It's the winter solstice again. The folk are known as the saying that "the winter solstice is as big as the year", and the winter solstice, as one of the "four seasons and eight festivals", has also attracted much attention.
China has a long tradition and food culture, and festival food is an important part of seasonal cultural customs.
A week before the festival, the child's kindergarten pushed the winter solstice day of the activity arrangement, including the diet, breakfast for everyone is a basin of mutton, but also invite parents to taste together, lunch is handmade freshly wrapped and cooked sour soup dumplings, I hope that parents who have free time can help.
After school yesterday afternoon, my child told me that I had to go early this morning, because I would not be able to eat mutton in the basin if I went late. In addition, I want to make dumplings at noon, and the master in the kitchen is too busy, so I hope I can go to the kindergarten at noon today to help.
In fact, the teacher has already sent the arrangement in the kindergarten, only two parent volunteers for each class of the primary and secondary classes, and the children in the large class do their own bags, so they do not need parents to help. The child was a little disappointed when he heard that I couldn't go, and when he heard that they could make dumplings by themselves, he was happy again, and said that he could make several tricks, and he had to show them to everyone.
This morning, the child really got up earlier than usual, and after washing up neatly, he urged me to go out quickly. Before I arrived at the entrance of the kindergarten, I saw several masters carrying several large buckets of steaming mutton soup out, in the open space at the entrance of the garden, tables and chairs were set up, and several tables were placed with large pots of boiled mutton, soaked vermicelli, and ingredients such as chopped coriander.
After the morning check-up, the children hurried into the classroom, their breakfast had been delivered to the classroom, and the teacher was waiting in the classroom. Parents are invited to sit at the tables and chairs set up and enjoy the delicious lamb in the basin.
Shuipan mutton is a traditional specialty of Shaanxi, the deboned fresh mutton, mutton bones with cinnamon, pepper, cumin, grass fruit, etc. are cooked and sliced, the side dishes and vermicelli are cooked, sprinkled with garlic sprouts, coriander, and spicy seeds and other seasonings can be added. When eating, eat it with roasted cakes or white Ji buns, with sweet garlic, chili sauce, and fresh garlic cloves.
Mutton is a warm food in autumn and winter, which is rich in protein, fat, vitamins and calcium, iron, phosphorus and other nutrients, which has the effects of warming the stomach and nourishing the stomach, nourishing the heart and lungs, benefiting the spleen and regulating qi, soothing the liver and nourishing the kidneys, strengthening bones and fitness, and prolonging life.
The teacher said that in order to make today's water basin mutton, the director specially invited the master from a well-known old shop to come over and take charge of the spoon. I have to say that the master's craftsmanship is really good. The rotten mutton soup made in the water basin is clear, fat but not greasy, mellow and delicious, a bowl of belly, the meaning is still unfinished.
The teacher smiled: The kitchen is sufficient, and if a bowl is not enough, continue to add it. Telling the children that "if it's late, there will be no more", I was afraid that everyone would rush to work after sending off the children, and it would be too late to drink, so let everyone come early.
The lamb in the water basin is generally paired with baked cakes, bagills or pot helmets, but the kindergarten may not have special tools to make these, or there is no time, so it is paired with scallion oil rolls that have just come out of the pot. The hot flower rolls are fluffy and soft, full of green onions, delicious and easy to digest. A bite of flower rolls, a bite of mutton soup, also has a unique flavor.
At around 10:30 p.m., the teacher distributed the ** of the children's dumplings in the class group. Whether the children can wrap or not, whether the bag looks good or not, whether it will be exposed, they are all happy and busy.
Of course, the kitchen may not cook these dumplings for the children to eat, and the dumplings that everyone eats for lunch still have to be made by the kitchen master and those parent volunteers.
At 11:30, the teacher gave out the ** for the children to divide the meal and the children to eat. The dumplings in everyone's bowl are not only different in shape, but also in different colors. It turned out that in order to make the dumplings look more exquisite and have a more festive atmosphere, the kitchen also specially squeezed vegetable juice and noodles to wrap these nutritious, delicious and good-looking colorful dumplings.
The way to eat dumplings is Shaanxi characteristic sour soup dumplings. Freshly wrapped and freshly cooked dumplings with large filling, thin skin and meat. The "sour soup" of sour soup dumplings is also quite exquisite, shrimp skin, coriander, green onions, seaweed are indispensable, and they must be accompanied by Shaanxi's oil and spicy seeds and balsamic vinegar. The sour soup is just right, sour but not astringent, spicy but not strong. In the kindergarten, the amount of oil chili pepper was reduced, and only a little chili oil was seen.
Xi'an has the custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice. The child has eaten it in kindergarten, and my father and I can't miss it. In the streets and alleys of Xi'an, there are shops selling sour soup dumplings everywhere, even if there are no signboards, most of them put the boiling water pot of dumplings at the door of the store, and there is often another steaming, fragrant hot and sour soup pot, so you can see and smell it. A bowl of belly, sour, spicy, fresh, fragrant, the four flavors all come to my heart, that guy, you sweat profusely until you eat it, and you are full of tongues when you are fragrant!