Every Spring Festival, on the dining table of every household in Ningbo, there must be a pot of golden hot and fragrant spring rolls. Due to different regions, most of them are called spring rolls in the southeast, and spring plates, spring cakes and pancakes in the northwest. Spring rolls are called differently, and their methods are also different. In the southeast, all kinds of vegetable sprouts and dried beans are wrapped in pancakes, wrapped in long strips, and then fried in an oil pan before eating. In other places called spring cakes, most of them are eaten directly with thin cakes wrapped in vegetables, flour sauce, etc. According to historical records, as early as the Tang Dynasty, there was a custom of eating spring cakes during the Spring Festival, and spring rolls evolved from spring cakes and spring plates.
Legend has it that one spring, Ningbo Yinzhou has a person who is ready to go to Beijing to take the exam, there is no time to review homework and eat every day, Mrs. distressed Xianggong in order to make it convenient for him to eat and taste and nutrition are good, so Mrs. deliberately went to the field to pick the shepherd's cabbage and dig winter bamboo shoots, and then add dried tofu wrapped in a thin wheat cake roll and then fried, so that you can eat it in your hand, which is convenient and delicious, and the nutrition is not bad. The outside is crispy and the inside is soft and fragrant, and the husband eats it with relish and loves to eat it very much, and he brought a lot of it when he went to Beijing to take the exam, and he didn't finish it until he won the exam.
Later, it was spread that everyone in the state knew that eating spring rolls in Lichun was a good luck, and secondly, it was also possible to resist spring sleepiness and eliminate fatigue. Because shepherd's cabbage is not only delicious, but also rich in nutrients such as shepherd's acid, carotene, vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and protein. Shepherd's cabbage has the effects of promoting digestion, lowering blood pressure, anticoagulating blood, relieving night blindness, and lowering blood pressure. Eating shepherd's cabbage in spring has the effect of strengthening the mind and fighting sleepiness. Therefore, the spring rolls played a role in tirelessly reviewing their homework.
Since the beginning of spring is often close to the New Year of the lunar calendar, gradually the beginning of the spring to eat spring rolls in the Spring Festival, and then the fried spring rolls are golden, which also means that eating spring rolls in the Spring Festival and the New Year will be prosperous in the first ten thousand taels.
The practice of spring rolls in Ningbo is the same, but there are different traps. For example, the most commonly eaten is shepherd's cabbage with shredded tofu, and a better one with shredded winter bamboo shoots, followed by shredded cabbage and meat, bean sprouts vermicelli, shredded green vegetables and eggs, as well as sweet red bean paste or black sesame and white sugar lard trapped, etc. There are many colors and flavors, and in the end they are all fried and ready-to-eat.
The method of deep-fried spring rolls: choose 750 grams of wild shepherd's cabbage, wash and drain, remove the roots and cut them into minced pieces, take 2 pieces of thick fragrant dried dried and cut them into shreds, add 75 grams of winter bamboo shoots and cut them into thin strips, and then add a little salt to mix the three ingredients together to make a filling for later use; Use a tablespoon of flour and water to make a paste and set aside; Then peel off a spring roll skin, spread it flat, put about 2 tablespoons of the mixed stuffing, at 1 3 places under the skin, wrap the filling with 1 3 skin, and tighten it, roll it upwards for half a circle, fold the two scalps into a knot, continue to roll upward, and apply some prepared batter at the top of the skin and roll it over to glue. Then put the wrapped spring rolls one by one on the basin to be fried, start the oil pan, wait for the oil to be 8 hot, turn off the low heat, put the spring rolls into the frying until golden brown, you can take them out and put them on the plate to eat.