Shandong, as the hometown of the sage Confucius, not only has the convergence of hundreds of schools of thought, but also the towering and towering Taishan, as well as the Baotu Spring, which bursts out of the three caves and rushes endlessly, and there are also gourmet dishes with cultural atmosphere. Shandong people's New Year is very lively, every household has to prepare for the New Year, people not only have to steam, play rice cakes, but also busy making a variety of small dishes, these small dishes can usually let people eat from years ago to years after, small dishes are mainly made of fish and meat as the main raw materials, such as sausages, sauce beef, etc., these are the indispensable dishes on the dinner table of every household at the New Year.
Shandong's sweet and sour carp is very famous, as a traditional dish, the authentic way to cook this dish is to treat the fish clean, marinate it with a little salt and cooking wine, pat the powder and hang the paste, then fry it in a hot oil pan, and then pour it with sweet and sour sauce. Its color is date red, crispy and sweet on the outside, soft and tender on the inside, and sweet in the sauce with sour and slightly salty.
Yellow fish stewed tofu is also an authentic Shandong home cooking, fresh yellow croaker meat more thorny, like garlic cloves, after processing clean, immediately supplemented with seafood, fresh meat and tofu into the pot, low heat slow simmering until the soup milky white flavor, fish meat tender flavor, tofu smooth and tender flavor.
The method of frying oyster yellow is very simple, the raw materials are cleaned, evenly hung paste, fried at a suitable oil temperature until nine ripe, fished out, and then fried again. The final dish is golden in color, soft and tender, and rich in nutrients.
Pot collapse tofu is to fry both sides of the tofu in oil, put in the sauce and clear soup, boil over high heat, collect the juice over low heat, so that the tofu fully absorbs the juice, and finally presents the perfect taste of crisp, soft and tender.
Having said so much, in fact, the most important thing for Shandong people in the New Year finally falls on the dumplings, the New Year pays attention to the word reunion, this dumpling is to sit down with the family, some people and flour, some people roll the skin, some people wrap, division of labor and cooperation, while doing work, while telling the prospects and expectations for the new year, the whole family waits for the arrival of the new year. This meal of dumplings at the New Year's Day is particular about cooking the dumplings before the new year's bell rings at twelve o'clock, and when the steaming dumplings that have just come out of the pot are served on the table, people will grow one year older.
What is different is that the dumplings that Shandong people eat for the New Year are not stuffed with meat, but most of them are filled with vegetables such as cabbage and tofu, which pins people's good wishes for peace and purity in the new year. And the water used to cook this dumpling must be much more than in the past, which is the hope that the new year's days can be more than enough. Whether it is Taishan's tofu vegetarian noodles, nine-turn large intestines, or a pin pot in Kongfu, all of which deeply contain Qilu culture, food and ideas are worth our anti-complex thinking.
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