Beginning of winter eats celery, beef stuffing, jiaozi, radish and mutton stuffing, and jiaozi.

First, celery beef stuffing

Formula: celery, beef, ginger, pepper water, salt, spiced powder, oyster sauce, soy sauce and edible oil.

1. Beat beef into paste, chop ginger, mix the two, then pour pepper water and stir well.

2. Take beef stuffing, add salt, allspice powder, oyster sauce and soy sauce, and stir well for later use. Take out celery leaves, clean them, chop them up, hold them tightly, dry the water, then mix them into the beef stuffing, finally burn some hot oil to cool them, pour them into the beef stuffing, and stir them thoroughly to make jiaozi.

Second, carrot and mutton stuffing

Formula: mutton, carrot, onion ginger, pepper water, salt, white pepper powder, spiced powder, soy sauce, pepper oil/edible oil.

1. Cut the mutton into small pieces, put them in a meat grinder and grind them into minced meat. Cut onion and ginger into powder, and then shred carrot.

2. Mix mutton with minced onion and ginger, add pepper water and stir well. Then add the right amount of salt, white pepper, spiced powder and soy sauce. Mix well, pour in carrots, and finally add some pepper oil or cooking oil and mix well.

On jiaozi's Folk Culture

Winter solstice people regard jiaozi as holiday food, not on New Year's Eve, but on the winter solstice.

In Song Dynasty, Jin Yingzhi wrote "Talking about intoxicating April and November": "The capital is divided into three major festivals: cold food, winter solstice and New Year's Day. It has been a long time since the cold food to the solstice of winter, so many people ask each other questions. This custom, I will wait until I am old or lack of financial resources. There is a saying that winter is fat and years are thin. Guy said that people are everywhere in winter, except at night. People eat more wonton every day, so there is a saying that wonton is delicious in winter. As the saying goes in Kaifeng, the soles of leather shoes are broken after the Spring Festival. Squeeze the wonton, one bite at a time. "

This is the explanation recorded in the literature for eating wonton in winter. Later, because jiaozi and wonton were often confused, some areas changed to eat wonton as jiaozi. As the saying goes, there is a saying in the winter solstice that jiaozi's bowl is improper, and no one cares if his ears are frozen off. The legend of Zhang Zhongjing is also related to the custom of eating wonton in winter, but this legend can not be confirmed in the literature.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Jiaozi