Text: Chen Ranfeng
Figure: From the network
Eating a big table in my hometown, in addition to the regular chicken, duck and fish meat, the more favored is the dish of roll frying. Roll fried, is made of egg cake and meat filling, yellow and red, bright color, a bite of a piece, full of raw fragrance, long aftertaste, that kind of taste, people can not forget.
Why do rolls and pans make young and old people in their hometown so fond of them? I specifically checked the information, and it turned out that it was hundreds of years old.
The long history is not the only reason for the old family to love, the key is its unique taste, deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, easy to evoke memories of their hometown.
The process of rolling frying is attractive, after the bottom of the pan is boiled with hot oil, the stirred eggs are poured in to make a thin cake, which is used to make the skin. Add chopped meat with green onion, ginger and garlic, cooking wine, soy sauce, salt, five-spice powder, put some water and stir well with chopsticks.
Then, roll the prepared filling into rolls, steam it in a basket, chop it into pieces with a knife, and you can eat it.
Old family members often say that the pan fried food is fragrant, what is felt is family affection, and what is recalled is nostalgia. Therefore, there is no doubt that when eating a big meal in the countryside, the dish of roll frying has also become the object of competition among children.
I remember when I was a child, when the farmers were relatively poor, the guests who entertained them did not have any decent dishes, and families with slightly better conditions went to the market to cut a piece of fat and lean fresh pork, first coarsely cut into pieces, and then finely chopped into minced meat paste with green onions and ginger, boiled the fine powder in boiling water and chopped through, put in the right amount of red taro starch, salt, soy sauce and five-spice materials, mixed into a filling, evenly spread into a round cake, after entering the cage, slowly steamed.
Steamed rolls can be simmered, grilled, and eaten cold with garlic juice. Fragrant but not greasy, sticky and slippery. In this way, the roll frying, with its delicious and well-done characteristics, quickly became popular on the table and banquet in the hometown.
The first time I tasted roll frying, when I was in middle school, that winter vacation, I went to the home of a friend of my father,At that time, among the dishes that his family entertained us, there was a roll fry, the hot roll frying, biting into the mouth, soft tendons, the meat was slippery, full of mouth fragrance, I felt that this was the best delicacy in the world, and finally even the remaining soup also made me drink a fine light.
The first time my family made roll frying was when I was in my second year of high school, when the married sister-in-law returned to her mother's house for the first time, and I just happened to come home, Grandpa and Grandma specially bought pork, in accordance with the traditional way, made a roll frying, remember grandma at that time the prepared egg cake spread on the board, the adjusted meat filling, evenly smeared on the egg cake, and then rolled up from one end to the other.
When Grandpa lifted the lid of the pot, a mellow smell suddenly gushed out, even in the small courtyard, there was also a smell of roll frying, Grandpa gave out six or seven pieces, put them in my lunch box, let me take it to school to eat, that warm and kind memory, always stay in my mind.
After graduating from college, I traveled to many cities, and snacks from all over the country naturally tasted a lot. Spring rolls in the south, donkey meat fire in the north, spicy hot in Sichuan, Shaxian snacks in Fujian, morning tea in Guangdong... The variety of food has broadened my horizons, and the cooking in my hometown has gradually drifted away.
But whenever it is late at night, when I sit alone in a corner, I always think of the rolls in my hometown. Later, my lover tried to make it a few times, but the taste of that year could no longer be found. The wife said that things change easily, and so do the hearts of the people.
Grandpa and Grandma left the world many years ago, and the most inseparable taste in the world will be forever. Perhaps, the warmth and happiness that stay in my memory is what everyone calls nostalgia!