As we all know, northerners love to eat jiaozi, while jiaozi has a sense of ceremony, which is always related to those very important festivals. For example, the solstice in winter, the Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival are all celebrated by northerners with jiaozi.
From buying meat and vegetables, chopping meat and stuffing, rolling dough, serving soup and sitting on the table, it is a peaceful and satisfactory process. Besides, if all the family members are not present, they must wait for everyone, even though they eat their own food. Isn't it just for good luck and complete peace?
Jiaozi has skin and stuffing, and the main and non-staple foods are integrated, with good color and taste. It is shaped like an ingot. It eats jiaozi in the New Year, symbolizing that "the ingot is rolling and making a fortune in the New Year" and taking its meaning of "making money into treasure"; In ancient times, when Jiaozi was a son, it also took the meaning of "making friends when young" at the turn of the old and the new.
Dumpling stuffing, vegetarian, salty and sweet can be matched at will. People pin their wishes and hobbies on the jiaozi and wrap various mascots in the jiaozi to express their good wishes and expectations for the new year.
If it is included in the "Jin Ruyi" (coin), it means wealth and good luck, with a wide range of financial resources; Wrapping sugar or honey means that the coming year will be happy, sweet and beautiful; Bagging peanuts (also known as raw fruit) means health and longevity; Wrapping red dates or chestnuts means "early birth" in the coming year.
As the saying goes, jiaozi went out but he came in.
If a family member wants to travel far away, the elders will give him a jiaozi to see him off. At this time, jiaozi is not only wrapped in delicious food, but also wrapped in warm affection and bon voyage.
Kids, get out of town. Get out of here. Jiaozi pinned her feelings that blood is thicker than water on her best wishes. When I leave home, I hope I can be as energetic as jiaozi, do things smoothly, travel smoothly, and seek a complete jiaozi with the financial resources like a treasure. The elders put these concerns into a full "gold ingot", so that relatives who travel far away will take them to the ends of the earth wherever they go.
Every festive season, people who wander abroad and rush about for their lives will miss their hometown and relatives as soon as they eat in jiaozi.
Although jiaozi is small, its affection is bigger than the sky and deeper than the sea. Jiaozi, who is away from home, first expressed the hope of his elders, hoping that his children would be safe and smooth outside, and secondly hoped to go home and reunite as soon as possible.
Children and relatives came back from a long journey, ending the pain of missing after separation. Welcome home, the elders will eat a bowl of delicious noodles, welcome the return of the exhibition, and hope that their relatives will never be separated and they will accompany them for a long time.
Besides the meaning of feelings and wishes, there are more rational explanations. That is, jiaozi is more hungry. In the past, the traffic was inconvenient. It is easy to save energy by having a full meal before going out, and it is not easy to feel hungry on the road. After a long journey, I was thirsty and hungry with my horses and chariots and all the people who were travel-stained. Noodles are easier to digest, so it is more suitable for your health to bump back and eat a bowl of hot noodles.
Today's winter solstice, as big as a year, should be celebrated by eating jiaozi. The winter solstice is the real beginning of the year, and the earth begins again. Eating jiaozi during "sex" not only has beautiful significance, but also can supplement the body. Children often listen to their elders ramble about these folk customs, but never delve into their meanings. For children, what they are most concerned about is whether they have heard the elders "tinkling" jiaozi's voice on the chopping board this day.
Delicious but jiaozi, when I was a child, there were fewer people working at home and more people eating. Although life is not comfortable, my grandmother always tries to make our family eat jiaozi on holidays.
Chinese chives, cabbages and radishes are all grown by ourselves, and there are shepherd's purse in spring and autumn, all of which are delicious in jiaozi. During the Chinese New Year, nearly ten people buy half a catty of meat, or stir-fry a few eggs and mix them in chopped vegetable stuffing, and drop a few drops of sesame oil, and the fragrance will overflow the whole kitchen from the stuffing. I usually eat vegetarian stuffing occasionally, so I have cultivated a good root of white lotus and have been vegetarian since I was a child.
At that time, I thought jiaozi was the most amazing food in the world. Grandma is always clumsy when wrapping jiaozi, secretly pulling a lump of dough and rolling a round skin on it. Like grandma, spread it out in the palm of your hand and carefully wrap some stuffing. Also like grandma, pinch a two-headed jiaozi, full in the middle, bent like a crescent moon, and clean in vain.
Unfortunately, fingers are as inflexible as tendons, wasting noodles and ruining jiaozi. That hand doesn't work, the rolling skin always doesn't cooperate well, and the dumpling skin is not round. Jiaozi is distorted beyond recognition, ugly as a dog's bite, but it also has its own colorful beauty. It looks like an ugly duckling in grandma's plump and white jiaozi pile.
Grandma saw it at a glance. When she picked up the brush to sweep the box, she was about to knock her hand. She ran away long before she fucked me. Grandma's voice called me back in the wind: "this ghost woman ruined the food without looking." Go, carry the load and pull the firewood! " "
Pulling firewood means eating jiaozi soon! Jiaozi in a bowl, water thoroughly, to prevent adhesion. I poke chopsticks in each bowl, but I can't find the one I wrapped. Grandma's bowl is always fished out last, and the soup is mixed with vegetables and skins.
I asked my grandmother: Is this still jiaozi? It's braised noodles! Grandma said, "I just love it, but I can't eat it." Chewing is not good in jiaozi province. Baby! This porridge and rice are hard-won! " Now I am also "half-silk, half-wisp, obsessed with material difficulties." It is not that I am too poor to be simple, but that I clearly know that many things "become frugal and lose to luxury" and regard the simplicity taught by my grandmother as a simple road to life.
Actually, I don't like jiaozi very much. I just like the process of making it. When I put my hands together, a jiaozi came out. Every jiaozi has ten proper blessings. How pious this is. Skillful hands can pinch out various forms of realistic jiaozi with orchid fingers. Xi 'an Restaurant and Defachang Dumpling House are particularly famous. Every festive season, the elders at home pass on and display jiaozi's magical sense of ceremony with their hearts and skills!
Don't boast that Bai Lian is a diligent person, I will be shy!
It's just that for jiaozi, the way to enjoy jiaozi is different from that of people who eat jiaozi. Now we have independently completed a series of processes, such as chopping stuffing, mixing stuffing, kneading dough, rolling skin, wrapping jiaozi and cooking jiaozi. Dumpling skin flies out from under the rolling pin. The skin is big, round and thin, thick in the middle and thin at the edge. Bao jiaozi also put his hands together, once every five or six seconds on average.
This level is not natural, because I met a person who loves to eat jiaozi, and I practiced hard. Dad especially likes to eat this kind of stuffed ingot. If you love someone, you must grab his stomach. The pig that arched cabbage in the past, under my careful breeding for 20 years, is now full of stomachs. Chinese cabbage is also overnourished. People often say, when can I cook rice a little unpalatable, so that I can lose weight.
It's really hard to kiss your mother, just give it a kiss casually, and you two will just support each other. what can I do? I am desperate, too!
Cooking jiaozi is also exquisite. "Boil the noodles and stew them in jiaozi, so hot that you don't need to look at them" and "jiaozi rolls three times, and the fairy can't stand". Jiaozi was so heavy that he plunged into the bottom of the pot. In order to prevent the pots from sticking to each other or to the skin, jiaozi should be gently pushed with the back of the spoon to make jiaozi disperse.
Dumplings are thin and thick, so it is difficult to cook. When the fire is big, the soup is easy to overflow. You need to add a little cold water to cool the skin, boil it again, and then add water. Over and over again, boiling water is added twice, and you don't have to look after it for three times. Jiaozi floats on the edge of the pot one by one, with tight rubber bands and full balls, so it's no problem to cook. After being fished out, the soup is clear as water, but it has a special fragrance, which is the aftertaste of the stuffing in the soup.
In life, pay attention to everything and learn! This is not only a sentence, but also when applied to practice, it is everywhere!
Today's winter solstice, Bai Lian has been busy all day, dealing with jiaozi. Doing, eating, patting and sharing, I almost broke my waist! However, my jiaozi has three flavors, six colors and seven or eight shapes, which fully shows the ritual sense of charming ears from winter solstice. It is worthwhile to watch the children eat the incense that their father has eaten.
Isn't the kitchen a mother's world and a delicious paradise for her family? !
Let's talk about these three fillings first: radish meat; Beans, garlic sprouts, mushrooms, carrots and Agrocybe aegerita meat; Carrot and mutton (I also left myself vegetarian stuffing, and the white lotus does not move the meat).
Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, and eat it at the right time. Folk saying: radish has the saying of small ginseng. Eating radishes on the solstice in winter is the most nutritious thing. The next day, you will get rid of dampness and detoxify in the place where the grain circulates. Leisurely means lotus, but not touching, clear but not demon, and your body is two pounds lighter.
I don't have to go into details about this radish meat. I add seasoning to the meat stuffing at one time, but I don't put any seasoning in the vegetable stuffing. After the combination of the two, the meat coriander is fresh, tender, refreshing and not greasy. The second kind of miscellaneous vegetable stuffing can be freely combined as long as the food is incompatible. Bai Lian likes to blanch the dishes with hot water to remove the original special taste of the dishes, which is convenient for blending and increases the umami and flavor. For example, radish and garlic are spicy dishes. Bai Xiaolian likes vegetarian stuffing since she was a child and keeps miscellaneous vegetable stuffing for herself.
Carrot mutton looks simple, but it is not greasy, tender and smooth, and it also has a doorway. Mutton is the most important. The cross goat in northern Shaanxi is better, Amitabha, kind and kind! I have no experience in choosing meat, so I omit a few hundred words+brackets here. I have a way to mix carrots and mutton. Shred carrots, cut ginger foam for later use, oil peppers, take them out, put them in Jiang Mo, stir-fry until fragrant, add enough seasoning at one time and stir-fry until soft and rotten. When it cools slightly, mix it with mutton evenly. Tender, smooth and delicious, neither firewood nor greasy. This time, mix the vegetables first, then add the meat.
Bao jiaozi is a combination of mind and skill. Just like exams, it is very important to accumulate experience and improvise. Otherwise, you will always worry about this sense of ritual. The standard of a good jiaozi is uniform size, round stuffing, tight adhesion at the mouth, delicate lace folds, no cracking at the edge and no peeling after cooking.
Let's talk about these six colors of dough. The red ones are Redmi boiled juice, green spinach, yellow pumpkin, pink tomatoes and carrots, and purple cabbage. In fact, the color of purple potato is more attractive, but it's a pity that I didn't buy purple potato, which is too extravagant in the supermarket, so I used purple cabbage instead.
Finally, talk about packaging methods:
Jiaozi, a jadeite cabbage, grows like this: the proofed spinach dough is rolled into a flat oval shape, and the white dough is twisted into a round strip. Place the white dough on top of the green dough, so that the white dough is completely wrapped by the green dough, and cut off the excess parts at the edges. Cut into small dough, flatten it with the palm of your hand and roll it into a round dumpling skin. Put your palm aside and put it in the dumpling stuffing. First, fold the dumpling skin in half and pinch it around. Then put the dumpling skin on the index finger of both hands, push it with two thumbs, and squeeze it hard at the tiger's mouth, and a beautiful Chinese cabbage-shaped jiaozi is made.
The fish-shaped jiaozi is to glue jiaozi's tail together and then pinch it tightly. Fold outward once on the left and right sides with your thumb and hold the middle at the same time. It is completed in two steps. Does it look like a fish ~
Jiaozi noodles are completely kneaded and compacted with ingot jiaozi. Pull the two sides of jiaozi back and stick them together. Jiaozi, like a small gold ingot, is wrapped like this! The thick taste must be great!
Pinch the crescent-shaped jiaozi in the middle, starting from the right, and gently pinch the side skin outward with your thumb. Pinch the side skin into folds with your index finger and squeeze it tightly, then repeat the above steps from the left. Jiaozi will be ready in half a bend!
Triangular jiaozi holds the dumpling wrapper with his thumb and forefinger symmetrical and sandwiched between jiaozi. The jiaozi shape of the triangle is full of geometric sense, and the key does not occupy the position! You can steam several at a time!
Wallet jiaozi folded jiaozi's seal into a semicircle.
Pinch down the top of jiaozi with your thumb, and finally make a complete hem. Have you tried this package method?
Among other shapes, Du Niang is wiser than Bai Lian, and you can also use your accumulated experience to exert your imagination freely. Nothing is impossible, only unexpected.
Eating jiaozi is also learned, so don't stop eating. There is a bowl of jiaozi next to it, and vinegar dishes, sesame oil and garlic cloves are indispensable. Sandwich a jiaozi, dip it in vinegar and sesame oil, and there is some garlic at the entrance. "jiaozi is not worthy of garlic, and the taste is half bad."
The origin of jiaozi is called "cold-dispelling Joule soup", which is made of mutton, pepper and some cold-dispelling herbs in a pot. After cooking, these things are chopped up and wrapped in a face bag into an ear-shaped "Joule". After eating Quhan decoction, people feel warm all over, their blood is smooth and their ears are warm. After a while, the rotten ear will be fine. Nowadays, jiaozi soup is a hot soup with starch dissolved. The original soup can promote the secretion of gastric acid and digestive enzymes, thus helping digestion. However, eating soup after meals will inevitably lead to overeating, so you can drink soup before meals with only a small bowl.
Eating jiaozi is a ritual and emotion. Auspicious wishes and complete meanings make those who make it fondle admiringly, and those who eat it are full of praise. Amaranth means long-term wealth, cabbage means a hundred years' wealth, mushrooms mean wealth, sauerkraut means wealth, rape means wealth, fish means surplus wealth, beef means cattle wealth, mutton means foreign wealth, dates mean luck, wild vegetables mean unexpected wealth, vegetables and vegetables mean wealth, sweet stuffing means wealth, and colorful is the wealth of the four seasons!
There is also a kind of jiaozi, which grows on us and looks like jiaozi's ears. After the solstice in winter, we can often lift the earlobe and rub our ears until they get hot. Because Chinese medicine says that "the kidney begins to understand the ear", regular ear massage can help us improve the poor blood circulation and better replenish kidney qi, thus helping everyone to spend the cold winter weather safely.
Edible jiaozi and human's own "jiaozi" are good for our health. You can try these two kinds of "jiaozi" in winter to make you delicious and healthy!