Because it is often eaten with tea during non-dinner meals, it is also known as Huai'an tea steamed buns.

Tea dumplings are a well-known traditional snack in Jiangsu Province. Huaian tea dumplings are the most famous, have a long history, and are well-known at home and abroad. In Huai'an, tea dumplings are a delicacy well known to women and children. Huai'an tea dumplings were created in the late Qing Dynasty and have a history of more than a hundred years. Because the person who made the best tea dumplings at that time was named Yue, it was also called "Yuejia tea dumplings" and because the Yue family's house was close to the Drum Tower of Huai'an City. , so some people call it "Drum Tower Tea Steamed Rice". Huai'an tea dumplings won the Jiangsu Province Quality Food Award in 1983, the Golden Tripod Award for Quality Products in the Catering Industry of the Ministry of Commerce in 1991, and were recognized as the first Chinese famous snack in 1997. This product is made of high-quality raw materials and refined through unique processing technology. It has a bright yellow color, beautiful shape, crispy texture and unique flavor.

Tea steamed buns are made with water made from brown sugar, honey, Sichuan peppercorns, red onion skins and other raw materials, mixed with an appropriate amount of eggs and clear oil, and then kneaded repeatedly into thick strips, twisted into dough, and kneaded It is made into or stretched into a ring composed of evenly-sized, orderly coiled strips and deep-fried in an oil pan until brown. Nowadays, dumplings have become a common sight in many restaurants, breakfast shops or vegetable markets. Food is readily available. Tea dumplings can be eaten dry or soaked in water. When eaten dry, it is mostly served as a side dish with wine. When eaten soaked in water, it only needs to be brewed with boiling water for a few minutes. After it is fully soaked, it can be eaten. The tea dumplings are eaten after soaking. They are soft, fragrant and easy to digest. They are especially suitable for pregnant women and the frail and sick. [1]

[Edit this paragraph]〖Tracing History〗

Huaian tea dumplings, as a famous dish in Huaiyang cuisine, cannot be ignored. The first banquet in China, the Manchu-Han banquet, has 30 famous dishes from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Huaiyang cuisine accounts for most of the 30 Jiangsu and Zhejiang dishes. Among the six items before the banquet, Huai'an tea dumplings rank fifth. As a tribute from the Qing Dynasty, The so-called reputation and status of Huai'an Tea Cuisine are of a illustrious level.

Huai'an tea dumplings won awards at the Jiangsu Provincial Articles Exhibition in the first year of Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty, and in 1930 they participated in the Panama Games and won medals. After liberation, he also participated in the Northern Jiangsu Specialty Products Exchange Conference and was highly praised. Its finished products include combs, fans, chrysanthemums, pagodas and other shapes, and are famous all over the world. Because it is often eaten with tea during non-dinner meals, it is also known as Huai'an tea dumplings.

The production of tea steamed buns in Huai'an has a long history. It began with the great poet Liu Yuxi of the Tang Dynasty who praised: "The delicate hands are rubbed into jade for several times, and the green oil is fried into a tender yellow color. When the night comes, spring sleeps without weight, and the flattened jade woman wraps her arms with gold. ". "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: the effects of steamed rice are "convenient, moisturizing the intestines, warming the body and replenishing qi". It is also said: Grind Corydalis Corydalis, Kudizi, etc. into powder, take half a penny to a penny each time; use it in Niantou (tea dumpling) soup before eating, it can cure urinary obstruction in children. According to research, pregnant women eating tea steamed buns before giving birth can relax muscles, activate blood circulation, loosen bones, and promote birth. Eating steamed buns after delivery can strengthen the body and help health. It is popular for its crispy texture, bright yellow color, fragrant taste and beautiful appearance. Because tea dumplings contain a lot of oil, they should not be stored for a long time. It is best to make them and eat them now.

Huai'an tea dumplings became famous during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, there was a family named Yue in Huai'an City who specialized in making tea steamed buns and was once listed as a tribute. Yuejia tea steamed buns have beautiful and unique shapes and reasonable ingredients. The made dumplings are as thin as threads, as yellow as gold, and connected with each other. When you eat it, it tastes fragrant, crispy, crispy, sweet and slightly salty. People rush to buy it, thinking they are lucky to be able to buy Yuejia tea steamed buns. His tea dumplings are: fragrant, crispy, crispy, completely yellow in oil color, translucent and crispy, rich in aroma, refreshing and flavourful, flammable on fire and melt in water. It is said that the Empress Dowager Cixi once suffered from breast cancer and there was no good way to cure it. The imperial physician Han Dazai from Huai'an prescribed a folk prescription: "Four Huai'an sesame oil tea steamed buns, grind two lychee seeds into powder, two ounces of rice wine, soak and fry in ***; Her head was covered with a big blanket." After taking three patches in a row, Cixi's breast tumors disappeared and she was very happy. From then on, Huai'an tea dumplings won a good reputation in the capital and became a tribute to the Qing Dynasty. For many years, women in the Jianghuai River Basin have had the custom of drinking tea and drinking tea when they are pregnant and giving birth. According to research, pregnant women eating tea steamed buns before giving birth have the wonderful effects of relaxing muscles, activating blood circulation, loosening bones, and promoting birth; eating tea steamed buns after delivery can strengthen the body and improve health. Therefore, when a family gave birth to a child in the Jianghuai River, relatives and friends would buy tea steamed buns as gifts for the mother. There is a popular saying among the people: "If you don't eat steamed buns during confinement, you will lose money."

In 1965, A leading comrade from Huai'an County went to Beijing for a meeting and specially brought a basket of tea dumplings to Premier Zhou Enlai. The Prime Minister accepted the deep affection of the people in his hometown, but insisted on letting the comrades of the county party committee take the gifts back. This incident showed the prime minister's honest and upright style, and at the same time added a good story to Huai'an Tea Cuisine.

[Edit this paragraph]〖Preparation method〗

■ Production of Huai'an tea dumplings

Ingredients: 2.5kg white flour, 50g black sesame seeds, 75 5 kilograms of sesame oil (approximately 1.85 kilograms consumed)

Steps:

1. Pour the white flour into the noodle cylinder and add water according to different seasons (per kilogram of flour in spring and autumn) Use 900 grams of warm water, 700 grams of cold water in summer, and 1 kilogram of warm water in winter), add black sesame seeds and refined salt at the same time, mix well with flour and knead into a ball, knead repeatedly 3 times, cover with a damp cloth and leave for 0.5 hours.

2. Roll the dough into long strips the size of longan and place them into a vat greased with sesame oil. Pour sesame oil on each layer of the plate. After an interval of 1 hour, place the noodles on the oiled chopping board and roll them into strips as thick as a brush stick. Use the same method to plate the noodles into the vat.

3. Pour sesame oil into the pot and heat the oil over medium heat until it is 80% hot.

Wrap the kneaded noodles around your hands (approximately 60 turns in a fan style). First, stretch the noodles to a length of about 23 to 26 centimeters. Then insert two long bamboo chopsticks and stretch the noodles until they are about 30 centimeters long. Draw the noodles as thin as a thread, put them into the oil pan, hold the chopsticks tightly, and swing them in the oil pan a few times. Then stack the two chopsticks staggered together to make the noodles staggered into a fan shape. Pull out the chopsticks and fry until the tea dumplings turn golden brown. Remove from the pot (each handful weighs 40 grams) and serve.

Features: Golden in color, crispy and flaky, like gold threads wound around each other. [2]

■ How to make dumplings

Water-adjusted dough: 25kg of special flour, 500g of fine salt

Frying oil: 7.5 each of sesame oil and peanut oil kilogram.

1. Make water and prepare dough: After fully dissolving the salt in water, add flour and mix, then fully pound the dough, usually not less than 20 minutes, to make the dough have good toughness. After the dough is made, spread it flat on the work surface and gradually cut it from the edge to the center. Use both hands to knead the thick strips of dough on the workbench into slender round strips with a diameter of 5 mm. While kneading, roll them layer by layer into a magnetic basin with peanut oil (you must apply oil between each layer to prevent the strips from sticking) , after placing the strips on the pan, they must be left for 2 hours before winding and frying.

Huai'an Tea Steamed Buns 2. Winding and frying: After the wire rods are cooked, use your right hand to pull and wrap the wire rods around them and arrange them on the four fingers of your left hand. When wrapping, straighten the four fingers of your left hand and press with your thumb. Hold the end of the strip and wrap it around 7 to 8 times. Then put your right hand into the loop and stretch the noodles with four fingers of both hands together so that the wrapped strip extends to twice its original length. Then free your right hand and use two chopsticks to pick up the noodles on your left hand. Wrap the strip tightly, then hold a chopstick in each hand and put it into the oil pan for frying. The oil temperature is usually around 220°C. After putting it in the pot for a while, use chopsticks to fold the strips into a fan shape, then remove the bamboo chopsticks. You can also turn one chopstick 180° and roll it into a long roll. It can also be made into comb type, flower type, broom type, etc. using different techniques. After the oil is formed, it should be turned in the oil pan to make the color uniform. Fry until golden brown and drain the oil.

■ Flavored tea dumplings

△Introduction

Flavored tea dumplings: a specialty dish of Pinge Restaurant, Nanjing Provincial Party School.

Features:

The tea dumplings are crispy and have reasonable nutrition after adding green and red pepper shreds. It is an authentic rural farm dish.

Creativity:

Tea dumplings are mostly eaten dry. When making this dish, the author broke the tea dumplings, stir-fried them with green and red peppers, and then used roast duck cakes. Rolled food, novel way of eating, crispy texture.

Dishes provided:

Ye Liangcheng: Born in 1964, has been cooking for 18 years. In 1990, he served as the head chef at Bashuyuan Restaurant in Nanjing. He has served as chef at Nanjing Dahongyun Hotel and Minsheng Hotel. The chef of a large hotel. From 2000 to the present, he has been the chef of Yipinge Restaurant of the Party School of Nanjing Provincial Committee. Won the gold medal in the Yangtze River Fresh Cooking Competition in 2004.

△Recipe

Ingredients:

150 grams of sesame oil tea dumplings, 30 grams of green and red peppers, 8 roast duck cakes.

Seasoning:

5 grams of salt, 10 grams of chicken essence, 30 grams of salad oil.

△Preparation

Method:

(1) Cut the sesame oil tea dumplings into 10 cm long sections; cut the green and red peppers into shreds.

(2) Put salad oil in the wok, and when it is 70% hot, add green and red pepper shreds and tea dumplings and stir-fry over medium heat for 2 minutes. Add salt and chicken essence to taste and remove from the pan. Plate.

(3) Steam the roast duck cakes in the steamer over high heat for 2 minutes. Take it out and fold it into a triangle. Place it around the tea dumplings on a plate. After serving, roll the fried tea dumplings into the roasted duck cakes and eat. That’s it.

Instructions:

After putting the tea dumplings into the pot, stir-fry them quickly before taking them out of the pot to prevent them from becoming crispy after being heated for a long time. [4]

[Edit this paragraph]〖Quality Standard〗

Form: The noodles are neat, with no obvious overlapping and no draw.

Tiaozhe: golden yellow.

Tissue: There are holes in the cross section, no dough lumps, and no impurities.

Taste: pure fragrance, crispy and refreshing.

〖The Beautiful Legend of Tea Buns〗

I don’t know which dynasty or generation, an emperor sent a senior official named Li and his wife to Yangzhou to collect money and grain. This corrupt official just wanted to eat, drink and have fun along the way, and had a dream when passing by Shanyang County (now Huai'an County). I dreamed that a golden phoenix flew down from a distance with a delicate tea cake in its mouth, and landed on the top of Zhenhuai Tower in the city. At this time, someone told him that this phoenix was a nine-day fairy phoenix. He also said that whoever could get it could get all the treasures in the world, and whoever could eat the steamed rice cake in its mouth would be able to live longer. , immortality. This corrupt official wants to monopolize the golden phoenix. He flew after it and reached out to grab it. Unexpectedly, he tripped and was thrown to the ground with a "plop". He couldn't move for a long time. He opened his eyes and saw that it was a dream. At this time, he rolled his eyes and came up with evil ideas. Hey! There is a way. Let's use this to create a mystery, and take the opportunity to search for people's anointing and make a fortune.

So he immediately summoned the Shanyang County Magistrate, saying that he saw a golden phoenix flying into the county town at night, and asked the Shanyang County Magistrate to immediately order the entire city to dispatch to quickly hunt down the golden phoenix. Take the tea steamed bun that can prolong life and let him and his wife broaden their horizons and satisfy their appetite.

The magistrate of Xinyang County, who was accustomed to flattering his horse, saw that the high official had a purpose, and immediately sent out the entire city to chase the golden phoenix and seize the tea steamed buns. If he did not catch the gold Phoenix is ??going to kill the heads of the guards. The officers were full of anger, but they didn't dare not go. They didn't even see the shadow of the golden phoenix, so where were they going to catch it? In order to make a deal, the officers caught an old man who was frying dumplings and deceived the Shanyang County magistrate: "The golden phoenix was being chased. Hide it in the arms of this old man. Please ask the old man for it from him!"

The Shanyang County magistrate glared, blew his goatee, and said sternly: "You old man is hiding the golden phoenix. Where have they gone? Hand over the golden phoenix and the tea dumplings quickly!"

The old man begged: "Master, where do you start talking about this? I have never seen a golden phoenix before. , and I didn’t even see any tea dumplings.”

The county magistrate became angry when he heard this, “Old man, your whole family is going to die!”

The old man who fried the tea dumplings was really good. Monk Zhanger was confused and said: "Master, you are wrong. The small family only has a big rooster that announces the dawn. I have never seen a golden phoenix. Where can I catch it?"

When the county magistrate saw how stubborn he was, he deceived him and said, "Old man, if you hand over the golden phoenix and the tea cake, I will open all the shops in the city for you, which will be enough for you to live happily for a lifetime."

"Little people don't have that blessing." The old man angrily contradicted the county magistrate. The Shanyang County Magistrate was furious after the incident, "Whether you have seen it or not, you must hand over the golden phoenix and the tea steamed bun before the fifth watch, otherwise the whole family will be executed."

The old man returned. At home, there was nothing to do but to fight for his own death, and told his family to run for their lives as soon as possible. At this time, the whole family held their heads and cried loudly. Only the nine-year-old granddaughter Jin Fengfeng did not cry or speak. She stood in the middle of the room, staring in anger and thinking. [3].

The golden rooster has crowed, and it is almost dawn. At this moment, Jinfeng said to his grandfather: "Grandpa, don't be anxious. I have Golden Phoenix. She is in my heart. Ask the guards to come with me to get it!" Little Jinfeng said, facing the whole family. After taking a look, he turned around, picked up a tea bun from the pot table, and ran straight to the well behind the house. The old man didn't catch her and saw her jump into the well. Suddenly thousands of golden lights shot out from the well, and a five-colored golden phoenix flew out of the well mouth with a tea bun in its mouth, circled twice in the sky above the house, and then flew straight into the main hall of the county government office.

That official Li and the county magistrate were drinking in the hall. Suddenly, a piercing light came in from outside the door. Following the light, a golden phoenix flew in, holding a tea steamed bun in its mouth. The high official and the county magistrate were so happy that their mouths watered, and they stood up and rushed towards the golden phoenix. I saw the golden phoenix fanning towards them with its wings. Suddenly a strong wind blew up, causing them to pee and fall on the hall like dead dogs. ——The golden phoenix swooped down and pecked out the eyeballs of Officer Li and the county magistrate one by one.

Above the blazing flames, the golden phoenix unfolded its colorful wings with joy and hovered over the majestic Zhenhuai Tower. She blew gently on the land of Chu City, and suddenly the whole area of ??Chu City was golden and the grains were abundant. Then she transformed into the delicate and crispy "Huai'an Tea Steamed Bun", which is famous both at home and abroad.

It is said that every time you eat Huaian’s fragrant and crispy tea dumplings on that clear morning, you can still hear the sweet chirping of the golden phoenix in your ears!