Tomorrow's winter solstice, no matter how busy you are, you must remember to "eat 4 fresh, gnaw 1 fruit", make up nutrition, and spend the winter healthily! Hello everyone, I am a silly sister food, the cold wind is cold, the north wind is howling, the earth is bathed in the ice and snow wrapped in silver, and unconsciously ushered in the winter solstice, representing the official beginning of the cold winter, and is about to enter the third nine days, as a traditional festival, although the Xi customs are not the same, the diet is still similar. On the winter solstice on December 22, no matter how busy you are, you have to eat 4 things and 1 fruit that you remember, and your wishes come true.
1. Dumplings. It is said that the winter solstice is as big as the year, how can there be no dumplings on this day, in our Shandong, regardless of the big festivals, you must eat dumplings, the winter dumpling filling is not cabbage and radish filling, share the practice of radish dumplings.
【Radish dumplings】Ingredients: green radish, pork, green onion and ginger, soy sauce, salt, cooking oil
[specific method] 1. Clean the radish, rub it into fine wires with a silk grater, put it in a basin, add a few spoons of salt and mix evenly, and marinate for a while, which can not only marinate the excess water, but also make the radish taste better. 2. Prepare the meat filling in the process of pickling radish, put an appropriate amount of pork belly into a meat grinder and stir it, add cooking wine, minced green onion and ginger, soy sauce, salt, and cooking oil, stir evenly, and marinate for 20 minutes to taste. 3. Dry the pickled shredded radish, put it in the meat filling, add some cooking oil and salt and mix evenly, and the dumpling filling is ready. 4. Knead the dough on the board for a while, so that the dumplings are tendoned, the dough is kneaded into long strips, cut into agents, rolled into dumpling skins, put an appropriate amount of vegetable filling, and pinch tightly.
5. Add water to the pot and bring to a boil, put the water into the dumplings, gently stir a few times along the edge of the pot with a spoon to prevent sticking, boil 3 boiling pots, light cold water twice, and turn off the heat to put the dumplings up. The fragrant radish pork dumplings are out of the pot, fragrant and fresh, dipped in garlic paste, and a large plate is eaten in minutes.
2. Mutton
Many areas have the Xi of drinking mutton soup on the winter solstice, lamb is a warm tonic ingredient, so it is very popular in winter, and there is a special dish in our local area is fried lamb with green onions, and the practice is shared with everyone.
[specific method] 1. Cut the mutton into pieces, put it in a basin, add cooking wine, soy sauce and starch and mix evenly, marinate for a while, and the mutton will be more smooth and tender. The green onion is cut into sections, and the fragrance of the green onion is the best match with the mutton, which can not only enhance the taste of the mutton but also remove its smell. 2. Heat the oil, first put in the mutton and fry evenly, then pour in the green onion segments, stir-fry on high heat, as long as the mutton is cooked, you can turn off the heat, add a small amount of salt to taste before cooking. The delicious fried lamb with green onions is ready, the meat is tender and not fishy, and the green onions are fragrant and delicious.
3. Glutinous rice balls
It is said that dumplings are eaten in the north and glutinous rice balls are eaten in the south, and now that the living conditions are better, you can eat whatever you want. The glutinous rice balls in the north are mainly bought, and they rarely make their own, of course, when cooking, you can add other ingredients according to your own taste, such as my family's boiled glutinous rice balls like to add wine to warm up and nourish.
[specific method] 1. Add water to the pot and bring to a boil, add the glutinous rice balls, cook until 8-9 minutes cooked, remove and set aside. 2. Pour purple rice wine into another pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, turn to medium-low heat and cook for about 6 minutes, cook the purple rice until soft, then pour in the glutinous rice balls and cook for about a minute, turn off the heat and serve. In the cold winter, a bowl comes every other day, and the whole body is warm, and it is the same if there is no purple rice wine, it is the same as glutinous rice wine.
4. Eight treasure rice
Glutinous rice and eight treasure rice means that the days are prosperous, and the glutinous rice itself is a warm and replenishing ingredient, which is also very suitable for winter.
[specific method] 1. Soak glutinous rice and peanuts in advance, it will be softer and glutinous out of the pot, clean the red dates, raisins and wolfberries, and then prepare an appropriate amount of honey beans, dates and brown sugar. 2. Brush the bottom of the bowl with a layer of cooking oil, first spread a layer of honey beans and peanuts, then sprinkle an appropriate amount of raisins, put the dates along the edge of the bowl, spread the glutinous rice and press tightly, and then spread a layer of brown sugar and glutinous rice, put raisins, dates, honey beans and peanuts on top, so spread it layer by layer, spread the bowl until it is full, and then pour water. 5. Put the bowl into the steamer, boil and steam for about 60 minutes on high heat, turn off the heat and simmer for another 5 minutes to cook. 6. Take out the bowl and put it on the plate, and the glutinous rice and eight treasure rice are ready, sweet and soft, so delicious that you can't stop your mouth.
In addition to the above 4 things, there is 1 fruit to eat, which is an apple, which not only tastes good and is nutritious, but also means safe and healthy. The main fruits in our northern winter are apples and pears, Xiaobian loves to eat apples, almost one a day, which can not only replenish water but also improve immunity, and the big red apple looks festive, how can the festival be without its figure.
Well, about the winter solstice to eat the food to share here, what are the local Xi of everyone? I hope my sharing can make you gain, thank you for reading and supporting, see you tomorrow.