New Year's cakes are a must-have snack and delicacy for Ningbo people during the New Year. Ningbo is rich in New Year's cakes, especially Cicheng's. Recently, the new year's cakes produced in Ninghai are soft, waxy and delicious. Many people think that the new year's cakes are made of glutinous rice, but they are not. It is a rice product. At most, some glutinous rice can be added to make the new year's cakes softer.
Just like northerners eat pasta, southerners prefer rice products, while Ningbo people especially like rice cakes. A bowl of rice cake soup can be both sweet and salty. On holidays, it also means "eating rice cakes". In the past, chickens were killed on New Year's Eve to treat people to dinner on the first day of the first month, and chicken soup was used to burn rice cake soup on New Year's Eve. The "green vegetable juice rice cake soup" was delicious and was a good memory of my childhood.
rice cakes are cheap, and they are also our favorite snacks in ordinary days. In the morning, rice cake soup and fried rice cakes in the evening, especially when I want to make a simple pot, I often make a bowl of rice cake soup, with rich and frugal ingredients, seafood and meat, or casually turning over pickles and eggs in the refrigerator, which can make a delicious rice cake soup.
Today, Cocoa will share three methods of rice cake soup that I often eat when I am alone, because if I make fried rice cakes, it is delicious, but it is also dry, and I will have to cook another soup. If it is made into rice cake soup, all the soup will be alive. With a pot of rice cake soup, I can watch a whole TV series. Isn't it beautiful?
[ Portunus Portunus Sauerkraut Rice Cake Soup ]
Ingredients: 2g Portunus Portunus, 25g Handmade Rice Cake, 2 tablespoons Sauerkraut
Accessories: 2g oil, 2 red peppers, 2 slices of ginger and a section of onion
Steps: 1. Remove the belly of Portunus Portunus, cut into pieces for later use, and live crabs are the best, but live crabs for the New Year.
2. Wash the rice cake slices with clear water for later use;
3. Stir-fry shredded ginger peppers with cold oil in a hot pan, and add two tablespoons of sauerkraut to stir-fry until fragrant
4. Add crab pieces to stir-fry until fragrant, add 2 bowls of water, and add rice cake slices after the water is boiled;
5. You can cook the rice cake at your own time. Generally, you can cook the rice cake slices until they are soft. I like to cook them for a long time, so that the rice cake slices are soft and waxy, and they will vibrate when clamped.
[ shredded pork soup with pickled cabbage ]
Ingredients: handmade rice cake 25g, pickled cabbage 12g, leg meat 8g
Accessories: lard 3g, 2 shallots, and appropriate amount of salt
Practice: 1. Slice the rice cake evenly, and rinse the rice cake slices in water with the help of cutting tools.
2. Cut the leg meat into shredded pork, and dice the shallots for later use. This rice cake soup is made of lard, which is very fragrant. You should cook it well in advance. You might as well cook it with fat in winter. If not, you can only use ordinary cooking oil.
3. Add lard to the hot pot to melt, add scallions and saute until fragrant, add shredded pork and stir-fry until fragrant, and then add pickled cabbage to stir-fry until the lard fragrance fully penetrates into the pickled cabbage.
4. add 12-15 ml of cold water, cover and boil, add rice cake slices, and cook for about 5 minutes after boiling until the rice cake slices are soft and waxy.
Tip: Snow dishes are different in salt and light. I cooked them myself by the farmer, and added some salt to taste them.
[ Green vegetable and mushroom rice cake soup ]
Ingredients: 2g rice cakes, 5g mushrooms, 3g green vegetables
Accessories: 3g oil, a little salt, 1g oyster sauce
Steps: 1. Slice the rice cakes and keep them in clean water. Remove the stalks and slice the mushrooms, and cut the vegetables into sections and serve them.
2. Add a little more oil to the hot pot and stir-fry the sliced mushrooms, because the mushrooms absorb oil and this bowl of rice cake soup is pure;
3. Stir-fry the shiitake mushrooms until soft, then add the vegetable stalks, then add the vegetable leaves, and add water until soft.
4. After the water is boiled, add rice cake slices, boil it again, then cook it on low heat for 3 minutes, and add salt to taste;
5. Add a teaspoon of oyster sauce to taste;
6. A plain bowl of rice cake soup, eaten while it is hot, is very delicious, much better than takeout.