In July 2021, Lingnan Normal University School of Food Science and Engineering Dengta Social Practice Team members in order to understand and spread the food culture of their hometown, this activity aims to outdoor research and review history to let more people understand the food culture and local customs of Lanzhou people, today is July 18th, I will take you to understand the "gray beans" of Lanzhou characteristics.
"Grey Beans"
Gray beans, which is a sweet snack unique to Lanzhou. A porridge made from local pung ash boiled with peas, dates and sugar, which is also unique to lanzhou and is an edible alkali extracted from a plant, beef noodles and noodles are also used. The addition of fluffy ash can make the hard-to-cook peas easy to soften and rot, and can also remove the astringency of the peas and stimulate the fragrance of the peas. Boiling ash beans is simple and there is no special method or process. As long as the materials are superior and the heat is appropriate, it is necessary to patiently wait for the delicious to come out of the pot, which truly reflects the truth of the road to simplicity and delicious nature.
The boiled gray beans, the soup is viscous, the peas have been soft and sandy, but they have not yet been completely boiled, and there will be a little chewiness in the mouth. Scoop a spoonful, chew slowly in the mouth, the sweetness of the dates, the fragrance of the beans in the mouth blends and fills, there is no little bit of astringency of the beans, only the sweet bean aroma is felt, and the thick soup makes the taste more lubricated. Drink a bowl hot, both full and satisfying. It can be used in winter and summer, morning and evening, and is suitable for all ages. Because this gray bean has the effect of beauty and beauty, vitality and vitality. It can also improve the body's immunity and resistance, has a good tonic effect on the body, and gray beans also have the effect of calming the spirit and nourishing the spirit, and have a good conditioning effect on insomnia and dreams. The red dates contained in the gray beans can also soften the blood vessels, which has a good preventive and control effect on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and the red dates can also supplement the deficiency and vitality, and have the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach. However, although gray beans have many beneficial functional effects and nutritional values for the human body, there are also certain food taboos, gray beans are not suitable for digestion, and those with poor digestive function in the gastrointestinal tract should eat less, so as not to cause indigestion. People with a weak spleen and stomach should try to eat less gray beans, because eating more is easy to flatulence, so attention should be paid to controlling the amount of food, but this cannot cover up the powerful positive effects of gray beans such as blood replenishment, tranquility, and beauty.
Practice team members buy "gray beans"
The owner also told me that although the methods are similar, the doorway inside is not so simple, time, heat, in the past it was a casserole, then a rice cooker, now it is a pressure cooker, and the taste of cooking is completely different. And the rice cooker cooks the most times. Also, there is a difference between adding white sugar or rock sugar, and before and after adding sugar, there is a difference between sweetness. Details are the key to making this pot of gray beans that look flat. Life is full of details, everywhere is inseparable from details, this is the life of Lanzhou people.