August 4 this year is the traditional festival of the mainland, the Qixi Festival, and its influence in traditional Chinese festivals is rising year by year. Mainly because Chinese mythology believes that this day is the day when the cowherd and the weaver girl Queqiao meet, Tanabata is called Valentine's Day in China by young people. In fact, in addition to the meaning of love, this festival is a comprehensive festival with women as the main body, praying for blessings and begging.
Therefore, the seventh of July is also known as Daughter's Day. In addition, there are many sayings about July 7, so the festival food customs of July 7 are different from place to place, the day after tomorrow is July 7, what should we prepare for july 7, and what should we eat?
Dumplings
Girls of similar age prepare flour and vegetables to wrap dumplings together, and then wrap a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three dumplings, and gather together to eat dumplings during begging activities, and the money is blessed; The ingenuity of eating needles; Early marriage to eat dates.
Recommended recipe: Dumplings stuffed with cucumbers
1. Add an appropriate amount of flour, a spoonful of salt to the basin, add water in a small amount and many times, stir the flour into dough and knead it into a dough, cover the pot and cover the noodles for 20 minutes.
2. Beat a few eggs into the bowl, stir and beat into egg liquid, fry the eggs in cold oil, stir them with chopsticks, pour them out after all the shapes are set, so that the scrambled eggs are crushed and tender.
3. Cut a few cucumbers into thin strips, sprinkle with the right amount of salt and mix well to marinate for a while, squeeze out the water in the cucumber shreds, drizzle some sesame oil, spring onions, eggs and mix well, first do not need to season.
4. Take out the dough and knead it smoothly and then roll it into long strips, roll it into a dough of uniform size, flatten one by one, and roll out into a thick dumpling skin with a thick middle and thin sides on both sides.
5. Add an appropriate amount of chicken powder, a little salt, an appropriate amount of pepper and oyster sauce to the dumpling filling, stir well, put the filling in the dumpling skin, and pinch it tightly with the tiger's mouth.
6. When cooking dumplings, open the underwater pot, often push with a spoon, do not stir back and forth to prevent the dumplings from breaking the skin, vegetarian stuffed dumplings are easier to cook than meat stuffed dumplings, without pointing water dumplings all float up to the pot.
Qiaoguo
Qiaoguo is a Chinese dessert made by frying oil, noodles, sugar and honey in cooking oil. Qiao guo is a festive food for Tanabata begging, and it is believed that girls eat qiao guo on the seventh day of July, which can make the girls' hands become dexterous.
Recommended recipe: Lotus puff pastry
1. Bean paste filling 20g; Add 50 grams of flour, 5 grams of vegetable oil, 3 grams of sugar to the pot, add a little water, and combine the flour into a softer dough; Add another piece of oil noodles: Add 30 grams of flour and 10 grams of vegetable oil in the pot, and make the oil noodles as soft as the dough.
2. Take out the good noodles directly, cut them into evenly sized doughs, flatten the doughs and wrap them into a small piece of oil. Place it at the mouth of the tiger and turn it to tighten the opening.
3. Then start to open the puff pastry, flatten the dough and roll it into a beef tongue shape, then fold it up and roll it into long strips, fold it into square small dough pieces for later.
4. Roll out the dough a little thinner, wrap in a small piece of bean paste and place it at the mouth of the tiger to tighten the opening. Turn the dough into small balls, remove the excess dough, and then cut a cross on the small ball, just to the center of the filling.
5. Burn the oil in the pot, put the lotus crisp cold oil into the pot, the amount of oil is just over the lotus crisp is appropriate, keep the low heat soaked for 7-8 minutes, the lotus puff pastry slowly heats, the petals will fully bloom. Fry until the lotus crisp is layered, the surface is slightly yellow, and when it is clipped out, it can be placed on the oil absorbent paper to control the oil.
Rooster
What is the purpose of eating roosters on July 7? Mainly because the cowherd weaver girl can only be reunited once a year, people are afraid that the rooster chirping will affect the reunion of the cowherd weaver girl, so on this day will eat the rooster that is chirping at home, showing everyone's good wish that the weaver girl will never be separated.
Recommended recipe: Linyi fried chicken
1. A two-pound eight-two small rooster cut into chicken pieces; Add one spoonful of peanut butter, two spoonfuls of sweet noodle sauce, two spoonfuls of oyster sauce, three spoonfuls of dark soy sauce, and two spoonfuls of white wine to the bowl and set aside; Add green peppercorns, fragrant leaves, star anise and red peppercorns to the bowl.
2. Pour the oil in the pot, first put the green peppercorns to fry the incense, then put the sauce on a low heat to simmer, pour out the peppercorns sauce and set aside.
3. Heat the pan again with wide oil, pour in the chicken nuggets when the oil temperature is 60%, fry on medium-low heat for 1-2 minutes and set aside.
4. Leave the bottom oil in the pot, first put the ginger grains, large ingredients, and then pour the chicken nuggets and stir-fry, then add the pepper sauce and stir-fry well, add the water that has not passed the chicken nuggets, boil the lid, simmer for 7-8 minutes, add a small spoonful of chicken powder, green and red pepper, garlic and blanch for 5 seconds, you can get out of the pot.
Mung bean sprouts
The grain seeds and mung beans are soaked in water in a small box for a while, so that they germinate to two inches long for worship, called "worship of immortals" and "worship of gods".
Recommended recipe: Stir-fry mung bean sprouts
1. Prepare to cut some shallots, ginger and garlic slices; Prepare a little more dried chili simmering pot; Green and red pepper shreds are used for color matching; Add one spoonful of salt, one spoonful of monosodium glutamate, two spoonfuls of sugar, two tablespoons of vinegar, sesame oil and starch to a bowl and set aside.
2. Burn half a pot of water, drizzle some oil to lock the nutrition, after boiling on high heat, pour in the mung bean sprouts quickly blanch for 3 seconds and pour out the cool controlled water for later.
3. Heat the pot with oil, pour the onion, ginger and garlic into it and fry until fragrant, then put the dried chili peppers, cook half a spoonful of vinegar along the edge of the pot, pour in the bean sprouts and fry for 10 seconds, stir the sauce and cook well on high heat, you can get out of the pot.
Five sons
Tanabata "worshipping the Weaver Girl" is a major event for young girls and young women. It is necessary to prepare the offerings in advance, including the tradition of eating five seeds, referring to the guiyuan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds, and after the blessing, these offerings become their supper food.
Recommended recipe: Five kernel buns
1. Pour 300 grams of ordinary wheat flour, 3 grams of yeast, 2 grams of aluminum-free baking powder into the pot, pour in warm water of no more than 40 degrees, first and form the dough, then knead into a dough, cover with plastic wrap, and leave it in a warm place to ferment for 2 hours.
2. Crush the cooked peanut kernels with a knife and put them on the plate, then add raisins, melon seeds, black sesame seeds, white sesame seeds, or other dried fruits you like, add 20 grams of sugar, 15 grams of flour and stir well and set aside.
3. Take out the dough and knead it into long strips, then pull it into a small mixture of uniform size, sprinkle flour on the dough and mix well, then roll the dough into a thin dough skin on the thick side of the middle, put the filling on the dough, tighten the mouth like a bun, cover the white gauze again for 10 minutes.
4. Add water to the pot, put the bun on the grate with cool water, then turn on the medium heat to boil the water, steam for another 10 minutes after the water is boiled, then turn off the heat and wait for a few minutes before opening the lid, this delicious five-kernel bun is ready.
(First Food Editor: Cao Cao)