Chinese people often say that the plan for a year begins in spring and the plan for a day begins in the morning. For Chinese people who like delicious food, breakfast is particularly important. Only by eating this meal can they start a new life for the day. Even in China, the gourmet culture of three meals a day only became popular in modern times, but the breakfast culture has flourished in just a hundred years, with various variations in different regions, different characteristics, and different eating methods. Various breakfast options.
Wuhan hot dry noodles in Wuhan, rice balls in Shanghai, mutton shaomai in Inner Mongolia, fried noodles in Beijing, gaba dishes and pancakes in Tianjin, just seeing the name of this ingredient, your The brain must automatically associate them with breakfast. The breakfast dish I am going to recommend below is very interesting, and its name is "Brain". From the perspective of Shanxi people, this should be a very filling breakfast.
Why is "brain" supplemented? Just the ingredients, you can think of it as preparing mutton soup. Fresh mutton, yam, and lotus root are cooked in a pot until crispy, then mixed with eight Chinese herbal medicines, and rice wine is added to give the whole breakfast a light wine aroma. In Shanxi, it is definitely a famous health-preserving medicated breakfast. Because breakfast contains a lot of health-preserving medicinal foods, beef and rice wine, and is called "brain", many people think that eating it in the morning can make them smarter.
In fact, the reason why this Shanxi famous breakfast dish is called "brain" is because the inventor made a little joke. It is said that the person who invented the health-preserving medicated diet was named Fu Shan. At that time, Fu Shan just wanted to cook some ingredients to nourish his old mother's health. Later, Fu Shan met a friend who happened to be experiencing difficulties in business and had an empty wallet. Fu Shan informed his good friends of his health-preserving medicinal diet prescriptions, and also requested that if his good friends opened a restaurant, the name of the restaurant should be "Qingheyuan".
Qing and Yuan, closely meaning Qing Dynasty and Qing Dynasty. Fu Shan didn't like these two periods very much and felt that they were relatively unstable. At the same time, Fu Shan also wrote a reminder by himself, saying "Zeguo Nao Qinghe Yuan", where "zacout" refers to haggis soup, and "brain" refers to health-preserving medicinal diet. Since the soup contains eight kinds of Chinese medicinal materials were originally named "Bazhen Tang". The conclusion was passed around, and he found that calling it "brain" was more playful and cute, making people remember it, so the name of this health-preserving medicated breakfast was decided.
The "brain" soup at the beginning was not as full of ingredients as it is now. It only used beef, lotus root, and yam. After stewing and steaming, it was poured with a layer of soup and added with Chinese medicinal materials. This soup has already The batter is added to thicken the sauce, making it white and thick. When placed on the beef, it has a mild taste but a strong medicinal taste. Later, some changes were made to suit the taste of modern people, such as the proportion of traditional Chinese medicine and the depth of seasoning.
When drinking "brain" soup, it should be paired with a plate of amaranth. The amaranth is not empty, because a large amount of salt and pepper are sprinkled in the amaranth. When eating breakfast, put the amaranth into the pot, Zhonghe "Brain" soup is originally light, mix one salty and one light, The taste is just right. It has the aroma of amaranth, mellow yellow, traditional Chinese medicine, and beef. The whole bowl is full of tonic ingredients. When you drink it, your whole body will be filled with steam. Don't you think it tastes good?
Therefore, many Shanxi people like to get up in the early morning in the cold winter, eager to come in and drink a bowl of steaming "brain" soup when the store opens at five or six o'clock. While drinking the soup, I chatted with the neighbors, and my new day started with this bowl of medicinal soup.