In the blink of an eye, summer is here. If in the summer, when we are eating, we can eat so many cool dishes, it must be a very blessed thing. In Shandong cuisine, there are just two such dishes, the taste is refreshing, fresh and salty, very suitable for summer to eat. And there is a dish in it that only the emperor could eat in ancient times!
1. Shandong famous dishes made with fruits
First of all, this first dish is Shandong's traditional famous dish - honey pear balls. This honey pear ball has been circulating in the folk of Shandong for a long time and has long become a home-cooked dish for the people of Shandong, and many people will do it. As the name suggests, the main ingredient of this honey pear ball is the pear we usually eat.
As we all know, pears, as a fruit, have a refreshing taste, have a good effect of moisturizing and drying, and deheating phlegm. Therefore, putting pears into the dish, on the one hand, can satisfy our mouth and stomach, and can also play a role in health care in the summer, is not it two birds with one stone? So how to make such a good dish?
In fact, the method is not difficult, tell you bluntly, as long as you usually do balls, know how to make vegetable balls, meatballs, then you will definitely make this honey pear ball. To make this dish, it only takes three steps.
The first step is to cut the pear we bought into strips, the reason why it is shredded, is because the pear is a fruit, its flesh texture is better to shredded, if you have to cut it, it is not impossible, but it should be cut finely.
The shredded pears are then placed in a copper basin prepared in advance, in which an egg is beaten, and an appropriate amount of starch and flour is added. Below, we take out the chopsticks to stir, the steps here are the same as we usually make balls, the batter is stirred, and the balls can be made.
In the second step, we boiled the oil, added the prepared balls, started frying, and fried until six ripe, fished out to control the oil and set aside.
In the third step, we start to fry the sugar color, then add water and sugar, and then put the pear balls into the pot to allow the pear balls to fully absorb the taste of the juice. Add honey at the end, or if you like sesame seeds, you can also add some white sesame seeds. This way the honey pear ball is ready.
The dish is sweet and refreshing, making it ideal for dessert on the summer table.
2. Even Kong Xiangke said that the dish was good
This other dish is more advanced, because this dish belongs to the Confucius cuisine in Shandong cuisine. This dish is the famous dish of Confucius - watermelon chicken. This watermelon chicken, as the name suggests, is watermelon and chicken, but this name does not sound very elegant, so there is such a small story about this name.
Now you go to Qufu to eat watermelon chicken, you may see that the name on the recipe is the egg hatching double phoenix (watermelon chicken), the name of the egg hatching double phoenix was originally not, it was kong Xiangke, a political activist in the Republic of China, after tasting the dish, felt that this dish tasted clear and fresh, very delicious, but the name is not very elegant, so the name of this dish is called egg incubation double phoenix.
The eggs in the egg hatching double phoenix actually refer to watermelon. This dish is actually not difficult to make, if you don't have as many ingredients as in the restaurant, in fact, you can make a delicious home-cooked watermelon chicken in just three steps.
First, prepare a chicken and chop it into chunks, then marinate it appropriately to suit your taste. Then prepare a large watermelon, dig out the meat inside, and make the remaining melon skin into a lid. Finally, just put the chicken and spices in a pot and cook them, and then put them in the watermelon.
In this way, this famous dish watermelon chicken that only the emperor had a mouth to eat in ancient times was ready.
3. Food recommendations
Honey pear balls and watermelon chicken are both famous dishes in Shandong, and both dishes themselves have the effect of clearing heat and removing fire, which is very suitable for summer to eat. When you make these two dishes, you can add or subtract your own spices according to your own taste, and you don't have to do it exactly according to the official standards. That's all, thank you for reading.