First, the food for dinner
1, glutinous dumplings
On the Lantern Festival, southerners eat glutinous rice balls, mainly praying for the whole family to be round and round. The glutinous rice used for making glutinous rice balls is flat in nature and sweet in taste, and has the functions of tonifying deficiency, regulating blood, invigorating spleen and appetizing, benefiting qi and stopping diarrhea, and has the functions of warming the middle warmer, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness. In addition, the conventional stuffing of all kinds of glutinous rice balls is mainly fruit and dried fruit, including sesame, walnut and peanut, plus vegetable oil. What is the nutritional value? To the next level? . Boiling dumplings in water is the simplest way, but also the healthiest way to eat them.
2. Lantern Festival
On the Lantern Festival, northerners want to eat Yuanxiao. Speaking of Yuanxiao, many people think that glutinous rice balls are Yuanxiao. In fact, Yuanxiao and Tangyuan are actually two things, although there is little difference in raw materials and appearance. The most essential difference lies in the production process. Making glutinous rice balls is relatively simple. Generally, glutinous rice flour is mixed with water to make skin, and then the stuffing is added. Bag? Good is good. The making of Yuanxiao is much more complicated: firstly, the dough needs to be mixed, and the solidified stuffing is cut into small pieces. After being watered once, it is thrown into a basket filled with glutinous rice flour and rolled, while sprinkling water until the stuffing is covered with glutinous rice flour and rolled into a ball.
3. Lettuce
Do Cantonese people like it during the Lantern Festival? Steal? Picking lettuce and cooking it with cakes are said to represent good luck. Cantonese people are calm and down-to-earth, and they have the best intentions for festivals. Lettuce, which is most commonly used in festive occasions such as the opening of new stores, is also an essential holiday item for the Lantern Festival. Lettuce, which often becomes a common vegetable in the southern dining table, has the same name as? Making money? Homophonic, so it is also regarded as a symbol of wealth and good fortune.
4. Lantern Festival tea
In Shaanxi and other places, there is a custom of eating Yuanxiao tea, that is, putting all kinds of vegetables and fruits in hot soup noodles, much like in ancient times? Yuanxiao porridge? . This tea increases the intake of cellulose, minerals and vitamins, and is not as greasy as ordinary Yuanxiao. It has a neutralizing effect on the acidic constitution caused by eating more animal food in festivals, and also makes Yuanxiao more comprehensive in nutrition.
5. Camellia oleifera
Eating on the night of the Lantern Festival? Fifteen flat, sixteen round? Eat jiaozi one day and Yuanxiao one day; What about the mountains? Fifteen dozen camellia oleifera and sixteen pinch flat food? . Exactly what is called? Different customs in ten miles? . Making tea is to stir the tea noodles with chopsticks to make camellia oleifera, also known as noodle tea.
6. Oil hammer
In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, rice porridge or bean porridge with gravy was used as the festive food for the Lantern Festival. However, this food is mainly used for sacrifices, and it is not a holiday food. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that Zheng Wangzhi's Record of the Chef recorded:? Dieting in the middle of the year, putting on an oil hammer. ? The method of making an oil hammer is similar to the fried Yuanxiao of future generations, according to a record in Shangshi Order quoted from Taiping Guangji and Lushi Miscellanies. Some people call it? Oil painting pearl? .
Second, the Lantern Festival dinner menu
Braised mushrooms with braised pork
Ingredients: 500g pork belly, 5 mushrooms, star anise 1 piece, 5 shallots, 3 slices of ginger and a little cooking wine.
Seasoning: soy sauce, soy sauce, salt, crystal sugar and chicken essence.
Practice:
1, pork belly is washed and soaked in water with a little cooking wine 10 to 20 minutes, then cut into small pieces.
2, put a small amount of oil in the pot, stir-fry the pork belly in a small fire.
3. Fry both sides, stir-fry the fat oil, and pour out the fried fat oil.
4. Add ginger slices, stir fry, pour in appropriate amount of soy sauce for coloring, and season with a small amount of soy sauce.
5. Add star anise, onion and appropriate amount of rock sugar, pour in boiling water without meat, boil it and turn to low heat for slow stew.
6. Wash the mushrooms and cut them into pieces.
7. When the meat is stewed to 80% maturity, add the mushrooms and stew them all the time.
8, stew until the meat is soft and rotten, when the soup is concentrated, add the right amount of salt and chicken essence to adjust the taste.
Drunk ribs
1. Chop pork chop into small pieces about 1 inch long, mix well with yellow wine and salt, and then mix well with proper amount of cornflour and water.
2. Mix soy sauce, sugar, vinegar and yellow wine, garlic and chopped green onion into juice for later use.
3. Heat the pan, oil it, and when it is half ripe, put the pork chops into the oil pan one by one, fry until crusted, remove the adhesion, and pick up the minced meat. When the oil temperature rises to 70%, fry the pork chops in the pan again until the shell is crisp, remove them, and put them into a slightly larger bowl (for mixing seasoning).
4. Quickly pour the prepared juice into the fried spareribs, continuously stir evenly, and serve _ cooked sesame seeds.
knack for cooking
The ribs should be fried and crisp, and it is not easy to soften after adding the marinade. It is not allowed to thicken the marinade with the seasoning. Be sure to quickly mix the prepared juice into the fried ribs, so that they can be wrapped on the surface of the raw materials and taste delicious. This is also a unique drunkenness method in Fuzhou.
Third, the precautions for eating glutinous rice balls
1, Tangyuan is a refined white staple food.
To put it simply, glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao are foods mainly made of glutinous rice and sugar. Besides refined glutinous rice flour containing a lot of starch, there is also a lot of sugar in the stuffing. Therefore, from the classification, it should be regarded as a staple food. The so-called staple food is a food rich in carbohydrates, especially starch. This kind of food is made of glutinous rice, and it is very fine glutinous rice flour with very, very little fiber, which belongs to refined white staple food and does not belong to coarse grains.
Suggestion 1: If you eat glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao, you must reduce the number of staple foods accordingly. Generally speaking, the glutinous rice flour used for three Yuanxiao is equivalent to the rice used for 1 two rice.
2. Tangyuan has high oil content.
The fillings of glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao not only contain sugar, but also contain quite a lot of solid oil. Rice and steamed bread are almost fat-free, but glutinous rice balls are not. The oil in the stuffing is even more than sugar. Traditionally, lard is used to make dumplings. In the south, lard and meat are used to make salty dumplings, and lard and various nuts are used to make sweet dumplings. Later, products using butter were developed, but from the perspective of saturated fat, the content was even higher than that of lard. In recent years, the new fashion is to replace butter and lard with vegetable cream, or hydrogenated vegetable oil products, but the health effects brought by this product are much worse than lard and butter.
Sesame, peanuts, nuts and chocolate are all high-fat raw materials. Plus the oil mixed with stuffing, the total amount is really considerable. At present, dumplings with big stuffing tend to replace dumplings with small stuffing, and the solid oil in dumplings is more than that in bean paste, hawthorn and wuren stuffing in the north. Almost one-third to one-half of a mouthful of dumplings is oil. Eating three glutinous rice balls is equivalent to eating 1 plate of cooking oil.
Suggestion 2: If you eat glutinous rice balls, you must eat less oil at dinner or on the same day. Otherwise, too much fat and calories are inevitable.
3. The nutritional value of chocolate stuffing is low.
There are also some good things in the stuffing, that is, sesame seeds, peanuts and all kinds of nuts, as well as red bean paste. Nut raw materials have high nutritional value, and bean paste also contains a lot of protein and minerals. In contrast, chocolate stuffing has the lowest nutritional value. It is likely that cocoa butter and chocolate-flavored spices are put in it, and the so-called creamy dumplings have similar problems. As for the glutinous rice balls filled with salty meat, there is more oil and little merit.
Recommendation 3: Preference should be given to dumplings with nuts, sesame seeds, bean paste and other fillings.