On the winter solstice on December 22, the old man said, "If you don't eat 4 things, you won't enter the door", don't forget the old tradition
The winter solstice, also known as the "Winter Festival" and "He Dong", is one of the 24 qi in China, the first day of the number nine, is the shortest day of the year, the longest day of the night, and the day when the yin pole and the yang energy begin. The ancients regarded the winter solstice as "the day of good fortune", and the folk called the winter solstice "a small year", on December 22, we ushered in the winter solstice, and the old people at home said that "4 things are not on the table, and the blessing does not enter the door", the old tradition should not forget, pray for the family to bless Naji and increase longevity.
Dumplings are shaped like ingots, which is a symbol of auspiciousness, and eating dumplings on the winter solstice means "attracting wealth and entering treasure". Dumplings have fillings, which make it easy for people to wrap all kinds of auspicious things into the filling to convey people's hopes and prayers for the new year.
Recommended recipe: lamb stuffed dumplings
Ingredients: 400 grams of flour;500 grams of minced mutton;1 red pepper and 1 green pepper;1 green onion;3 tablespoons of soy sauce;2 tablespoons of oyster sauce;1 scoop of light soy sauce;Olive oil, five spices, ginger, cooking wine.
Method: Add an appropriate amount of water to the flour, and cover the dough with plastic wrap.
Peel and chop the green onion and ginger, wash and chop the red and green chili peppers, put all the prepared ingredients into a basin, first add 1 tablespoon of cooking wine and stir evenly to remove the smell, then add five-spice powder, add 3 tablespoons of Weijixian soy sauce, 2 tablespoons of oyster sauce, 1 tablespoon of light soy sauce, and stir in one direction. Add a little salt to the mouth, and finally add an appropriate amount of olive oil and stir well to lock in moisture.
Dumplings: Knead the dough into long strips, evenly divide it into a number of small dough ingredients, take a dough and roll it into a dumpling skin, wrap it with mutton filling, and knead it into dumplings with both hands.
Boiling dumplings: After the water in the pot is boiled, put in the dumplings, add cold water after boiling, boil for the second time and then add cold water, boil for the third time to get out of the pot, and the dumplings are cooked just right.
Eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice is also called "winter solstice group", which symbolizes reunion and happiness. The prepared rice balls can be used to worship ancestors and can also be used to give gifts to relatives and friends.
Recommended recipe: fruity glutinous rice balls
Ingredients: 260 grams of water-milled glutinous rice flour;1 dragon fruit;Sugar orange, white rabbit toffee, chocolate sandwich candy, sugar, salt in an appropriate amount.
Method: Take 200 grams of water mill glutinous rice flour, add a little salt, add a little sugar to the water, add boiling water to the glutinous rice flour little by little, and knead it into a dough with a little cooling. The dragon fruit is crushed to extract the juice and the dragon fruit seeds are filtered out. Take another 60 grams of water-milled glutinous rice flour, add a little salt, sugar, boiling water to blanch the noodles, add a little more dragon juice and form a dough.
Prepare the filling: dragon fruit is directly dug into a circle with a fruit digger and taken out, sugar orange is selected to peel the small one, and the chocolate is selected to be filled chocolate.
The dough is divided into 20 grams of small dough, take a dough and flatten it, wrap it with chocolate filling, and cook it to be a flowing chocolate rice ball. The method is the same as that of other dumpling fillings.
Boiled rice balls: Boil the water in the pot and add the rice balls, cook until the rice balls float up and are cooked, and remove from the pot.
Glutinous cake can be kneaded into chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep and other animals that symbolize auspiciousness and longevity, and then steamed in layers with a steamer, meaning that it is thriving day by day, rising step by step!It can be used to worship ancestors.
Recommended recipe: glutinous rice noodle rice cake
Ingredients: 1500 grams of glutinous rice noodles;200 grams of kidney beans;Sugar to taste.
Method: Wash the kidney beans, send them to the pressure cooker, boil the water for about 10 minutes, and set aside.
Sprinkle rice cakes, do not mix with noodles, and do not use dry flour to sprinkle directly, the correct way, you need to first mix some water for glutinous rice flour, traditionally called making pulp, and rub it with both hands while mixing water. Make the glutinous rice flour that has been pulped not appear granular, grab it by hand, and hold it in your hand so that it does not scatter.
The steamer is covered with a curtain and a layer of kidney beans is spread directly on the curtain. The steamer needs to add more water, do not add water in the middle of the steaming process, boil over high heat, and start to sprinkle a thin layer of wet powder mixed with good slurry when the heat comes up. Wait for the steam to come up and sprinkle the next layer after each layer, if the steam is small, cover the pot and steam for a minute or two before sprinkling the next layer.
After all the flour is sprinkled, finally sprinkle with a layer of beans, and if you like, you can also sprinkle some golden dates, raisins, wolfberries, etc. Cover the pot with a lid and steam for another 15 minutes to remove from the pot, and cut into cubes when eating.
Mutton is sweet and warm, and has the effect of nourishing qi, appetizing and strengthening the body, and warming and dispelling cold. Eating mutton soup on the winter solstice festival can nourish the body, resist wind and cold, and imply peace and smoothness.
Recommended recipe: winter melon mutton soup
Ingredients: lamb hind leg bones, winter melon, peppercorns, cooking wine, green onions, ginger, red dates, and coriander.
Method: Peel and wash the winter melon and cut it into pieces, soak the lamb leg bones in cold water for about 2 hours, soak in blood water, blanch in a pot under cold water, and add a little cooking wine.
Put the lamb bones and winter melon into the electric pressure cooker, add an appropriate amount of boiling water, and then add the green onion, 2 slices of ginger, and 3 peppercorns. Throw a few red dates, select the soup function to start the switch, and it will be completed automatically, and the whole process time is 55 minutes.
When the time is up, add a pinch of salt to taste, no other seasonings need to be added, and the taste is extremely delicious. Remove from the pan.
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