When I was a child, I grew up in a rural area in southwest Shandong. At that time, almost every family had a dish of pickles-pickled beans and pickles. When eating, dig out a spoonful from the pickle jar, put it on a plate, mix it with sesame oil, and the whole family will gather around the table, get drunk and eat cornmeal pot cakes or sweet potato noodles. This is how a meal comes about. Even if you entertain guests and relatives during the Spring Festival, you can have this dish.

Sauced bean pickles are generally composed of spicy radish strips, pickled beans, cabbage sticks and celery stalks, but their proportions are different. The general process is: prepare to cover the beans before the peak season when the spicy radish comes down. First of all, choose better soybeans, wash them and pour them into the pot to cook them thoroughly. Cook them for half a day on low heat until the beans turn brown. Boiled soybeans should be drained and put into pots, covered with a piece of cloth, hidden in the wheat straw pile, or held up with a broken quilt to ferment at a certain temperature; After covering it for more than ten days, the beans are covered with white preserves. Just pick them with chopsticks and pull them out. This is the way to sauce beans.

According to the situation at home, choose a small spicy radish, which has a thick skin and little water. First, wash the radish, dry the water, cut the head and tail, cut it from the middle of the radish and cut it into strips. Cabbage sticks and celery stalks are also cut into strips or sheets, and the water is controlled to dry. It is important to put more ginger in pickled beans and pickles, wash several large pieces of ginger and cut them into thick shreds. Finally, add a proper amount of salt, spiced noodles and soy sauce beans and stir them evenly. After the radish tastes salty, it can be eaten.

Although the pickles with soy sauce make the beans smell a little smelly, they are really delicious. A more luxurious way to eat is to dry the pickles with soy sauce, heat the oil in a pan, stir-fry the peppers, stir-fry the pickles with soy sauce, add the stirred egg liquid, turn it over after setting, stir well and eat.

I haven't tasted such delicious food for 30 years. I'm eager to find it as soon as possible, and then try pickles with soy sauce and corn tortillas to enjoy the taste of my hometown.