"Flat food" is another name for jiaozi, a traditional Chinese food. In the northwest, jiaozi is eaten at the age of 31 on New Year's Day. And in most areas of our country, we will eat jiaozi on the winter solstice. The production process of jiaozi is relatively simple. When jiaozi or "flat food" is made, it is divided into "dumpling skin" and dumpling stuffing. Wheat flour is the best choice for dumpling skin. Especially winter wheat flour. Use warm water for the river. Then stir, stir evenly, and then knead the dough with words, and after kneading for a while, carry out the most technical rolling link. Good dumpling wrappers must be rolled thin and thin. The thin dumpling skin is transparent after boiling in the pot. The color of the tempting stuffing inside shows up. It makes people's appetite increase greatly.
Next, let's look at the dumpling stuffing. Dumplings are divided into many kinds. Generally speaking, it can be divided into meat stuffing and vegetable stuffing. Of course, most of the time, there are few jiaozi with pure meat stuffing and pure vegetable stuffing. Usually vegetables and meat are mixed together. Usually, jiaozi is popular with leek stuffing, Chinese cabbage stuffing and beef jiaozi. Why is jiaozi called "flat food" again? Maybe this is different from the way of making "flat food" and "jiaozi". "Flat food" has a flat shape. You can dip it in dip or mix it with soup.
and jiaozi looks like an ingot. After cooking, it is white and fat. Some people like to call this round jiaozi "jiaozi", while jiaozi, whose appearance is flat, is called "flat food". No matter "flat food" or jiaozi. Eating and doing are the same. In the past, when living conditions were not very good, "flat food" could be said to be a luxury. It would be the best thing in the world to have a flat meal. So, I still eat jiaozi every New Year. When I was a child, I had a flat meal, which was a childhood memory of many people. As a representative of Chinese traditional cuisine, flat food bears many memories of Chinese people. It also contains many dietary concepts of China people. Let's have a meal in jiaozi with my family sometime. Eat our "flat food". (The picture comes from the Internet, and the copyright comes from the Internet. )