Lixia rice, every day before the summer, the children to the neighboring households to ask for a bowl of rice, called "Duxia summer rice".

Lixia rice is also called "burnt xiaxia rice"

Introduction

Old-time children's rice burnt on the day of summer

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Hangzhou, Zhejiang

Every time the day before the summer, the children to the neighboring households to ask for a bowl of rice, called "Duxia rice". They dig up some bamboo shoots, "steal" some broad beans, and use some garlic cloves. On the first day of summer, we will pocket the rice and ingredients in the open air cooking rice, rice on the plums, cherries, etc., sent to the previous day to give rice to the family, a small bowl of each family. Folk believe that children eat, can prevent heat stroke.

Summer rice with bamboo shoots, peas, broad beans, amaranth and other condiments, containing the meaning of the "five grains", summer to eat five-color rice, there is a year to the end of the symbol of good health

Practice steps:

Prepared materials: 300 grams of glutinous rice, peas 100 grams of sausage 80 grams. 120 grams of carrots, mushrooms 10 grams, 120g of carrots, ten mushrooms, 80g of onions

2. soak the glutinous rice for about 1-3 hours

3. soak the mushrooms.

4. Dice carrot, sausage, onion and mushroom.

Note: If you have fresh bamboo shoots with bamboo shoots is better.

5. Heat the pan and pour some oil, when the oil is hot, first under the onion stir fry flavor.

6. Then the carrots, mushrooms and sausage stir fry.

7. When the sausage is transparent, dry the rice and stir-fry it.

8. Stir-fry a few times, add salt to taste.

9. Then pour in the right amount of water, while pouring while stir-frying, so that it is easy to control the amount of water.

10. Cover the pot with a lid and simmer on low heat for 10 minutes.

11. Open the lid to check, this time the rice has been simmering, the peas flat on top of the rice, cover the lid and simmer for another 2-3 minutes until the peas are cooked through.

12. Finally, before you start the pot you can also sprinkle some garlic leaves, or small onions.