, Hakka people in Huidong not only entertain guests, but also drink salty tea when they meet auspicious events. On the third morning, the host family will cook a bucket of salty tea to entertain relatives, friends and neighbors, which is called "three dynasties tea"; When the child is full moon, cook "full moon tea"; There are also new houses to be built and "Shangliang tea" to be cooked; When you live in a new house, you must cook "home tea"; After the marriage agreement between men and women, the girl's mother went to the man's house for the first time, and the man asked for "in-laws tea" and so on. Hakka medicinal tea is a traditional health drink widely used by rural people in Hakka areas. Hakka area is located in the mountainous area, and there are many raw materials that can be used for medicinal tea. The medicinal vegetables, leaves and grasses in Tianren Garden are collected, cleaned, dried and soaked at any time. There are many kinds of medicinal teas with different effects. Medicinal teas commonly used in rural families include "Bujingren Tea" for relieving summer heat and stopping dysentery, "Radish Miao Tea" for resolving food stagnation and stopping diarrhea, "Pulling Cotyledon Tea" for clearing away heat and appetizing, and "Cucurbit Tea" for relieving inflammation and stopping dysentery. Among them, the special product "Bamboo Tea" in Zijin County is the most famous, which has many functions such as clearing away heat, promoting digestion, diminishing inflammation, reducing blood fat and losing weight, and is exported at home and abroad.