What is a potted vegetable?
Pot dish is a Hakka dish mixed with more than a dozen ingredients, which originated from the traditional dishes of Hakka Wai Village in Yuen Long, New Territories, Hong Kong, and the eating customs of Shenzhen and New Territories, Hong Kong. "Big Pot Cuisine" used to be called "birds return to their nests", but later it spread throughout Hong Kong and Shenzhen, becoming a kind of Guangfu cuisine. Pot dishes are the highlight of Guangfu's New Year's Eve dinner every year. Legend has it that Zhao Yu, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, escaped from the pursuit of Jin Bing and fell into trouble in Yuen Long, Hong Kong. At that time, the villagers learned that the emperor was coming and contributed food, which became a unique feast for the police in Hakka traditional culture.
Pot cuisine is a famous dish of Han nationality with full color and flavor, belonging to Hakka cuisine of Cantonese cuisine. It has a history of more than 700 years and is a traditional dish for family reunion in Hakka areas. It is also considered to be the peak of Hakka New Year cuisine. It is said that pot dishes originated in the late Southern Song Dynasty and have a history of hundreds of years. They are a kind of chowder dishes. Traditional potted vegetables are served in wooden pots or brocade pots. On festive occasions, such as the occupation of new homes, the opening of ancestral temples or the lighting of New Year's lights, villages in the New Territories will hold potted vegetable banquets.
Pot dishes, a traditional dish originated from the village of Wai in Yuen Long, can contain hundreds of dishes and flavors in one pot, and the basic principle is "harmony and flavor". In the past, when there were festive events in the countryside, they were equipped with wooden benches and heated with charcoal in an open place. Everyone gathered around the hot pots and vegetables and celebrated while tasting them. People like to eat potted vegetables on holidays, and potted vegetables have the meaning of celebration and reunion.
How to cook potted vegetables?
PS: It's too complicated. There is no special regulation on the materials used to buy ready-made potted vegetables, but they usually include radish, bamboo shoots, squid, pigskin, mushrooms, chicken, scaly fish balls and mosquito pork. At present, many potted vegetables are more likely to include gelatin, prawns, Nostoc flagelliforme, dried limbs and scaly pork. Among them, mosquito pork is the essence of the whole pot dish, and it is also the most time-consuming production.
(It takes three days to cook the ancient potted dishes, and it takes a long time to cook the modern potted dishes. ) The food of potted vegetables will be arranged layer by layer in a certain order from top to bottom. The upper floor will put some more expensive things that need to be eaten first, such as chicken and prawns; At the bottom, put some materials that are easy to absorb juice, such as pigskin and radish. When you eat potted vegetables, you will eat them layer by layer from top to bottom. Although traditionally, potted vegetables are held in wooden pots, most of them have been replaced by metal pots or ceramic pots to facilitate heating and disinfection before eating.
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