Today, on the 16th day of March of the lunar calendar, remember that "eat 4 things and avoid 1 thing" has a good meaning, and understand the old tradition and do not suffer!
We are an ancient civilization with a long history and many traditional customs, and the people attach great importance to many traditional things, and food is an indispensable and important part of the old tradition. I think only our Chinese food will have so many beautiful meanings in it, today is the March 16th of the lunar calendar "Zhun Ti Bodhisattva Day", the old generation said: this day remember to "eat 4 things, avoid 1 thing" auspicious meaning is good, understand the old tradition does not suffer!
Our old tradition is to live according to the lunar calendar, which is our ancient calendar and the calendar handed down by our ancestors. The 16th day of the third month of the lunar calendar is a special day, in such a day, the people everywhere will have a lot of exquisiteness, praying for good luck in the new year, let's learn about these old traditions together!
One: Rose cakes
Rose filling made into our traditional cakes, meaning step by step, this traditional cake is not only a traditional food to worship, but also a delicacy that we often eat, on the day of the Bodhisattva's birthday to eat some cakes to have a good fortune!
【Rose cake preparation】 Ingredients: water and oil skin: 200 grams of all-purpose flour, 40 grams of corn oil, 40 grams of water. Puff pastry: 100 grams of cake flour, 40 grams of corn oil. Filling: bean paste filling, rose sauce, cooked flour.
1. Mix the water and corn oil thoroughly, add flour and form a slightly softer ground dough, knead well and let it stand for a while. Then add flour to the vegetable oil and knead it into a puff pastry dough, let it stand for a while, add the rose flower sauce to the fried flour and mix well.
2. Knead the water and oil dough and puff pastry dough into small agents, flatten the water and oil skin, put it in the puff pastry, wrap it in the mouth, reunite and flatten, and roll it out with a rolling pin into a long tongue.
3. Put the filling on the puff pastry, tighten the mouth and wrap it well, become a round ball and flatten it, which is the blank of the bean paste rose cake, put it in the oven and bake it at 180 degrees for 20 minutes, and take it out and put red dots on it when it is ripe.
Two: Fruit rice
When worshipping the Bodhisattva on March 16, according to the tradition, you need to eat flowers and fruits, etc., and do not eat meat on this day, so according to the old tradition, a bowl of pineapple rice is indispensable, which means good luck and perfection!
【How to make pineapple rice】Ingredients: Appropriate amount of rice, pineapple, eggs, carrots, corn kernels, minced green onions, salt, peanut oil.
1. Cut the pineapple in half, dig out half of the pulp, set aside the pulp, use the peel as a container, chop the carrots, blanch the corn kernels and set aside.
2. Heat the peanut oil, beat in the eggs and fry them into broken eggs, add the minced green onions and corn kernels and fry until fragrant, then add the carrots and fry until fragrant, pour in the rice and pineapple and fry well, add salt to taste and get out of the pot.
Three: purple sweet potato flower rolls
Flower rolls have been there since ancient times, although they need to be fermented like steamed buns, but they are better looking than steamed buns, and they also represent the purple meaning of purple gas coming from the east, and the flowers imply sincerity.
【Preparation of purple sweet potato flower rolls】Ingredients: flour, appropriate amount of yeast powder, purple sweet potato puree.
1. Peel and slice purple potatoes and steam them, press them into purple potato puree, add yeast powder to warm water, stir evenly and put flour on it, and form a dough to stand and ferment.
2. Take out the fermented dough, cut it into small pieces, roll it out into a thin crust, grease it in the middle, sprinkle it with a little salt, stagger it and stack it, roll it up, cut it from the middle, and the rose is ready.
3. Grease the grate in the pot to prevent sticking, put the finished roses, carry out secondary fermentation, and then steam for about 15 minutes, and it is ready to come out of the pot.
Four: glutinous rice balls
March 16 is the birthday of Zhun Ti Bodhisattva, remember to eat a bowl of rice balls, meaning family reunion, peace and happiness. As the old saying goes, "After eating glutinous rice balls, we are reunited", and we also want to be happy and happy.
【Preparation of rose rice balls】 Ingredients: appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour, a little rose sauce.
1. Add an appropriate amount of water to the glutinous rice flour, mix it into a slightly harder glutinous rice dough, divide it into small pieces of uniform size, and make an appropriate amount of homemade rose sauce.
2. Take a piece of the glutinous rice dough that has been divided, press it flat, press out a nest, put it on the rose sauce, close it tightly and form a round ball with your hands, the glutinous rice balls are ready, and they are cooked in boiling water.
1 thing to do on the 16th day of the third month of the lunar calendar:
Don't borrow money: Traditionally you can't borrow money on this day. According to the older generation, they borrowed their own wealth. On this day, let's try not to mention borrowing money, keep the fortune and good fortune, and don't panic when the family has extra money!
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