Assorted vegetables are a unique vegetarian dish in Nanjing and belong to Jinling cuisine. They are also called Shijing dishes, Shiyang dishes, and vegetarian dishes.

Usually stir-fried with no less than 10 kinds of vegetables such as soybean sprouts, celery, prickly ash, carrot shreds, lotus root slices, day lily, shiitake mushrooms, fungus, etc. People who are more particular will choose 16 or 19 kinds. Planting vegetables has the meaning of "lasting peace and prosperity". Assorted vegetables are a unique New Year food custom of Nanjing people in the past. As long as they have time, every household will stir-fry vegetarian vegetables lively on New Year's Eve or one or two days before New Year's Eve. Eat until the tenth day of the first lunar month.

More than ten kinds of vegetables also have their own explanations. The shape of soybean sprouts is like "Ruyi", which means "everything goes well"; the sound of shepherd's purse is like "accumulation of wealth", which means attracting wealth; the pronunciation of celery is similar to "diligence", so " It means "get rich through hard work"; the potherb root means prosperity; the shredded carrots symbolize the New Year; the shape of the lotus root slices means "the road is smooth"; the day lily means the Mood for Love and the bright future; the pea leaves are the symbol of late winter and early spring. The popular wild vegetables mean "spring blooms on the branches"; shiitake mushrooms mean "harmony and beauty".

Cooking process:

1. Soak day lily in boiling water until soft and extract yellow water, wash in cold water and cut into sections. Cut the vegetarian sausage into thick slices with a horizontal knife. Cut the bamboo shoots into pieces with an axe. Soak the tofu clothes in water until soft, tear off the hard edges and cut into triangular pieces. Cut out gluten.

2. Heat the wok over high heat, add oil and heat it until it is 80% hot. Add in all the ingredients except the chicken feathers, pour in an appropriate amount of water, and stir-fry until the water comes out. Add soy sauce. , sugar, monosodium glutamate, and refined salt, stir-fry until the color changes, add fresh vegetable soup and bring to a boil, cover and simmer over low heat for 3 minutes, then turn to high heat, add chicken feathers, bring to a boil, thicken with wet starch, and pour on Heat oil, stir in the gravy repeatedly with a spoon, then heat the oil and beat until the gravy is swollen and shiny, add sesame oil and mix.

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Assorted Vegetables