In ancient times, "the winter solstice is like a big year", and many places in China had the custom of celebrating the winter solstice. Folk will also use gongs and drums to greet the arrival of the "Winter Solstice Festival" in the form of loud gongs and drums, songs and laughter. As the saying goes: "winter solstice wonton summer solstice noodles", in the past, there were many places to greet the winter solstice in the way of food, "wontons" naturally became the best gift for the winter solstice festival.
China's land is vast, and there are many names for "wontons". In Guangdong, people call wontons not called wontons, but "wonton noodles", which belongs to the Cantonese cuisine and is derived from northern wontons. Cantonese cuisine pays attention to the selection of rare materials, fine ingredients, cooking skills are too demanding, so, each dish will be smooth and refreshing, wonton noodles are the same, although from the folk, but after all, it has been a classic snack food that has been passed down in the city for a long time, wrapped wontons with delicious bone broth, that is, food, every winter solstice, Cantonese people have to eat a bowl of "wonton noodles" to warm up and warm their stomachs.
In the world of food - Sichuan, the way to eat wontons and the way to call them are different, and the snack food "Dragon Scribe" in Sichuan, which is famous in Sichuan, is to imitate the northern wontons and improve. Sichuan people eat wontons unique, although it is a small wonton, in the production of ingredients and soups, the requirements are extremely harsh, generally will use the best chicken, duck, pork with simmering slow simmering to make a "copy" soup. The method of noodles is different from wontons, paying attention to the translucent state of "thin as paper, fine as silk", delicate and smooth, mellow and delicious.
Xinjiang people eat "wontons" different from other regions, fresh mutton soup with it, lamb tail, coriander accompanied, fresh and delicious has a national characteristics. However, Xinjiang people will be wontons called "Ququ", not called wontons, so, different regions, the practice and eating methods of food will also be different, there are no local characteristics, in a few days is the "Winter Solstice Festival", passed down for thousands of years of snack food "wontons", must eat once, meaning: the dragon soaring tiger leaping, dragon and phoenix are auspicious. Therefore, the winter solstice wontons, or this taste of delicious, fresh and smooth and tender, a bite of incense, really enjoyable.
【Winter Solstice Delicacy - Chicken Ravioli】
Main ingredients:
500 g pork, flour to taste, chicken thighs 2.
Supplementary ingredients:
Vegetable oil, salt, glutinous rice flour, cooking wine, peppercorns, soy sauce, thirteen spices, egg whites, green onions, ginger, pepper, seaweed, dried shrimp, coriander.
method:
Step 1: Boil the chicken soup. Place the washed chicken thighs in a pot, bring to a boil over high heat to remove the foam, add salt, cooking wine, green onion, ginger and pepper and simmer for an hour.
Step 2: Mix the filling. Cut the prepared pork into pieces, put it into a meat grinder, stir into a meat filling, put it in a basin and add salt, cooking wine, soy sauce, thirteen spices, glutinous rice flour and stir in one direction, then add egg whites and stir well with a little water.
Step 3: Make the dough. 500 grams of flour with 3 grams of salt, beat into dough, knead into balls, knead a few times to make the noodles smooth and strong, then roll out into thin paper sheets, sprinkle on top and cut into small squares of the same size.
Step 4: Wrap the ravioli. Use a spoon to place the filling in the dough crust, roll the filling in the dough at an angle, fold it back and knead it together, and the ravioli is ready.
Step 5: Season the broth. Add salt, pepper, soy sauce, seaweed, dried shrimp, shallot oil, coriander and chicken to the bowl and tear it into shredded chicken, then add the chicken broth and stir well.
Step 6: Make ravioli. Bring water to a boil, put the wrapped ravioli into the pot, bring it to a boil and salvage it to the chicken broth.
epilogue:
Winter solstice wontons, or this kind of filling is delicious, fresh and smooth, one bite after another, really enjoyable. Winter solstice arrived, the north has the custom of eating wontons, wontons are not only delicious, but also is the inheritance of food culture in China for thousands of years, although the way to eat everywhere, the name will be different, but these delicacies no matter where they come from, they are derived from wontons.