The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and a joke is popular again:

The young man asked the Zen master, "Wang, Ma Rong, Chen He are all single and the stars are shining. Why can't we be together? " The Zen master took out a dish of sesame, a dish of peanuts, a dish of melon seeds, a dish of walnuts and a dish of almonds for the young people to taste, and asked him, "Is it delicious?" The youth nodded his head. The Zen master also took out a five-kernel moon cake for young people to taste. When the young people finished vomiting, they suddenly realized ...

This passage has been circulated for many years, with Faye Wong, Li, Zhou Xun and others constantly changing supporting roles. However, the only unchanging protagonist "Wuren Mooncake" still stands, which can be described as a leader in the world of bad food.

Whether Wuren moon cakes are delicious or not has always been a controversial topic among educated youth. The only thing that is certain is that Wuren moon cake is really the pinnacle of China's cooking interpretation of "icing on the cake"-the moon cake is already high in oil and fat, especially because the oil is not enough, so nuts with high oil content are added. This kind of treatment will undoubtedly lead to a sharp increase in calories, and eventually become a strong sense of fullness and satisfaction, which is why some people think that Wuren is "super full and chewy" and some people feel "tired".

It may be hard for everyone to agree that the five kernels are made into mooncake stuffing, but as the Zen master said, these five things taste good. What can I do without mooncakes?

The five kernel oil tea in Shanxi tastes good. This kind of food, which is both ornamental, fragrant and delicious, brings the advantages of five kernels "oil" to the extreme. The local people showed me how to make five-kernel camellia oleifera: peanuts, sesame seeds, walnuts, almonds and melon seeds were crushed and fried in oil with steamed flour. Vegetable oil or lard is also acceptable, but bovine bone marrow oil is the most fragrant. Add salt and fennel in this process. The master of fried noodles is very skilled. The shovel flew up and down, and a pot of powder rose and fell quickly, but not a grain fell outside the pot.

Stir-fry for more than ten minutes, and the flour turns yellow, which is refined camellia oleifera. It can be preserved for one month without preservatives. But it's best to eat fresh food. Pour three or four spoonfuls of fried noodles and a pot of boiling water on your head, and the smell of nuts and fennel will come out immediately. Stir it a little and it will become a thin paste. Take a sip, it's oily and fragrant, much better than black sesame paste. Living in Shanxi, you can only eat pasta for a week. A bowl of this five-kernel camellia oil tea for breakfast is of course a kind of pasta dinner.

Yangzhou's Wuren fried rice is also worth mentioning. The traditional Yangzhou fried rice is nothing more than the assorted fried rice with ham, shrimp, mushrooms and green beans. If it's made at home, it won't taste much worse as long as it costs money. But one year, when I was in Yangzhou, a local chef invited me to eat a plate of "five-kernel fried rice", but it was a rare thing. Rice is made of Jiangsu indica rice overnight, which ensures low water content. Peanut kernel, coix seed, chestnut kernel, sesame seed and almond are added instead of the traditional "five kernels". It is said that it is a good color of "benevolence, courtesy and wisdom", but this combination does have its own uniqueness.

Such a plate of fried rice with five kernels, no onions, no eggs, only a little salad oil, fragrant. If you eat it in one bite, you can feel the crunchy feeling, which sets off the inestimable "fragrant pine" of fried rice. The powder of chestnut kernel and the glutinous of coix seed add a three-dimensional taste, and everyone who has eaten it will give a thumbs up.

But the closest to Wuren mooncake is Wuren Ningbo Tangyuan. Only sesame seeds, sweet-scented osmanthus and lard are put in the orthodox Ningbo dumplings, which is called "lard hemp heart". However, in the past, when entertaining important guests, if jiaozi was included in the last dessert of the banquet, peanuts, almonds, melon seeds and other broken nuts were added to the stuffing, and green and HongLing were added to show their attention.

This kind of glutinous rice balls, in fact, tastes no different from hemp heart, but if you chew them slowly, you will get the compound taste of nuts and the fruity aroma of green and red ribbons. Although adding sugar to oil is debatable in terms of calories and health, it doesn't hurt to eat more in order to taste good.

In fact, the famous Shanghai dish "Sauced Fried Ding" also has a five-kernel version. Instead of bamboo shoots and dried tofu, it is a good dish to drink with nuts such as peanuts and sesame seeds, diced tenderloin and soy sauce. You can drink a plate of old wine in the evening and cook some noodles the next day, which is rich and refreshing, delicious and delicious.

Produced by | Shiwei Yiwenzhi (micro signal: SWyiwenzhi)

Author | Wei (micro signal: qyqy 1 18)