Huangyuan rice fruit was originally processed from rice. It is yellow, fragrant and soft. After 1960s, refined japonica rice was mainly used, and the processing process was complicated. Now all the parts are made by machines, and Huangyuan rice fruit will be listed in the twelfth lunar month every year. To make Huangyuan rice fruit, firstly filter it into grey water with Huangyuan firewood ash and boiling water, then cool the rice and soak it overnight, steam it into rice with retort the next day, then mix the rice with grey water, spread it out to dry, steam it, put it into a big mortar, mash it into balls with a hard wooden stick, rub it evenly by hand and cut it into various shapes of rice fruit. Because of the tedious work, it is often necessary to help relatives and friends before starting work. After the popularization of machine-made yellow rice fruits, there are still a few families who make yellow rice fruits by hand in winter. The prepared yellow rice fruit is yellow and delicious, usually soaked in gray water and hidden in a jar, which can be preserved until the next summer. Some are chopped and dried, and then fried with sand or sleeves to make various types of fruits. It has the characteristics of soft, delicious, fresh smell and long shelf life.
Golden and delicious yellow rice fruit
Huangyuan Miguo, also known as Huangmiguo, Huangzan and Guo Huang, originated in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty. It is a Hakka specialty snack. Gannan, eastern Guangdong, western Fujian, Taiwan Province Province and scattered Hakka areas all have the tradition of making edible yellow rice fruits. Huangyuan rice fruit is somewhat similar to the rice cake in the north, but in terms of appearance and color, the former is as golden as its name, while the latter is white; In taste, the former is rich in flavor and the latter is light; In the production process, Huangyuan rice fruit is much more complicated than rice cake.
After the autumn harvest every year, Hakkas begin to prepare. First, they should prepare many branches and leaves of Vitex negundo (a medicinal shrub widely distributed in southern Jiangxi) to dry, then burn them to obtain ashes, and then filter them into "grey water", that is, alkaline water. Then take japonica rice and glutinous rice, add appropriate amount of Gardenia, and soak them in gray water. The best rice for making yellow rice fruit is "Dahe rice", but few people grow Dahe rice, so a certain proportion of japonica rice and glutinous rice are improved and used instead.
Here I want to focus on Gardenia. Gardenia is an evergreen shrub. Because of its fragrant flowers, it has been cultivated as a courtyard greening variety in many places. Gardenia can be used for cooking, and its mature dried fruit is traditional Chinese medicine. Gardenia jasminoides Ellis is a kind of natural pigment besides medicine. Gardenia yellow is a natural pigment extracted from dried gardenia fruit, which is the secret of the unique golden color of Huangyuan rice fruit. Earlier, this plant was rarely cultivated artificially. If villagers meet gardenia trees in Shan Ye, they will cherish and remember the address, and pick this rare gardenia when the fruit is ripe. Without this opportunity, they will have to spend money to buy it. Besides being used as glutinous rice fruit, many Hakka traditional handmade foods need to be dyed with it. However, with the development of the times, although there are many places where gardenia tree is cultivated artificially, how can it be more easily obtained and cheaper than chemically synthesized pigments? This natural pigment is slowly forgotten.
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Composition:
Ingredients: Huangyuan rice fruit: 500 grams; ; Meat: 250g
Accessories: oil, salt, Chinese cabbage, soy sauce.
Steps:
1. Slice the rice,
2. Wash the cabbage and cut it into sections.
Cut the meat well
4. Heat oil in the pot, first add the meat and stir fry.
5. add Chinese cabbage, it is best to fry it for a while before putting the leaves.
Step 6 pour in yellow rice fruit
7. Add some soy sauce and salt and stir fry.
8. Add pickled peppers (pickled peppers unique to Gannan yellow rice wine), but you can't replace them with fresh peppers.
9. Stir well, and the rice fruit can be cooked when it becomes soft.
Tips:
Huangyuan rice fruit is ripe, so it doesn't need to be fried for too long. It is easy to soften when it is hot. As long as it becomes soft, it can be cooked.