The rest of my life is too late to be ignorant. Except for Xie's satirical record of "eating fried rice with eggs", the rest in "Food Book" are handed down from generation to generation. To be honest, at least in books like The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, The Story of Yangzhou's Original Boat and even Duke of Lushan, I haven't smelled the legendary sweetness of this bowl of fried rice with eggs.
The main ingredients of Yangzhou fried rice are 500g of white rice and 4 grass eggs. The ingredients include 20g of sea cucumber, 30g of cooked grass chicken leg, 0g of cooked refined ham10g, 50g of scallop10g, 50g of mud lake shrimp, 20g of mushrooms, 30g of cooked fresh bamboo shoots and 0g of green beans10g. The seasoning includes leek powder 10g, lake shrimp seed 1g, refined salt 6g, Shaoxing wine 6g, chicken soup 10g, and salad oil 60g.
Yangzhou fried rice, also known as Yangzhou fried rice with eggs, is said to have originated from the fried rice with eggs, which was loved by Su Yang, King of Yue in Sui Dynasty. When Yang Di visited Jiangdu (now Yangzhou), fried rice with eggs was introduced to Yangzhou. Through the gradual innovation of cooking masters of past dynasties, Huaiyang cuisine with the characteristics of "strict selection of materials, fine production, exquisite processing, attention to color matching and original flavor" has finally developed into one of the famous staple foods with Huaiyang flavor. Yangzhou fried rice is famous all over the world. According to foreign friends, many foreigners like to eat Yangzhou fried rice, but they don't know what Yangzhou is all about. In their minds, Yangzhou is not a place name, but is mistaken for this kind of fried rice.
There are many kinds of fried rice in Yangzhou, such as "gold wrapped with silver", "fried rice with assorted eggs" and "fried rice with vegetables".
The so-called "gold-coated silver" is to wrap a layer of golden eggs on the outer layer of rice grains. Its practice is: first put the rice into a pot and stir fry, and then evenly wrap the broken egg liquid around the rice. The fried rice in this way has a golden yellow outer layer and a white inner layer.
Assorted fried rice with eggs is the most typical variety of Yangzhou fried rice. It has many ingredients, such as eggs, sea cucumber, ham, green beans, shrimp, pork tenderloin, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, chopped green onion and so on. When making, fry the eggs first, then fry other ingredients, add clear soup and salt to adjust the taste and put them away for later use. Then start frying rice until the rice grains are clear and there are no lake spots. Finally, pour half of the fried eggs and other ingredients into the pot, stir well, and then put two-thirds on the pot. Then stir the remaining ingredients with the rice in the pot and cover the fried rice in the pot. The fried rice made in this way is very beautiful, and there are many ingredients on it. It's really delicious and can be seen!