Drink bright eye soup
Xinchang and Shengzhou have the custom of drinking bright eye soup on the fourteenth day of the first month. There is a folk saying in China that when you drink the bright eye soup for fourteen nights, it means that the Spring Festival is almost over, and everyone should start to cheer up and start a new year's work. So, what is the legendary "bright eye soup"?
Many people can cook bright eye soup, but what kind of history does this bright eye soup hide? Generally speaking, the Spring Festival is the last climax from the 15th day of the first month, but in the Song Dynasty, from the 13th day of the first month to the 17th day of the first month, this stage is called the Lantern Festival, and the 14th night of the first month is also in the Lantern Festival, so you should drink bright eye soup that day. "In addition, on the fourteenth night of the first month, ordinary people will sprinkle black catalpa in every corner of their homes, because according to China folklore, pouring some black catalpa in the corner can blind the eyes of mice and make the eyes of cats brighter. Eat all the mice, so as to protect the food from being eaten by mice." Uzi is actually a kind of wild fruit on the mountain. Because Uzi is like a "eyeball" in Xinchang dialect, it means that many pairs of eyes are staring at their granaries without being infringed by rats.
After all, these fourteen nights have a lot to do with "bright eyes". Drink a bowl of bright eyes soup, then enjoy the Lantern Festival with discerning eyes and welcome the new year with a good mood.
How to make bright eye soup?
Ingredients: winter bamboo shoots, chicken gizzards, rice cakes, crushed noodles, oily tofu, tofu, mushrooms, shepherd's purse, starch, soy sauce and salt.
1, wash shepherd's purse first, cut rice cake grains, chicken gizzards and winter bamboo shoots, and wash shepherd's purse (wild vegetables) carefully. Wash bright eye soup (shepherd's purse soup) several times 1
2, hot pot to use lard first stir-fry the winter bamboo shoots and chicken gizzards, add salt to remove the astringency and taste, and then stir-fry the bright eye soup (shepherd's purse soup) because the rice cakes are hard. Step 2
3, add boiling water into the tofu (thousands of tofu roll fish, tofu stew for a long time), cut the oily tofu into the end.
4, then cut the mushrooms into pieces, put the pot of water in early, and then cut the shepherd's purse (finely). It is not good to put it too early.
5. It will take a while for the shepherd's purse to boil again, which is enough time to adjust the starch.
6, taste the salt, adjust the starch, and make a pot of delicious bright eye soup.
Tips
1, Starch Thickening This step of starch does not have too much energy at first. If the soup is too thin, you can try to thicken it with starch, otherwise the soup is too thick to taste and can't be remedied.
2. Soup dishes can be added or subtracted according to your own taste. For example, it is delicious to put some chopped carrots, sausages and peanuts.
Eating bad soup
Lantern Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China. Because the first month is January and the 15th is the first full moon night in a year, it is also called "Shangyuan Festival". The activities of Shangyuan Festival in different parts of China are similar. Streets and alleys are decorated with lanterns, people enjoy lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns and eat glutinous rice balls, which have become the custom of generations, and the name of the festival has also evolved into "Lantern Festival". In Taizhou, the Lantern Festival falls on the 14th day of the first month, and its festive atmosphere also has distinctive features and connotations. Eating bad soup at midnight snack in Taizhou is unique in China.
Bad soup practice:
The first step is to prepare vegetables, lean meat, dried fragrant shoots, bamboo shoots, peanuts and the like, cut them in granules and fry them until they are half-cooked. Pay attention to the fact that the dishes should be chopped as much as possible, so that they can be more tasty. Of course, don't forget, at the same time, boil a large pot of water in the pot. We should make good use of our time. Of course, among the dishes, green vegetables are the most, so that the green soup cooked will look good and delicious; Others can decide how much to put according to their own preferences.
Step 2: After the water is boiled, put all kinds of particles in one by one, and at the same time pour rice slurry (mix rice flour and water evenly) and stir constantly. Pay attention to the uniform stirring direction, always clockwise or counterclockwise, otherwise the bad soup will not easily turn into paste.
The third step, wait until the paste gradually thickens, and add salt and monosodium glutamate.