In the blink of an eye, the winter solstice is approaching again. As we all know, the winter solstice is the 22nd of the 24 solar terms. There is a saying among the people that "the winter solstice means the Chinese New Year". It can also be seen that the winter solstice holds a lot of weight in the hearts of the people.
After the winter solstice, the climate will become even colder. There are many folk ways of calculating the cold weather by "counting nine". Counting from "one nine" to "nine nine" also indicates the length of the entire winter and everyone's expectations for the beginning of spring in the coming year.
The winter solstice is a solar term. Customs and eating habits vary from place to place. On this day, everyone has the same wish, which means good health and good luck. In the south, there are customs such as worshiping ancestors and eating glutinous rice balls, while in the north there are customs such as eating dumplings and eating the winter solstice.
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Here I have collected some delicious foods, which are very suitable for eating during the Winter Solstice. I wonder if you have tried these delicacies. The first dish: Dumplings. There is a saying in the north that goes, "If you don't serve dumpling bowls during the Winter Solstice, your ears will freeze off and no one will care."
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The temperature in the north is relatively low, and northerners have dozens of combinations of meat fillings for making dumplings. On the winter solstice, people in some places will buy a few kilograms of mutton and mix it with green onions and mushrooms to make dumplings stuffed with mutton. Because
Mutton warms and nourishes the body. Eating mutton dumplings on the Winter Solstice will warm and nourish the body.
In addition to mutton filling, there are also leek and egg, tomato and egg, eggplant and egg, scallions, beef, fennel, etc. To avoid the different tastes of family members in different regions, every household will make some dumplings, and the dumpling soup should not be wasted. It is nutritious and stomach-warming.
Second dish: Winter Solstice Noodles Winter Solstice Noodles. In the north, there is a saying that "if you eat Winter Solstice noodles, you will grow taller every day." Instead of eating dumplings, you can eat noodles. Depending on the region, the method of cooking noodle soup is particular, and some are made with old hen soup.
There are various soup bases, including duck soup, mutton soup, beef soup and even donkey meat soup.
In the old traditional saying, noodles also have the meaning of longevity and longevity.
Whether it is hand-made noodles, hand-rolled noodles, hollow noodles or solid noodles, you should pay attention when cooking noodles. If you want the noodles to be cooked elastic and not easy to stick, the cooking time should be controlled well. The cooked noodles should be quickly immersed in cold water.
, the noodles are less likely to stick and more elastic at the same time.
The third course: Nian Gao Nian Gao, also called "Nian Nian Gao", has a homophonic meaning with "Nian Nian Gao".
Having children at home means growing taller and taller every year, and doing business means getting better and better every year.
New Year cake is made of glutinous rice. People in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui have the tradition of making homemade rice cakes. The cooked glutinous rice is beaten in the old traditional way with a wooden hammer hundreds or thousands of times. Finally, the rice cake is beaten into a particularly strong texture.
The state of elasticity.
Rice cakes can be made into strips, blocks, rounds, or rectangles. There are sweet and salty ways to eat rice cakes. Salty rice cakes are generally made in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. They are cooked with vegetables, mushrooms, meat, etc. to make them salty.
I like to dip the rice cake in sugar and fry it until it is slightly golden. It is salty and sweet, soft and glutinous.
The fourth course: Tangyuan. Tangyuan means reunion and happiness. There is also a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls makes you one year older." Tangyuan is also made of glutinous rice flour. Like rice cakes, it can be sweet or salty. Most of the glutinous rice balls in Suzhou are made with meat.
The fillings are mainly salty, while most glutinous rice balls in Guangdong are mainly sweet, with black sesame, custard, brown sugar, red bean paste, etc. There are more than a dozen flavors of ready-made glutinous rice balls in supermarkets.
The fifth course: Jiong Niang (mashed glutinous rice). Jiong Niang is also called rice wine and glutinous rice wine. During the winter solstice, some areas in the south have the habit of eating fermented glutinous rice. Jiong Niang is also made by steaming and fermenting glutinous rice. Jiong Niang is also a must-have diet for postpartum women in the South.
First, fermented rice can activate qi and blood, promote blood circulation, regulate complexion and blood, expel cold and warm the stomach.
In addition to ordinary glutinous rice, there are also rice wines made from red rice and purple rice, which are cooked with red dates, brown sugar, ginger, eggs, etc.
Jiongniang is a sweet food, which also symbolizes everyone’s yearning for a sweet and sweet life.
The sixth course - glutinous rice. Glutinous rice is one of the traditional delicacies that Hakka people must eat during the Winter Solstice. In autumn, southerners make bacon and sausages from pork belly. After drying and storing them, on the winter solstice, they will cut the bacon and sausage into cubes.
Cook with glutinous rice to make fragrant glutinous rice.
Glutinous rice is soft, glutinous and delicious, warms and nourishes the stomach, and also symbolizes the happy reunion of family members sitting together.