Seeing that the temperature in Suzhou has soared to 30 ° C, the sweltering weather always makes people want to eat something cool in order to open the stomach of "summer fatigue". After waiting for a long time, the "coolness" of Suzhou people has been put on the table!
01.
Fan cool noodles
As soon as summer arrives, Suzhou people will have to worry about fan cold noodles. In the summer, the cold noodles must be blown cold by the fan to be delicious.
To make cold noodles, you must have wide noodles, after the small wide noodles are cooked, take the pot and put it in front of the fan, put sesame oil, and constantly pull it up and mix it. The fan blows the dough cold, and the sesame oil is stirred and evenly spread over the dough.
Old Suzhou authentic fan cold noodles, but also put on bad oil or shrimp soy sauce, noodles are smooth and non-sticky, fragrant and chewy, a bowl of belly refreshing.
02.
Cold ravioli
As the saying goes, "winter solstice wontons and summer solstice noodles", but Suzhou's wontons are all year round, and this bowl that belongs to summer alone is cold mixed wontons.
Cold mixed ravioli is similar to fan noodles. Place the large ravioli stuffed with fresh meat and vegetable meat in a pot, cook until floating and drain. Put the freshly cooked ravioli into an iron plate and blow it cold, mix with rapeseed oil to prevent the wonton skin from sticking.
When eating, drip the sauce and shallot oil, sprinkle with a handful of coriander and green onions, stir and stir to eat! The skin of the wontons after blowing cool is more chewy, wrapped in a full filling, and when you take a bite, you are cool and fragrant, and your appetite is wide open.
There are also old Suzhou like to eat directly without sticking sauce, and when the mouth is hungry, it is the most intimate summer taste in the memory.
03.
Bad brine
In the hot and dry summer, be sure to try Suzhou's "bad goods". Suzhou bad food has been famous since ancient times, and Suzhou people have a special love for bad taste in spring and summer.
"Bad" is a method of making dishes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and "bad goods" refers to foods made with sake lees.
Suzhou bad dishes have hot bad and cold bad. Hot bad, also known as "grab bad", is to pour the bad brine on the raw materials after heating and ripening, the aroma is not as good as the cold bad, and the cold bad is to immerse the cooled ingredients into the bad brine, the bad aroma is rich.
Bad goose, bad chicken, bad meat, bad duck tongue, bad edamame... After the cooling, the ingredients are immersed in the bad brine, which is rich in flavor, smooth in the mouth, and the appetite is wide open. A few dishes of bad goods on a summer night, a sip of wine blowing in the cool breeze, so comfortable!
04.
White chopped chicken
Suzhou people have the custom of eating three whites in summer: white cut belly, white cut meat, white chopped chicken. White chopped chicken began in the Qing Dynasty, because it is not seasoned when it is fired, and it is eaten and chopped, so it is called white chopped chicken.
Unlike other ways to eat chicken, white chopped chicken has a completely different refreshing taste, golden skin, tender meat, dipped in a unique sauce, full of ice and tenderness, a simple single plate is the best summer food.
05.
Lily soup
夏季是百合上市的时节，将百合洗净加入莲子煮烂，简单美味的百合莲子汤就煮好了。 You can also mix mung beans, which is the most common mung bean soup in Suzhou.
When I was a child, I ate lily soup with winter melon sugar, cooked it and put it in the well water to ice, and then took it out to drink it is the best summer food!
06.
Mint cake
In Suzhou, you can eat delicious cake dumplings all year round, and of course, in the summer, you must eat some cakes that can relieve the heat! Among the hundreds of kinds of cake dumplings, there are two kinds of suzhou people who have contracted the coolness of the whole summer, one is the fried meat dumplings known as the "queen of the cake dumplings", and the other is mint cake. I have to say that this color scheme looks super summer!
The steamed mint cake is snow white and fluffy, the rice flavor is permeated with a faint mint flavor, mixed with the walnut kernels inside, not too sweet, very suitable for such a sweltering summer day to cool off!
07.
Mung bean cake
Mung bean cake is Suzhou's traditional cool and antipyretic summer food, the old Dragon Boat Festival, many people bought mung bean cake from the tea shop, not directly unpacked, but stored in a bamboo basket hanging on the beam, cats can not steal to eat.
Mr. Wang Zengqi once said: "Among the mung bean cakes in various places, JiQingxiang in Kunming in the south and Caizhizhai in Suzhou taste the best. The oil is heavy and roses are added. ”
Su-style mung bean cake is small and delicate, soft and oily to eat, and slightly cold. The delicate cotton flavor can be sweetened all summer.
08.
Osmanthus sugar lotus
In summer, the beautiful scenery of "receiving the infinite blue of the lotus leaves" makes people feel relaxed, and the lotus root has become a delicacy on the table of the Gusu people.
During the Tang Dynasty, the poet Bai Juyi did the history of thorns in Suzhou, because he loved lotuses, so he presided over the construction of the Shantang River paved with lotus flowers. In addition, the water quality of the Shantang River is excellent, so the lotus root grown is of high quality, crisp and delicious.
Suzhou people like sweets, so they pour glutinous rice into the lotus root and simmer it, pour sugar juice to eat, and have a unique Gusu flavor.
The original crisp lotus root becomes very soft after steaming, the soup penetrates the lotus root, let it cool and eat a bite, the cold is permeated with a hint of sweetness, sweeping away the sweltering bad mood!
Which one are you going to eat today?
"Don't eat too full, drink tea too strong."