Snow-clothed bean paste belongs to Ji cuisine (Northeastern cuisine). It has a history of hundreds of years and is very popular among tourists. It is round in shape and white in color. It is sprinkled with sugar before eating, so it is called this. Today, we Let’s talk about the snowy bean paste!
The historical origin of snow-coated bean paste:
As everyone knows, snow-coated bean paste is one of the Han-style dishes in Northeast China. The main ingredient of this dish is bean paste, supplemented with egg paste, and is made using the deep-fried cooking method. The finished product is soft and full, round in shape and white in color, like cotton bolls. It's a very good sweet.
About a hundred years ago, there was a poor scholar whose family was destitute. Poor and have nothing. There was an old mother. One day, the old mother was very ill. The scholar asked, "Mother, what would you like to eat?" My mother replied, I haven't eaten meat for a long time and now I want to eat something sweet and oily. The scholar had no choice but to go to a pawn shop to pawn his cotton-padded jacket and walk in the cold wind. He bought half a catty of noodles, bean paste, and soy oil. He remembered that his mother wanted to eat meat, and he was so anxious that he had no choice. It happened that he came to a rich family who was throwing out a net of pork net oil. The scholar was as rich as a treasure. He went home and wrapped the pork net oil with bean paste and fried it with flour. I gave it to my mother, and soon she got better.
Home-style recipe for snow-coated bean paste:
Ingredients: 150g of bean paste, 6 egg whites, dry starch, flour, white sugar, and cooked lard.
1. Knead the bean paste filling into small balls of even size,
2. Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks,
3. Add starch and flour and mix Evenly form a protein paste,
4. Use a round spoon of suitable size to fill the protein paste, put the bean paste ball in the middle, and wrap it with the protein paste,
5. After the oil in the pot is hot , put in the protein balls, fry until light yellow, the oil temperature should not be too high,
6. After frying, put it on a plate, sprinkle an appropriate amount of sugar to make the snow-coated bean paste, a beautiful legend, one bite at a time, What you can feel is the deep love, the love for your mother, the charm of food, not only the delicious food, but also the deep love! As we all know, snow-coated bean paste is one of the Han-style dishes in Northeast China. The main ingredient of this dish is bean paste, supplemented with egg paste, and is made using the deep-fried cooking method. The finished product is soft and full, round in shape and white in color, like cotton bolls. It's a very good sweet.
But it has a very touching story.
About a hundred years ago, there was a poor scholar whose family was destitute. Poor and have nothing. There was an old mother. One day, the old mother became very ill.
The scholar asked, mother, what would you like to eat? My mother replied, I haven’t eaten meat for a long time and now I want to eat something sweet and oily.
The scholar had no choice but to go to a pawn shop to pawn his cotton-padded jacket and walk in the cold wind. He bought half a catty of noodles, bean paste, and soy oil.
He remembered that his mother wanted to eat meat, and he was so anxious that he had no choice. It happened that he came to a rich family who was throwing out a net of pork net oil. The scholar was as rich as a treasure. He went home and wrapped the pork net oil with bean paste and fried it with flour.
I gave it to my mother, and soon she got better.
Later, this practice spread in Xiucai High School, and people gave it a nice name, Xueyi Bean Paste.