A, hand grabbed rice legend
About grabbed rice there is a moving legend. Legend has it that more than a thousand years ago, a man named Abu Aili. Dr. Ibisina, in his old age, the body is very weak, take a lot of medicine does not help, and then he studied a kind of rice, dietary therapy. He used mutton, carrots, onions, oil, suet and rice with water and salt, and then simmered over low heat. This kind of rice has the characteristics of color, taste and aroma, and it can arouse people's appetite. So he ate a small bowl in the morning and evening, half a month later, the body gradually regained health, the people around are very surprised, thought he ate what panacea. Later, he passed this "prescription" to everyone, one by ten, ten by a hundred, it became the present Uyghur people generally eat the rice. Whether this legend is true or not, we are not going to investigate, but grabbing rice is a very nutritious food, but it is true. Goat's oil, onion, carrot and rice are all vitamin-containing supplements, especially carrot is known as "small ginseng" and "ground ginseng". The rice made from such ingredients is certainly a tonic.
Two, custom
"Hand grabbed rice", Uyghur language called "Bo Nuo", is the Uyghur, Uzbek and other brotherly ethnic groups to perform one of the guests of the flavor of food. It is one of the savory foods for Uyghur, Uzbek and other ethnic groups to serve their guests during festivals, weddings and funerals. Their traditional custom is to invite guests to sit on the kang with a clean cloth in the middle. Then the host, with a basin in one hand and a pot in the other, invites the guests to wash their hands one by one and hands them a clean towel to dry them. After the guests have all washed their hands, the host brings in several plates of rice and puts them on the cloth (it is customary to put two to three people on a plate), and asks the guests to eat them directly from the plates with their hands. So named "grab drink". Now some families perform Han guests, generally have a small spoon.
Three, hand grabbed rice practice
1. grabbed rice is made of fresh lamb, carrots, onions, oil, suet and rice.
2. The practice is to first chop the mutton into small pieces with oil frying,
3. Then put onions and carrots in the pot to fry, and put some salt and water, as appropriate,
4. Wait twenty minutes, and then backwash soaked rice into the pot, do not stir, after forty minutes, grab the rice that is cooked. Cooked rice is bright and shiny. The flavor is delicious.