First, the most traditional delicious snail
In the "Shunde County Records" during the Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty, it was recorded: "Looking at the sun in August, it is still eating snails." Folk believe that snails can improve eyesight. According to analysis, snail meat is rich in nutrition, and vitamin A is an important substance of eye visual pigment. Eating snails can improve eyesight and make sense. But why do you have to be particularly keen on food during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, when snails are empty, there are no snails in the abdomen. Therefore, the meat quality is particularly fat, which is the best time to eat snails. Nowadays, in Guangzhou, many families have the habit of frying snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Recommended food-fried snail
Ingredients: 500g of snail, Chili sauce 1 tablespoon, half a teaspoon of salt, 4 pieces of fresh perilla leaves (cut into filaments for later use), half a teaspoon of sugar, a little pepper, oil 1 tablespoon, and a little garlic.
Practice: wash the snail first, then use pliers to remove the tail of the snail, and then wash it; Heat a wok, add a little oil, saute garlic and pepper until fragrant, put down the snails and fry them together, then add Chili sauce, salt, perilla leaves and sugar, add a little water and fry until cooked, and serve with a little juice.
Second, the most auspicious holiday dish glutinous rice lotus root
Eating lotus root in Mid-Autumn Festival means reunion. Fill the lotus root with glutinous rice, and then pour it with osmanthus honey. The rice, lotus root and osmanthus fragrance are fragrant and fragrant, so that the reunion dinner can start from sweetness.
Recommended food-glutinous rice lotus root
Ingredients: lotus root 1 knot, sweet-scented osmanthus sauce, glutinous rice and rock sugar.
Practice: Peel the lotus root and wash it; Cut off one end of the lotus root, put it into the washed glutinous rice, cover it with a small end of the lotus root that has just been cut off, and fix it with a toothpick; Add rock sugar and steam for 2 hours until cooked; Slice and plate, and pour sweet-scented osmanthus juice.
Third, Mid-Autumn Festival to crab fat
Hairy crabs are a fun dish for people in the Mid-Autumn Festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. One for each person, accompanied by ginger vinegar, is the best way to kill time. However, hairy crabs are cool, so it is beneficial to warm your stomach with some yellow wine and drink a cup of ginger tea after eating.
Recommended food-steamed hairy crabs
Ingredients: 4 hairy crabs, chives 1 segment, ginger 1 block, sesame oil 1 spoon, 2 tablespoons of soy sauce, balsamic vinegar 1 spoon, and sugar 1 spoon.
Practice: Tie the crab pliers and crab feet firmly with a string; Wash onion and ginger and cut into powder; Mix chopped green onion, Jiang Mo, balsamic vinegar, white sugar, soy sauce and sesame oil into dipping sauce and dish; Steam the hairy crabs in a steamer (it takes about15 ~18 minutes to steam the hairy crabs), untie the strings and put them on a plate to eat.
Fourth, osmanthus wine
On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, people look up at the osmanthus in the middle of the month, smell the Gui Xiang, drink a cup of osmanthus wine and celebrate the sweetness of the family, which has become a beautiful enjoyment in the festival. Osmanthus fragrans is not only ornamental, but also edible. In Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs", there are poems such as "Help the horse to fight and drink cinnamon pulp" and "Drink cinnamon and pepper pulp". It can be seen that the age of drinking osmanthus wine in China is quite long.
Five, taro
Eating taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and it means not believing in evil spirits. The Chaozhou Official Records, which was written before the Qing Dynasty, said, "Playing with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, peeling taro and eating it, is called peeling ghosts." Stripping ghosts and eating them is a great spirit of Zhong Kui's exorcism, which is respectable.
Six, pumpkin
Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated all over the south of the Yangtze River. Rich people eat moon cakes, and poor people have the custom of eating pumpkins. Legend has it that a long time ago, there lived a poor family at the foot of Nanshan, with old parents and only one daughter named Huanghua, who was beautiful, intelligent, kind and hardworking. On August 15th that day, Huanghua found two oblate wild melons among the weeds in Nanshan. She picked it back and cooked it for her parents. The parents' appetite increased greatly and their health improved. Miss Huanghua planted melon seeds in the ground, and the next year, they really took root and sprouted, and many round melons came out. Because they were picked from Nanshan, they were called pumpkins. From then on, every year on August 15th, every household in the south of the Yangtze River has a custom of eating old pumpkins and cooking glutinous rice in August and a half.
Three taboos for eating crabs in Mid-Autumn Festival Experts remind four parts not to eat.
Many people enjoy eating crabs before eating, but feel uncomfortable after eating. Everyone knows that crabs have high nutritional value, high protein content, and are nutritious and delicious, so it is inevitable that people will overeat. As everyone knows, it is precisely because of the high protein content of crabs that it is not easy to decompose and absorb, which leads to gastrointestinal changes, such as diarrhea and recurrence of gastritis. Crab-eating tonic is just a nutritional misunderstanding, because short-term seasonal nutrition has little nourishing effect on the body. On the contrary, the taboo of eating crabs has to be highly valued.
First of all, dead crabs can't be eaten. Once crabs die, the substances produced by their protein decomposition will lead to allergic reactions, such as vomiting, diarrhea and urticaria, and serious allergic reactions will even be life-threatening. If you can't finish eating the crabs overnight, you must keep them in a clean, cool and ventilated place. When you eat them, you must return to the pot and cook them thoroughly. Others like to eat raw crabs and drunk crabs. This way of eating is very dangerous, which can easily induce paragonimiasis, cause cough and hemoptysis, and even cause paralysis if pathogens enter the brain.
Secondly, there are four parts of the crab that cannot be eaten. Crab gills are the respiratory organs of crabs, which are dirty inside, and should be removed first after opening crab shells. There is crab excrement in the crab intestine; The crab's stomach is hidden in the triangle bag of crab yellow, and there are also crab excrement; Crab heart is also called crab hexagonal plate. This thing is hard to find in crab yellow, but it is hexagonal and looks conspicuous. In addition, crab meat should not be eaten too much, and eating too much will lead to diarrhea.
Finally, eating crabs should not be combined with some things, such as eating crabs with the same food, eating crabs and drinking beer, which are taboo. Also, crabs are cold, so they can't be eaten with cold drinks. Otherwise, it will aggravate the stomach cold and lead to diarrhea. At the same time, they can't be eaten with tea, because tea also contains a lot of tannins, which can solidify nutrients into indigestible substances. Therefore, it is best not to drink tea before and after eating crabs 1 hour.
Tips: The Mid-Autumn Festival is a good time to officially eat crabs. Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs are particularly popular this year, so there are many fake "Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs" on the market, so you must recognize the logo when buying, and don't buy dead crabs. To avoid diarrhea, vomiting, etc.